CEA 35th Annual Meetings
Thursday, May 31 - Sunday, June 3, 2001
McGill University, Montreal
Errata in the Printed Program
Items that are not in the printed list of errata are in red.
Note: Due to a technical problem with my conference scheduling software,
there was a small number of cases in which the names of one or more
coauthors were omitted. These mistakes have been corrected in the on-line
version of the conference program and below. I extend my sincere apologies
to those who were affected by this error.
Werner Antweiler, Information Technology Coordinator.
Friday Morning, June 1, 2001
Friday 8:30 - 10:00 A145
Mergers, Productivity, and Innovation
Paper Title: Changes in the Diversification of Canadian Manufacturing Firms
John Baldwin (Statistics Canada)
Desmond Beckstead (Statistics Canada)
Richard Caves (Harvard University)
Friday 8:30 - 10:00 A270
Empirical Macroeconomics Using Aggregate Data
New Discussant: Pinaki Chakraborty (National
Institute of Public Finance and Policy)
Friday 8:30 - 10:00 L214
Environment, Development, and Trade
Paper: Trade, Economic Growth and the Environment: A Survey
Second Coauthor: Junoo Tuladhar (Center for Development Research (ZEF))
New Discussant: Abdella Abdou (University of Regina)
Friday 10:30 - 12:00 L015
Education, Human Capital, and Development
Paper: Too Much Education or Not? A Matching Approach
Second Coauthor: Olivier Charlot (Université de la Méditerranée)
Friday 10:30 - 12:00 L026
CSLS Session: International Perspectives on Poverty and Health
Paper: Social Trends, Health Status, and Health Care Utilization
of Mothers in Canada and Norway
Coauthor: Shelley Phipps (Dalhousie University)
Friday 10:30 - 12:00 L321
Public Goods: Behavioural Evidence
Paper: The Nash Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Effects: Cooperation
is Easier When There Is More Elbow Room
Coauthor: Robert Moir (University of New Brunswick)
Friday 10:30 - 12:00 W120
CABE: Economic Outlook-The Impact of the U.S. Economic Slowdown on
the Global, Canadian and Provincial Economies
New Panelist: Simon Prevost (Laurentian Bank Securities)
Friday 10:30 - 12:00 W130
Trade Theory and Firm Behavior
Paper: Optimal Transfer Pricing Under Acceptance Uncertainty and
Risk Aversion
Coauthor: Philippe Godfroid (FUCaM)
Friday 12:10 - 13:40 FC
CWEN Luncheon
Speaker: Florence Ievers, Coordinator, Status of Women
Canada
Friday Afternoon, June 1, 2001
Friday 14:00 - 15:30 A255
Computers, Growth and Productivity
Paper: Productivity Growth in ICT-Producing Industries - A Source
of Growth Differentials in the OECD?
Coauthor: Dirk Pilat (OECD)
Friday 14:00 - 15:30 A265
The Health Services Sector: Demand and Utilization Issues
Paper Title: Does Health-Care Utilization Increase With Age?: The Cost of Living
or the Cost of Dying?
Allan Pollock (Health Canada)
Seamus Hogan (University of Canterbury)
Friday 14:00 - 15:30 L212
Applied Dynamic Macroeconometrics
New Paper: A Test for Measuring the Strength of Cointegration and
Granger-Causality: with an Application to the Bivariate
Relationship Between Money and Income in Canada
Author: Erdal Atukeren (Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH)-Zurich)
Friday 16:00 - 17:30 A150
Politics, Decision-Making, and Incentives
Paper: Political Uncertainty and Federalism
Coauthor: Robert Schwager (ZEW)
Friday 16:00 - 17:30 A265
The Health Services Sector: Information, Insurance, Incentives
New Discussants: Ake Blomqvist (Health Canada and the University
of Western Ontario), Pierre-Yves Cremieux (Groupe
d'Analyse Economique)
Friday 16:00 - 17:30 L324
Empirical Analysis of Inflation and Macroeconomic Policy
Paper: On Inflation and the Persistence of Shocks to Output
Coauthor: Maral Kichian (Bank of Canada)
Saturday Morning, June 2, 2001
Saturday 8:30 - 10:00 A145
Economic History: Prices and Exchange Rates
Paper: Another Tale of Two Cities: London and Liverpool Prices in
the Mid 19th Century
Coauthor: Ronald Shearer (U.B.C.)
Saturday 8:30 - 10:00 A260
Econometric Theory of ARCH Models
Paper: Linear Methods for Nonlinear Time Series Models
Coauthor: Jean-Marie Dufour (Université de Montréal)
Saturday 8:30 - 10:00 L014
Education and Earnings
Paper: Heterogeneous Returns to Human Capital and Dynamic
Self-Selection
Coauthor: Jorgen Hansen (Concordia Univ.)
Saturday 8:30 - 10:00 L324
PEF: The Labour Market and Social Policy
Paper: The Social Exclusion of Children in North America
Coauthor: Lori Curtis (Dalhousie Univ.)
Saturday 8:30 - 10:00 W120
Models of Development
Paper: A Variety of Paths for Staples-Exporting Development
Coauthor: Ngo van Long (McGill University)
Saturday 10:30 - 12:00 A265
Empirical Studies of Comparative Advantage
Paper Title: Dark Matter: Indirectly Observable Factors as Sources
of Dynamic Comparative Advantage
Leonard Dudley (Université de Montréal)
Johannes Moenius (Northwestern University)
Saturday 10:30 - 12:00 L014
Immigration and Labour Markets
Paper: Labour Market Competition Between Native Dutch and
Ethnic Minorities
Coauthor: Joop Hartog (Univ. of Amsterdam)
Saturday 10:30 - 12:00 L015
Economics of Climate Change
Paper: Economic Modelling of Carbon Restrictions and Tradeable Permits
Coauthors: Michel Bérubé (Natural Resources Canada),
Jennifer Kerr (Natural Resources Canada)
Saturday Afternoon, June 2, 2001
Saturday 14:00 - 15:30 A255
Regionalization and Foreign Direct Investment
Paper: United States Foreign Direct Investment into Canada: An
Empirical Analysis with Emphasis on the Free Trade Hypothesis
Coauthor: Peter J. Buckley (CIBUL, Leeds University Business School)
Saturday 14:00 - 15:30 L214
Public Economics: Equitable Tax Policies
Discussants: Stefan Dodds (Queen's University),
Paul Makdissi (Université de Sherbrooke)
Saturday 14:00 - 15:30 W130
Testing the PPP Hypothesis
Paper: Purchasing Power Parity in Europe: The Role of the ERM
and Non-Tradable Goods
Coauthor: Chris Tsoukis (University of Hull, UK)
Saturday 16:00 - 17:30 A150
Labour Economics: Applications with Selection Effects
The paper by Jimmy Royer has been withdrawn.
Saturday 16:00 - 17:30 L014
Empirical Studies of Productivity
Paper: Inter-Utility Cost and Efficiency Differences Among Electric
Distribution Utilities in Ontario
Coauthor: Francis (Frank) Cronin (Consultant)
Saturday 16:00 - 17:30 L015
Growth and Trade
Discussants: Timothy Sargent (Department of Finance),
Helena Marques (Univ. of Newcastle)
Saturday 16:00 - 17:30 L214
Applied Welfare Economics
Paper Title: Labor Supply, Consumption, and Taxes with Habit Formation
Kirk Collins (University of Ottawa)
Saturday 16:00 - 17:30 L219
Derivative Securities in Finance and Macroeconomics
New Discussant: Stephane Vigeant (University of Alberta)
Saturday 16:00 - 17:30 W125
Economic Theory - Session 8
Paper: Delegating Decisions to Experts
Coauthor: Wing Suen (University of Hong Kong)
Sunday, June 3, 2001
Sunday 8:30 - 10:00 A150
Econometrics of Business Cycles
Paper Title: Private-Sector Forecasters Can't Predict Recessions:
Myth or Reality?
Mireille Laroche (Department of Finance)
Jeff Barichello (Department of Finance)
Benoit Robidoux (Department of Finance)
Sunday 8:30 - 10:00 A255
Empirical Studies of Particular Industries
The paper by Stephen Law has been withdrawn.
Discussants: Irene Henriques (York University),
Stephen Law (Ryerson University)
Sunday 8:30 - 10:00 A265
Resources and the Environment
New Discussant: Peter Burton (Dalhousie University)
Sunday 8:30 - 10:00 L324
Demography and Fertility
The paper by Karine Gente has been withdrawn.
Discussants: Sonia Laszlo (Univ. of Toronto),
Padma Rao Sahib (Univ. of Groningen)
Sunday 10:30 - 12:00 A260
Exchange Rate Regimes
The paper by Virginie Boinet has been withdrawn.
Discussants: Jeannine Bailliu (Bank of Canada),
Paul R. Masson (International Monetary Fund)
Sunday 10:30 - 12:00 L014
Unemployment, Underemployment, and Displaced Workers
The paper by Omar Zakhilwal has been withdrawn.
Discussants: Louise Grogan (McMaster University),
Sung-Hee Jeon (York University)
Sunday 10:30 - 12:00 L214
Theory of Teams
Paper Title: Private Information and Teamwork
Aidan Hollis (University of Calgary),
Curtis Eaton (University of Calgary)
Sunday 10:30 - 12:00 L324
Multivariate Models and Survival Analysis
New Discussant: Raymond Kan (University of Toronto)
Sunday 10:30-12:00 W125
Economic Theory - Session 10
Paper Title: Strategic Concealment: The Classical Rationale
for Mixed Strategy Equilibrium
Philip Reny (University of Chicago)
Coauthor: Arthur Robson (U. Western Ontario)
Sunday 10:30 - 12:00 W130
Growth in Open Economies
The paper by Erdal Atukeren has been withdrawn.
Discussants: Shandre Thangavelu (National University of Singapore),
Xiaoping Xu (University of New Brunswick)
Prepared by Theresa Brennan and James G. MacKinnon
May 30, 2001