MARIE REKKAS
Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC, Canada V5A 1S6
Tel: 778-782-6793
mrekkas@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/~mrekkas
Employment
2009 – present Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
2002 – 2009
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
Professional Affiliations
2010 – present Member, Centre for Public Opinion and Political Representation
Education
2002
1997
1996
1995
Ph.D.
M.A.
M.Sc.
B.A.
Economics
Economics
Statistics
Economics
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
York University
Publications
“Interval Estimation for the Stress-Strength Reliability with Bivariate Normal Variables” (with
P.Nguimkeu and A.Wong), Open Journal of Statistics 4, 630-640, 2014.
“Comparing the Means of Two Log-Normal Distributions: A Likelihood Approach” (with L. Jiang and
A.Wong), Journal of Statistical and Econometric Methods 3, 137-152, 2014.
“Interval Estimation of the Stress-Strength Reliability with Independent Normal Random Errors” (with P.
Nguimkeu and A.Wong), Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods,
doi:10.1080/03610926.2012.762399, 2013.
“Improved Likelihood-Based Inference for the MA(1) Model” (with F. Chang and A.Wong), Journal of
Statistical Planning and Inference 143, 209-219, 2013.
“Incumbency Advantages in the Canadian Parliament” (with C. Kendall), Canadian Journal of
Economics 45(4), 1560-1585, 2012.
“Inference for the Sharpe Ratio using a Likelihood-Based Approach” (with Y.Liu and A.Wong), Journal
of Probability and Statistics, doi:10.1155/2012/878561, 2012.
“The Impact of Campaign Expenditure Limits on Campaign Spending and Election Outcomes”, Report
prepared for Elections Canada, 2011.
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“Third-Order Inference for Autocorrelation in Nonlinear Regression Models” (with P. Nguimkeu),
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141, 3413-3425, 2011.
“Approximate Inference for the Multinomial Logit Model,” Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 237-242,
2009.
“Gender and Elections: An Examination of the 2006 Canadian Federal Election,” Canadian Journal of
Political Science 41(4), 987-1001, 2008.
“An Interesting Application of a Likelihood-Based Asymptotic Method” (with Y. She, Y. Sun and A.
Wong), Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics 3, 275-285, 2008.
“Campaign Spending Limits, Incumbent Spending, and Election Outcomes” (with K. Milligan),
Canadian Journal of Economics 41(4), 1351-1374, 2008.
[Recipient of the Harry Johnson Prize for best paper in the Canadian Journal of Economics in
2008]
“Implementing Likelihood-Based Inference for Fat-Tailed Distributions” (with A. Wong), Finance
Research Letters 5(1), 32-46, 2008.
“Improved Inference for First Order Autocorrelation using Likelihood Analysis” (with Y. Sun and A.
Wong), Journal of Time Series Analysis 29(3), 513-532, 2008.
“The Impact of Campaign Spending on Votes in Multiparty Elections,” Review of Economics and
Statistics 89(3), 573-585, 2007.
“Highly Accurate Likelihood Analysis for the Seemingly Unrelated Regression Problem” (with D.A.S.
Fraser and A. Wong), Journal of Econometrics 127(1), 17-33, 2005.
“Third-Order Inference for the Weibull Distribution” (with A. Wong), Computational Statistics and Data
Analysis 49(2), 499-525, 2005.
Fellowships and Grants
2010-2013 SSHRC Standard Research Grant
2009
Harry Johnson Prize awarded by the Canadian Journal of Economics for best paper
2008-2009 SFU/SSHRC Travel Grant
2007-2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant
2005-2008 NSERC Research Grant
2003-2004 Discovery Parks SSHRC Research Grant
2002-2004 SFU President’s Research Grant
2002-2003 SFU Endowed Research Fellowship
2002-2003 SFU New Faculty Grant
2000-2001, 1998-1999, 1995-1996 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2001-2002, 1999-2000, 1997-1998, 1996-1997 University of Toronto Open Fellowship
1991-1995 York University Entrance Scholarship
1993-1994 William Pearson Scott Scholarship
1992-1993 Edward Beder Memorial Scholarship
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Seminars
Elections Canada, Centre for Public Opinion and Political Representation, Ohio State University,
McMaster University, University of Toronto, McGill University, Indiana University (Kelley Business
School), Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria
Conference Participation
Western Economic Association International Meetings, San Diego, July 2011
Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Ottawa, June 2011
Canadian Econometrics Study Group Conference, Vancouver, October 2010
Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics, Greece, July 2010
Western Economic Association International Meetings, Portland, July 2010
Workshop on the Financing of Politics, Montreal, June 2010
European Meeting of the Econometric Society/European Economic Association, Barcelona, August 2009
Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Toronto, May 2009
Western Economic Association International Meetings, Waikiki, July 2008
Society of Computational Economics Conference, Paris, June 2008
Western Economic Association International Meetings, Seattle, July 2007
Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Halifax, May 2007
Summer Conference on Industrial Organization, Kelowna, July 2006
Western Economic Association International Meetings, San Diego, July 2006
Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Montreal, May 2006
Canadian Econometrics Study Group Conference, Vancouver, October 2005
Western Economic Association International Meetings, San Francisco, July 2005
Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Hamilton, May 2005
Canadian Econometrics Study Group Conference, Toronto, September 2004
European Meeting of the Econometric Society/European Economic Association, Madrid, August 2004
Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Toronto, May 2004
Canadian Econometrics Study Group Conference, Hamilton, September 2003
Society of Computational Economics Conference, Seattle, July 2003
Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Ottawa, June 2003
American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, January 2003
American Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta, January 2002
Teaching
Undergraduate Econometrics
Undergraduate Industrial Organization
Graduate Econometrics
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