Barbara Spencer

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Barbara Judith Spencer b. Swan (* 1945 in Melbourne , Australia ) is an Australian - Canadian economist and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

Spencer studied from 1963 at the Australian National University , which she left three years later as a Bachelor of Economics in the direction of Monash University . There she graduated with a Master of Economics in 1969 and worked as a lecturer between 1970 and 1974 , then as an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba until 1978 , where she was employed in 1976 as part of the tenure track process. In the same year she started her Ph.D. - Studied with Edward C. Prescott , Thomas Romer and Finn E. Kydland at Carnegie Mellon University , graduating in December 1978.

From 1978 Spencer was an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba, 1980 she went to Boston College . In 1985 he moved to the University of British Columbia , where she was appointed full professor in 1988 and took over the Asia-Pacific chair for trade policy .

Spencer's academic interests lie in the areas of international trade and international trade policy, as well as industrial organization . Together with James Brander , she developed the so-called Brander-Spencer model in the 1980s . With their approach, the author duo showed the extent to which - contrary to the models common at the time - under certain framework conditions state intervention to protect entrepreneurs increases overall welfare.

Between 2004 and 2005, Spencer was President of the Canadian Economics Association .

For her article “Tariffs and the Extraction of Foreign Monopoly Rents Under Potential Entry”, she and Brander received the Society's Harry Johnson Prize in 1981 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidents, Treasurers and Editors. economics.ca, accessed on August 15, 2015 .

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 1054-1055

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personal data
SURNAME Spencer, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spencer, Barbara Judith (full name); Swan, Barbara Judith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-Canadian economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Australia