Canadian Economics Association
Association canadienne d’économique
Newsletter Chronique
Volume 53
February/Février 2016
CONTENTS
CONTENU
Call for Nominations 2
New Appointments 2
Visiting Appointments 3
Departures 4
Awards & Other News 5
Short-Term Visitors 7
Doctorates 8
Obituaries 10
Call for Papers 15
CRESSE Fellowships 16
Conferences 18
Forthcoming Papers – Canadian
Journal of Economics 20
Forthcoming Papers – Canadian
Public Policy 23
Appel à Nominations 2
Nominations récentes 2
Professeur(e)s invité(e)s 3
Départs 4
Distinctions et autre nouvelles 5
Visiteurs à court terme 7
Doctorats 8
Nécrologie 10
Appel à Contributions 15
Bourses CRESSE 16
Conférences 18
Articles a paraitre dans – la Revue
canadienne d’economique 20
Articles à paraître dans – Analyse
de politiques 23
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Canadian Economics Association invites nominations by any five
members of the Association of candidates for Vice-President of the
Association or for Member-at-large of the Executive Council. Please
send nominations by March 1 each year to the Association’s SecretaryTreasurer, Robert Dimand, rdimand@brocku.ca.
NEW APPOINTMENTS/ NOMINATIONS
RÉCENTES
University of Alberta
Malik Shukayev
January 1, 2016 – Associate Professor of
Economics. Previously with Bank of Canada
University of British Columbia
Jennifer (Jen)
Brown
July 1, 2015 – Associate Professor. Previously
Associate Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School
of Management, Northwestern University
Brock University
Steven Renzetti
January 1, 2016 – Associate Vice-President,
Research for Humanities and Social Sciences
McMaster University
Dustin Garrick
Associate Member; Assistant Professor and
Philomathia Chair of Water Policy, Department
of Political Science & Walter G. Booth School
of Engineering Practice
Emmanuel Guindon
Associate Member, Assistant Professor,
Department Clinical Epidemiology &
Biostatistics
Dr. Zhen He
July 1, 2015 – Assistant Professor (contractual).
Previous University of Waterloo
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Dr. Greig Mordue
July 1, 2015 – Associate Professor and
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Advanced
Manufacturing Policy, Department of
Economics and Walter G. Booth School of
Engineering Practice. Previous General
Manager, Corporate Planning and Office of the
Chair, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada
Dr. Rizwan Tahir
July 1, 2015 – Assistant Professor (contractual).
Previous Trent University
University of Victoria
Marco Cozzi
July 1, 2015 – Assistant Professor (Previously
Assistant Professor at Queen’s University)
Robert Gillezeau
January 1, 2016 – Assistant Professor
Simon Fraser University
April 1, 2016 – Associate Professor. Previously
Assistant Professor at the University of
Washington
Hendrik Wolff
University of Western Ontario
July 1, 2016 – Honorary Professor – Also
Professor Emeritus at Brown University
Peter Howitt
VISITING APPOINTMENTS /
PROFESSEUR(E)S INVITÉ(E)S
University of Alberta
Valentina Kozlova
September 1, 2015 – April 30, 2016, State
University of New York (Oswego)
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University of British Columbia
Kazu Takechi
April 2017 to March 2019 – Hosei University
Carleton University
Kei Shiho
August 24, 2015 to March 15, 2016 – Associate
Professor, School of International Studies,
Kwansei Gakuin University
Xuhui Wang
(Robert)
February 20, 2015 to February 28, 2016 –
Associate Professor, Minnan Normal University
McMaster University
Dr. Justin Smith
July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016 – Associate
Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Université de Montréal
Pascale Valery
du 4 janvier au 31 mai, HEC Montréal
Simon Fraser University
Vera Brencic
September 2015 to May 2016 – University of
Alberta
Carol McAusland
October 2015 to May 2016 – University of
British Columbia
DEPARTURES / DÉPARTS
University of Alberta
Douglas West
June 30, 2015 – Retired
Denise Young
December 31, 2015 – Retired
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University of British Columbia
Thomas Hellmann
September 1, 2015 – New position at Saȉd
Business School, University of Oxford, UK
McMaster University
Dr. John Leach
July 1, 2015 – Retired
Trent University
Jacqueline M.
Muldoon
July 1, 2015
Rizwan Tahir
July 1, 2015 – End of contract – new position at
McMaster
University of Victoria
Malcolm Rutherford
June 30, 2015 – Retirement. Appointed as
Emeritus
AWARDS AND OTHER NEWS / DISTINCTIONS
ET AUTRE NOUVELLES
Carleton University
Simon Power
Carleton University 2015 Provost’s Fellowship
in Teaching Award
McMaster University
Dr. Katherine Cuff
McMaster University Scholar (awarded), July
2015
Dr. Martin Dooley
McMaster University Faculty Association 2015
Award for Outstanding Service
Dr. Jeffrey Racine
Fellow, Journal of Econometrics, 2014
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James Spencer, PhD
Candidate
Teaching Assistant Award, Economics (Fall
2014)
Stephanie Houle,
PhD Candidate
Teaching Assistant Award, Economics (Spring
2015)
Université de Montréal
Marcel Boyer
Lauréat 2015 du Prix Léon-Gérin
Le Prix Léon-Gérin représente la plus haute
distinction remise par le gouvernement du
Québec dans le domaine des sciences humaines
et sociales.
Queen’s University
Robin Boadway
Will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the
Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala
University. The ceremony will be held in
January 2016.
Frank Milne
Re-appointed as a Research Fellow at the C.D.
Howe Institute
Queen’s University
Jeffrey Hicks
Awarded recipient of the 2015 Scarthingmoor
Prize for his MA essay entitled “Tobacco Taxes
in Canada: An Analysis of Elasticities and
Salience”
Simon Fraser University
Krishna Pendakur
William Lyon MacKenzie King Chair
2016/17 at Harvard University
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SHORT-TERM VISITORS / VISITEURS À
COURT TERME
Dalhousie University
Dörte Heger
November 25-December 2, 2015 – from RWI,
Essen, Germany
McMaster University
Dr. Zou Ping
November to December 2015 – from Shanghai
University of Finance and Economics
Université de Montréal
Geir B. Asheim
4 janvier au 15 février et 15 mars au 30 avril –
from University of Oslo
Queen’s University
Jim MacGee
Sept. 15-18, Sept. 28-Oct 2, Oct. 13-16, Oct. 1923, Nov. 23-27, and Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2015 –
from University of Western Ontario
Saint Mary’s University
Azad Haider
April 2015 – from Comsats Institute of
Information Technology, Islamabad
Ryszard Stocki
September 2014 – from University of Social
Sciences & Humanities, Psychology Faculty in
Katowice, Poland
University of Western Ontario
Alessandro Pavan
November 2014 – Northwestern University
Fatih Guvenen
April 2016 – University of Minnesota
Steven Durlauf
TBA – University of Wisconsin-Madison
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DOCTORATES / DOCTORATS
University of Alberta
Hanxiao Li
November 2015 – The Effect of US Federal and
State Gasoline Regulation on Air Pollution
from On-road and Off-road Vehicles
Eldar Sehic
November 2015 – Essays on Trade, Inequality,
and Gravity
Carleton University
Charles Saunders
September 2015 – Four Essays on Dynamic
Panel Models
Concordia University
Amal Dabbous
July 2015 – Three Essays in Commodity Price
Dynamics
Yu Liu
July 2015 – Credit Migration of an Internal
Rating System for a Canadian SME Loans
Portfolio
Dalhousie University
Mook Kyoung Lim
May 2015 – Macroeconomic Consequences of
Publicly Provided Health Insurance: The South
Korean Context
McMaster University
Joel Liddell Wagner
June 10, 2015 – An Investigation Into the
Relative Price of Investment
Université de Montréal
Catherine GendronSaulnier
20 août 2015 – Essays in economics of
information
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Vincent de Paul
Tsoungui Belinga
8 septembre 2015 – On the dynamic effects of
fiscal policy
Idrissa Ouili
30 septembre 2015 – Essays on education and
family planning
Queen’s University
Steven Kivinen
May 2015 – Essays on Networks and
Macroeconomics
Yue (Collin) Shen
May 2015 – Three Essays on Income Dynamics
Jeffrey Penney
June 2015 – The Econometrics and Economics
of Education
Michael
Kottelenberg
August 2015 – Six Essays Evaluating the
Impact of Universal Childcare on
Developmental Outcomes in Quebec
Patrick Alexander
August 2015 – Intermediate Inputs, Firm
Heterogeneity and Gains from International
Trade
Simon Fraser University
Nikolaus Kasimatis
6 November, 2015 – Papers in Economic
Theory and the Biological Foundations of
Economics
Soheil
Mahmoodzadeh
4 August, 2015 – Essays on Market
Microstructure and Foreign Exchange Market
University of Victoria
Noha Abdelfattah
July 2015 – Essays on Children’s Well-being in
Developing Countries
University of Western Ontario
Aaron Gertz
October 2015 – On the Economics of Climate
Change and its Effects
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OBITUARIES
GREGORY JUMP (1941-2015)
Gregory Vern Jump, professor emeritus of economics at the University
of Toronto, passed away surrounded by his family on November 5, ten
days before his 74th birthday, after a five-year struggle with lung cancer
and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Born in Willard,
Ohio on November 15, 1941, Greg Jump graduated from Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio, and earned his PhD in economics at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After a year at the Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of the University
of Toronto, where he taught economics for four decades. In the late
1970s and early 1980s, Greg Jump was a widely-recognized leader in the
policy-oriented macroeconometric modelling of the Canadian economy
at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Policy Analysis, as a driving
force in the creation of the University of Toronto Quarterly Forecasting
model and the TRACE model and then in the 1990s of the FOCUS
model of the Canadian economy (see the list of his selected journal
articles below), working in the tradition of Lawrence Klein, the Nobel
Prize-winning econometrician at the University of Pennsylvania (to
whose Festschrift Jump contributed in 1983). In addition to publishing in
scholarly journals, he also wrote or coauthored studies for the Economic
Council of Canada, the Anti-Inflation Board, the Ontario Economic
Council, and the (Macdonald) Royal Commission on the Economic
Union and Development Prospects for Canada. According to the obituary
in The Globe and Mail (November 9, 2015), “Greg was a serious man
equipped with a mischievous sense of humour. His passions and interests
were numerous and varied: he was a knowledgeable gardener, an avid
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reader (especially of history), an amateur patissier, and a keen fisherman.
He also enjoyed American candy and dry vodka martinis. But nothing
gave him so much pleasure as the company of his family. He is survived
by his beloved wife of 27 years, Sondra Sullivan; his daughters and
stepdaughter, Christine Creighton, Nicole Smith and Lisa Richler; their
husbands, Peter Creighton, Robert Smith, and Jacob Richler; and
grandchildren, Simon, Max, Charlie and Nicholas. He is also survived by
his siblings, Susan Tissue (and her husband, David), Jack Jump (and his
wife, Yvonne) and Vicki Landis (and her husband, Terry). All will miss
him badly. … In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to The
Canadian Lung Association.”
Selected writings
Peter Dungan and Gregory Jump, “The FOCUS Model of the Canadian
Economy,” in S. Ichimura and Y. Matsumoto, eds., Econometric Models
of Asian-Pacific Countries, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp. 269340.
George Fallis, Arthur J. Hosios, and Gregory Jump, “Housing
Allowances, Nonprofit Housing and Cost-Effective Program Choice,”
Journal of Housing Economics 4 (1995), 136-152.
Gregory Jump, “On Interpreting Simulations with a Macroeconomic
Model,” Canadian Public Policy 7:1 (1981), 312-318.
Gregory Jump, “Interest Rates, Inflation Expectations, and Spurious
Elements in Measured Real Income and Saving,” American Economic
Review 70:5 (1980), 990-1004.
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Leo de Bever and Gregory Jump, “Dynamic Properties of Four Canadian
Macroeconomic Models: A Collaborative Research Project,” Canadian
Journal of Economics 12:2 (1979), 133-139.
Gregory Jump, “The University of Toronto Quarterly Forecasting
Model,” Canadian Journal of Economics 12:2 (1979), 150-161.
Jack L. Carr, Gregory Jump, and John A. Sawyer, “The Operation of the
Canadian Economy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates:
Simulation Results from the TRACE Model,” Canadian Journal of
Economics 9:1 (1976), 102-120.
by Robert Dimand
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MICHAEL (MIKE) MCCRACKEN (1940-2015)
Michael Clark (Mike) McCracken, a pioneer of econometric modelling
in Canada and for four decades CEO of Informetrica Ltd., died in Ottawa
on September 28, 2015, at the age of 75, after returning home from
dinner with friends. The Mike McCracken Award for Economic
Statistics, endorsed by the Canadian Economics Association and
presented at its annual meeting, was created in 2010 to recognize
theoretical and applied contributions to the development or use of
economic statistics in Canada (with the award’s namesake as the first
recipient). In 2012, Mike McCracken received the Progressive
Economists Forum’s biennial John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for “a
lifetime contribution to economics and social justice.” As recipient of the
third Galbraith Prize, he gave the Galbraith Lecture, which he entitled
“The Search for Full Employment: My Continuing Battle for the
Unemployed.” He was one of the founders of the Canadian Association
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for Business Economics (CABE) in 1975, serving as CABE’s president
from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1988 to 1990 (and was also chair of
the US Conference of Business Economists in 1994), and in 1991 was
one of the founders of the Canadian Employment Research Forum
(CERF), of which he was treasurer. Mike was also one of the first
Canadian economists to appear on television, commenting regularly on
federal budgets and elections. He served for many years on the national
accounts advisory committee of Statistics Canada, and campaigned
quietly and successfully for Statistics Canada to make its data widely and
freely available.
Mike McCracken was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with Native American
Muscogee (Creek) heritage on his mother’s side, and grew up in
Germany, Hawaii, California and Japan (his father was in the US
military). He received his BA in economics from Rice University in
Houston, Texas, 1961, and his MA in economics from Southern
Methodist University in Dallas in 1964. While at Rice, he met and
married Catherine Mary Doyle, who passed away in 2005 after 45 years
of marriage; Mike will be buried next to her in Houston. In 1965, Arthur
J. R. Smith, then chair of the Economic Council of Canada, brought
Mike to Canada to work for the Council. Mike’s time at the Council was
interrupted from 1967 to 1970 when he fulfilled his military service
obligations as a US Army captain seconded as an economist with the
Central Intelligence Agency in Washington. From his return to the
Economic Council in 1970 until he left to cofound Informetrica in 1972,
Mike was the project manager in building the Canadian Disaggregated
Inter-Departmental Econometric model (CANDIDE), the first largescale, long-range, inter-industry model of the Canadian economy.
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CANDIDE, with its disaggregation by industry and by region, province
and territory, was a very large model: Model 1.1 had 2,049 equations.
Together with Carl Sonnen (whom he met at the Economic Council),
Mike Cracken founded the Ottawa-based quantitative economic research,
forecasting and consulting firm Informetrica Ltd. in 1972, and was its
president and CEO until it wound up operations in 2013. Informetrica
developed its own large-scale model of Canada and its provinces, The
Informetrica Model (TIM), as well as national and provincial population
calculator models, a Local Area Economic impact model, and the
MOSAIC/SIMSYS software suite for building and maintaining largescale econometric models. Many young economists who gained
experience at Informetrica went on to careers in the federal government.
In the words of Carl Sonnen, Mike McCracken “took leading-edge
analytical techniques and applied them. That is my notion of a builder.”
Mike McCracken is survived by his partner of seven years, Carole
Doucet, by his children Mary Margaret, George and Catherine (Cricket)
McCracken, and his grandchildren Sebastian Doyle and Virginia (Gina)
Sara McCracken. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to one
of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation, the Ottawa
Mission Foundation Food Services Training Program, or Cornerstone
Housing for Women.
Selected References
“Obituary: Michael McCracken,” Ottawa Citizen, October 3, 2015.
Mervin Daub, Canadian Economic Forecasting in a World Where All’s
Unsure, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1987.
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Jennifer Lewington, “Canada’s father of economic modelling,” The
Globe and Mail, October 10, 2015, p. S12.
Michael C. McCracken, “An Overview of CANDIDE Model 1.0,”
CANDIDE Project Paper No. 1, 1973.
Mike McCracken, “A Macroeconomic Policy Package for the 1990s” in
Brian MacLean and Lars Osberg, eds., The Unemployment Crisis: All for
Naught? Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996, pp. 247-251.
Carl Sonnen and Mike McCracken, “Downsizing, Passive Privatization
and Fiscal Arrangements,” in Daniel Drache and Terry Sullivan, eds.,
Market Limits in Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure,
London and New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 225-244.
Carl Sonnen, Bob Jenness and Mike McCracken, Economic Effects of
Structural Change in Manufacturing: Retrospective View, Ottawa:
Informetrica, 2007.
Mike McCracken and T. Scott Murray, The Economic Benefits of
Literacy: Evidence and Implications for Public Policy, London, ON:
Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, 2009.
by Robert Dimand
CALL FOR PAPERS
50th Annual 2015 Canadian Economics Association (CEA)
Annual Conference
The CEA invites anyone wishing to present a paper at the 2015
Conference to submit an abstract by Friday, February 6, 2016. Paper
submissions in English or French are accepted starting December 1, 2015
through the web interface at my.economics.ca. The maximum length for
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an abstract is 250 words. You will receive a notification once your paper
is accepted or rejected. If your paper is accepted, it is expected that you
will be prepared to serve as a discussant and/or program chair at other
sessions within your areas of interest. Please direct all inquiries and
correspondence to the CEA Executive Director, at
cea2016@economics.ca.
Any member can propose a special session or sessions which may have
invited papers. If you are interested in this possibility, please contact
Nancy Gallini (at cea2016@economics.ca ) before January 31, 2016.
See the "Session Organizers" link on the conference web site for further
information.
CRESSE FELLOWSHIPS
Fellowships Available For Untenured Faculty, Doctoral Students and
Post-Docs to Attend Leading Competition Policy Summer School and
Conference in Rhodes, Greece, June-July 2016
The Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations
(CIRANO) in Montreal, the Rotman Institute for International Business,
in the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and
the Phelps Centre for the Study of Government and Business in the
Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (“the
Centres”) are pleased to announce a partnership with the European
Summer School and Conference in Competition and Regulation
(CRESSE: www.cresse.info/ ). The goal is to encourage and facilitate
greater participation by young Canadian economists in this world-class
conference and summer school. In its eleventh year in 2016, CRESSE
will feature presentations and teaching by some of the leading
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competition policy experts in the world. More about this year’s summer
school and conference can be found at:
www.cresse.info/default.aspx?articleID=3398 . The summer school is
ideal for those interested in competition economics but who, while
trained in microeconomic theory and industrial organization, may have
had limited opportunity for focused study in the field.
The Centres will jointly fund up to nine fellowships for economists to
attend the full 2016 summer school (all nine modules) and conference
which will run from June 25 to July 8, 2016 (with the conference taking
place July 1-3, 2016). Both will be held on the island of Rhodes in
Greece. These fellowships will cover all registration and tuition fees and
will include up to C$3,000 additional funding to cover air and hotel
costs.
Those eligible for consideration for these fellowships will include
economists who are: (i) Canadian Ph.D. students and post-doctoral
scholars, and other doctoral and post-doctoral scholars studying or
working in Canadian universities; (ii) untenured Canadian faculty
members and other untenured faculty working at Canadian universities;
and (iii) employees of the Competition Bureau of Canada.
To apply for a fellowship, or for further information, contact:
Professor Thomas Ross, Director
Phelps Centre for the Study of Government and Business
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6T 1Z2
Tel: (604) 822-8478 E-mail: tom.ross@sauder.ubc.ca
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Applicants should provide a letter or email expressing their desire to
apply for a fellowship as well as the following: (i) for untenured faculty,
post-doctoral fellows and employees of the Canadian Competition
Bureau – a CV only; and (ii) for doctoral students (who may not
necessarily be at the thesis stage) – a CV, list of graduate economics
courses (taken and in process), and names and contact information of two
references (but not letters). Applications are welcome now and will be
received until all fellowships have been awarded. Interested applicants
are encouraged to apply – or at least to express interest – as soon as
possible. To facilitate travel planning, some fellowships may be awarded
as early as December 2015 and we expect all fellowships to be awarded
by April 1, 2016.
CONFERENCES / CONFÉRENCES
Title:
Economic Outlook 2016: Global Markets, Local
Realities
Dates:
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Location:
CIGI Auditorium, 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo
Contact person: Dr. William Morrison
Contact e-mail: wmorrison@wlu.ca
Web address:
http://lcerpa.org/
Title:
Dates:
Location:
Contact person:
Contact e-mail:
Web address:
Climate Choices Canada: Economics and Policy
February 18-20, 2016
Balsillie School, 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo
Dr. Tracy Snoddon and Dr. Randy Wigle
tsnoddon@wlu.ca and rwigle@wlu.ca
http://www.climatechoicescanada.ca/conferenceprogram
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Title:
Colloque CIREQ Montréal de macroéconomie 2016 /
CIREQ Montreal Macroeconomics Conference 2016
Dates:
22 avril 2016 / April 22, 2016
Location:
Hôtel de l’Institut
3535 Saint-Denis, 6e étage/Floor
Montréal (Québec) H2X 3P1
Contact person: Daniel Barzcyk et Tatyana Koreshkova
Contact e-mail: daniel.barczyk@mcgill.ca /
tatyana.koreshkova@concordia.ca
Web address:
http://www.cireqmontreal.com/view/15278/colloquecireq-montreal-de-macroeconomie-2016
Title:
Dates:
Location:
Contact person:
Contact e-mail:
Web address:
Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop
May 6, 2016
Queen’s University
Sharon Sullivan
sullivas@econ.queensu.ca
http://www.econ.queensu.ca/frontiers2016
Title:
Colloque CIREQ Montréal d’économétrie en l’honneur
de Jean-Marie Dufour /
CIREQ Montreal Econometrics Conference in honor of
Jean-Marie Dufour
Dates:
7 et 8 mai 2016 / May 7-8, 2016
Location:
Hôtel de l’Institut
3535 Saint-Denis, 6e étage/Floor
Montréal (Québec) H2X 3P1
Contact person: Marine Carrasco et / and Victoria Zinde-Walsh
Contact e-mail: marine.carrasco@umontreal.ca / victoria.zindewalsh@mcgill.ca
Web address:
www.cireqmontreal.com/en/view/15617/colloquecireq-montreal-deconometrie-en-lhonneur-de-jeanmarie-dufour
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CESG Conference 2016, 33rd Meeting of the Canadian
Econometric Study Group – “Big Data: Challenges and
Opportunities”
Keynote:
Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and Serena Ng, Columbia University
Dates:
October 15-16, 2016
Location:
University of Western Ontario
Contact person: Professor Silvia Gonçalves
Contact e-mail: sgoncal9@uwo.ca
Web address:
http://economics.uwo.ca/cesg_2016/index.html
Title:
FORTHCOMING PAPERS IN CANADIAN
JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS (CJE) / ARTICLES À
PARAÎTRE DANS LA REVUE CANADIENNE
D’ÉCONOMIQUE
Accepted and Forthcoming Papers
Horst Raff and Nicolas Schmitt: Manufacturers and Retailers in the
Global Economy
Philip A. Curry, Anindya Sen and George Orlov: Crime, Apprehension
and Clearance Rates: Panel Data Evidence from Canadian
Provinces
Donna Feir: The Long Term Effects of Forcible Assimilation Policy: The
Case of Indian Boarding Schools
Colin Carter and Pierre Mérel: Hidden Costs of Supply Management in a
Small Market
Ken-ichi Hashimoto and Ken Tabata: Demographic Change, Human
Capital Accumulation and R&D-based Growth
Jing Cao, Larry D. Qiu and Mohan Zhou: Who Invests More in Advanced
Abatement Technology: Theory and Evidence
Maxym Chaban and Graham M. Voss: Is Canada an optimal currency
area? An inflation targeting perspective
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Janelle Mann: Rockets and feathers meet markup margins: Applications
to the oil and gasoline industry
M. Ali Khan and Edward Schlee: On Lionel McKenzie's 1957 Intrusion
into 20th Century Demand Theory
Lihui Zhang: Are Youth Offenders Responsive to Changing Sanctions?
Evidence from the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act of 2003
Bao Tan Huynh: Energy Price Shocks and External Balances
Shuyun May Li, Solmaz Moslehi and Siew Ling Yew: Public-Private
Mix of Health Expenditure: A Political Economy and Quantitative
Analysis
Verena Nowak, Christian Schwarz and Jens Suedekum: Asymmetric
spiders: Supplier heterogeneity and the organization of firms
Arman Mansoorian and Leo Michelis: Measuring the Contribution of
Durable Goods to the Welfare Cost of Inflation
Shih-jye Wu, Yang-Ming Chang and Hung-Yi Chen: Imported Inputs,
Privatization in Downstream Mixed Oligopoly, and Foreign
Ownership
Shiu-Sheng Chen: Commodity prices and related equity prices
Francesco Zanetti and Konstantinos Theodoridis: News Shocks and
Labor Market Dynamics in Matching Models
Malte Rieth, Cristina Checherita-Westphal and Maria-Grazia Attinasi:
Personal Income Tax Progressivity and Output Volatility: Evidence
from OECD Countries
Ce Huang: Price Dispersion in a Directed Search Model
Ignat Stepanok: Creative Destruction and Unemployment in an Open
Economy Model
Angelo Secchi, Federico Tamagni and Chiara Tomasi: Export price
adjustments under financial constraints
R. Emre Aytimur, Aristotelis Boukouras and Robert Schwager: The
citizen-candidate model with imperfect policy control: Strategic
delegation and polarization
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Constantine Angyridis and Brennan Thompson: Negative Income Taxes,
Inequality, and Poverty
David Amirault, Daniel de Munnik and Sarah Miller: What drags and
drives mobility: Explaining Canada’s aggregate migration patterns
Robert J.R. Elliott, Liza Jabbour and Liyun Zhang: Firm Productivity
and Importing: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms
Russell Hillberry and Phillip McCalman: Import Dynamics and Demands
for Protection
Eddy Bekkers, Joseph François and Miriam Manchin: Trade Costs,
Quality, and The Skill Premium
Arja H. Turunen-Red, Seppo Honkapohja and Alan Woodland: Growth,
Expectations, and Tariffs
Yin Germaschewski: Getting Help From Abroad: The Macroeconomics
of Foreign Direct Investment in Infrastructure in Low-Income
Countries
Anna Kormilitsina: An Amplification Mechanism in a Model of Energy
Paul E. Carrillo, Arun S. Malik and Yiseon Yoo: Driving Restrictions
That Work? Quito's Pico y Placa Program
Thierry Bréchet, Yann Ménière and Pierre M. Picard: The clean
development mechanism in a globalized carbon market
Chikara Yamaguchi and Jun-ichi Itaya: Implementing Partial Tax
Harmonization in an Asymmetric Tax Competition Game with
Repeated Interaction
Allen Head and Huw Lloyd-Ellis: Has Canadian House Price Growth
been Excessive?
Oleksiy Kryvtsov: Is There a Quality Bias in the Canadian CPI?
Evidence from Micro Data
Ulf Lewrick, Lukas Mohlera and Rolf Wedera: Trade in Variety and
Domestic Production: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
W. Erwin Diewert and Kevin J. Fox: Sunk Costs and the Measurement of
Commercial Property Depreciation
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Katharina Eck and Stephan Huber: Product Sophistication and Spillovers
from Foreign Direct Investment
Alessandro Barattieri, Ingo Borchert and Aaditya Mattoo: Cross-Border
Mergers and Acquisitions in Services: The Role of Policy and
Industrial Structure
Paul Missios and Halis Murat Yildiz: Do South-South Preferential Trade
Agreements Undermine the Prospects for Multilateral Free Trade?
FORTHCOMING PAPERS IN CANADIAN PUBLIC
POLICY (CPP) / ARTICLES À PARAÎTRE DANS
ANALYSE DE POLITIQUES
Forthcoming Papers – March 2016
Lynn McIntyre, Patrick B. Patterson and Laura C. Anderson and
Catherine L. Mah: Household food insecurity in Canada: Problem
definition and potential solutions in the public policy domain
Ron Kneebone and Margarita Wilkins: Canadian Provincial Government
Budget Data, 1980-81 to 2013-14
Kourtney Koebel and Tammy Schirle: The differential impact of
universal child benefits on the labour supply of married and single
mothers
Andrea M.L. Perrella, Eric Bélanger and Richard Nadeau and Martial
Foucault: Does a Growing Income Gap Affect Political Attitudes?
Janice Compton: Effects of the 2001 Extension of Paid Parental Leave
Provisions on Birth Seasonality in Canada
Alain Bélanger: Understanding employment participation of older
workers: the Canadian perspective
Geoffrey Hale and Oleg Kodolov: Budgeting under prolonged
constraints: Canadian Provincial Governments Respond to
Recession and "Slowth"
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University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1 or
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