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Dr. Michael Maschek is Associate Professor and Department Head of Economics at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) where he specializes in Canadian economic policy, law and economics, game theory, behavioural economics, international finance, and environmental economics.

Before joining UFV Michael was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Team for Advanced Research in Growth, Education and Technology [TARGET] at the University of British Columbia with major Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)funding. The project involved the collaboration of eighteen interdisciplinary research associates to investigate how globalization, technology, and education have contributed to the emergence of the New Economy and how the economic and social policies of Canada need to be adapted. In addition, Michael served as a Senior Research Member with the Centre for Research in Adaptive Behaviour in Economics [CRABE]; a research group housed in the Department of Economics of Simon Fraser University dedicated to the study, teaching, and practice of behavioural economics to develop models of learning and adaptation in areas including game theory, mechanism design, organization theory, macroeconomics, labour economics and finance.