York University students with the Department of Economics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, gathered on March 16 for the department's first-ever interdisciplinary case competition.
Participants in the case competition
The goal was to give students the opportunity to gain valuable experience and network with leading industry professionals from companies such as Sunray Group, CFA Society Toronto and QUAD.
Shubham Bansal is a second-year undergraduate student pursuing financial and business economics. He is also vice-president of competitions for the Economics Students' Association and chief organizer behind the event. According to Bansal, "the reason behind organizing this competition was to give students a platform to come up with logical explanations to a problem and present them in front of an audience."
Nine teams were asked to prepare a presentation analyzing the potential outcomes for autonomous vehicle technology in Canada. Bansal said the topic was selected because autonomous vehicles "will have an economic, social and political impact on Canada," giving students a lot to work with.
