Prof Harry Paarsch
BA (Hons) Queen’s; MS, PhD Stanford
Biography
Professor Paarsch earned the degree B.A. (Honours), First Class, in economics from Queen's University at Kingston in Canada as well as the degrees M.S. in statistics and Ph.D. in economics with a minor in statistics, both from Stanford University. He has held full-time appointments at the University of British Columbia and the University of Western Ontario as well as the University of Iowa and has been a visiting professor at Aarhus Universitet, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Helsingin yliopisto, the University of New South Wales, and Stanford University. Professor Paarsch has held the Arch W. Shaw National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution and has been a visiting scholar at the Institut d'Economie Industrielle in Toulouse, France and the Instituto de Analisis Economico (CSIS) in Bellaterra, Spain.
Research Interests
- Forestry economics
- Empirical models of auctions
- Applied econometrics
- Industrial organization and labour economics
- Numerical methods
Teaching responsibilities
- 316-654 Advanced Econometric Techniques