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| Preliminary Conference Program |
| 16:30-18:30 | Thursday, June 2, 2011 | DMS 3105 |
| CEA Executive Council Meeting 1 / Réunion du conseil exécutif de l'ACE 1 | ||
| Chair | Zinde-Walsh, Victoria (McGill University) | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX ATR |
| Coffee, Tea, Juices, Fruit, Pastries / Café, thé, jus, fruits, pâtisseries | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF 1: Debt Wall? Trends in Canadian Household Debt -- Co-Sponsored with the Canadian Association for Business Economics (CABE) / PEF 1: Les limites de l'endettement? Tendances de l'endettement des ménages canadiens | ||
| Organizer | Yalnizyan, Armine (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) | |
| Chair | Barnett, Russell (Parliamentary Budget Office) | |
| Papers | Burleton, Derek (TD Bank Group): Assessing Financial Vulnerability Across Canadian Regions | |
| Desnoyers, Yanick (National Bank): Will record households indebtedness derail the business cycle? | ||
| Faruqui, Umar (Bank of Canada): Micro and macro data on household debt in Canada: two sides of the story | ||
| Yalnizyan, Armine (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives): The Distribution of Household Debt | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| CNEH 1: Importing and Exporting Human Capital / RCHE 1: Importation et exportation de capital humain | ||
| Organizer | Keay, Ian (Queen's University) | |
| Chair | Jacks, David (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Massey, Catherine (University of Colorado at Boulder): The Effect of Immigration Quotas on Immigrant Skill Composition | |
| Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (University of Tasmania): Morbidity and Mortality on Convict Voyages to 19th Century Australia | ||
| Lewis, Joshua (University of Toronto): Electrification and the household: Evidence from the U.S. | ||
| Discussants | Bean, Jessica (Denison); Cranfield, John (University of Guelph); Lewis, Frank D. (Queen's University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| Short Presentations in International Macroeconomics / Présentations courtes en macroéconomie internationale | ||
| Chair | Tsangarides, Charalambos (International Monetary Fund) | |
| Papers | Karimi, Mohammad (University of Ottawa): Currency Crises: Fundamentals or Contagion? A Duration Analysis Approach | |
| Ng, Eric (Industry Canada): Investment and Exchange Rate Movements: the Role of Investment-Price Channel | ||
| Watuwa, Richard (Cape Breton University): Housing Consumption and the Forward Premium in Emerging Currency Markets: An Empirical Analysis | ||
| Abdel Razek, Noha (University of Alberta): The Role of Oil Prices and Government Debt as Determinants of Movements in the US Dollar in a Dynamic Framework | ||
| Razanamparany, Mirana (Université de Paris Est Créteil): Determinants of business cycle synchronisation in the Euro Zone | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| Educational Attainment / Niveau d'instruction | ||
| Chair | Deri Armstrong, Catherine (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Deri Armstrong, Catherine (University of Ottawa): Virginity and Educational Attainment: Evidence from the NLSCY | |
| Dooley, Martin D (McMaster University): Understanding the Determinants of Persistence and Academic Success in University: An Exploration of Data from Four Ontario Universities | ||
| Warburton, Bill (University of British Columbia): The Impact of Full Day Kindergarten | ||
| Discussants | Liu, Xingfei (Concordia University); Grenier, Gilles (University of Ottawa); Smith, Jeffrey A (University of Michigan) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 147 |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence - État des connaissances | ||
| Organizers | Allen, Jason (Bank of Canada) Chapman, James (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Allen, Jason (Bank of Canada) | |
| Speaker | Klemperer, Paul (Oxford University) | |
| Topic | New Developments in Practical Auction Design | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 147B |
| CDESG Panel: Is there a Post-Washington Consensus? / Panel CDESG: Y a-t-il un consensus post-Washington ? | ||
| Sponsor | International Development Research Centre/Le Centre de recherches pour le developpement international | |
| Organizer | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Chair | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Panelists | Bourguignon, François (Paris School of Economics) | |
| Rowlands, Dane (Carleton University) | ||
| Singh, Naresh (CIDA) | ||
| Szabo, Sue (IDRC) | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| Labour: Aging and Retirement / Travail: Vieillissement et retraite | ||
| Chair | Spencer, Byron G (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Zhang, Qi (University of Ottawa): A Population Aging Analysis for Canada Using the National Transfer Accounts Approach | |
| LaRochelle-Côté, Sébastien (Statistics Canada): Income Replacement Rates Among Canadian Seniors: The Effects of Widowhood and Divorce | ||
| Rainville, Bruno (Human Resources and Skills Development): Older workers labour market transitions: a micro-econometric model | ||
| Discussants | Fougère, Maxime (Human Resources and Social Development Canada); Vincent, Carole (Social research and Demonstration Corporation); Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 235 |
| Bank of Canada Session on Fiscal Policy / Séance de la Banque du Canada sur la politique budgétaire | ||
| Organizer | Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Bi, Huixin (Bank of Canada): Stabilization versus Sustainability: Macroeconomic Tradeoffs | |
| Kormilitsina, Anna (Southern Methodist University): In Search of a Realistic Model of the Government Spending Shock | ||
| Lynch, Emily (Duke University): Heterogeneous Consumers and Fiscal Policy Shocks | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| Fiscal Issues / Questions Fiscales | ||
| Chair | Danforth, Jeff (Parliamentary Budget Office) | |
| Papers | Darku, Alexander Bilson (University of Lethbridge): Fiscal equalization transfers and provincial income disparities in Canada: an econometric reassessment | |
| Tapp, Stephen (Parliamentary Budget Office): Canadian Experiences with Fiscal Consolidations and Fiscal Rules | ||
| Zhang, Ivy (The City of Calgary): A Case of Fiscal Imbalance: the Calgary Experience | ||
| Discussants | Kessler, Anke (Simon Fraser University); Ragan, Christopher (McGill University); Luitel, Hari Sharan (Algoma University College) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| IRPP Panel 1: The Canadian Productivity Conundrum / Panel IRPP 1: L'énigme de la productivité canadienne | ||
| Organizer | Leonard, Jeremy (Institute for Research on Public Policy) | |
| Chair | Leonard, Jeremy (Institute for Research on Public Policy) | |
| Panelists | Rao, Someshwar (Industry Canada) | |
| Ryan, Annette (Industry Canada) | ||
| Gagné, Robert (HEC Montréal) | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Industrial Organization 1: Industry Studies I / Organisation industrielle 1: Études industrielles I | ||
| Chair | Thiele, Veikko (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Suzuki, Junichi (University of Toronto): Outsourcing and Market Thickness: Case of the U.S. Credit Unions | |
| Dubrovinsky, Mati (University of Winnipeg): The Organization of Insurance Market: Mutuals vs. Stock Insurers | ||
| Perez Saiz, Hector (Bank of Canada): Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the U.S. Cement Industry | ||
| Discussants | Fox, Jeremy (University of Michigan); Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal); Peter, Jeffrey (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 401 |
| Topics in Macroeconomic Theory / Sujets en théorie macroéconomique | ||
| Chair | Dalkir, Mehmet (University of New Brunswick) | |
| Papers | Arbex, Marcelo (University of Windsor): Optimal Taxation and Social Networks | |
| Miyake, Atsushi (Simon Fraser University): Education System, Education Investment and Endogenous Fertility | ||
| Eckwert, Bernhard (Bielefeld University): Cheap Money and Risk Taking: Opacity versus Underlying Risk | ||
| Discussants | Kumar, Alok (University of Victoria); Arbex, Marcelo (University of Windsor); Dalkir, Mehmet (University of New Brunswick) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 402 |
| Economic Growth and Regional Convergence / Croissance économique et convergence régionale | ||
| Chair | Shute, Larry (Industry Canada) | |
| Papers | Hamit-Haggar, Mahamat (unaffiliated): Growth convergence dynamics in Canada | |
| Voyvoda, Ebru (Middle East Technical University): Public Policy and Growth in Canada: An Applied Endogenous Growth Model with Human and Knowledge Capital Accumulation | ||
| Yang, Yibai (University of Sydney): Cooperative R&D, Distance to Frontier, and Growth Convergence | ||
| Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada): Are Small Producers Driving the Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap? Recent Evidence from Manufacturing | ||
| Discussants | Wang, Weimin (Statistics Canada); Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada); Dixon, Jay (Industrie Canada); Leung, D (Statistics Canada) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 121 |
| Labour: Unemployment Dynamics / Travail: Dynamique du chômage | ||
| Chair | Chan, Ping Ching Winnie (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Hahm, Sang-moon (KDI School of Public Policy): Unemployment Insurance and Severance Payments with Time Dependency | |
| Kind, Michael (Ruhr Graduate School in Economics): Short and Long Term Second-Degree Scarring | ||
| Discussants | Mayer, Katarina (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies); Henson, Harold E (HRSDC); Stark, Alan (Statistics Canada) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Health Economics 1: Policy and Impacts / Économie de la santé 1: Politique et impacts | ||
| Chair | Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Guliani, Harminder (University of Manitoba): Determinants of Prenatal Care Use: Evidence From Thirty-Two Low-Income Countries Across Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America | |
| Jamal, Taha (McMaster University): The Effect of Vioxx on Labor Supply and Disability | ||
| Nguyen, Van Hai (University of Toronto): Have tobacco reduction policies been exhausted? | ||
| Sedigh, Golnaz (University of Ottawa): Is the impact of economic factors on sleep underestimated in sleep models by including insomniacs? | ||
| Discussants | Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University); Irvine, Ian (Concordia University); Ward, Courtney (Dalhousie University); Yuksel, Mutlu (Dalhousie University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| Exports, Productivity, and Spillovers / Exportations, productivité et retombées économiques | ||
| Chair | Viju, Crina (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Rodrigue, Joel (Vanderbilt University): Credit Constraints, Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth | |
| Blit, Joel (George Washington University): International development Through Multinationals: Foreign R&D Units, Knowledge Diffusion, and Indigenous Innovation | ||
| Hericourt, Jerome (University of Lille 1): Sales at home and export dynamics | ||
| Discussants | Peluffo Geronazzo, Silvia Adriana (Universidad de la Republica); Rodrigue, Joel (Vanderbilt University); Hiller, Sanne (Aarhus University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| Empirical Studies of Firm Behaviour / Études empiriques du comportement des entreprises | ||
| Chair | Acharya, Ram (Industry Canada) | |
| Papers | Courty, Pascal (University of Victoria): Sales, Quantity Surcharge, and Consumer Inattention | |
| Mathieu, Claude (Université Paris Est Créteil): Do Sunk Costs Matter in Exiting? An Empirical Investigation based on French Firms | ||
| Stoyanov, Andrey (York University): Productivity Spillovers Across Firms through Worker Mobility | ||
| Discussants | Ershov, Daniel (Industry Canada); Acharya, Ram (Industry Canada); Dostie, Benoit (HEC Montréal) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 1: Technology and Innovation / GCEM 1: Technologie et innovation | ||
| Chair | Johri, Alok (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Bento, Pedro (University of Toronto): Competition as a Discovery Procedure: Schumpeter Meets Hayek in a Model of Innovation | |
| Poschke, Markus (McGill University): Growth through Experimentation | ||
| Johri, Alok (McMaster University): News, intermediation efficiency and expectations driven boom-bust cycles | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 250 |
| CEBERG 1: Individual Judgement, Identity and Physiology / CEBERG 1: Jugement individuel, identité et physiologie | ||
| Organizers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) | |
| Papers | Anglin, Paul M (University of Guelph): A Question of Individual Judgment | |
| Powell, Owen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Eye-tracking the market: Subject Focus in Experimental Bubble Markets | ||
| Webb, Ryan (New York University): Does Neuroeconomics Have A Role In Explaining Choice? | ||
| Cadsby, Bram (University of Guelph): How Competitive are Professional Women? A Tale of Identity Conflict | ||
| Discussants | Alger, Ingela (Carleton University); Buckley, Neil J. (York University); Chen, Zhuoqiong (Peking University); Khoroshilov, Yuri (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 1: Financial Econometrics I / CESG 1: Économétrie financière I | ||
| Chair | Luger, Richard (Georgia State University) | |
| Papers | Liu, Pujun (University of Western Ontario): GARCH-Jump Models with Regime-Switching Conditional Volatility and Jump Intensity | |
| Luger, Richard (Georgia State University): Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for GARCH-based Risk Measure Forecasts | ||
| Ntantamis, Christos (Aarhus University, CREATES): The BDS Test as a Goodness-of-fit Measure in Regime Switching Models | ||
| Discussants | Diez de los Rios, Antonio (Bank of Canada); Gungor, Sermin (Bank of Canada); Nguyen, Chi M. (Indiana University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| CPEG 1: Optimal Taxation and Redistribution / CPEG 1: Taxation optimale et redistribution | ||
| Chair | Dodds, Stefan A. (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Brett, Craig (Mount Allison University): The Effects of Population Aging on Optimal Redistributive Taxes in an Overlapping Generations Model | |
| Perrault, Louis (Queen's University): Optimal Redistributive Age-Dependent Taxation and Human Capital | ||
| Barnett, Richard (Drexel University): Redistributive Policy and the Joneses | ||
| Discussants | Perrault, Louis (Queen's University); Rosborough, Jonathan (Saint Francis Xavier University); Dodds, Stefan A. (Carleton University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 1: Energy Economics / Session CREE 1: Économie de l'énergie | ||
| Chair | Sahi, Ram K. (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Sahi, Ram K. (Carleton University): Investment in Electrical Infrastructures for India: Challenges and Opportunities | |
| Brennan, Timothy (University of Maryland Baltimore County): Energy Efficiency Policy: Surveying the Puzzles | ||
| Matsueda, Norimichi (Kwansei Gakuin University): An Economic Analysis of the Packaging Waste Recovery Notes System in the UK | ||
| Discussants | Dachis, Benjamin (C.D. Howe Institute); Collins, Ayoo (Carleton University); Gamtessa, Samuel (University of Alberta) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX ATR |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF 2: Financial Literacy: Where are We and Where Should We be Going / PEF 2: Littératie financière: Où en sommes-nous et où devrions-nous aller ? | ||
| Organizer | Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Credit Union Central of Canada) | |
| Chair | Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | |
| Papers | Ney, Kimberley (Alterna Savings Credit Union): -- | |
| Woolley, Frances (Carleton University): Gender differences in financial literacy | ||
| Robson, Jennifer (Carleton University): How financially literate are we?: Initial results from the Canadian Survey of Financial Capability | ||
| Gordon, Ted (Task Force on Financial Literacy): -- | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| CNEH 2: Globalization / RCHE 2: Mondialisation | ||
| Organizer | Keay, Ian (Queen's University) | |
| Chair | Dupré, Ruth (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Keay, Ian (Queen's University): Transport Costs, Trade Policy and Canadian Industrial Development | |
| Betran, Concha (University of Valencia): Comparing Past and Present Wage Inequality in Two Globalisation Periods | ||
| Jacks, David (Simon Fraser University): Defying Gravity: The Re-Orientation of Canadian Trade in the Interwar Period | ||
| Discussants | Cherniwchan, Jevan (University of Calgary); McCalla, Douglas (University of Guelph); Dippel, Christian (University of Toronto) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| Economics of Frictions I / Économie de frictions I | ||
| Chair | Pollak, Andreas (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| Papers | Jiang, Janet Hua (University of Manitoba): Information, Prices and Ex-ante Investment | |
| Chiu, Jonathan (Bank of Canada): Innovation and Growth with Financial (and other) Frictions | ||
| Zhang, Yahong (Bank of Canada): Credit frictions, labour market search and optimal interest rate rules | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| School Quality / Qualité des écoles | ||
| Chair | Dooley, Martin D (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude (Dalhousie University): The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Reducing School Quality: Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany | |
| Dhuey, Elizabeth A (University of Toronto): How Important Are School Principals in the Production of Student Achievement? | ||
| Kiss, David (Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg): The Impact of Peer Ability and Heterogeneity on Student Achievement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment | ||
| Discussants | Warburton, Bill (University of British Columbia); Dooley, Martin D (McMaster University); Milla, Joniada (University of Guelph) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 147 |
| CEA/CDESG Invited Lecture / ACE/CDESG Conférence invitée | ||
| Sponsor | International Development Research Centre/Le Centre de recherches pour le developpement international | |
| Organizer | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Chair | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Bourguignon, François (Paris School of Economics) | |
| Topic | Inequality, Development and Development Aid | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| HRSDC Session on Retirement Saving / Séance de RHDCC sur l'épargne-retraite | ||
| Organizer | Poole, Christopher (HRSDC) | |
| Chair | Dhawan Biswal, Urvashi (Human Resources and Social Development Canada) | |
| Papers | Grey, Alex (Government of Canada): Savings versus Pensions: A Discussion of Risks | |
| Vincent, Carole (Social research and Demonstration Corporation): Understanding Gender Differences in Retirement Saving Decisions: Evidence from the Canadian Financial Capability Survey | ||
| Palameta, Boris (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): Using Experimentation to Assess Simplified Enrolment Models for Retirement Savings Plans Through Experimentation | ||
| Discussants | Barham, Victoria (University of Ottawa); Schellenberg, Grant (Statistics Canada); Ambachtsheer, Keith (Rotman International Centre for Pension Management) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 235 |
| Bank of Canada Session on Financial Stability Issues / Séance de la Banque du Canada sur les questions touchant la stabilité financière | ||
| Organizer | Côté, Denise (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Côté, Denise (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Bordeleau, Etienne (University of Toronto): The Impact of Liquidity on Bank Profitability | |
| Gauthier, Celine (Bank of Canada): Understanding Systemic Risk: The Trade-Offs between Capital, Short-Term Funding and Liquid Asset Holdings | ||
| Li, Fuchun (Bank of Canada): Measuring Systemic Importance of Financial Institutions: An Extreme Value Theory Approach | ||
| Discussants | Tkacz, Greg (Saint Francis Xavier University); Garratt, Rod (University of California); Guidara, Alaa (Laval University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| IRPP Panel 2: Improving Labour Market Outcomes for Older Displaced Workers / Panel IRPP 2: Améliorer le sort des travailleurs âgés licenciés | ||
| Organizer | Leonard, Jeremy (Institute for Research on Public Policy) | |
| Chair | Leonard, Jeremy (Institute for Research on Public Policy) | |
| Panelists | Gray, David (University of Ottawa) | |
| Voyer, Jean-Pierre (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | ||
| Jackson, Andrew (Canadian Labour Congress) | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Industrial Organization 2: Economics of Innovation / Organisation industrielle 2: Économie de l'innovation | ||
| Chair | Langinier, Corinne (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Gallini, Nancy (University of British Columbia): Private Agreements for Coordinating Patent Rights: The Case of Patent Pools | |
| Thiele, Veikko (Queen's University): Slave to Your Employer or to Your Financier? Wage Structures When Employees Have Entrepreneurship Options | ||
| Peter, Jeffrey (University of Ottawa): Imperfect Competition and Entry Deterrence in Venture Capital Markets | ||
| Discussants | Langinier, Corinne (University of Alberta); Stacey, Derek (Queen's University); Petrunia, Robert (Lakehead University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 402 |
| International Finance Puzzles / Anomalies en finance internationale | ||
| Chair | Wada, Tatsuma (Wayne State University) | |
| Papers | Rouillard, Jean-François (Queen's University): The Quantity Anomaly in the Presence of Financial Shocks | |
| Tsangarides, Charalambos (International Monetary Fund): Demand for International Reserves: Revisiting the Evidence | ||
| Wada, Tatsuma (Wayne State University): Trend and Cycles in a Two-Country Model | ||
| Discussants | Wada, Tatsuma (Wayne State University); Rouillard, Jean-François (Queen's University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 121 |
| Health Economics 2 - Cycles and Behaviour / Économie de la santé 2 - Cycles et comportements | ||
| Chair | Stewart, Jennifer (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Pierard, Emmanuelle (University of Waterloo): Business cycles and mortality | |
| Maclean, Catherine (Cornell University): The impact of graduating in a recession on physical health: Evidence from panel data | ||
| Montanera, Daniel (University of Western Ontario): The Hidden Evidence of Defensive Medicine | ||
| Discussants | Brochu, Pierre (University of Ottawa); McLeod, Logan (University of Alberta); Wing, Coady (Northwestern University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 122 |
| CEA/CIFAR Session: Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being: Macroeconomic Applications / Séance ACE/ICRA: Interactions sociales, identité et bien-être: Applications macroéconomiques | ||
| Organizer | Helliwell, John F. (CIFAR/University of British Columbia) | |
| Chair | Fortin, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Akerlof, George (University of California, Berkeley): All That Glitters | |
| Helliwell, John F. (CIFAR/University of British Columbia): New measures of the costs of unemployment: Evidence from the subjective well-being of 2.3 million Americans | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| CD Howe and Health Economics 3 - Costs and Financing / CD Howe et Économie de la santé 3: Coûts et financement | ||
| Organizer | Busby, Colin (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Chair | Blomqvist, Ake (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Di Matteo, Livio (Lakehead University): The Sustainability of Canadian Provincial Government Health Spending: An Expenditure Category Approach | |
| Echevin, Damien (Université de Sherbrooke): Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: a Natural Experiment | ||
| Irvine, Ian (Concordia University): Tobacco Taxation and the Illegal Sector | ||
| Discussants | Bergevin, Philippe (C.D. Howe Institute); Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University); DeCicca, Philip (McMaster University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| Trade Liberalization and Trade Blocs / Libre-échange et communautés économiques | ||
| Chair | Wolf, Bernard M (York University) | |
| Papers | Boileau, David (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada): Air Services Liberlization and Canadian Trade | |
| Melatos, Mark (University of Sydney): Flexibility in Trade Bloc Design | ||
| Disdier, Anne-Celia (INRA): North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade | ||
| Discussants | Hazledine, Tim (University of Auckland); Ker, Alan (University of Guelph); Li, Na (University of Guelph) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 219 |
| Labour: Family and Childhood Development / Travail: Familles et développement de l'enfance | ||
| Chair | Neill, Christine (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Fletcher, Erin (University of Colorado Boulder): Subjective Match Quality and Maternal Investments | |
| Chen, Kelly (Dalhousie University): School Entry Age, Identity Formation and Subjective Well-Being of Canadian Children | ||
| Dan, Ioana (University of Toronto): A Model of Occupational Choice with Displacement Risk | ||
| Discussants | Welling, Linda A. (University of Victoria); Deri Armstrong, Catherine (University of Ottawa); Hahm, Sang-moon (KDI School of Public Policy) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| Labour: Job Losses and Layoffs / Travail: Pertes d'emploi et licenciement | ||
| Chair | Rybczynski, Kathleen (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Qiu, Hanqing (Statistics Canada): How did the risk and cost of job loss evolve since the late 1970s in Canada? | |
| Chan, Ping Ching Winnie (Statistics Canada): Workers laid-off during the last three employment downturns | ||
| Bonikowska, Aneta (Statistics Canada): Did high-seniority workers experience sustained earnings losses and loss of pension coverage in recent years? Evidence from Canada | ||
| Discussants | Dostie, Benoit (HEC Montréal); Feir, Donna Leanne (University of British Columbia); Rainville, Bruno (Human Resources and Skills Development) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 390 |
| Canada's Productivity and Innovation gap - Management Matters / Productivité et écart technologique au Canada - Questions de gestion | ||
| Organizer | Milway, James (Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity) | |
| Chair | Drummond, Don (TD Bank Financial Group/Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Milway, James (Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity): The Importance of Strong Management | |
| Ryan, Annette (Industry Canada): Results from the Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy | ||
| Alexopoulos, Michelle (University of Toronto): Managerial Knowledge and Canadian Productivity | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 2: Macroeconomics of Education Policy / GCEM 2: Macroéconomie des politiques de l'éducation | ||
| Chair | Castro, Rui (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | You, Hye Mi (University at Buffalo / SUNY): Wage Volatility and Changing Patterns of Labor Supply | |
| Herrington, Christopher (Arizona State University): Cross-Country Differences in Public Education and Income Distributions | ||
| Castro, Rui (Université de Montréal): Public Policy and College Attainment | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 250 |
| CEBERG 2: Environmental and Resource Market Regulation / CEBERG 2: Réglementation du marché des ressources et de l'environnement | ||
| Organizers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Mentzakis, Emmanouil (University of East Anglia) | |
| Papers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University): Production Capacity and Abatement Technology Strategies in Alternative Emissions Markets | |
| Schott, Stephan (Carleton University): How Does Communication and Output Sharing Affect Intergroup Competition, Intragroup Conflict and Social Efficiency? | ||
| Discussants | Fehr, Dietmar (WZB); Mentzakis, Emmanouil (University of East Anglia) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 2: Forecasting / CESG 2: Prévision | ||
| Chair | Stengos, Thanasis (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Chaker, Selma (Université De Montréal): Toward Zero Noise : On volatility estimation and forecasting | |
| Saunders, Charles (Carleton University): Forecast Evaluation with Persistent Data: Simulation-Based Inference | ||
| Discussants | Chaker, Selma (Université De Montréal); Saunders, Charles (Carleton University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| CPEG 2: Topics in Corporate Taxation / CPEG 2: Sujets en Taxation des entreprises | ||
| Chair | Brett, Craig (Mount Allison University) | |
| Papers | Sarkar, Sudipto (McMaster University): Sales Tax, Corporate Tax, Capital Structure Decisions and Consumer Welfare | |
| Ruiz, Fernando (Royal Military Academy): Corporate taxation and the impact of governance, political and economic factors | ||
| Goyette, Jonathan (Université de Sherbrooke): Optimal Tax Threshold in the Presence of Evasion and Corruption | ||
| Discussants | Secrieru, Oana (Bank of Canada); Hickey, Ross (University of British Columbia - Okanagan); Ferede, Ergete (Grant MacEwan University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 2: Energy Economics / Session CREE 2: Économie de l'énergie | ||
| Chair | Antweiler, Werner (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Dachis, Benjamin (C.D. Howe Institute): The Capitalization of Alberta's Oil and Gas Royalty Change in Bonus Bid Auction Values | |
| Gamtessa, Samuel (University of Alberta): Price-Induced Energy Efficiency Improvements in Canadian Manufacturing | ||
| Winter, Jennifer (University of Calgary): Buying Anonymity: An Investigation of Petroleum and Natural Gas Lease Auctions | ||
| Discussants | Winter, Jennifer (University of Calgary); Sahi, Ram K. (Carleton University); Mallory, Julie (University of Toronto) | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | TBT 112 |
| CWEN Luncheon / Lunch RFÉ | ||
| Chair | Hunt, Jennifer (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Blank, Rebecca M. (United States Department of Commerce) | |
| Topic | The Well-Being of Women in America | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF 3 : Philosophy of Money and Finance / PEF 3: Philosophie de la monnaie et de la finance | ||
| Organizer | Smithin, John (York University) | |
| Chair | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Smithin, John (York University): Requirements for a Philosophy of Money and Finance | |
| Tcherneva, Pavlina (Franklin and Marshall College): Ontological Commitments of Chartalist, Metallist, Austrian and Sociological Theories of Money | ||
| Mendoza España, Alberto D'Ansi (York University): Money and Collective Intentionality: The Application of Searle's Social Ontology to Money | ||
| Kim, Jongchul (York University): Ontology of Early-Modern Money | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| CNEH 3: Invited Lecture in Memory of Mary MacKinnon / RCHE 3: Conférence invitée à la mémoire de Mary MacKinnon | ||
| Organizer | Keay, Ian (Queen's University) | |
| Chair | Minns, Chris (London School of Economics) | |
| Papers | Boyer, George (Cornell University): Work for their Prime, and Workhouse for their Age: A Regional Analysis of Elderly Pauperism in Victorian Britain | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| World Financial Markets / Marchés financiers mondiaux | ||
| Chair | Sarker, Subrata (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Frey, Rainer (Deutsche Bundesbank): The Discontinuous Integration of Western Europe's Heterogeneous Market for Corporate Control from 1995 to 2007 | |
| Garratt, Rod (University of California): Mapping Systemic Risk in the International Banking Network | ||
| Wan, Chi (Carleton University): Corporate Globalization and Bank Lending | ||
| Discussants | Morck, Randall K. (University of Alberta); Rumler, Fabio (Austrian Central Bank (OeNB)); Chahrour, Ryan (Columbia University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| The Impact of Education on Earnings / Impact de l'éducation sur les gains salariaux | ||
| Chair | Livernois, John R (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Grave, Barbara (Rwi): Earnings differentials by field of study - The case of German University graduates | |
| Grenier, Gilles (University of Ottawa): Earnings Differentials by Field of Study and Occupational Relatedness for Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2006 | ||
| Sharaf, Mesbah (Concordia University): The incidence of over-education and its impact on earnings of recent immigrants to Canada: Evidence from the longitudinal survey of immigrants to Canada. | ||
| Discussants | Sharaf, Mesbah (Concordia University); Mueller, Richard (University of Lethbridge); Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude (Dalhousie University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 147 |
| CEA/CWEN Session: Obtaining a SSHRC Grant in Economics / Séance ACE/RFÉ: Obtenir une subvention CRSH en économie | ||
| Organizer | Khalaf, Lynda (Carleton University) | |
| Chair | Khalaf, Lynda (Carleton University) | |
| Panelists | Simard, François (SSHRC) | |
| Alexopoulos, Michelle (University of Toronto) | ||
| Brett, Craig (Mount Allison University) | ||
| Gordon, Stephen (Université Laval) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 147B |
| PBO Fiscal Challenges Panel / Panel DPB sur les défis budgétaires | ||
| Organizer | Tapp, Stephen (Parliamentary Budget Office) | |
| Chair | Ragan, Christopher (McGill University) | |
| Panelists | Page, Kevin (Parliamentary Budget Office) | |
| Drummond, Don (TD Bank Financial Group/Queen's University) | ||
| Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | ||
| Robidoux, Benoit (Finance Canada) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| Labour: Businesses and the Labour Market I / Travail: Les entreprises et le marché du travail I | ||
| Chair | Morissette, Rene (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Joulfaian, David (US Department of Treasury): The Transition to Self Employment: The Role of Taxes and Trade Shocks | |
| Brencic, Vera (University of Alberta): Employers' hiring practices and exporting | ||
| Webber, Douglas (Cornell University): The Impact of Firm Market Power on the Wage Distribution | ||
| Discussants | Leung, D (Statistics Canada); Chan, Ping Ching Winnie (Statistics Canada) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 235 |
| Labour: Labour Markets in Developing Countries / Travail: Marché du travail dans les pays en développement | ||
| Chair | Aragon-Sanchez, Fernando (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Galdo, Jose (Carleton University): Wiring Public Labor-Market Intermediation: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment in Peru | |
| Galvao, Antonio (University of Iowa): Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education and Informal Activities | ||
| Peluffo Geronazzo, Silvia Adriana (Universidad de la Republica): The Effects of International Linkages on Productivity and the Demand for Skilled Labour: A Firm Level Analysis for Uruguay | ||
| Discussants | Valdivia, Martin (GRADE); Gondim Teixeira, Clarissa (International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth/UNDP); Blit, Joel (George Washington University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| Inefficient Contracts and Markets / Contrats et marchés inefficaces | ||
| Chair | Cule, Monika (University of Regina) | |
| Papers | Welling, Linda A. (University of Victoria): Efficiency of Bargaining Models with Renegotiation: The Role of Transferable Utility across Periods | |
| Bose, Pinaki (University of Manitoba): Coercion, Obnoxious Tasks, and Economic Efficiency | ||
| Lavoie, Louise (Université du Québec à Montréal): Longevity Risk, Lifestyle and Adverse Selection | ||
| Discussants | Pitchik, Carolyn (University of Toronto); Cule, Monika (University of Regina); Dubrovinsky, Mati (University of Winnipeg) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 351 |
| CEA/CIFAR Session: Boys' Crisis / Séance ACE/ICRA : La crise chez les garçons | ||
| Chair | Eaton, Curtis (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Oreopoulos, Philip (University of Toronto): Gender Interactions in the Classroom and Their Effects on School Performance | |
| Phipps, Shelley A (Dalhousie University): Why Can't You Sit Still? Hyperactivity and Schooling Outcomes for Young Canadian Boys and Girls? | ||
| Fortin, Nicole M. (University of British Columbia): Gender Disparities in Educational Achievement | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| CDESG: Public Economics / CDESG: Économie publique | ||
| Chair | Tombe, Trevor (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Dissou, Yazid (University of Ottawa): Public Infrastructure and Economic Growth: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis with Heterogeneous Agents | |
| Ary Tanimoune, Nasser (University of Ottawa): Cohérence des policy-mix et efficacité des politiques budgétaires dans la Communauté Économique des États de l'Afrique l'Ouest | ||
| Wong, Sara (Polytechnic University (ESPOL)): Short-term Macroeconomic and Distributional Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis on the Ecuadorian Economy | ||
| Discussants | Yilmaz, Fatih (University of Calgary); Gaudette, Étienne (Université du Québec à Montréal); Tombe, Trevor (University of Toronto) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Industrial Organization 3: Empirical Methods in Industrial Organization / Organisation industrielle 3: Méthodes empiriques en organisation industrielle | ||
| Chair | Suzuki, Junichi (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Xu, Pai (University of Hong Kong): Reputation Status and Selling Strategy: A Regression Discontinuity Design Approach | |
| Fox, Jeremy (University of Michigan): Credit Cards and Identification of Selection Models in Industrial Organization | ||
| Sbai, Erwann (Toulouse School of Economics): Estimation and Comparison Procedure for Electricity Spot Market Auctions | ||
| Discussants | Perez Saiz, Hector (Bank of Canada); Byrne, David (The University of Melbourne); Magesan, Arvind (University of Calgary) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 402 |
| Topics in Development Economics / Sujets en économie du développement | ||
| Chair | Elbadawy, Asmaa (Population Council) | |
| Papers | Chowdhury, Muhammad Murshed (University of Manitoba): Revisiting Aid Effectiveness in South Asia | |
| Elbadawy, Asmaa (Population Council): Migration Aspirations among Young People in Egypt: Who Desires to Migrate and Why? | ||
| Zhao, Jun (University of Manitoba): Globalization and Convergence in Latin America | ||
| Discussants | Akbar, Mohammad (Kwantlen Polytechnic University); Chowdhury, Muhammad Murshed (University of Manitoba); Elbadawy, Asmaa (Population Council) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 121 |
| CIRANO-PHELPS 1: Competition Policy / CIRANO-PHELPS 1: Politique de concurrence | ||
| Chair | Duhamel, Marc (Institut canadien de recherche en politiques et administration publiques) | |
| Papers | Church, Jeff (University of Calgary): Asymmetries, Simulation and the Assessment of Input Foreclosure in Vertical Mergers | |
| Chen, Zhiqi (Carleton University): Buyer Power and Downstream Competition | ||
| Winter, Ralph (University of British Columbia): Collusion on Exclusion | ||
| Discussants | Hazledine, Tim (University of Auckland); Ware, Roger (Queen's University); Corts, Kenneth (University of Toronto) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 122 |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence - État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University) | |
| Speaker | Gruber, Jonathan (MIT) | |
| Topic | Health Care Reform in the United States: What Happened and What Happens Next | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Asset Pricing / Prix des actifs | ||
| Chair | Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Coen, Alain (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)): Asset Pricing with Skewed Returns: Another Look at Idiosyncratic Coskewness | |
| Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal): A Theoretical Extension of the Consumption-based CAPM Model | ||
| Okou, Cedric (HEC Montréal): Horizon Effect In The Term Structure Of Long-Run Risk Return Trade-Offs | ||
| Discussants | Okou, Cedric (HEC Montréal); Coen, Alain (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)); Kalnina, Ilze (Université de Montréal) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| Labour: Wages and Income Distribution / Travail: Distribution du salaire et du revenu | ||
| Chair | LaRochelle-Côté, Sébastien (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Annabi, Nabil (HRSDC): Foreign Competition and Income Distribution in Canada: A Dynamic Microsimulation CGE Model Analysis | |
| Michaelsen, Maren M. (Ruhr University Bochum): The Hidden Increase in Wage Inequality: Skill-biased and Ability-biased Technological Change | ||
| Shang, Ying (Queen's University): Modeling Income Processes across the Income Distribution - An Indirect Inference Approach | ||
| Discussants | Georges, Patrick (University of Ottawa); Dinlersoz, Emin (US Census Bureau); Paterson, Nelson (Finance Canada) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 219 |
| Postsecondary Education / Éducation postsecondaire | ||
| Organizer | Dooley, Martin D (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Dooley, Martin D (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Milla, Joniada (University of Guelph): The implication of peer and parental influences on University attendance: A gender comparison | |
| Benjamin, Dwayne (University of Toronto): Do RESPs increase Household Saving? | ||
| Kucera, Miroslav (Concordia University): Explaining Ethnic and Cohort Differences in Schooling and Wages: Evidence From Two Cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth | ||
| Discussants | Dooley, Martin D (McMaster University); Frenette, Marc (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation); Green, David (University of British Columbia) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| CETC 1 | ||
| Organizer | Peters, Michael (University of British Columbia) | |
| Chair | Peters, Michael (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Damiano, Ettore (University of Toronto): Sincere Voting in Large Elections | |
| Li, Wei (University of British Columbia): Misinformation | ||
| Ehlers, Lars (Université de Montréal): Allocation via Deferred-Acceptance under Responsive Priorities | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 390 |
| SEDAP 1 - Population Aging: Is Later Retirement Part of the Solution? / SEDAP 1 - Vieillissement de la population: La retraite tardive fait-elle partie de la solution ? | ||
| Organizer | Spencer, Byron G (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Horner, Keith (unaffiliated) | |
| Papers | Fougère, Maxime (Human Resources and Social Development Canada): Taxes, Pension and the Retirement Decision of Older Canadians | |
| Hicks, Peter (unaffiliated): The surprisingly large, and surprisingly unrecognized, policy implications of changing retirement durations | ||
| Spencer, Byron G (McMaster University): Age of Pension Eligibility, Gains in Life Expectancy, and Social Policy | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 205 |
| Bank of Canada Lecture / Conférence Banque du Canada | ||
| Sponsor | Bank of Canada/Banque du Canada | |
| Chair | Schembri, Larry (Bank of Canada) | |
| Speaker | Shi, Shouyong (University of Toronto) | |
| Topic | Assets, liquidity and business cycles | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 212 |
| CEA/Statistics Canada Session: Measuring Progress in Poverty Reduction: The Role of National Low-income Lines / Séance de Statistique Canada - Mesure des avancées dans la réduction de la pauvreté : Le rôle des seuils nationaux de faible revenu | ||
| Organizer | Murphy, Brian (Statistics Canada) | |
| Chair | Osberg, Lars (Dalhousie University) | |
| Panelists | Blank, Rebecca M. (United States Department of Commerce) | |
| Corak, Miles (University of Ottawa) | ||
| Zhang, Xuelin (Statistics Canada) | ||
| Murphy, Brian (Statistics Canada) | ||
| Wolfson, Michael (University of Ottawa) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 3: Risk and Inequality / GCEM 3: Risque et inégalité | ||
| Chair | Kaymak, Baris (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Donovan, Kevin (Arizona State University): Risk, Farm Ownership, and International Productivity Differences | |
| Cozzi, Marco (Queen's University): Risk Aversion Heterogeneity and Wealth Inequality | ||
| Kaymak, Baris (Université de Montréal): On the Optimality of Income Redistribution | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 221 |
| Industry Canada and Statistics Canada Session I: Firm Dynamics and Productivity / Séance d'Industrie Canada et Statistique Canada I - Dynamiques de l'entreprise et productivité | ||
| Chair | Amano, Isabelle (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Yan, Beiling (Statistics Canada): Accounting for Slower Productivity Growth in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector after 2000: Evidence from Micro Data | |
| Chan, Kelvin Ka Yin (Industry Canada): Industry Mix, Plant Turnover and Productivity Growth: A Case Study of the Transportation Equipment Manufacturing Industry | ||
| Acharya, Ram (Industry Canada): Product Churning: Its Role in Output and Productivity Changes in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Rosell, Carlos (Finance Canada); Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada); Ueberfeldt, Alexander (Bank of Canada) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 250 |
| CEBERG 3: Communication and Coordination / CEBERG 3: Communication et coordination | ||
| Organizers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Schott, Stephan (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Fehr, Dietmar (WZB): Why should we communicate? Evidence from a Coordination Experiment | |
| Kneeland, Terri (University of British Columbia): Global Games under Limited Depth of Reasoning | ||
| Moir, Robert (University of New Brunswick Saint John): Spinning Works: Strategy Framing in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma Game | ||
| Discussants | Danese, Giuseppe (Simon Fraser University); Lin, Hong (Hannah) (Peking University); Schott, Stephan (Carleton University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 3: Quantile and Nonparametric Regression / CESG 3: Régressions non paramétriques et quantiles de régression | ||
| Chair | Tabri, Rami (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Ponomareva, Maria (University of Western Ontario): Quantile Regression for Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects and Small T: Identification and Estimation | |
| Wang, Yun (University of California, Riverside): Nonparametric Regression Estimation with General Parametric Error Covariance: A More Efficient Two-step Estimator | ||
| Wang, Yini (Queen's University): Inference in quantile cointegrating regressions with structural changes | ||
| Discussants | Ponomareva, Maria (University of Western Ontario); Richard, Patrick (Universite de Sherbrooke); Wang, Yini (Queen's University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| CPEG 3: Government Organization / CPEG 3: Organisation des gouvernements | ||
| Chair | Sarkar, Sudipto (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Hartwick, John M (Queen's University): Government Goods and Services as Largely Intermediate | |
| Farvaque, Etienne (Université de Lille 1): The Grand Experiment of Communism: Discovering the Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency | ||
| Cairns, Robert D (McGill University): The Fundamental Problem of Economic Accounting | ||
| Discussants | Baldwin, Andy (Statistics Canada); Hartwick, John M (Queen's University); Farvaque, Etienne (Université de Lille 1) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 3: Empirical Environmental Economics / Session CREE 3 : Économie de l'environnement empirique | ||
| Chair | Antweiler, Werner (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Antweiler, Werner (University of British Columbia): An Analysis of British Columbia's SCRAP-IT Program: Participation, Transportation Choice and Emissions Savings | |
| Mallory, Julie (University of Toronto): Estimating the Impact of Recession on the Credibility of Green Legislative Threat | ||
| Mesbah, Morteza (Carleton University): Estimation of nitrogen oxides marginal abatement cost curves for coal-fired power plants in the United States | ||
| Discussants | Sonntag, Axel (Vienna University of Economics and Business); Brennan, Timothy (University of Maryland Baltimore County) | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX ATR |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF 4: The European Debt and Currency Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for North America. / PEF 4: PEF 4: La crise de la devise et de l'endettement européens: Causes, conséquences et implications pour l'Amérique du Nord | ||
| Organizer | Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | |
| Chair | Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | |
| Panelists | Schmidt, Ingo (Athabasca University) | |
| Hall, Peter (Export Development Canada) | ||
| Seccareccia, Mario (University of Ottawa) | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| CNEH 4: Invited Lecture in Memory of Alan G. Green / CNEH 4: Conférence invitée à la mémoire d'Alan G. Green | ||
| Organizer | Keay, Ian (Queen's University) | |
| Chair | Lewis, Frank D. (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Guinnane, Timothy (Yale University): The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| Economic Statistics and Measurement / Statistiques et comptabilité économiques | ||
| Chair | Diewert, W. Erwin (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Tebrake, James (Statistics Canada): Preview of the comprehensive (historical) revision of the Canadian System of National Accounts | |
| Baldwin, Andy (Statistics Canada): A Better Inflation Indicator: A CPI with a Net Purchase Approach to Owned Accommodation, 2005-2010 | ||
| Kayembe, Lidia (University of Ottawa): Comparative assessment of performance and progress (1990-2008) of health systems using Millennium Development Goals | ||
| Discussants | Nakamura, Alice (University of Alberta) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| Empirical Topics in Research and Development / Sujets empiriques en recherche et développement | ||
| Chair | Luintel, Kul (Cardiff University) | |
| Papers | Schmidt, Tobias (Deutsche Bundesbank Central Office): An Information Economics Perspective on Main Bank Relationships and Firm R&D | |
| Jung, Owen (Industry Canada): Evidence of Heterogeneous Financing Conditions among Canadian Small and Medium-Sized Firms Investing in R&D | ||
| Luintel, Kul (Cardiff University): Basic, Applied and Experimental Knowledge and Productivity: Further Evidence | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 147 |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence - État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Glover, Barbara (HRSDC) | |
| Speaker | Smith, Jeffrey A (University of Michigan) | |
| Topic | Putting the Evidence in Evidence-Based Policy | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 147B |
| Labour: Gender Issues / Travail: Questions de genre | ||
| Chair | Wannell, Ted (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Harris, Benjamin Cerf (Simon Fraser University): Does the gender gap explain the sexual orientation wage gap? | |
| Connolly Pray, Marie (Université du Québec à Montréal): The Gender Wage Gap among Recent Postsecondary Graduates | ||
| Discussants | Mueller, Richard (University of Lethbridge); Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| Labour: Businesses and the Labour Market II / Travail: Les entreprises et le marché du travail II | ||
| Chair | Brencic, Vera (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Laporte, Christine (Statistics Canada): Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Earnings Premium to Apprenticeship Completion in Canada | |
| Dostie, Benoit (HEC Montréal): Labour reallocation, turnover and productivity | ||
| Dinlersoz, Emin (US Census Bureau): Wage Dynamics along the Life-Cycle of Manufacturing Plants | ||
| Discussants | Milla, Joniada (University of Guelph); Stoyanov, Andrey (York University); Shang, Ying (Queen's University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 235 |
| Empirical Studies of Housing / Études empiriques du logement | ||
| Chair | Watuwa, Richard (Cape Breton University) | |
| Papers | Farnham, Martin (University of Victoria): Housing Wealth and Marital Stability | |
| Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada): House Prices, Consumption and the Role of Household Debt | ||
| Roy, Saktinil (Athabasca University): How Well do Real Estate Bubbles Predict Banking Crises? | ||
| Discussants | Webber, Douglas (Cornell University); Huang, Haifang (University of Alberta); Kartashova, Katya (University of Minnesota) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| CDESG: Consequences of Foreign Investment / CDESG: Les conséquences des investissements étrangers | ||
| Chair | Galdo, Jose (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Manga, Pranlal (University of Ottawa): The Innovation Gap betwen countries and technolgy diffusion from foreign affilites. | |
| Haider, Azad (Saint Mary's University): Factors Responsible for Jobless Growth in a Developing Country: Empirical Evidence From Pakistan | ||
| Aragon-Sanchez, Fernando (Simon Fraser University): Natural Resources and Local Economic Development: Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine | ||
| Discussants | Mohamed, Ghada (ECO-ENA); Akbar, Mohammad (Kwantlen Polytechnic University); Galdo, Jose (Carleton University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| CDESG: Experiments / CDESG: Expériences | ||
| Chair | Estevan, Fernanda (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Chemin, Matthieu (McGill University): Do peer effects mitigate social dilemmas? Evidence from a field experiment | |
| Ksoll, Christopher (University of Oxford): Can Technology Improve Learning? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Niger | ||
| Valdivia, Martin (GRADE): General training or technical assistance? A field experiment to learn what works on business training in Peru | ||
| Discussants | Marcoul, Philippe (University of Alberta); Bobonis, Gustavo (University of Toronto); Laszlo, Sonia (McGill University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Industrial Organization 4: Regulation / Organisation industrielle 4: Réglementation | ||
| Chair | Cyrenne, Philippe (University of Winnipeg) | |
| Papers | Arya, Pyare (Saint Mary's University): Gasoline Price Regulation Issues and Decisions of the Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board | |
| Bloemhof, Barb (McMaster University): Assessing the Degree of Competitiveness in the Ontario Residential Retail Natural Gas Market: Post-Deregulation Price Evidence | ||
| Cloutier, Mike (Queen's University): Leniency Programs and Quality of Information | ||
| Discussants | Mann, Janelle (Queen's University); Winter, Jennifer (University of Calgary); Da Graça, Tarcisio (University of Ottawa) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 401 |
| Bank of Canada Session on Commodity Prices / Séance de la Banque du Canada sur le prix des matières premières | ||
| Organizer | Vasishtha, Garima (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Vasishtha, Garima (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Lombardi, Marco (European Central Bank): Destabilizing speculation in the oil market | |
| Baumeister, Christiane (Bank of Canada): Sources of the Volatility Puzzle in the Crude Oil Market | ||
| Gervais, Oliver (Bank of Canada): The Role of Financial Speculation in Driving the Price of Crude Oil | ||
| Discussants | Stevens, Jason (Cape Breton University); Jacks, David (Simon Fraser University); Cairns, Robert D (McGill University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | FTX 402 |
| Bank of Canada Session: Term Structure Models / Séance de la Banque du Canada: Modèles de structure des taux d'intérêts | ||
| Organizer | Rivadeneyra, Francisco (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Rivadeneyra, Francisco (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Fontaine, Jean-Sebastien (Banque du Canada): Discrete Choice Term Structure Models: Theory And Applications | |
| Diez de los Rios, Antonio (Bank of Canada): A Multi-Country Term Structure Model with Unspanned Risks | ||
| Rivadeneyra, Francisco (Bank of Canada): The Macroeconomic Determinants of the Term Structure of Supranational Yields | ||
| Discussants | Luger, Richard (Georgia State University); Cenesizoglu, Tolga (HEC Montréal); Malkhozov, Aytek (McGill University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 121 |
| CIRANO-PHELPS 2: Competition Policy Panel / CIRANO-PHELPS 2: Panel sur les politiques de concurrence | ||
| Chair | Church, Jeff (University of Calgary) | |
| Panelists | Sanderson, Margaret (Charles River Associates) | |
| McFetridge, Donald G. (Carleton University) | ||
| Ware, Roger (Queen's University) | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Health Economics 4 - Costs and Financing / Économie de la santé 4 - Coûts et financement | ||
| Chair | Hurley, Jerry (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Gaudette, Étienne (Université du Québec à Montréal): Public Policies, Health Care Demand and Budgetary Equilibrium in a Public-Financed System: A Dynamic Stochastic Analysis | |
| Ariste, Ruolz (Canadian Institute for Health Information): Assessing the Impact of Some Health Care Cost Drivers in Canada During the Last Decade | ||
| Blomqvist, Ake (Carleton University): Health Insurance and Distributional Equity: Government and Markets in China | ||
| Discussants | Blomqvist, Ake (Carleton University); Di Matteo, Livio (Lakehead University); Hurley, Jerry (McMaster University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| Trade Agreements / Ententes commerciales | ||
| Chair | Boileau, David (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada) | |
| Papers | Viju, Crina (Carleton University): How integrated are EU agricultural markets? | |
| Yotov, Yoto (Drexel University): Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-2002 | ||
| Li, Na (University of Guelph): Political Economy of Endogenously Incomplete Contracting Trade Agreements | ||
| Discussants | Graff, Michael (ETH Zurich and Jacobs University Bremen); Hakobyan, Shushanik (University of Virginia); Melatos, Mark (University of Sydney) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 219 |
| SRDC Session: Financing and Supporting PSE Access - Lessons from Existing Evidence and New Field Experiments / Séance SRSA: Financement et soutien de l'accès à l'éducation postsecondaire - Leçons à tirer des preuves existantes et de nouvelles expériences de terrain | ||
| Organizer | Ford, Reuben (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Chair | Voyer, Jean-Pierre (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Papers | Oreopoulos, Philip (University of Toronto): Nudging Grade 12 Students to Higher Education: A Field Experiment | |
| Hui, Shek-wai (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): The Relationship between Funding, Learning Objectives and Choice of Instructional Programs and Courses for Adult Learning | ||
| Ford, Reuben (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): The Impact of an Early Promise of Non-Refundable Aid on Post-secondary Attendance Among Low-income Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| CETC Young Researchers Session / Séance jeunes chercheurs du CETC | ||
| Chair | Han, Seungjin (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Boucher, Vincent (Université de Montréal): Structural Homophily | |
| Wang, Tao (Queen's University): Dynamic Equilibrium Bunching | ||
| Agbo, Maxime (Université de Montréal): Young Researchers and Senior Researchers: Who should be Granted? | ||
| Sen Choudhury, Eesha (McGill University): Optimal Patent Length For Pharmaceutical Products: A North-South Model | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | LMX 390 |
| SEDAP 2: Panel: Towards Pension Reform in Canada: What Are the Options? / SEDAP 2: Panel: Vers une réforme des pensions au Canada: Quelles sont les options? | ||
| Organizer | Spencer, Byron G (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Wolfson, Michael (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Moore, Kevin (Statistics Canada): Using Statistics Canada's LifePaths Microsimulation Model to Explore the Impact of Increased Future Saving on the Consumption Replacement Rates of Future Retirees | |
| Horner, Keith (unaffiliated): Assessment of Pension Reform Options | ||
| Ambachtsheer, Keith (Rotman International Centre for Pension Management): A Post-Election Pension Reform Prognosis | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 212 |
| Canadian Economics Association Invited Lecture / Conférence invitée de l'Association canadienne d'économique | ||
| Chair | Fortin, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Rudin, Jeremy (Department of Finance) | |
| Topic | The Global Financial Crisis: A Canadian Perspective | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 4: Labour Search 1 / CMSG 4: Recherche de main-d'oeuvre 1 | ||
| Chair | Lkhagvasuren, Damba (Concordia University) | |
| Papers | Wolthoff, Ronald (University of Toronto): It's About Time: Implications of Discreteness in an Equilibrium Job Search Model | |
| Lkhagvasuren, Damba (Concordia University): The Cyclicality of Search Intensity in a Competitive Search Model | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 221 |
| Industry Canada and Statistics Canada Session II: Firm Survival and Growth Evidence from Canadian Microdata / Séance d'Industrie Canada et Statistique Canada II: Preuves sur la survie et la croissance des enterprises provenant de micro-données canadiennes | ||
| Chair | Ryan, Annette (Industry Canada) | |
| Papers | Dixon, Jay (Industrie Canada): Who Creates Canadian Jobs? Employment Dynamics of Small, Large, Young and Mature Firms in Canada | |
| Leung, D (Statistics Canada): Firm Level Investment and Financial Constraints: Does One Size Fit All? | ||
| Petrunia, Robert (Lakehead University): Post-Entry Struggle for Life and Pre-Exit Shadow of Death from a Financial Perspective | ||
| Discussants | Zheng, Isabel (Bank of Canada); Chen, Zhiqi (Carleton University); Story, Rod (Carleton University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 250 |
| CEBERG 4: Trust and Reciprocity / CEBERG 4: Confiance et réciprocité | ||
| Organizers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Song, Fei (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina): Lying in a simple sender-receiver game: Gains vs. losses | |
| Lin, Hong (Hannah) (Peking University): Separating Gratitude from Guilt in the Laboratory | ||
| Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University): The Impact of Empowerment on Trust and Reciprocity | ||
| Song, Fei (Ryerson University): Promise-Keeping, Social Relationship and Anonymity: An Experimental Investigation | ||
| Discussants | Matthews, Peter (Middlebury College); Ong, David (Peking University HSBC Business School); Smith, Alexander (University of Calgary); Song, Fei (Ryerson University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 4: The Bootstrap / CESG 4: Le Bootstrap | ||
| Chair | MacKinnon, James G (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Davidson, Russell (McGill University): A Parametric Bootstrap for Heavy Tailed Distributions | |
| Richard, Patrick (Universite de Sherbrooke): Kernel smoothing P values of simulation-based tests | ||
| Tabri, Rami (McGill University): Asymptotic and Bootstrap Tests for Stochastic Dominance via the Method of Maximum Likelihood | ||
| Discussants | Dovonon, Prosper (Concordia University); MacKinnon, James G (Queen's University); Zitikis, Ricardas (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| CPEG 4: Taxation and Growth / CPEG 4: Taxation et croissance | ||
| Chair | Ferris, J. Stephen (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Ferede, Ergete (Grant MacEwan University): The Long-run Effects of Federal Grants in a Growing State Economy | |
| Alamgir-Arif, Rizwana (University of Ottawa): Childcare, Taxes and Endogenous Growth | ||
| Kryvoruchko, Iryna (McMaster University): The Effects of the Russian Flat Tax Reform on Unofficial Employment | ||
| Discussants | Kryvoruchko, Iryna (McMaster University); Ferede, Ergete (Grant MacEwan University); Alamgir-Arif, Rizwana (University of Ottawa) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 4: Short Presentation Session on Resource Economics / Session CREE 4: Présentations courtes en économie des ressources naturelles | ||
| Chairs | Schott, Stephan (Carleton University) Antweiler, Werner (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Lin, James (University of Alberta): An Electricity Market Model with Sustainable Fossil Fuels | |
| Oloufade, Djoulassi (University of Ottawa): State Capacity and the Enforcement of Property Rights in the Natural Resource Sector | ||
| Atewamba, Calvin (Université de Montréal): Pricing of Durable Exhaustible Resources Under Stochastic Investment Opportunities | ||
| Almansoour, Abdullah (University of Waterloo): The Impact of Stochastic Convenience Yield and Stochastic Extraction Cost on the Value of an Exhaustible Resource: The case of the Alberta Oil Sands | ||
| Taherkhani, Farnaz (McGill University): Sustaining Asymmetric International Environmental Agreements | ||
| 17:45-19:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | UCU AUD |
| Innis Lecture / Conférence Innis | ||
| Chair | Zinde-Walsh, Victoria (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Baker, Michael (University of Toronto) | |
| Topic | Universal Early Childhood Interventions: What is the Evidence Base? | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Friday, June 3, 2011 | TBT 112 |
| Reception / Réception | ||
| Sponsor | TD Economics | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX ATR |
| Coffee, Tea, Juices, Fruit, Pastries / Café, thé, jus, fruits, pâtisseries | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF 5: Dissecting the Fiscal Issues Facing Canada / PEF 5: Analyse des problèmes fiscaux auxquels fait face le Canada | ||
| Organizer | MacLean, Brian K. (Laurentian University) | |
| Chair | Kearns, Ashley (Carleton University) | |
| Panelists | Brooks, Neil (York University) | |
| Jackson, Andrew (Queen's University) | ||
| Newman, Keith (Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada) | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| CNEH 5: The Development of Institutions / RCHE 5: Le développement des institutions | ||
| Organizer | Keay, Ian (Queen's University) | |
| Chair | Emery, J C Herbert (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Dippel, Christian (University of Toronto): Elite Persistence Under De Jure Institutional Change | |
| Moore, Lyndon (Université de Montréal): The Economic Benefit of Political Connections in Late Victorian Britain | ||
| Coe, Patrick J. (Carleton University): The Argumentation of Economic Historians | ||
| Discussants | Drelichman, Mauricio (University of British Columbia); Carlos, Ann (University of Colorado at Boulder); Di Matteo, Livio (Lakehead University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| CLEA I: Tax Law and Economics / CLEA I: Droit fiscal et économie | ||
| Organizer | Alarie, Benjamin (University of Toronto) | |
| Chair | Smart, Michael G (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Satterthwaite, Emily (University of Toronto): Elective Provisions in Tax Law | |
| Alarie, Benjamin (University of Toronto): Adapting to Tax Complexity | ||
| Curry, Philip (University of Waterloo): Optimal Government Responses to Tax Planning | ||
| Discussants | Curry, Philip (University of Waterloo); Green, Andrew (University of Toronto); Caines, Ian (University of Toronto) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| Bank of Canada Session: Theory of Money and Payments / Séance Banque du Canada: Théorie de la monnaie et des paiements | ||
| Organizer | Shao, Enchuan (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Dong, Mei (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Sun, Hongfei (Amy) (Queen's University): Equilibrium Counterfeiting and Monetary Policy | |
| Dong, Mei (Simon Fraser University): On the Societal Benefit of Credit Card as a Means of Payment | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| Spatial Economics / Économie spatiale | ||
| Chair | Farnham, Martin (University of Victoria) | |
| Papers | Lloyd-Ellis, Huw (Queen's University): Search and the Dynamics of House Prices and Construction | |
| Lindsey, Charles Robin (University of British Columbia): Cost Recovery From Congestion Tolls With Long-Run Uncertainty | ||
| Yu, Chia-Ming (Washington University): Locational Signaling and Agglomeration | ||
| Stacey, Derek (Queen's University): Housing Prices, Time on the Market, and the Role of Real Estate Agents | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 232 |
| CD Howe Panel: Where's Prudence? How to Design a Resilient Macroprudential Supervisory Framework / Où est la prudence ? Comment concevoir un cadre réglementaire macroprudentiel résilient | ||
| Organizer | Bergevin, Philippe (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Chair | Bergevin, Philippe (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Panelists | Le Pan, Nicholas (Chairman, Canadian Public Accountability Board and former Superintendent of Financial Institutions) | |
| Longworth, David (Carleton University) | ||
| Ragan, Christopher (McGill University) | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 235 |
| Teaching of Economics 1: Session in memory of Peter Kennedy / Enseignements économiques 1: Séance à la mémoire de Peter Kennedy | ||
| Chair | Scarth, William (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Self, James (Indiana University): Who does Collaborative Learning Help? The Pedagogical Efficacy of Student Learning | |
| Cottrell, Marilyn (Brock University): Perfect in an Imperfect World: The Efficient Market | ||
| O'Shaughnessy, Bridget (McMaster University): Fostering Creativity in Undergraduate Economics | ||
| Discussants | Norrie, Ken (McMaster University); Gray, David (University of Ottawa); Brett, Craig (Mount Allison University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| CDESG: Entrepreneurship / CDESG: Entreprenariat | ||
| Chair | Marcoul, Philippe (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Nguimkeu, Pierre Evariste (Simon Fraser University): An Estimated Model of Informal Entrepreneurship Under Financial Constraints | |
| Marcoul, Philippe (University of Alberta): The Emergence of Collective Action in Contract Farming | ||
| Couppey-Soubeyran, Jézabel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): The relationship between trade credit, bank credit and financial structure: from firm-level non-linearities to financial development heterogeneity. A study on MENA firm-level data | ||
| Discussants | Couppey-Soubeyran, Jézabel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Nguimkeu, Pierre Evariste (Simon Fraser University); Marcoul, Philippe (University of Alberta) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 351 |
| Monetary and Fiscal Policy / Politiques monétaires et budgétaires | ||
| Chair | Liu, Xuan (East Carolina University) | |
| Papers | Dalkir, Mehmet (University of New Brunswick): Inflation versus Price Control from the Stochastic Control Perspective | |
| Liu, Xuan (East Carolina University): Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Svensson Timing | ||
| Talukdar, Bidyut Kumar (Saint Mary's University): Organizational Learning and Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy | ||
| Discussants | Eckwert, Bernhard (Bielefeld University); Talukdar, Bidyut Kumar (Saint Mary's University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| CDESG: South Asia / CDESG: Asie du sud | ||
| Chair | Osberg, Lars (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University): Economic Incentives for Sex-Selective Abortion in India | |
| Dauphin, Anyck (Université du Québec en Outaousais): Child Poverty and Intra-Household Allocation in Bangladesh | ||
| Jayaraman, Rajshri (European School of Management and Technology): The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme | ||
| Pivovarova, Margarita (University of Toronto): Caste, Gender and School Enrollment: Evidence from the Nepalese Living Standard Survey | ||
| Discussants | Maitra, Sudeshna (York University); Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude (Dalhousie University); Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University); Jayaraman, Rajshri (European School of Management and Technology) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Industrial Organization 5: Implications of Imperfect Competition / Organisation industrielle 5: Implications de la compétition imparfaite | ||
| Chair | Atallah, Gamal (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Basso, Leonardo (Universidad de Chile): Passenger Versus Movement Based Charges on Transport Infrastructure | |
| Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita (University of Winnipeg): Monopolization through acquisitions in multimarket oligopolies | ||
| Roland, Michel (Université Laval): Mixed Enterprises and International Competition | ||
| Discussants | Higashida, Keisaku (Kwansei Gakuin University); Roland, Michel (Université Laval); Barham, Victoria (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 401 |
| 2x2 Working Group Session 1 / Groupe de travail 2x2 Session 1 | ||
| Organizers | Robinson, David (Laurentian University) Goforth, David (Laurentian University) | |
| Chair | Goforth, David (Laurentian University) | |
| Papers | Robinson, David (Laurentian University): Teaching Economics by Teaching 2x2 Game Theory | |
| Berg, Kimmo (Aalto University School of Science): Computing equilibria in discounted 2x2 supergames | ||
| Kilgour, Marc (Wilfrid Laurier University): How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games | ||
| Hamburger, Henry (George Mason University): 2x2 Graph Games | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 402 |
| Topics in Immigration / Sujets en immigration | ||
| Chair | Coulombe, Serge (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Zhou, Nan (Concordia University): Training New Immigrants: Evidence from Canada | |
| Zibrowius, Michael (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg): Convergence or divergence? Immigrant wage assimilation patterns in Germany | ||
| Teng, Jiayuan (University of Guelph): Social networks and Migration Decision: Evidence from CHIPS and Repeated Cross-sectional Data | ||
| Discussants | Teng, Jiayuan (University of Guelph); Zhou, Nan (Concordia University); Zibrowius, Michael (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 121 |
| CIRANO-PHELPS 3: Intellectual Property / CIRANO-PHELPS 3: Propriété intellectuelle | ||
| Chair | McDougall, Gilles (Copyright Board of Canada) | |
| Papers | Chipty, Tasneem (Analysis Group, Inc.): Economics of Music Copyright Valuation: Theory and Practice | |
| Langinier, Corinne (University of Alberta): Monetary and Implicit Incentives of Patent Examiners | ||
| Boyer, Marcel (Université de Montréal): The Economics of Copyright Valuation: The Case of Music for Commercial Radio Stations | ||
| Discussants | Solomon, Raphael (Copyright Board of Canada); Agrawal, Ajay (University of Toronto); Katz, Ariel (University of Toronto) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Health Economics 5 - Primary Care / Économie de la santé 5 - Soins de santé primaires | ||
| Chair | Sarma, Sisira K (The University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Buhr, Karen (University of Maine): The Relationship between Job Satisfaction, Workplace Stress, and Unhealthy Lifestyle Choices among Canadian Nurses | |
| McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick): Immigration Policy and Working as a Physician: Evidence for Canada and the United States | ||
| Wang, Chao (Sara) (McMaster University): Physician Labour Supply in Canada: a Household Perspective | ||
| Discussants | Guliani, Harminder (University of Manitoba); Jesmin, Shammima (University of Western Ontario); Belley, Philippe (Kansas State University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| Bilateral Trade Relationships / Relations commerciales bilatérales | ||
| Chair | Ker, Alan (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Nitsch, Volker (Technische Universität Darmstadt): Wearing Corset, Losing Shape: The Euro's Effect on Trade Imbalances | |
| Cyrus, Teresa (Dalhousie University): Cultural Proximity and Bilateral Trade | ||
| Discussants | Disdier, Anne-Celia (INRA); Lassmann, Andrea (ETH zurich) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 219 |
| CSLS 1 : New Insights into Productivity Growth in Canada / CSLS 1: Nouvel aperçu de la croissance de la productivité au Canada | ||
| Chair | Nakamura, Alice (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Almon, Michael-John (Industry Canada): Industry Structure Change and Economic Growth: A Canada-U.S. Comparison | |
| De Avillez, Ricardo (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): The Paradoxical Nature of Productivity Growth in the Canadian Agriculture Sector | ||
| Ross, Christopher (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): A Detailed Analysis of the Productivity Performance of the Canadian Food Processing Sector | ||
| Discussants | Diewert, W. Erwin (University of British Columbia); Harris, Richard (Simon Fraser University); Nadeau, Serge (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 221 |
| CIGI 1: Panel on Managing Complexities: Global Economic Interdependencies and Policy Cooperation / CIGI 1: Panel sur la gestion des complexités: Les interdépendances économiques mondiales et la coopération politique | ||
| Chair | Jenkins, Paul (CIGI) | |
| Panelists | Kruger, Mark (Canadian Embassy in China) | |
| Perrault, Jean-François (Finance Canada) | ||
| Curtis, John (CIGI) | ||
| Siklos, Pierre L (Wilfrid Laurier University) | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 223 |
| Factor Analysis 1 / Analyse factorielle 1 | ||
| Organizer | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université de Montréal) | |
| Chair | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Douch, Mohamed (Royal Military College): Equity Premium Puzzle in a Data-Rich Environment | |
| Doko Tchatoka, Firmin Sabro (University of Tasmania): Subset hypotheses testing and instrument exclusion in the linear IV regression | ||
| Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université de Montréal): Common Sources of Parameter Instability in Macroeconomic Models: A Factor-TVP Approach | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| CETC 2 | ||
| Chair | Kirkegaard, Rene (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Horan, Sean (Boston University): Sequential Search and Choice from Lists | |
| Han, Seungjin (McMaster University): Non-Committed Procurement under Intricate Uncertainty | ||
| Kirkegaard, Rene (University of Guelph): Ranking Asymmetric Auctions using the Dispersive Order | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 390 |
| International Macroeconomics: Exchange Rate Regimes / Macroéconomie internationale: Régimes de taux de change | ||
| Chair | Arghyrou, Michael Georgiou (Cardiff University) | |
| Papers | Ghosh, Atish (International Monetary Fund): Words vs Deeds: What Really Matters? | |
| Pang, Ke (Wilfrid Laurier University): Vertical Trade and North American Monetary Union: From Trade to Currency Integration | ||
| Schembri, Larry (Bank of Canada): A Brave New International Monetary System | ||
| Discussants | Santor, Eric Benjamin (Bank of Canada); Cao, Shutao (Bank of Canada); Beltran, Daniel (Federal Reserve Board) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 5A: Monetary Policy / GCEM 5A: Politiques monétaires | ||
| Chair | Shukayev, Malik (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Dai, Tiantian (Queen's University): Input Inventories, Business Cycle and Optimal Monetary Policy | |
| Kryvtsov, Oleksiy (Bank of Canada): The Dynamics of Consumer Price Distribution and Monetary Non-neutrality | ||
| Shukayev, Malik (Bank of Canada): Financial Intermediation, Risk Taking and Monetary Policy | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 221 |
| CMSG 5B: Development Economics / GCEM 5B: Économie du développement | ||
| Chair | Pallage, Stéphane (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Alessandrini, Diana (University of Guelph): The Business Cycle Human Capital Accumulation Nexus and its Effect on Growth | |
| Qian, Zhenjie (Tsinghua University): Why Labor Income Share Is So Low in China? | ||
| Pallage, Stéphane (Université du Québec à Montréal): Famines, food aid, and aggregate trouble | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 250 |
| CEBERG 5: All Pay Auctions, Trading Strategies and Money Illusion / CEBERG 5: Enchères à offres payantes ("All-Pay"), stratégies de négociation et illusion de l'argent | ||
| Organizers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Chen, Zhuoqiong (Peking University): Pre-empting Inefficient Contests with Gender Signaling | |
| Khoroshilov, Yuri (University of Ottawa): Momentum Trading Strategy and Investment Horizon: An Experimental Study | ||
| Matthews, Peter (Middlebury College): An Introduction To "Bucket Auctions" For Charity | ||
| Petersen, Luba (University of California Santa Cruz): The Role of Money Illusion, Focal Points and Heuristics in Nominal Price Adjustment | ||
| Discussants | Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University); Morrison, William (Wilfrid Laurier University); Powell, Owen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 5: Short Presentation Session / CESG 5: Présentations courtes | ||
| Chair | Alexeev, Vitali (University of Tasmania) | |
| Papers | Gao, Rui (Queen's University): Quasi-Realized Volatility: MCMC Estimation of Integrated Volatility with Daily Fluctuation Limits | |
| Hounyo, Koomla Ulrich (Université de Montréal): Bootstapping pre-averaging realized volatility under market microstructure noise | ||
| Ismael Yacoub, Mourifie (Université de Montréal): revealed euclidean preferences | ||
| Shang, Hua (Concordia University): Finite-Sample Properties of Alternative Tests on Beta-Pricing Models in the Cases of Large, Small and Zero Betas | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| CPEG 5: Political Economy I / CPEG 5: Économie politique I | ||
| Chair | Winer, Stanley (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Pandey, Manish (University of Winnipeg): Examining the Efficiency Hypothesis: Does increase in openness cause government revenues to decline? | |
| Voia, Marcel-Cristian (Carleton University): Do Canadian business cycle peaks predict Federal election calls? | ||
| Koka, Katerina (Brock University): Voting for Health: the Effect of Changing Demographics on the Choice of Capital and Labour Taxes | ||
| Discussants | Koka, Katerina (Brock University); Pandey, Manish (University of Winnipeg); Voia, Marcel-Cristian (Carleton University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 5: Short Presentation Session on Environmental Economics / Session CREE 5: Présentations courtes en économie environnementale | ||
| Chairs | Barrington-Leigh, Christopher (McGill University) Livernois, John R (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Morgan, Dylan (University of Ottawa): When Environmental Subsidies Backfire: The Case of Black Liquor and the Alternative Fuel Mixture Tax Credit | |
| Filippiadis, Eleftherios (Concordia University): Using the allocation of emission permits for Strategic Trade purposes | ||
| Xiang, Di (University of Manitoba): Eco-labeling with Knowledgeable and Naive Consumers | ||
| Khalaf, Lynda (Carleton University): The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Tipping Points and Uncertainty | ||
| Boskovic, Branko (University of Toronto): Environmental Regulation, Air Quality and Free-Riding: Evidence from the U.S. Clean Air Act | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX ATR |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF 6: Canadian Provincial Budgeting Priorities and Risks / PEF 6: Priorités budgétaires des provinces canadiennes et les risques | ||
| Organizer | MacLean, Brian K. (Laurentian University) | |
| Chair | Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | |
| Panelists | Baragar, Fletcher (University of Manitoba) | |
| Ivanova, Iglika (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) | ||
| McCracken, Michael C (Informetricia Limited) | ||
| Myatt, Anthony (University of New Brunswick) | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| CNEH 6: War, Prohibition and Keynes / RCHE 6: Guerres, interdictions et Keynes | ||
| Organizer | Keay, Ian (Queen's University) | |
| Chair | Tassonyi, Almos T. (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Cranfield, John (University of Guelph): Stayers and Leavers, Diggers and Canucks: The 1914-1918 War in Comparative Perspective | |
| Dighe, Ranjit (State University of New York at Oswego): Business Week, the Great Depression and the Coming of Keynesianism to America | ||
| Dupré, Ruth (HEC Montréal): The People's Will: Referendums and Alcohol Prohibition in International Perspective | ||
| Discussants | Massey, Catherine (University of Colorado at Boulder); Wilson, Stuart J. (University of Regina); Eli, Shari (University of Berkeley) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| CLEA II: Law and Economics / CLEA II: Droit et économie | ||
| Organizer | Alarie, Benjamin (University of Toronto) | |
| Chair | Alarie, Benjamin (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Green, Andrew (University of Toronto): The Power of the Chief Justice: Choosing Panels on the Supreme Court of Canada | |
| Caines, Ian (University of Toronto): Circular Priorities Revisited | ||
| Summerfield, Fraser (University of Guelph): The Opportunity Cost of Violent Crime in Canada: Understanding Supply Trends After Capital Punishment | ||
| Discussants | Payne, Abigail (McMaster University); Horan, Sean (Boston University); Cloutier, Mike (Queen's University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| Stock Market Returns / Rendements des marchés boursiers | ||
| Chair | Lo, Ingrid (Ka Man) (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Sayili, Koray (Queen's University): Gold Related Investments' Hedging: Are They More Like Gold or Stock Indices? | |
| Boucher, Christophe (QCG): Expected Returns Across Time Scales | ||
| Zaman, Ashraf (St Mary'S University): Political Information the Cross-Section of Returns | ||
| Discussants | Zaman, Ashraf (St Mary'S University); Gungor, Sermin (Bank of Canada); Sayili, Koray (Queen's University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 147 |
| Canadian Public Policy Lecture / Conférence Analyse de Politiques | ||
| Sponsor | Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques | |
| Chair | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) | |
| Speaker | Forget, Evelyn L. (University of Manitoba) | |
| Topic | Town With No Poverty: the health effects of the MINCOME guaranteed annual income experiment | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| Labour: Immigrants and Labour Market Decisions / Travail: Immigrants et décisions de travail | ||
| Chair | Beach, Charles M. (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Coulombe, Serge (University of Ottawa): Quality of Human Capital and Economic Development: an analysis of immigrants' earnings in Canada | |
| Nadeau, Serge (University of Ottawa): English as the Lingua Franca and the Economic Value of Other Languages: the Case of the Language of Work of Immigrants and Non-immigrants in the Montreal Labour Market | ||
| Lu, Yuqian (Statistics Canada): Self-choice or out of necessity: Do immigrants and their children choose self-employment for the same reasons? | ||
| Discussants | Beach, Charles M. (Queen's University); Minns, Chris (London School of Economics); Teng, Jiayuan (University of Guelph) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 232 |
| Atlantic Canada : Investment and Immigration / Les provinces de l'Atlantique: Investissement et immigration | ||
| Chair | Moir, Robert (University of New Brunswick Saint John) | |
| Papers | Chaundy, David (Atlantic Provinces Economic Council): Atlantic Canada's Changing Competitiveness for International Investment | |
| Akbari, Syed Ather H (Saint Mary's University): Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in Atlantic Canada Compared with the Rest of Canada | ||
| Rankaduwa, Wimal (University of Prince Edward Island): Immigration Inflow and Economic Growth in Atlantic Canada: An Empirical Investigation | ||
| Discussants | Walsh, Keith (McMaster University); Grady, Patrick (Global Economics Ltd) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 235 |
| Teaching of Economics 2: Session in memory of Peter Kennedy / Enseignements économiques 2: Séance à la mémoire de Peter Kennedy | ||
| Chair | Woolley, Frances (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Colonescu, Constantin (Grant MacEwan University): Is the undergraduate Curriculum Relevant? The Case of Exchange Rate Determination | |
| O'Gorman, Melanie (University of Winnipeg): Experiential Learning and Microfinance Mechanisms | ||
| Raynauld, Jacques (HEC Montréal): Students Misconceptions in Economics: autopsy of a tax incidence question | ||
| Discussants | O'Shaughnessy, Bridget (McMaster University); Self, James (Indiana University); Livernois, John R (University of Guelph) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| CDESG: Evaluation of Social Policies in Latin America / CDESG: Évaluation des politiques sociales en amérique latine | ||
| Chair | Laszlo, Sonia (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Gondim Teixeira, Clarissa (International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth/UNDP): Externality and Behavioural Change Effects of a non-randomized CCT programme - Heterogeneous impact on the Demand for Health and Education | |
| Ferrando, Mery (Universidad de la República): School Attendance, Child Labor and Cash Transfers. An Impact Evaluation of PANES | ||
| Alzua, Maria Laura (CEDLAS -Universidad Nacional de La Plata): Educational Reform and Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Argentina's Ley Federal de Educación | ||
| Discussants | Chemin, Matthieu (McGill University); Dammert, Ana (Carleton University); Estevan, Fernanda (University of Ottawa) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 351 |
| The Great Recession / La grande récession | ||
| Organizer | Nakamura, Alice (University of Alberta) | |
| Chair | Zieschang, Kimberly (International Monetary Fund) | |
| Papers | Diewert, W. Erwin (University of British Columbia): The Measurement of Banking Services in the System of National Accounts | |
| Nakamura, Emi (Columbia Business School): Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters | ||
| Nakamura, Alice (University of Alberta): Regulatory versus Information Failure Perspectives on the Great Recession | ||
| Morck, Randall K. (University of Alberta): Monetary and Fiscal Stimuli, Ownership Structure, and China's Housing Market | ||
| Discussants | Greenberger, Michael (University of Maryland School of Law) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| CDESG: Household / CDESG: Les ménages | ||
| Chair | Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Osberg, Lars (Dalhousie University): Intra-Household Inequality, Poverty Measurement and the Hunger of Old Women | |
| Bobonis, Gustavo (University of Toronto): Public Transfers and Domestic Violence: The Role of Private Information and Spousal Control | ||
| Diallo, Saikou Amadou (University of Ottawa): The Threat of Domestic Violence and Women Empowerment: The Case of West Africa | ||
| Discussants | Dauphin, Anyck (Université du Québec en Outaousais); Diallo, Saikou Amadou (University of Ottawa); Djebbari, Habiba (Université Laval) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 401 |
| 2x2 Working Group Session 2 / Groupe de travail 2x2 Session 2 | ||
| Organizers | Robinson, David (Laurentian University) Goforth, David (Laurentian University) | |
| Chair | Robinson, David (Laurentian University) | |
| Papers | Hopkins, Brian (Saint Peter's College): Between Neighboring Strict Ordinal Games | |
| Simpson, John (University of Alberta): Overcoming the (near) Fetishization of a Small Group of 2x2 Games | ||
| Bruns, Bryan (Independent Scholar): Switching Games: Visualizing the Adjacent Possible in the Topology of Two-person Two-strategy Games | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 121 |
| Health Economics 6 - Primary Care / Économie de la santé 6 - Soins de santé primaires | ||
| Chair | Powell, Lisa (University of Illinois at Chicago) | |
| Papers | Worswick, Christopher (Carleton University): The determinants of the migration decisions of immigrant and non-immigrant physicians in Canada | |
| Wing, Coady (Northwestern University): Occupational Deregulation and The Price of Health Services in the United States | ||
| Jesmin, Shammima (University of Western Ontario): Team-based Primary Health Care (PHC) Practice and Patient Perceptions of Health Care Outcomes: A Propensity Score Matching (PSM) Analysis using data from the 2007-2008 Canadian Survey of Experiences with Primary Health Care (CSCPHC) | ||
| Discussants | Sarma, Sisira K (The University of Western Ontario); Stewart, Jennifer (Carleton University); Wang, Chao (Sara) (McMaster University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Health Economics 7 - Methodology / Économie de la santé 7 - Méthodologie | ||
| Chair | Wolfson, Michael (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Makdissi, Paul (University of Ottawa): A Fuzzy Approach to the Measurement of Leakages in Health Systems in North America | |
| Li, Xianghong (York University): Assessing the Ability Of Matching To Address Attrition Bias In Health Data Using The Rand Health Experiment | ||
| Hurley, Jerry (McMaster University): Existence and Magnitued of Health Care Externalities: Evidence from a Choice Experiment | ||
| Discussants | Packalen, Mikko (University of Waterloo); Plesca, Miana (University of Guelph); Smith, Alexander (University of Calgary) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| Immigration, Language, and Natural Disasters / Immigration, langage et désastres naturels | ||
| Chair | Yotov, Yoto (Drexel University) | |
| Papers | Hiller, Sanne (Aarhus University): Immigration and the Product Margins of International Trade | |
| Lassmann, Andrea (ETH zurich): The Causal Impact of Common Language on International Trade: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design. | ||
| Groeschl, Jasmin (Ifo Institut for Economic Research at LMU Munich): Natural Disasters and the Effect of Trade on Income: An IV Approach | ||
| Discussants | Qirjo, Dhimitri (The University of British Columbia); Klasing, Mariko J (Carleton University); Cyrus, Teresa (Dalhousie University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 219 |
| CEA/CSLS 2 : What Explains the Growing Canada-US Productivity Gap ? / ACE/CSLS 2: Qu'est-ce qui explique la croissance de l'écart de productivité entre le Canada et les États-Unis ? | ||
| Organizer | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Chair | Stewart, Ian (Centre for the Study of Living Standards) | |
| Panelists | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada) | ||
| Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada) | ||
| Milway, James (Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity) | ||
| Shute, Larry (Industry Canada) | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 221 |
| CIGI 2: Imbalances and Monetary Volatility / CIGI 2: Déséquilibres et volatilité monétaire | ||
| Chair | Curtis, John (CIGI) | |
| Papers | Essid, Badye Omar (CIGI): Do Short Selling Restrictions Destabilize Stock Markets? Lessons from Taiwan | |
| Jing, Wang (RM4050 SOCIAL SCIENCE CTR): Measures of External Sector Instability Before and After the 2008 Financial Crisis | ||
| Agarwal, Manmohan (CIGI): Impact of US Monetary Policy on Emerging Economies | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 223 |
| Factor Analysis 2 / Analyse factorielle 2 | ||
| Organizer | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université de Montréal) | |
| Chair | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Luciani, Matteo (Université libre de Bruxelles): Modeling Vast Panels of Volatilities with Long-Memory Dynamic Factor Models | |
| Bouaddi, Mohammed (HEC-Montreal): Portfolio Selection in a Data-Rich Environment | ||
| Bruneau, Gabriel (Université de Montréal): Interest rate expectations and economic fluctuations | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| CETC 3 | ||
| Chair | Shneyerov, Artyom (Concordia University) | |
| Papers | Ivanov, Maxim (McMaster University): Dynamic Informational Control | |
| Shneyerov, Artyom (Concordia University): Search brokers | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 390 |
| International Macroeconomics: Capital Flows and Controls / Macroéconomie internationale: Flux de capitaux et contrôles | ||
| Chair | Santor, Eric Benjamin (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Qureshi, Mahvash (International Monetary Fund): Sea, Swell, or Killer Waves? An Empirical Analysis of Capital Flows | |
| Riera-Crichton, Daniel (Bates College): International Gross Capital Flows: A New Measure and Application to a Global Panel of External Financial Crises | ||
| Stanley, Leonardo (Cedes): Capital controls, development and institutions: Latin America and Asia compared | ||
| Discussants | Pasricha, Gurnain (Bank of Canada); Kano, Takashi (University of Tokyo); Razo-Garcia, Raul (Carleton University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 212 |
| The Industry Canada Lecture / Conférence Industrie Canada | ||
| Sponsor | Industry Canada/Industrie Canada | |
| Organizers | Ross, Thomas W. (University of British Columbia) Boyer, Marcel (Université de Montréal) | |
| Chair | Boyer, Marcel (Université de Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Rey, Patrick (Université Toulouse I) | |
| Topic | Access Pricing and Competition in Telecommunications | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 6A: Money and Banking / GCEM 6A: Monnaie et banques | ||
| Chair | Pancrazi, Roberto (Toulouse School of Economics) | |
| Papers | Ho, Wai-Ming (York University): Liquidity Constraints and the Friedman Rule in a Small Open Economy with Overlapping Generations | |
| Pancrazi, Roberto (Toulouse School of Economics): Overlooking the Great Moderation: Consequences for the Monetary Policy | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 221 |
| CMSG 6B: Wages over the Business Cycle / GCEM 6B: Salaires et cycles économiques | ||
| Chair | Tavares, Brian (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Bellou, Andriana (Université de Montréal): Wages, Implicit Contracts and the Business Cycle: Evidence from a European Panel | |
| Snell, Andy (Edinburgh): Minu, Startu and all that:- Pitfalls in estimating the sensitivity of a worker's wage to aggregate unemployment | ||
| Tavares, Brian (University of Toronto): Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Wages in the Business Cycle | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 250 |
| CEBERG 6: Risk Preferences and Choice over Time / CEBERG 6: Aversion au risque et choix intertemporels | ||
| Organizers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Anglin, Paul M (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Mentzakis, Emmanouil (University of East Anglia): An investigation of individual preferences: consistency across incentives and stability over time | |
| Morrison, William (Wilfrid Laurier University): Loss aversion, default bias and intertemporal choice | ||
| Terry, Eric (Ryerson University): Risk preferences and the presentation of uncertainty | ||
| Discussants | Anglin, Paul M (University of Guelph); Freeman, David (University of British Columbia); Zitikis, Ricardas (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 6: Econometric Theory / CESG 6: Théorie économétrique | ||
| Chair | Davidson, Russell (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Dovonon, Prosper (Concordia University): Long Run Canonical Correlations: Estimation and Inference | |
| MacKinnon, James G (Queen's University): Confidence Sets Based on Inverting Anderson-Rubin Tests | ||
| Stewart, Kenneth G (University of Victoria): The optimal construction of instruments in nonlinear regression: Implications for GMM inference | ||
| Discussants | Alexeev, Vitali (University of Tasmania); Davidson, Russell (McGill University); Khalaf, Lynda (Carleton University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| CPEG 6: Political Economy II / CPEG 6: Économie Politique II | ||
| Chair | Hickey, Ross (University of British Columbia - Okanagan) | |
| Papers | Winer, Stanley (Carleton University): Explaining Variation in the Competitiveness of U.S. Senate Elections, 1922-2004 | |
| Joanis, Marcelin (Université de Sherbrooke): Campaign spending limits and electoral competition in a floating two-party system | ||
| Rekkas, Marie (Simon Fraser University): Disentangling Party and Individual Incumbency Effects | ||
| Discussants | Hickey, Ross (University of British Columbia - Okanagan); Aragon-Sanchez, Fernando (Simon Fraser University); Joanis, Marcelin (Université de Sherbrooke) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 6: Resource and Environmental Economics Theory / Session CREE 6: Théorie de l'économie des ressources et de l'environnement | ||
| Chair | Baksi, Soham (University of Winnipeg) | |
| Papers | Bazhanov, Andrei (Queen's University): Genuine investment and resource policy in imperfect economy | |
| Moreno-Cruz, Juan B. (University of Calgary): Long-term environmental problems and strategic inter-generational transfers | ||
| Baksi, Soham (University of Winnipeg): Multiple Pollutants and the Benefits of Cleaner Technology Adoption | ||
| Discussants | Tatoutchoup, Francis Didier (York University); Insley, Margaret (University of Waterloo); Matsueda, Norimichi (Kwansei Gakuin University) | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | TBT 112 |
| Purvis Luncheon / Déjeuner-conférence Purvis | ||
| Chair | Zinde-Walsh, Victoria (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Fehr, Ernst (University of Zurich) | |
| Topic | The Lure of Authority - Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle de la PEF | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| CNEH 7: Managing Money During the Early Twentieth Century / RCHE 7: La gestion de l'argent au début du 20e siècle | ||
| Chair | Moore, Lyndon (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Horsewood, Nicholas (University of Birmingham): UK Demand for money in the Great Depression: Did cheap money result in inflation? | |
| Davies, Ryan (Babson College): Pink Pills for Pale People: A Snapshot of Entrepreneurship, Patent Medicine, and Finance in 1905 | ||
| Beaulieu, Eugene C. (University of Calgary): The Magnitude and Cost of Canadian Protectionsim: 1870-1910 | ||
| Discussants | Redish, Angela (University of British Columbia); Fletcher, Erin (University of Colorado Boulder); Lew, Byron J (Trent University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| Macroeconomics and Finance / Macroéconomie et finance | ||
| Chair | Schaller, Huntley (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Li, Kai (Duke University): Toward a Quantitative General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Intangible Capital | |
| Schaller, Huntley (Carleton University): The Economic Effect of Sentiment | ||
| Vafa, Shervan (York University): Financial Intermediation and Capital Mobility | ||
| Discussants | Priyo, Asad Karim Khan (University of Toronto); Li, Kai (Duke University); Yepez, Carlos (Brandeis University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| Microstructure and Liquidity / Microstructure et liquidité | ||
| Chair | Coen, Alain (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)) | |
| Papers | Lo, Ingrid Ka Man (Bank of Canada / Chinese University of Hong Kong): Belief Dispersion and Order Submission Strategies in the Foreign Exchange Market | |
| Gungor, Sermin (Bank of Canada): Time-Variation in Liquidity and Portfolio Returns | ||
| Morin, Lealand (Queen's University): Liquidity Effects on Return and Volume Co-movement when Traders Behave Strategically | ||
| Malinova, Katya (University of Toronto): Subsidizing Liquidity: The Impact of Make/Take Fees on Market Quality | ||
| Discussants | Park, Andreas (University of Toronto); Li, Bo (Queen's University); Coen, Alain (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)); Lo, Ingrid (Ka Man) (Bank of Canada) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 147 |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence - État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Antweiler, Werner (University of British Columbia) | |
| Speaker | Olewiler, Nancy (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Topic | What has Environmental Economics ever done for the World: From Theory into Practice | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 147B |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence - État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Khalaf, Lynda (Carleton University) | |
| Speaker | Lewbel, Arthur (Boston College) | |
| Topic | Binary Choice Models With Endogenous Regressors | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| Labour: Job Polarization / Travail: Polarisation des emplois | ||
| Chair | Pacheco, Gail (Auckland University of Technology) | |
| Papers | Carr, Jeff (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada): What is the incidence of occupation-education mismatch in Canada and what are its consequences? | |
| Cortes, Guido Matias (University of British Columbia): Where Have the Middle-Skill Workers Gone? A Study of Polarization Using Panel Data | ||
| Mercenier, Jean (U. Pantheon-Assas (Paris2)): Routinization-Biased Technical Change, Globalization and Labor Market Polarization: Does Theory Fit the Facts? | ||
| Discussants | Kiss, David (Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg); Michaelsen, Maren M. (Ruhr University Bochum); Miyake, Atsushi (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 232 |
| CEA/CWEN- Inside and Outside of the Ivory Tower: Building Blocks for Success in All Stages of Your Career / ACE/RFE - À l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la tour d'ivoire: Construire le succès à toutes les étapes de votre carrière | ||
| Organizer | Payne, Abigail (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Cuff, Katherine L (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Kozicki, Sharon (Bank of Canada): Outside of Academia -- A Fulfilling Career Outside of the Ivory Tower | |
| Devlin, Rose Anne (University of Ottawa): Getting that First Job -- Beyond the C.V. and the Thesis | ||
| Deri Armstrong, Catherine (University of Ottawa): Getting Over that Tenure Hurdle -- What I Wish I knew Early On | ||
| Gallini, Nancy (University of British Columbia): Beyond Tenure -- Success as a Senior Academic | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 235 |
| HEQCO - Higher Education Session / COQES - Séance sur l'enseignement supérieur | ||
| Organizer | Norrie, Ken (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Norrie, Ken (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Norrie, Ken (McMaster University): Using NSSE Data to Examine Instructional Quality in Economics | |
| Livernois, John R (University of Guelph): Making Large Classes Small(er): Assessing the Effectiveness of a Hybrid Teaching Technology | ||
| Park, Sean (Simon Fraser University): Towards an Integrated Undergraduate Economics Curriculum: Education for Competence and Capability | ||
| Discussants | Raynauld, Jacques (HEC Montréal) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| CDESG: Child Labour / CDESG: Travail des enfants | ||
| Chair | Jayaraman, Rajshri (European School of Management and Technology) | |
| Papers | Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine Aïda (CEPS/INSTEAD): Child Labor, Schooling and Household Wealth in African Rural Area: Luxury axiom vs. Wealth paradox | |
| Dessy, Sylvain (Université Laval): Are there Gains from International Cooperation against Child Trafficking? | ||
| Dammert, Ana (Carleton University): Misclassification Error in Child Labor: The Role of Survey Design and Type of Respondent | ||
| Discussants | Doko Tchatoka, Firmin (Université de Montréal); Ferrando, Mery (Universidad de la República); Koissy-Kpein, Sandrine Aïda (CEPS/INSTEAD) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 351 |
| Immigration in Canada? A Panel Discussion on Future Directions / Panel sur les directions futures de l'immigration au Canada | ||
| Sponsor | Research Group on the Economics of Immigration(RGEI), University of Ottawa | |
| Organizer | Nadeau, Serge (University of Ottawa) | |
| Chair | Grenier, Gilles (University of Ottawa) | |
| Panelists | Beach, Charles M. (Queen's University) | |
| Mackay, Diana (The Conference Board of Canada) | ||
| Paquet, Gilles (University of Ottawa) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| CDESG: Conflict/Crisis / CDESG: Crises et conflits | ||
| Chair | Samy, Yiagadeesen (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Laszlo, Sonia (McGill University): Civil Conflict and the political economy of delivering health services in Peru | |
| Tiberti, Luca (Université Laval): The impact of the food and financial crises on U5MR in Sub-Saharan Africa | ||
| Nunn, Nathan (Harvard University): Aiding Conflict: The Unintended Consequences of US Food Aid on Civil War | ||
| Discussants | Galdo, Jose (Carleton University); Ary Tanimoune, Nasser (University of Ottawa); Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Industrial Organization 6: Market Power: Empirical Explorations / Organisation industrielle 6 - Le pouvoir de marché: Explorations empiriques | ||
| Chair | Atallah, Gamal (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Byrne, David (The University of Melbourne): Consolidation and Price Discrimination in the Cable Television Industry | |
| Hazledine, Tim (University of Auckland): Merger policy and the merger paradox in price discriminating oligopoly: the case of Canadian airline competition | ||
| Nimubona, Alain-Désiré (University of Waterloo): Evaluating the Effects of Market Power on Gasoline Prices: Panel Data Evidence from Canadian Cities | ||
| Discussants | Suzuki, Junichi (University of Toronto); Nimubona, Alain-Désiré (University of Waterloo); Arya, Pyare (Saint Mary's University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 401 |
| Labour: Empirical Studies of Fertility and Child Welfare / Travail: Études empiriques sur la fertilité et le bien-être des enfants | ||
| Chair | McIntosh, James (Concordia University) | |
| Papers | McIntosh, James (Concordia University): Reproductive Behaviour in Canada: Corrections and New Procedures | |
| Azimi, Ebrahim (Simon Fraser University): Female Labor Force Participation in Iran; Evidence from Exogenous Variation in the Number of Children | ||
| Bessey, Donata (Seoul National University): Love Actually? Dissecting the Marriage-Happiness Relationship | ||
| Discussants | Bessey, Donata (Seoul National University); McIntosh, James (Concordia University); Dan, Ioana (University of Toronto) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 402 |
| Human Capital, Social Capital, Intangible Capital and Economic Growth / Capital humain, capital social, capital intangible et croissance économique | ||
| Chair | Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Kumar, Alok (University of Victoria): Education, Health, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences | |
| Klasing, Mariko J (Carleton University): Cultural Traits, Collective Values and the Roots of Political Institution | ||
| Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada): Intangible Capital and Productivity Growth in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada); Saavedra, Luz (University of St. Thomas); Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 121 |
| Determinants of the Productivity and Direction of Scientific Research / La direction de la recherche scientifique et les déterminants de sa productivité | ||
| Organizer | Macgarvie, Megan Jill (Boston University) | |
| Chair | Macgarvie, Megan Jill (Boston University) | |
| Papers | Hicks, Justin (University of California Merced): Spending Wisely? How Resources Affect Knowledge Production in Universities | |
| Macgarvie, Megan Jill (Boston University): How Important is U.S. Location for Research in Science? | ||
| Packalen, Mikko (University of Waterloo): Opportunities and Benefits as Determinants of the Direction of Scientific Research | ||
| Discussants | Lacetera, Nico (University of Toronto); Caponi, Vincenzo (Ryerson University); Agrawal, Ajay (University of Toronto) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Health Economics 8 - Pharmaceuticals / Économie de la santé 8 - Pharmaceutiques | ||
| Chair | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Magesan, Arvind (University of Calgary): Peer Effects in Policymaking: Evidence From Canadian Provincial Formulary Listings | |
| Ward, Courtney (Dalhousie University): The long-term economic effects of school immunization mandates: does prenatal exposure to state school immunization policy impact health and well-being in later life? | ||
| Ren, Zhe (Dalhousie University): A two-dimension oligopolistic product differentiation model for Canadian prescription drug market | ||
| Discussants | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo); Jamal, Taha (McMaster University); McLeod, Logan (University of Alberta) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| International Trade: China / Commerce international: La Chine | ||
| Chair | Rodrigue, Joel (Vanderbilt University) | |
| Papers | Gu, Jiajia (Kings University College at the University of Western Ontario): Vertical Intra-Industry Trade: An Empirical Study of China's Motor Vehicle Industry | |
| Adekunle, Bamidele (University of Guelph): Illusion or Reality: Understanding the Trade Flow between China and Sub-Saharan Africa | ||
| Xu, Kai (University of Western Ontario): Barriers to Labor Mobility and International Trade: The Case of China | ||
| Discussants | Su, Li (University of Oklahoma); Barattieri, Alessandro (Université du Québec à Montréal); Stoyanov, Andrey (York University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 219 |
| IDRM, RMC: Spending on Defence and Security / Dépenses de défense et de sécurité | ||
| Organizer | Berkok, Ugurhan (Royal Military College) | |
| Chair | Stone, James (Canadian Forces College) | |
| Papers | Berkok, Ugurhan (Royal Military College): Interagency coordination or agency expansion | |
| Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada): Who Benefits from Increased Government Spending? A State-Level Analysis | ||
| Solomon, Binyam (Department of National Defence): Forecasting Future Defence Budgets | ||
| Discussants | Rowlands, Dane (Carleton University); Tapp, Stephen (Parliamentary Budget Office); Deschenes, Andre (Department of National Defence) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 220 |
| Bayesian Methods for Forecasting and Applied Macroeconomics / Méthodes baysiennes pour la prévision en macroéconomie appliquée | ||
| Organizer | Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Herbst, Edward (University of Pennsylvania): Evaluating Predictions of Comovements of DSGE Models | |
| Maih, Junior (Norges Bank): Estimating DSGE Models with Observed Real-Time Expectation Data | ||
| Matthes, Christian (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Time Variation in the Dynamics and Comovement of Latin American Economies | ||
| Discussants | Granziera, Eleonora (Bank of Canada); Baumeister, Christiane (Bank of Canada); Pancrazi, Roberto (Toulouse School of Economics) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 221 |
| Labour: Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes / Travail: Les déterminants des résultats sur le marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Crucini, Mario (Vanderbilt University) | |
| Papers | Belley, Philippe (Kansas State University): Understanding Wage Growth: Estimating and Testing Learning-by-Doing | |
| Heinicke, Katrin (University of Magdeburg): Who You Are Is What You Get - The Role of Personality for Occupational Choice and Wages | ||
| Crucini, Mario (Vanderbilt University): Incentives and Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics | ||
| Discussants | Zibrowius, Michael (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg); Grave, Barbara (Rwi) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 223 |
| Economics of Frictions II / L'économie des frictions II | ||
| Chair | Chiu, Jonathan (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Pollak, Andreas (University of Saskatchewan): Optimal Unemployment Insurance and the Business Cycle | |
| Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas (Carnegie Mellon University): Propagation in a Model of Good, Labor and Financial Market Frictions | ||
| Li, Li (University of Toronto): Welfare effects of Increasing Borrowing Limit in the Presence of Self Control Problem | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| CETC 4 | ||
| Chair | Peters, Michael (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Goertz, Johanna (University of Guelph): A Condorcet Jury Theorem with More Than Two Choices | |
| Halberstam, Yosh (University of Toronto): Trial and Error in the Courts: Information Aggregation and Free Riding in Hierarchical Institutions | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 390 |
| International Macroeconomics: International Financial Crises / Macroéconomie internationale: Crises financières internationales | ||
| Chair | Qureshi, Mahvash (International Monetary Fund) | |
| Papers | Arghyrou, Michael Georgiou (Cardiff University): The EMU Sovereign-Debt Crisis: Fundamentals, Expectations and Contagion | |
| Pasricha, Gurnain (Bank of Canada): Determinants of Financial Stress and Recovery during the Great Recession | ||
| Razo-Garcia, Raul (Carleton University): Speculative Attacks Under Strategic Uncertainty | ||
| Discussants | Maier, Philipp (Bank of Canada); Smith, Gregor (Queen's University); Schembri, Larry (Bank of Canada) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 205 |
| Reconsidering Keynes in a Time of Crisis: Keynes' General Theory After 75 Years- In Memory of Gilles Dostaler / Keynes en temps de crise: La théorie générale de Keynes après 75 ans - À la mémoire de Gilles Dostaler | ||
| Organizer | Dimand, Robert W. (Brock University) | |
| Chair | Dimand, Robert W. (Brock University) | |
| Papers | Lipsey, Richard G. (Simon Fraser University): macro economics and the unique equilibrium fixation: how the expectations-augmented phillips curve derailed keynesian economics | |
| Dimand, Robert W. (Brock University): The Keynesian Revolution After Seventy-Five Years | ||
| Spotton Visano, Brenda (York University): Reconsidering Keynes in a Time of Financial Crisis | ||
| Chorney, Harold (Concordia University Montreal): Rediscovering Keynes: After the Crash | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 212 |
| CSLS 3 : Selected Papers from the Ian Stewart Festschrift New Directions for Intelligent Government in Canada / CSLS 3: Articles sélectionnés du Ian Stewart Festschrift New Directions for Intelligent Government in Canada | ||
| Chair | Gorbet, Fred (unaffiliated) | |
| Papers | Sheikh, Munir (Carleton/Queen's): Good Data and Intelligent Government | |
| Helliwell, John F. (CIFAR/University of British Columbia): How Can Subjective Well-being be Improved? | ||
| Fortin, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal): Income Support in the Canadian Federation | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 7A: Multi-sector Macroeconomics / GCEM 7A: Macroéconomie multisectorielle | ||
| Chair | MacGee, Jim (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Sevcik, Pavel (Université du Québec à Montréal): Size and Productivity of Single-segment and Diversified Firms: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing | |
| Khan, Hashmat (Carleton University): Investment Shocks in a Multi-Sector Model | ||
| MacGee, Jim (University of Western Ontario): Re-Examining the Role of Sticky Wages in the U.S. Great Depression: A Multi-sector Approach | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 221 |
| CMSG 7B: Economics of Growth / GCEM 7B: Économie de la croissance | ||
| Chair | Ranasinghe, Ashantha (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Dusha, Elton (University of Toronto): Intermediated Corruption with Reputation | |
| Gunn, Christopher (McMaster University): From growth to cycles through beliefs | ||
| Ranasinghe, Ashantha (University of Toronto): Extortion, Protection and Entrepreneurship | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 250 |
| CEBERG 7: Behavioural Economics / CEBERG 7: Économie comportementale | ||
| Organizers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) | |
| Papers | Alger, Ingela (Carleton University): Evolutionary Stability, Cooperation and Hamilton's Rule | |
| Freeman, David (University of British Columbia): A recursive non-expected utility model of the isolation effect | ||
| Sonntag, Axel (Vienna University of Economics and Business): Choosing the choice rule - An economic metaheuristic to account for strategy selection behavior | ||
| Zitikis, Ricardas (University of Western Ontario): Subjective probability in economics and insurance | ||
| Discussants | Childs, Jason (University of Regina); Kneeland, Terri (University of British Columbia); Terry, Eric (Ryerson University); Webb, Ryan (New York University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis Session / Séance de la Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis | ||
| Chair | Stengos, Thanasis (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Engineer, Merwan (University of Victoria): Maximizing Human Development | |
| Melino, Angelo (University of Toronto): Estimating sibling interaction effects in long run wages | ||
| Plesca, Miana (University of Guelph): Women's Higher Returns to Post-Secondary Education: Increased Productivity or Longer Hours Worked? | ||
| Pinar, Mehmet (University of Guelph): Construction of World Governance Indicators: Revisiting the Institutions Hypothesis | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| CPEG 7: Political Economy III / CPEG 7: Économie politique III | ||
| Chair | de Lamirande, Patrick (Cape Breton University) | |
| Papers | Hickey, Ross (University of British Columbia - Okanagan): The effects of lobbying regulations on the market for lobbying services | |
| Yilmaz, Fatih (University of Calgary): Contract Stability and Private Infrastructure Investments | ||
| Duran-Vigneron, Pascale (University of Exeter Business School): Assemble to resemble? A study of fiscal disparities among French municipalities | ||
| Discussants | Duran-Vigneron, Pascale (University of Exeter Business School); de Lamirande, Patrick (Cape Breton University); Brett, Craig (Mount Allison University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| HRSDC Session: Literacy and Essential Skills Gaps in the Canadian Workforce / Séance RHDCC - Lacunes de la main-d'oeuvre canadienne en alphabétisation et compétences essentielles | ||
| Organizer | Frank, Natalie (HRSDC) | |
| Chair | Tocchi, Silvano (Office of Literacy and Essential Skills) | |
| Papers | Murray, T. Scott (DataAngel Policy Research): Understanding literacy markets in Canada: A Segmentation Analysis | |
| Frank, Natalie (HRSDC): Understanding Aboriginal Literacy Markets in Canada: A Segmentation Analysis | ||
| David, Gyarmati (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC)): Literacy and Essential Skills in the Workplace: A Pan-Canadian Demonstration project | ||
| 15:30-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 235 |
| CWEN Corner Cafe / RFE Petit café du coin | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX ATR |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF Keynote Address / Discours d'ouverture de la PEF | ||
| Speaker | Ferguson, Tom (University of Massachusetts) | |
| Topic | Progressive Economics in an Age of Austerity | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| CEA/EPRI/MESA Invited Panel on Post-Secondary Education / ACE/EPRI/MESA - Panel invité sur l'éducation postsecondaire | ||
| Organizer | Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa) | |
| Chair | Baldwin, Noel (Council of Ministers of Education) | |
| Panelists | Bradshaw, James (Globe and Mail) | |
| Norrie, Ken (McMaster University) | ||
| Hopkins, Mark (HRSDC) | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| Topics in Auctions and Voting / Sujets d'enchères et de vote | ||
| Chair | Welling, Linda A. (University of Victoria) | |
| Papers | Brown, Natalya (Nipissing University): The Impact of Voter Uncertainty and Alienation on Turnout and Candidate Policy Choice | |
| Dalkir, Elif (University of New Brunswick): Reaction of responsive equilibrium to changes in preferences | ||
| Wang, Xiaoting (Acadia University): Asymmetric Job Auctions | ||
| Discussants | Welling, Linda A. (University of Victoria); Brown, Natalya (Nipissing University); Kirkegaard, Rene (University of Guelph) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| Risk in the Banking Industry / Les risques de l'industrie bancaire | ||
| Chair | Bordeleau, Etienne (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Mirza, Afrasiab (Queen's University): Dynamic Prudential Regulation | |
| Li, Bo (Queen's University): Assets Liquidation and Refinancing under the Interbank Market versus the Shadow Banking System | ||
| Guidara, Alaa (Laval University): Impact of Nontraditional Activities on Capital and Risk of Canadian Banks under Regulatory Changes | ||
| Discussants | Tchana Tchana, Fulbert (Ministere des Finances du Québec); Huang, Helen (University of Waterloo); Bordeleau, Etienne (University of Toronto) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| Labour: Experiments / Travail: Expériences | ||
| Chair | Hui, Shek-wai (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Papers | de Raaf, Shawn (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): Preliminary Results from a Social Experiment that Provided Online Labour Market Information to Post-Secondary Education Graduates in British Columbia | |
| Webb, Matt (Queen's University): How Targeted is Targeted Tax Relief? Evidence from the Employment Insurance Youth Hires Program | ||
| Thomsen, Stephan (University of Magdeburg): Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence from a Policy Experiment | ||
| Discussants | Naqvi, Zareen (British Columbia Institute of Technology); de Raaf, Shawn (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation); Hui, Shek-wai (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 232 |
| Labour: Low Incomes and Minimum Wage / Travail: Faibles revenus et salaire minimum | ||
| Chair | Tu, Jiong (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada - Labour Program) | |
| Papers | Luong, May (Statistics Canada): The financial situation of employed low-income families | |
| Pacheco, Gail (Auckland University of Technology): Making the minimum wage binding: What is the impact on employment effects? | ||
| Rybczynski, Kathleen (University of Waterloo): Employment Effects of Minimum Wage on Women and Immigrants | ||
| Discussants | Tu, Jiong (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada - Labour Program); Summerfield, Fraser (University of Guelph); Lu, Yuqian (Statistics Canada) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| CDESG: Caste/Gender / CDESG: Caste/Genre | ||
| Chair | Tiberti, Luca (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Wang, Shun (University of British Columbia): The Long-Term Consequences of Family Class Origins in Urban China | |
| Solati, Fariba (University of Manitoba): Women and Work | ||
| Bazillier, Remi (Université d'Orléans): Gender Discrimination and Emigration : Push Factor versus Screening Process Hypothesis | ||
| Discussants | Bazillier, Remi (Université d'Orléans); Alzua, Maria Laura (CEDLAS -Universidad Nacional de La Plata); Xue, Dong (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| CDESG: Microfinance / CDESG: Microfinance | ||
| Chair | Ary Tanimoune, Nasser (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Agier, Isabelle (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne): Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling in Loan Size? | |
| Acclassato, Denis (Université d'Abomey-Calavi): Efficacité des institutions de microfinance dans l'UEMOA : analyse des expériences au Bénin | ||
| Messomo Elle, Serge (University of Buea): Quel modèle de financement durable des microentrepreneurs au Cameroun par les EMF ? | ||
| Discussants | Acclassato, Denis (Université d'Abomey-Calavi); Messomo Elle, Serge (University of Buea); Agier, Isabelle (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Industrial Organization 7: Theoretical Industrial Organization / Organisation industrielle7 : Théorie de l'organisation industrielle | ||
| Chair | Roland, Michel (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | DaGraça, Tarcisio Barroso (Competition Bureau / Industry Canada): Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) Can Reduce Economic Efficiency Even Absent Collusion And Foreclosure | |
| Higashida, Keisaku (Kwansei Gakuin University): Misleading Advertising of the Horizontally Differentiated Products | ||
| Xu, Heng (Carleton University): Discount or Distance? Duopoly and Spatial Competition | ||
| Discussants | Atallah, Gamal (University of Ottawa); Xu, Heng (Carleton University); Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita (University of Winnipeg) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 401 |
| Central Bank Policy / Politique de banque centrale | ||
| Chair | Turdaliev, Nurlan (University of Windsor) | |
| Papers | Chahrour, Ryan (Columbia University): Transparency and Limited Attention | |
| Turdaliev, Nurlan (University of Windsor): Central Bank Transparency: Does It Matter? | ||
| Mahmoudi, Babak (Queen's University): Liquidity Effects of Quantitative Easing | ||
| Discussants | Turdaliev, Nurlan (University of Windsor); Chahrour, Ryan (Columbia University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | FTX 402 |
| New Trends in Measuring Inequality / Mesure des inégalité - Nouvelles tendances | ||
| Organizers | Zitikis, Ricardas (University of Western Ontario) Greselin, Francesca (Università di Milano Bicocca) | |
| Chair | Zitikis, Ricardas (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Pasquazzi, Leo (University of Milano-Bicocca): The new inequality measure: statistical inference and Canadian cross-regional income survey data | |
| Zenga, Michele (University of Milano-Bicocca): Decompositions of the new inequality and uniformity measures by income sources | ||
| Greselin, Francesca (Università di Milano Bicocca): Geographical differences in income inequality: a comparison between Canada and Italy | ||
| Porro, Francesco (Università di Milano Bicocca): A new inequality measure: its definition, properties and applications to income data | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Health Economics 9 - Obesity / Économie de la santé 9 - Obésité | ||
| Chair | McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick) | |
| Papers | Stewart, Jennifer (Carleton University): Understanding the Relationship between Parental Work Schedules and Obesity in Children | |
| Sarma, Sisira K (The University of Western Ontario): Does it Matter the Way Obesity is Measured in Social Science Literature? Some New Findings from Canada | ||
| Powell, Lisa (University of Illinois at Chicago): Soda Taxes and Adolescent Weight Outcomes | ||
| Discussants | Ariste, Ruolz (Canadian Institute for Health Information); McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick); Maclean, Catherine (Cornell University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| International Trade: The Current Account / Commerce international: La balance courante | ||
| Chair | Brown, Laura (University of Manitoba) | |
| Papers | Barattieri, Alessandro (Université du Québec à Montréal): Comparative Advantage, Service Trade, and Global Imbalances | |
| Graff, Michael (ETH Zurich and Jacobs University Bremen): Does Demographic Change Affect the Current Account? A Reconsideration | ||
| Yu, Xiaoyu (University of Western Ontario): Do Fast Growing Countries Run Current Account Surplus? | ||
| Discussants | Nitsch, Volker (Technische Universität Darmstadt); Jacks, David (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 221 |
| Housing and the Financial Crisis / Industrie du logement et crises financières | ||
| Chair | Christensen, Ian (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Huang, Haifang (University of Alberta): From Housing Bust to Credit Crunch: Evidence from Small Businesses Loans | |
| Yepez, Carlos (Brandeis University): Financial Intermediation and Collateral Constraints in Business Cycles | ||
| Christensen, Ian (Bank of Canada): Countercyclical loan-to-value ratios and monetary policy | ||
| Discussants | Paligorova, Teodora (Bank of Canada); Vafa, Shervan (York University); Roy, Saktinil (Athabasca University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | LMX 223 |
| Bangladesh Young Economists (BYE): Development Issues in Bangladesh / Problèmes de développement au Bangladesh | ||
| Organizer | Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University) | |
| Chair | Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University) | |
| Papers | Hussain, Ghulam (University of Dhaka): Employment effects of Microcredit Revisited: Evidence Using Household Panel Data from Bangladesh | |
| Shonchoy, Abu (Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO): Seasonal Migration and Micro-credit in the Lean Period: Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh | ||
| Nargis, Nigar (University of Dhaka): The Impact of Taxation on Cigarette and Bidi Consumption in Bangladesh: Evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Bangladesh Survey | ||
| Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University): Short Run Relationships between Remittances and GDP in Bangladesh | ||
| Discussants | Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University); Nargis, Nigar (University of Dhaka); Shonchoy, Abu (Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO); Hussain, Ghulam (University of Dhaka) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 205 |
| Canadian Economics Association Invited Lecture / Conférence invitée de l'Association canadienne d'économique | ||
| Sponsor | Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques | |
| Chair | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Speaker | Drummond, Don (TD Bank Financial Group/Queen's University) | |
| Topic | Productivity | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 221 |
| Economics of Religion and Culture / Économie de la religion et de la culture | ||
| Chair | Georges, Patrick (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Dilmaghani, Maryam (Saint Mary's University): Religious Displays and the Cohesion of Religious Groups | |
| Ferrero, Mario (University of Western Ontario): From Jesus to Christianity: The Economics | ||
| Georges, Patrick (University of Ottawa): An Econometric Analysis of Classical Music Manuscripts | ||
| Discussants | Ferrero, Mario (University of Western Ontario); Dilmaghani, Maryam (Saint Mary's University); Chipty, Tasneem (Analysis Group, Inc.) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 250 |
| CEBERG 8: Social Comparison and Contributions to the Public Good / CEBERG 8: Altruisme et comparaison sociale | ||
| Organizers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Cadsby, Bram (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Danese, Giuseppe (Simon Fraser University): Idiosyncratic heterogeneity in network-formation games | |
| Fehr, Ernst (University of Zurich): Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment | ||
| Ong, David (Peking University HSBC Business School): Pro Bono Work and Honor in Expert Fields | ||
| Smith, Alexander (University of Calgary): Estimating the Causal Effect of Beliefs on Contributions in Repeated Public Good Games | ||
| Discussants | Cadsby, Bram (University of Guelph); Moir, Robert (University of New Brunswick Saint John); Sonntag, Axel (Vienna University of Economics and Business); Petersen, Luba (University of California Santa Cruz) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 7: Copulas / CESG 7: Copules | ||
| Chair | Ning, Cathy (Qiao) (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Huang, Wanling (McGill University): A new, exact, distribution-function-based goodness-of-fit test for copulas | |
| Medovikov, Ivan (University of Western Ontario): Non-Parametric Copula-Based Test For Independence | ||
| Ning, Cathy (Qiao) (Ryerson University): Modeling Asymmetric Volatility Clusters Using Copulas and High Frequency Data | ||
| Discussants | Huang, Wanling (McGill University); Medovikov, Ivan (University of Western Ontario); Ning, Cathy (Qiao) (Ryerson University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| CPEG 8: Impacts of Tax Policy / CPEG 8: Les impacts des politiques de taxation | ||
| Chair | Joanis, Marcelin (Université de Sherbrooke) | |
| Papers | de Lamirande, Patrick (Cape Breton University): The impact of the Nova Scotia Capped Assessment Program on Equity and Fairness | |
| Liu, Hu Ju (Statistics Canada): Life-cycle Optimal Saving and Adequacy of Household Savings in Canada | ||
| Yang, Wei (McMaster University): Are contributions of time and money substitutes or complements? | ||
| Discussants | Yang, Wei (McMaster University); Liu, Huju (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 7: Resource and Environmental Economics Theory / Session CREE 7: Théorie de l'économie des ressources et de l'environnement | ||
| Chair | Insley, Margaret (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Tatoutchoup, Francis Didier (York University): Optimal Forestry Contracts with Interdependent Values | |
| Mayer, Katarina (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies): An Equilibrium Conflict Model of Land Use without Ownership Rights | ||
| Insley, Margaret (University of Waterloo): On the timing of non-renewable resource extraction with environmental consequences | ||
| Discussants | Moreno-Cruz, Juan B. (University of Calgary); Baksi, Soham (University of Winnipeg) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | UCU AUD |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence - État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Corak, Miles (University of Ottawa) | |
| Speaker | Acemoglu, Daron (MIT) | |
| Topic | Beliefs and Institutions | |
| 17:45-19:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | UCU AUD |
| Presidential Address / Discours du président | ||
| Chair | Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | |
| Speaker | Zinde-Walsh, Victoria (McGill University) | |
| Topic | Mathematics in Economics and Econometrics | |
| 19:00-22:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | Royal Oak |
| PEF Social (Basement, Royal Oak Pub, 161 Laurier Ave E) / Soirée PEF | ||
| 19:00-21:00 | Saturday, June 4, 2011 | TBT 112 |
| Reception / Réception | ||
| Sponsor | Analysis Group and Pearson Canada | |
| 07:30-08:20 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| Lois Stevenson Book Discussion: Private Sector and Enterprise Development: Fostering growth in the Middle East and North Africa / Discussion du nouveau livre de Lois Stevenson | ||
| Sponsor | International Development Research Centre/Le Centre de recherches pour le developpement international | |
| Chair | Rodriguez, Edgard R (International Development Research Centre - IDRC) | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX ATR |
| Coffee, Tea, Juices, Fruit, Pastries / Café, thé, jus, fruits, pâtisseries | ||
| 08:30-08:50 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 147 |
| The Stand-up Economist / L'humoriste économiste | ||
| Speaker | Bauman, Yoram (University of Washington) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| European Monetary Policy and Banking / Politique monétaire européenne | ||
| Chair | Lombardi, Marco (European Central Bank) | |
| Papers | Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada): Taylor Rule and the Country Specific Stabilization Effects of the Euro Area Monetary Policy | |
| Kouassi, Tchudjane (Université de Limoges): Deposit Insurance, Moral hazard and Market discipline: Evidence from Central and Eastern European Banks | ||
| Rumler, Fabio (Austrian Central Bank (OeNB)): The Impact of Macroeconomic and Economic Policy Developments on Bank Profitability | ||
| Discussants | Wan, Chi (Carleton University) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| MESA-EPRI 1: Barriers to Post-secondary Education and Interventions / Obstacles à l'éducation postsecondaire et interventions | ||
| Chair | Michaud, Sylvie (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Frenette, Marc (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): Does Advanced Academic Study Help Middle-Achieving High School Students? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment | |
| Childs, Stephen (University of Ottawa): It's Not Who You Are, but How You're Doing: a New Approach to Identifying Students at Risk of Dropping Out of PSE | ||
| Mueller, Richard (University of Lethbridge): High School Student Characteristics, Barriers and Access to Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Evidence from the YITS | ||
| Discussants | Dooley, Martin D (McMaster University); Neill, Christine (Wilfrid Laurier University); Tremblay, Jennifer (HRSDC) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| Explaining International Differences in Economic Growth / Comprendre les différences internationales en croissance économique | ||
| Chair | Mohamed, Ghada (ECO-ENA) | |
| Papers | Priyo, Asad Karim Khan (University of Toronto): Sector-Specific Capital, Labor Market Distortions and Cross-Country Income Differences: A Two-Sector General Equilibrium Approach | |
| Mohamed, Ghada (ECO-ENA): Population growth and transitional dynamics of Egypt Basic growth theories with perfect capital mobility | ||
| Huang, Zongye (McGill University): Industrialization, Structural Transformation in an Open Economy | ||
| Discussants | Wong, Sara (Polytechnic University (ESPOL)); Huang, Zongye (McGill University); Mohamed, Ghada (ECO-ENA) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| Financial Economics / Économie financière | ||
| Chair | Huang, Helen (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Shen, Yue (Queen's University): Contagion of Fire Sale on Security-Trader Network | |
| Muriu, Peter (University of Birmingham): Microfinance Profitability: Does the financing structure matter? | ||
| Zhu, Hui (University of Calgary): The New Game on Competitive Earnings News and Post-earnings-announcement Drift | ||
| Discussants | O'Gorman, Melanie (University of Winnipeg); Gradojevic, Nikola (Lakehead University) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 232 |
| HRSDC Session: Employment Equity / Séance RHDCC: Équité en emploi | ||
| Organizer | Tu, Jiong (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada - Labour Program) | |
| Chair | Bibi, Sami (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Bibi, Sami (Université Laval): Estimating the Underutilization Cost of Aboriginal Peoples and Visible Minorities' Skills in Canada: Evidence from Census Data | |
| Chatti, Rim (HRSDC): A General equilibrium assessment of the economic costs of underutilization of Aboriginal Peoples and Visible Minorities' Skills in Canada | ||
| Javdani Haji, Mohsen (Simon Fraser University): Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? The Role of Firms in Male-Female Wage Disparity in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Yuksel, Mutlu (Dalhousie University); Bibi, Sami (Université Laval) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| CDESG: Economic Growth / CDESG: Croissance économique | ||
| Chair | Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Tombe, Trevor (University of Toronto): The Missing Food Problem: How Low Agricultural Imports Contributes to International Income Differences | |
| Aurangzeb, Zeb (University of Guelph): Assessing the Impact of Natural Disasters on Economic Growth with an Application of Threshold Regression Approach | ||
| Samy, Yiagadeesen (Carleton University): The Kuznets Hypothesis Revisited: De-Industrialization, Growth and Inequality in Brazil | ||
| Discussants | Rowlands, Dane (Carleton University); Samy, Yiagadeesen (Carleton University); Gondim Teixeira, Clarissa (International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth/UNDP) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 351 |
| Bank of Canada Session: Empirics of Money and Payments / Séance Banque du Canada - Empiriques de la monnaie et des paiements | ||
| Organizer | Shao, Enchuan (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Irrcher, Tobias Simon (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Irrcher, Tobias Simon (Bank of Canada): Retail Payment Innovations and Cash Demand | |
| Tkacz, Greg (Saint Francis Xavier University): Cheques and Balances: Nowcasting Spending and Inflation Using Payments System Data | ||
| Sabetti, Leonard (Bank of Canada): Will that be Cash, Debit, or Credit? How Canadians Pay | ||
| Discussants | Voia, Marcel-Cristian (Carleton University); Jain, Monica (Queen's University); Xu, Pai (University of Hong Kong) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| CDESG: Health / CDESG: Santé | ||
| Chair | Lehrer, Kim (University of Oxford) | |
| Papers | McKitrick, Ross (University of Guelph): Household size threshold effects on malaria prevalence and probability of eradication | |
| Agurto, Marcos (University of British Columbia): Improved Stove Adoption, Firewood Consumption and Housewives' Health: Evidence from the Peruvian Andes | ||
| Discussants | Paul, Sohini (National Council of Applied Economic Research); Blomqvist, Ake (Carleton University) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Topics in International Economics / Sujets en économie internationale | ||
| Chair | Engineer, Merwan (University of Victoria) | |
| Papers | Qirjo, Dhimitri (The University of British Columbia): Love of Variety and Immigration | |
| Syropoulos, Constantinos (Drexel University): Trade and Insecure Resources | ||
| Saavedra, Luz (University of St. Thomas): Cross Country Spillovers in the Creation of Social Trust | ||
| Discussants | Syropoulos, Constantinos (Drexel University); Engineer, Merwan (University of Victoria); Skogstad, Karl (Queen's University) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 401 |
| Topics in Macroeconomics and Finance / Sujets en macroéconomie et finance | ||
| Chair | Mohsin, Mohammed (The University of Tennessee) | |
| Papers | Köberl, Eva (ETH Zurich): Capacity Utilisation, Constraints and Price Adjustments under the Microscope | |
| Some, Modeste (Université de Montréal): A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Term Structure of Interest Rates | ||
| Zhao, Yan (Concordia University): The volatility of consumption and output with increasing industralization | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 402 |
| CIPO Session on the Administration of Intellectual Property Rights / CIPO: Gestion des droits de propriété intellectuelle | ||
| Organizer | Nikzad, Rashid (Canadian Intellectual Property Office) | |
| Chair | Nikzad, Rashid (Canadian Intellectual Property Office) | |
| Papers | Nikzad, Rashid (Canadian Intellectual Property Office): The Economic Impact of Joining the Madrid Protocol | |
| Collette, Elias (Carleton University): An empirical investigation into the use of extensions of time in the trade-mark opposition process | ||
| Neville, Marc (Canadian Intellectual Property Office): SME Report: Findings from the Identification of SMEs in Patent Administrative Data | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Health Economics 10 - Smoking / Économie de la santé 10 - Consommation de tabac | ||
| Organizer | DeCicca, Philip (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | DeCicca, Philip (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Li, Cong (McMaster University): Do higher cigarette taxes lead smokers to lose (self) control? | |
| Warman, Casey (Queen's University): Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking and Smoking Ages in Canada | ||
| Liu, Feng (Canadian Institute for Health Information): Excise tax avoidance | ||
| Discussants | Warman, Casey (Queen's University); Pierard, Emmanuelle (University of Waterloo); Lewis, Joshua (University of Toronto) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| International Trade and Investment / Commerce international et investissement | ||
| Chair | Wang, Shengzu (International Monetary Fund) | |
| Papers | Hakobyan, Shushanik (University of Virginia): Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and US Trade Policy | |
| Rutzer, Christian (University of Basel): Country Risk, Productivity Dynamics and International Commerce | ||
| Su, Li (University of Oklahoma): Total Factor Productivity, Foreign Direct Investment, and Entry Barriers in Chinese Automobile Industry | ||
| Discussants | Adekunle, Bamidele (University of Guelph); Wang, Shengzu (International Monetary Fund); Xie, Yiqing (University of Colorado at Boulder) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 219 |
| CSLS 4 : New Measures of Well-being for Canada / CSLS 4 : Nouvelles mesures de bien-être pour le Canada | ||
| Chair | Osberg, Lars (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Hazell, Elspeth (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): Estimates of the Human Development Index for the Canadian Provinces, 2000-2010 | |
| Messinger, Hans (Statistics Canada): An Overview of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing | ||
| Johnson, Erik (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): An Analysis of the Inequality of Happiness in Canada | ||
| Discussants | McCracken, Michael C (Informetricia Limited); Barrington-Leigh, Christopher (McGill University); Wolfson, Michael (University of Ottawa) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 223 |
| Topics in Applied Microeconomics and Microeconometrics / Sujets en microéconomie et microéconométrie appliquées | ||
| Chair | Stengos, Thanasis (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Dong, Yingying (California State Universtiy, Fullerton): Jumpy or kinky? Regression discontinuity without the Discontinuity | |
| Yuan, Jia (University of Macau): Examining the Substitution Effect between Canadian Lottery Tickets: A Multidimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach | ||
| Ge, Houtian (University of Saskatchewan): Grain Handling on the Prairies - Optimal Strategies for Preventing Wheat Handling Risks | ||
| Discussants | Yuan, Jia (University of Macau); Dong, Yingying (California State Universtiy, Fullerton) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| Topics in the Economics of Education and Labour / Sujets en économie de l'éducation et du travail | ||
| Chair | Luong, May (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Haeck, Catherine (University of Leuven): Increased paid maternity leave and children's development measured at age five. An empirical analysis. | |
| Chen, Ding (Xi'an Jiao Tong University): Why We Should Keep One Eye on Neighbors --An Empirical Study of Chinese Regional Unemployment Rate | ||
| Cano Urbina, Javier (University of Western Ontario): Understanding the role of the informal sector in the early career of low-educated workers | ||
| Discussants | Zhang, Xuelin (Statistics Canada); Bernard, Andre (Statistics Canada); Bonikowska, Aneta (Statistics Canada) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 390 |
| International Macroeconomics: International Capital Markets / Macroéconomie internationale: Marchés des capitaux internationaux | ||
| Chair | Schembri, Larry (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Alexeev, Vitali (University of Tasmania): A Mean-Variance Global Approach to Investing and Home Country Bias: 1988-2010. | |
| Beltran, Daniel (Federal Reserve Board): Foreign Official Holdings of U.S. Treasuries and U.S. Interest Rates: A Lens on the `Savings Glut' | ||
| Mukherjee, Sanchita (University of California, Santa Cruz): The effects of capital market openness on exchange rate pass-through and welfare in an inflation targeting small open economy | ||
| Discussants | Arghyrou, Michael Georgiou (Cardiff University); Vasishtha, Garima (Bank of Canada); Dong, Wei (Bank of Canada) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 8: Monetary Policy Shocks / GCEM 8: Chocs de politiques monétaires | ||
| Chair | Peneva, Ekaterina (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | |
| Papers | Ruge-Murcia, Francisco J. (Université de Montréal): Dissents | |
| Francis, Neville R. (University of North Carolina): The Low-Frequency Impact of Daily Monetary Policy Shocks | ||
| Peneva, Ekaterina (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System): Timing and Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks across Sectors | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 221 |
| Inflation and Monetary Policy I / Inflation et politique monétaire I | ||
| Chair | Jamali, Ibrahim (American University of Beirut) | |
| Papers | Kia, Amir (Utah Valley University): Developing a Market-Based Monetary Policy Transparency Index: Evidence from United States | |
| Taheri, Javid (Saint Mary's University): Why Deflation is So Rare in Post-WWII Era? The Real Debt resistance Hypothesis | ||
| Kichian, Maral (Bank of Canada): Real-Time and Forward-Looking Estimates of the Canadian Equilibrium Real Rate | ||
| Discussants | Jamali, Ibrahim (American University of Beirut) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 8: Portfolio Selection / CESG 8: Sélection de portefeuilles | ||
| Chair | Chu, Ba Manh (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Chu, Ba Manh (Carleton University): Large Deviations Estimation of the Windfall and Shortfall Probabilities for Optimal Diversified Portfolios | |
| Jia, Zhibo (University of Western Ontario): A Numerical Analysis of the Properties of Optimal Portfolio under Inequality Constraints | ||
| Noumon, Neree (Université de Montréal): Optimal Portfolio Selection using Regularization | ||
| Discussants | Chu, Ba Manh (Carleton University); Jia, Zhibo (University of Western Ontario); Nguyen, Chi M. (Indiana University) | |
| 09:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 8: Issues in Applied Environmental and Resource Economics / Session CREE 8: Questions en économie appliquée de l'environnement et des ressources | ||
| Chair | Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada) | |
| Papers | Moghadam, Arian (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania): Impact analysis of the most common water disinfection practices in the Canadian drinking water systems | |
| Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada): Why Does the Cost of GHG Emission Abatements Differ Across Countries? An Illustration for Canada and the US | ||
| Mirza, Bilal (United Nations University-MERIT): Energy Poverty or Energy Prosperity: Vice-Versa Effect Measurement of Household Income and Energy Poverty | ||
| Discussants | Zhu, Yunfa (University of Manitoba); Antweiler, Werner (University of British Columbia); Chan, Kelvin Ka Yin (Industry Canada) | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX ATR |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 133 |
| PEF 7: Measuring the Credit Union Difference: The Economic Consequences of Credit Unions / PEF 7: Les conséquences économiques des coopératives de crédit | ||
| Organizer | Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Credit Union Central of Canada) | |
| Chair | Kearns, Ashley (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Hammond Ketilson, Lou (University of Saskatchewan): Measuring the Impact of Credit Unions on Wealth Building in Communities | |
| Kalmi, Panu (Aalto University School of Economics): Organizational Structure and Performance in European Banks: A Reassessment | ||
| Smith, David (Pepperdine University): The Resiliency of Credit Unions During Economic Crises | ||
| Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Credit Union Central of Canada): Weathering the Storm: Canadian Credit Union Performance Before, During and After the GFC | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 135 |
| MESA-EPRI Session: Issues in Access to Post-Secondary Education / MESA-EPRI: Questions sur l'accès aux études postsecondaires | ||
| Chair | Vermaeten, Frank (HRSDC) | |
| Papers | Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University): STEM Students: Access to and Persistence through Post-Secondary Education | |
| Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa): Participation in Post-Secondary Education: Towards a New Behaviouralist Model | ||
| Liu, Xingfei (Concordia University): Educational Attainment of Second-generation Immigrants: A Comparison between U.S. and Canada | ||
| Discussants | Murray, T. Scott (DataAngel Policy Research); Busby, Colin (C.D. Howe Institute); Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 136 |
| Innovation and Economic Growth / Innovation et croissance économique | ||
| Chair | Yan, Beiling (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Cai, Jie (University of New South Wales): Knowledge Linkages and Multi-sector Firm Innovations | |
| Milionis, Petros (University of Groningen): Innovation-Based Growth & Long-Run Economic Development | ||
| Li, Xiaofeng (University of Guelph): Productivity Analysis Using Statistics Canada's KLEMS data to Estimate Dynamic Factor Demand Equations | ||
| Discussants | Sen Choudhury, Eesha (McGill University); Rosell, Carlos (Finance Canada); Yan, Beiling (Statistics Canada) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 137 |
| Information in Financial Markets / L'information dans les marchés financiers | ||
| Chair | Gradojevic, Nikola (Lakehead University) | |
| Papers | Huang, Helen (University of Waterloo): Private Inside Information and Two-Stage Market Making: A Simple Model | |
| Tchana Tchana, Fulbert (Ministere des Finances du Québec): The Implications of VaR and Short-Sell Restrictions on the Portfolio Manager Performance | ||
| Gradojevic, Nikola (Lakehead University): Reducing uncertainty in technical trading with fuzzy logic: 'Fuzzy technical indicators' | ||
| Discussants | Mirza, Afrasiab (Queen's University); Shen, Yue (Queen's University); Morin, Lealand (Queen's University) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 147 |
| Canadian Economics Association Invited Lecture / Conférence invitée de l'Association canadienne d'économique | ||
| Sponsor | Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques | |
| Chair | Emery, J C Herbert (University of Calgary) | |
| Speaker | Mintz, Jack (University of Calgary) | |
| Topic | The GST After Twenty Years | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 227 |
| Labour: Immigration and Labour Market Decisions II / Économie du travail: Immigration et marché du travail II | ||
| Chair | Hunt, Jennifer (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Grady, Patrick (Global Economics Ltd): The Poor Performance of Recent Immigrants in the Labour Market and Immigration Policy | |
| Yuksel, Mutlu (Dalhousie University): Age at Migration, Adult Height and Socioeconomic Outcomes | ||
| Aydede, Yigit (Saint Mary's University): Effects of Immigration on Inter-Regional Population Flows in Canada: An Economic Approach | ||
| Discussants | Coulombe, Serge (University of Ottawa); Nadeau, Serge (University of Ottawa); Beach, Charles M. (Queen's University) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 232 |
| HRSDC Session: Employment and Labour Productivity in Canada / RHDCC - Emplois et productivité de la main-d'oeuvre au Canada | ||
| Organizer | Tu, Jiong (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada - Labour Program) | |
| Chair | Tu, Jiong (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada - Labour Program) | |
| Papers | Tu, Jiong (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada - Labour Program): The Impact of Business Climate on Employment Equity Outcomes | |
| Reza, Sadat (HRSDC): Labour Management Relations Practices and Labour Productivity in Canada | ||
| Lai, Tat-kei (University of Toronto): The Impact of Competition on Training Provision: Evidence from Canada | ||
| Discussants | Lai, Tat-kei (University of Toronto); Yang, Wei (McMaster University); Javdani Haji, Mohsen (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 316 |
| CDESG: Human Capital / CDESG: Capital humain | ||
| Chair | Lehrer, Kim (University of Oxford) | |
| Papers | Lehrer, Kim (University of Oxford): Learning by Doing: Skills and Jobs in Urban Ghana | |
| Estevan, Fernanda (University of Ottawa): Conditional cash transfers and education quality | ||
| Xue, Dong (University of Western Ontario): Education and Off-farm Activities in Rural China | ||
| Discussants | Solati, Fariba (University of Manitoba); Ksoll, Christopher (University of Oxford); Wang, Shun (University of British Columbia) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 351 |
| International Business Cycles / Cycles économiques internationaux | ||
| Chair | Wan, Chi (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Mohsin, Mohammed (The University of Tennessee): Durable Goods, Interest Rates and Small Open Economy Business Cycles | |
| Rhee, Jay Hyuk Jae (University of Windsor): Optimal Monetary policy in a Small Open Economy with Staggered Wage and Price Contracts | ||
| Jamali, Ibrahim (American University of Beirut): The Response of Stock Market Volatility to Monetary Policy Shocks | ||
| Discussants | Liu, Xuan (East Carolina University); Rhee, Jay Hyuk Jae (University of Windsor) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 359 |
| CDESG: Political Economy III / CDESG: Économie Politique III | ||
| Chair | Amegashie, J. Atsu (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Amegashie, J. Atsu (University of Guelph): Cultures of Silence: Customers' Reports and Corruption | |
| Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University): Ethnic Diversity and Assessed Government Effectiveness | ||
| Paul, Sohini (National Council of Applied Economic Research): Impact of political reservation on women empowerment: Evidence from fertility choice by women from Indian villages | ||
| Discussants | Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University); Amegashie, J. Atsu (University of Guelph); Goertz, Johanna (University of Guelph) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 361 |
| Industrial Organization 8: Industry Studies 2 / Organisation industrielle 8: Études industrielles 2 | ||
| Chair | Dubrovinsky, Mati (University of Winnipeg) | |
| Papers | Shangari, Varun (University of Ottawa): Broadband Growth and its Determinants in OECD Countries | |
| Sidthidet, Taweewan (McGill University): Competition and Mergers in Banking under Credit Risk | ||
| Mann, Janelle (Queen's University): Do Wholesale and Retail Gasoline Prices Respond Asymmetrically to the Price of Crude Oil? - The North American Experience | ||
| Discussants | Mann, Janelle (Queen's University); Dubrovinsky, Mati (University of Winnipeg); Almon, Michael-John (Industry Canada) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | FTX 401 |
| Topics in Applied Macroeconometrics / Sujets en macroéconomie appliquée | ||
| Chair | Francis, Neville R. (University of North Carolina) | |
| Papers | Emara, Noha (Barnard College, Columbia University): Bayesian Estimation of the Welfare Effects of Inflation Volatility And Institutions in a Monetary Small Open Economy | |
| Luitel, Hari Sharan (Algoma University College): Temporal Aggregation and Unit Root Property: An Examination of US State Tax Revenue Data | ||
| Owyang, Michael (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis): An Endogenous Clustered Factor Approach to International Business Cycles | ||
| Discussants | Danforth, Jeff (Parliamentary Budget Office) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 124 |
| Health Economics 11 - Equity / Économie de la santé 11 - Questions d'équité | ||
| Chair | Worswick, Christopher (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Wolfson, Michael (University of Ottawa): A Two Dimensional Income-Mortality Gradient, Is Health Made or Bought? | |
| Apouey, Benedicte (University of South Florida): The Age-Profile in the Relationship Between Family Income and Child Health: Evidence From the UK | ||
| Barrington-Leigh, Christopher (McGill University): Economic inequality and subjective well-being | ||
| Discussants | Stewart, Jennifer (Carleton University); Woolley, Frances (Carleton University); Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude (Dalhousie University) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 215 |
| International Trade: Foreign Direct Investment / Commerce international: Investissement étranger direct | ||
| Chair | Wang, Shengzu (International Monetary Fund) | |
| Papers | Jeong, Yujin (HEC Montréal): Does Foreign Investment Carry Baggage from Home? | |
| Xie, Yiqing (University of Colorado at Boulder): Exporting, Licensing, FDI and Productivity Choice: Evidence from Chilean Data | ||
| Wang, Shengzu (International Monetary Fund): Strategic FDI Policies and Cross-border Mergers | ||
| Discussants | Hericourt, Jerome (University of Lille 1); Basso, Leonardo (Universidad de Chile); Su, Li (University of Oklahoma) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 219 |
| Topics in Public Economics / Sujets en économie publique | ||
| Chair | Koka, Katerina (Brock University) | |
| Papers | Neymotin, Florence (Kansas State University): Community Matters: How the Volunteering of Others Affects One's Likelihood of Engaging in Volunteer Work | |
| Kalamov, Zarko Yordanov (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg): Tax Competition, Risk Sharing and Financing Decisions of Firms | ||
| Klimina, Anna (University of Saskatchewan): Institutionalist alternative to the growth of a neoliberal state in authoritarian transition: the case of Russia | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 360 |
| Economic Growth and the Environment / La croissance économique et l'environment | ||
| Chair | Cherniwchan, Jevan (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Sadeghzadeh, Javad (York University): Environmental Policy, Industry Productivity, and Competition | |
| Doda, Lider Baran (University of Toronto): Macroeconomics of Climate Change with Endogenous Energy Efficiency | ||
| Cherniwchan, Jevan (University of Calgary): Economic Growth, Industrialization and the Environment | ||
| Discussants | Doda, Lider Baran (University of Toronto); Sadeghzadeh, Javad (York University); Morgan, Dylan (University of Ottawa) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | LMX 390 |
| International Macroeconomics: Pricing Behaviour: Distance and Pass Through Effects / Macroéconomie internationale: Effets de distance et de répercussion sur la détermination des prix | ||
| Chair | Schembri, Larry (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Cao, Shutao (Bank of Canada): Price Adjustment and Exchange Rate Pass-through: Insights from Producer Price micro data | |
| Kano, Takashi (University of Tokyo): Exaggerated Death of Distance: Revisiting Distance Effects on Regional Price Dispersions | ||
| Smith, Gregor (Queen's University): How Wide Was the Ocean? U.S. and Swedish Commodity Price Dispersion from 1732 to 1860 | ||
| Discussants | Riera-Crichton, Daniel (Bates College); Pang, Ke (Wilfrid Laurier University); Nitsch, Volker (Technische Universität Darmstadt) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 219 |
| CMSG 9: Technology Shocks / GCEM 9: Chocs technologiques | ||
| Chair | Bocola, Luigi (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Papers | Vukotic, Marija (Banque de France): A Sectoral Approach to News Shocks | |
| Bocola, Luigi (University of Pennsylvania): Identifying Technology Shocks in Models with Heterogeneous Inputs | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 221 |
| Inflation and Monetary Policy II / Inflation et politique monétaire II | ||
| Chair | Kia, Amir (Utah Valley University) | |
| Papers | Cateau, Gino (Bank of Canada): Financial imbalances, learning, and credibility of the inflation target | |
| Jain, Monica (Queen's University): Conservatism in Inflation Forecasts | ||
| Sarker, Subrata (Bank of Canada): Limited Asset Market Participation and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy | ||
| Discussants | Kia, Amir (Utah Valley University); Mahmoudi, Babak (Queen's University) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 251 |
| CESG 9: Financial Econometrics II / CESG 9: Économétrie financière II | ||
| Chair | Kalnina, Ilze (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Kalnina, Ilze (Université de Montréal): High Frequency Data and Time Variation in Betas | |
| Nguyen, Chi M. (Indiana University): Time-changed residual based specification tests for asset pricing models in continous time | ||
| Stevens, Jason (Cape Breton University): Testing futures market efficiency with a time-varying price of uncertainty: an application to crude oil | ||
| Discussants | Kalnina, Ilze (Université de Montréal); Okou, Cedric (HEC Montréal); Shang, Hua (Concordia University) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 252 |
| Macroeconomics and Health / Macroéconomie et santé | ||
| Chair | Dunbar, Geoff (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Zhao, Kai (University of Western Ontario): Social Security and the Rise in Health Spending: A Macroeconomic Analysis | |
| Phelan, Gregory (Yale University): Labor Allocation and Productivity: Consequences of the 2010 Health Insurance Reform | ||
| Dunbar, Geoff (Simon Fraser University): Parents, The Pill and Property or, The Rise of the Two-Working-Parent Family | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | MRT 256 |
| CREE Session 9: Trade and the Environment / Session CREE 9: Commerce et environnement | ||
| Chair | Siddiqui, Muhammad Shahid (Environment Canada) | |
| Papers | Messinger, Hans (Statistics Canada): The Impact of Imports on the Carbon Footprint of Canadian Consumers | |
| Siddiqui, Muhammad Shahid (Environment Canada): Embedded Emission in International Trade: Regional Dimensions | ||
| Song, Yang (University of Calgary): To share or not to share information: an economic comparison of oil exploration policies between Canada and US | ||
| Discussants | Song, Yang (University of Calgary); Goyette, Jonathan (Université de Sherbrooke) | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | DMS 3105 |
| CEA Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle de l'ACE | ||
| Chair | Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | |
| 13:30-15:30 | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | DMS 3105 |
| CEA Executive Council Meeting 2 / Réunion du conseil exécutif de l'ACE 2 | ||
| Chair | Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | |