Professor Emeritus Margaret Slade

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Charles Blackorby and Professor Emeritus Margaret Slade on being appointed as Fellows of the Canadian Economic Association (CEA), announced at the CEA’s annual conference in May 2014.

“Charles Blackorby and Margaret Slade are two outstanding scholars who had a deep and lasting influence in their respective fields of research,” says CEA President Dr. Thomas Lemieux. “The CEA is delighted to award them the Association’s highest honour, the title of Fellow, for their career achievements and their contribution to the advancement of economic research in Canada.”

Dr. Blackorby’s research interests have focused on microeconomics theory, social choice, welfare economics, and public finance. Dr. Slade’s research is concerned with applied problems in industrial organization, especially those requiring the analysis of data; and in both horizontal (same product market) and vertical (buying and selling) relationships and policies.

The CEA has only awarded 10 Fellows, with half of them being granted to faculty from the Vancouver School of Economics. With their appointments as Fellows, Charles and Margaret join Professor Emeritus Anthony Scott, Professor Erwin Diewert, and Professor Emeritus John Helliwell from the VSE in earning this honour.

The non-partisan CEA’s mandate is the advancement of economic knowledge through the encouragement of study and research, the issuing of publications, and the furtherance of free and informed discussion of economic questions. Created in 2010, the title of Fellow of the Canadian Economics Association is conferred to recognize the achievements and contribution to the discipline of the most prominent economists who have spent a significant portion of their career in Canada.