HOMEPAGE OF MERWAN H.
ENGINEER
Department of Economics, University of Victoria
Victoria, B.C.,
Canada V8W 2Y2
Phone: (250) 721-8536 Fax: (250)
721-6214
E-mail
Research
Development and Demography:
“Maximizing Human Development” mimeo (2011)
With Ian King
“Healthy Human Development Indices”, Social Indicators Research, 99, (2010), 61-80.
With Nilanjana Roy and Sari Fink
“The Human
Development Index as a Criterion for Optimal Planning”, Indian Growth
and Development Review, 1(2),
(2008), 172-192.
With Ian King and Nilanjana Roy
“Choosing Longevity
with Overlapping Generations: To Be or Not to Be in Diamond's Model”, The
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions): 8(1), Article 6, (2008).
With Weichun Chen and Ian King
“Overlapping
Generations Models of Graded Age-Set Societies” Journal of Institutional
and Theoretical Economics, 160, (2004) 454-476.
With Linda Welling
“Human
Capital, True Love, and Gender Roles: Is Sex Destiny?”, Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization, 40, (1999) 155-178.
With Linda Welling
“Modeling
Social Rules and Experimental History: The Sepaade
Tradition of Northern Kenya", mimeo (2007)
With
Eric Roth and Linda Welling
“An Almost Exact Overlapping Generations Model of Rendille
of Northern Kenya”, mimeo (2011)
With
Eric Roth and Linda Welling
Finance and Money
"A Positive Analysis of Deposit Insurance Provision: Regulatory Competition Among European Union Countries", mimeo (2011)
With Paul Schure and Mark Gillis
"When
is Price-Level Targeting a Good Idea?" Price Stability and the Long-Run Target for Monetary Policy, Bank of
Canada (2001), 101-149.
With Richard Barnett
“Bargains, Barter and Fiat Money”, Review
of Economic Dynamics, 4, (2001), 188-209.
With
Joan Esteban and Jozsef Sakovics
“Brennan and Buchanan's Leviathan Models”,
Social Science Journal, 27, (1990), 419-433.
Affiliations
Center
for Studies in Ecology and Demography (Research Affiliate)
Indian Growth and Development Review (Associate
Editor)
Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (Senior Fellow)
Encyclopaedia
of Quality of Life Research (Section Editor)
Awards,
Grants and Visiting Positions
2007
Visiting
Scholar, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
India (January-March)
2001-2004 Social
Science and Humanities Research Council grant to study “Macroeconomic and Money
Models”
2003 Visiting fellow, Center for Development Studies,
Trivandum India (November- December)
1989 C. A. Curtis Prize (for best economics
thesis), Queen’s University
1982-1986 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
Teaching
January-April 2012:
Economics 453: Economic Growth and Business Cycles
Economics 485B: Happiness and Economics
Economics 520: Development Economics
Graduate Supervisions:
COLEMAN, Nickolas, “Entrepreneurs and
Workers: Endogenous Labour Market Choice”
Extended Master’s Essay (March 2011)
Dr M. Engineer & Dr A.
Kumar
HINCKS, Nick, “Health Convergence:
Inference and Indicators”
Extended Master’s Essay (September 2009)
Dr N. Roy & Dr M. Engineer
DURAN, Kyle, "Targeting
the Exchange Rate: Lessons From a Simple New Keynesian Model"
Extended Master’s
Essay (July 2009)
Dr G Voss & Dr. M. Engineer
Extended Master’s Essay (May 2008)
Dr M. Engineer & Dr G. Voss
CHEN, Weichun, "Three Essays on the Health and Wealth of Nations”
Ph.D. (May 2008)
Dr M. Engineer, Dr N. Roy & Dr J. Clarke, Dr Z. Wu
Extended Master’s Essay (November 2007)
Dr D. Giles & Dr M. Engineer
FINK, Sari, “Adjusting the Human Development
Index for Health and Longevity”,
Extended Master’s Essay (December 2006)
NI, Yang, “Duration Analysis of the
Initial Public Offering Effect”,
Extended Master’s Essay (August 2006)
XU, Jing, “Technical Trading Rules
& Stock Returns: An Econometric Analysis”,
Extended Master’s Essay (August 2006)
CHABAN, Maxym, “Essays in Exchange
Rate Economics”,
Ph.D. (May 2006)
Dr G. Voss, Dr J. Clarke, Dr. M. Engineer & Dr M. Webb
Extended Master’s Essay (April
2005)
Dr J. Clarke & Dr M. Engineer
Extended Master’s Essay May 2005
CHEN, Weichun, “Endogenous Life
Expectancy and Income: An Overlapping Generations Analysis”,
Extended Master’s Essay (August, 2004)
Extended Master’s Essay (August, 2004)
Dr J.A. Clarke & Dr M. Engineer
LIU, Qian, “Monetary Policy and Asset
Prices: A Survey of the Literature”
Extended Master’s Essay (July 2004)
Dr G. Voss & Dr M. Engineer
Extended Master’s Essay (April, 2000)
Dr J.A. Clarke & Dr M. Engineer
ARCHER, Ian, “An Analysis of Natural
Gas Futures Markets”,
Extended Master’s Essay (May, 1999)
Dr M. Engineer & Dr K.G. Stewart
HSU, Kuo-An, “The Implications of
Alternative Demand Specifications in a Computational Trade Model”,
Extended Master’s Essay (December, 1999)
Dr D. Ferguson & Dr M. Engineer
MILLER, Dale, "Real Options
Analysis of Power Generating Assets",
Extended Master’s Essay (April, 1999)
Dr M. Engineer & Dr L. Welling
MARTINEZ,
Victor, "Recovery of Stranded Costs in the U.S. Electricity
Industry",
Extended Master’s Essay (December, 1998)
Dr L. Welling & Dr M. Engineer
ANDREE, Alan,
"The Performance of Canadian Equity Mutual Funds"
Extended Master’s Essay (August, 1998)
Dr K. Stewart & Dr M. Engineer
SHINOHARA, Keiko, "Tariff
Warfare in a Multi-Country Ricardian Continuum Model",
Extended Master’s Essay (July, 1998)
Dr D. Ferguson & Dr M. Engineer
ROMANYSHYN, Stephen,
"Generational Accounting: Survey and Application",
Extended Master’s Essay (June, 1998)
GOMEZ, Carl, "The Regional
Diversification Potential of Real Estate Investments",
Extended Master’s Essay (March, 1998)
Dr M. Engineer & Dr K. Stewart
DUNBAR, Geoffrey, "Covered
Interest Rate Arbitrage and Bid-Ask Spreads",
Extended Master’s Essay (June, 1997)
Dr M. Engineer & Dr L. Welling
DAVID, Murphy, “A Review of the
Matching Function Approach to Labour Markets”,
Extended Master’s Essay (May, 1996)
Honours
Supervisions:
LEVY, Robert, "Gold's Role in the Determination of
Currencies" (2011)
CHEN, Scott,
"Harris-Todaro Model of China with Endogenous Migration Policy"
(2010)
HSAI, Sandra, "Bank Runs
and Interest Rates" (2010)
Usher, Andrew, "Hide and Seek: Search Costs as a
Screen in Angel Capital" (2010)
joint supervision with Dr. P. Schure.
HU, Ran, "Pricing
and Hedging in CME Futures Housing Market: A Survey of How we Price Futures and
a Test in the San Diego Housing Market" (2009)
Links
Canadian Economics Association
Department of Finance (Canada)
National Bureau of Economic Research
The Twelve Federal Reserve Districts
The World Bank
and The World Bank Development
Report
World Population Clock
-- Take a guess and check how close you are
United Nations Development
Programme, UN Millennium Project and Human Development Report
