Laura Brown

• ECON 1010 - Introductory Microeconomics
• ECON 3030 - Mathematical Economics

Professor Brown pursued a PhD following several years of work in Development Economics, helping to build a computable general equilibrium model for Kenya. She came to Manitoba following her PhD and has spent her professional career working in a variety of areas. She has adjusted her teaching as the needs of the department required. Her research is also varied, and partly followed her areas of teaching.

• PhD (Economics), Queen's University, 1996
• MA (Economics), Carleton University 
• BA Honours (Economics and Political Science), University of Alberta

Research interests

• Economics of gender
• International trade: modelling trade effects or estimating the effects of trade policies, movements or agreements

Research summary

Professor Brown's research has been varied, from environmental economics to international trade, with a number of publications on the relationships between nonprofit organizations and government and the gender salary gap in academia.

Her most recent efforts focus on preparing support material for an introductory microeconomics textbook. 

• Brown, Laura K., and Elizabeth Troutt. 2020. "Projecting grid compression to reduce gender salary gaps." Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations. Vol 75. 3: 526-546.
• Brown, Laura K., and Elizabeth Troutt. 2017. "A re-analysis of the trade and welfare effects of export subsidies." Applied Economics Letters. (published online 26 May 2017). Abingdon, U.K.: Taylor-Francis.
• Brown, Laura K., and Elizabeth Troutt. 2017. "Sex and salaries at a Canadian university: the song remains the same or the times they are a changin’?" Canadian Public Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 43(3): 15 pages.