Bilingual Business Economics | Glendon Campus

How do the “animal spirits” of investors fuel market booms and busts? Why are some firms more successful than others? What are the determinants of economic growth, and which industries are expected to grow fastest in the near future? How should firms finance themselves: through debt or equity? How can shareholders incentivize firm executives and managers to act in their best interests?

Do such questions pique your interest? Then our Business Economics program is ideally suited to you! Develop your business acumen, your analytical and critical-thinking skills in a highly interactive, tightly-knit, and bilingual community. Ours is a collaborative program, not just in how it is delivered but also through its relationships around the world. Our professors have a global reach, relevant business experience, and a wide variety of specializations including macroeconomics, international trade, corporate and international finance, industrial organization, public economics, innovation economics, public health, and data science.

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Skills You’ll Learn

Understand current business management techniques, and effective and practical business strategies
Gain strong analytical skills
Study statistical methods used in business, and apply them to practical challenges
Learn economic theory and its application to business analysis
Get exposure to associated fields, such as finance, and concepts relevant to business today

Careers

As a Business Economics graduate, you are well-equipped to become a leader and changemaker. You can choose to pursue grad studies or obtain additional qualifications. Here are a few examples of possible career paths:

Financial, investment and banking sectors
Consultancy
Market analysis
Research
Policy advising
Accounting
Financial auditor
Product Manager
Strategic planning

Visit the Career Centre for more career options in Business Economics.

Hands-On Experiences

Apply the concepts and theories you’re studying to real-world challenges. Engage in guided practical experiences in the classroom, workplace, community and abroad. These are some opportunities for Business Economics students.

Choose a specialization stream in third or fourth year: Accounting & Finance, Economics & Public Policy or Mathematical Economics & Economic Theory
Join the national Bank of Canada Governor’s Challenge, in which teams simulate the role of advisor to the bank’s Governing Council
Complete an internship or work placement in the Greater Toronto Area
Join our dynamic club: the Glendon Business & Economics Society, to boost your skills and meet likeminded classmates

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Meet Your Professors: The Department of Economics at Glendon

You’ll learn from and get to know friendly, high-profile professors, who have strong international backgrounds and real-world experience, and are often working and researching in the field.

Xavier de Vanssay

York Hall 339
416-736-2100 x 88153
devanssay@glendon.yorku.ca

Can Erutku

York Hall 364
416-736-2100 x 88127
cerutku@yorku.ca

Omar Hamouda

York Hall 365
416-487-6778
hamouda@yorku.ca

Vincent A Hildebrand

BUEC Coordinator

York Hall 363
416-736-2100 x 88591
vhildebrand@gl.yorku.ca

Marie Lavoie

York Hall C204
416-736-2100 x 88373
lavoie@glendon.yorku.ca

Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau

Departmental Chair

York Hall 329

416-736-2100 x 88124
ngmartineau@glendon.yorku.ca

Rémi Vivès

York Hall 341A
416-487-6712
remi.vives@glendon.yorku.ca

Scott Cawfield

York Hall 328
scawfield@glenndon@yorku.ca

Richard Deklerk

York Hall 327 416-487-6712 rdeklerk@yorku.ca

John Paschakis

Vari Hall, 1107 (Keele Campus)
416-736-2100 x 33476
jpaschak@yorku.ca

Steven Pinter

jspinter@yorku.ca

Rajeev Sharma

York Hall 327
416-487-6712
rsharma@glendon.yorku.ca

Luis Garcia Vargas

York Hall 327, lgarciav@yorku.ca

Arthur Younger

Hilliard D104, ayounger@glendon.yorku.ca

Student Supports & Programs

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