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| Preliminary Conference Program |
| 08:30-09:00 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH TES |
| Coffee, Tea, Juices, Fruit, Pastries / Café, thé, jus, fruits, pâtisseries | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH TES |
| CLSRN 1: Natural Experiments / RCCMTC 1: Expériences naturelles | ||
| Chair | Green, David (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Morissette, Rene (Statistics Canada): Does Male Labour Supply Respond to Wages? Recent Evidence from Increases in World Oil Prices | |
| Yuksel, Mutlu (Dalhousie University): Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar reconstruction on Female Labour Market Outcomes | ||
| Riddell, Chris (Cornell University): The short versus long-run effects of plant-level bonus plans: Field evidence from a quasi-experiment | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH TES |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH TES |
| CLSRN 2: Institutions and Policies / RCCMTC 2: Institutions et politiques | ||
| Chair | Skuterud, Mikal (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Green, David (University of British Columbia): The Impact of Minimum Wages on Quit, Layoff and Hiring Rates | |
| Hansen, Jorgen (Concordia University): Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model | ||
| Abbott, Brant (University of British Columbia): Equilibrium Effects of Education Policies: A Quantitative Evaluation | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH TES |
| CLSRN 3: Unemployment, Vacancies, and Earnings Instability / RCCMTC 3: Chômage, postes vacants et instabilité des revenus | ||
| Chair | Lemieux, Thomas (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Nakamura, Alice (University of Alberta): Indicators of Labor Demand | |
| Gottschalk, Peter (Boston College): From Individual Earnings Instability to Family Income Instability-- Some Methodological Issues | ||
| Gendron, Marc (Human Ressources and Skills Development Canada): The Consequences of Occupational Mobility in Canada: How Does a Change of Skills Required by an Occupation Affect Wages? | ||
| 15:30-15:45 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH TES |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 15:45-16:45 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH TES |
| CLSRN 4: Inequality and Discrimination / RCCMTC 4: Inégalités et discrimination | ||
| Chair | Gunderson, Morley K. (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Corak, Miles (University of Ottawa): A Comparison of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Mobility in Canada, Sweden and the United States | |
| Rehavi, Marit (University of British Columbia): Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Charging and its Sentencing Consequences | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH ECC |
| CEA Executive Council Meeting 1 / Réunion du conseil exécutif de l'ACE 1 | ||
| Chair | Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | |
| 16:45-18:15 | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | MH TES |
| CLSRN Keynote Lecture / RCCMTC conférence invitée | ||
| Chair | Riddell, W. Craig (University of British Columbia) | |
| Speaker | Smith, Jeffrey A (University of Michigan) | |
| Topic | Performance Management in Education | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Foyer |
| Coffee, Tea, Juices, Fruit, Pastries / Café, thé, jus, fruits, pâtisseries | ||
| Sponsor | Pearson Canada | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| Market Efficiency I / Efficience de marché I | ||
| Chair | Thompson, James (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Lamers, Martien (Ghent University): Terrorism and Jumps in Asset Prices | |
| Huang, Alan (University of Waterloo): Generational Asset Pricing, Equity Puzzles, and Cyclicality | ||
| Discussants | Allen, Jason (Bank of Canada); Yang, Jun (Bank of Canada) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| Bank of Canada Session: Managing Capital Flows: The Role of Capital Controls / Session Banque du Canada : Le rôle des contrôles dans la gestion des flux de capital | ||
| Chair | Pasricha, Gurnain (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Pasricha, Gurnain (Bank of Canada): Recent trends in measures to manage capital flows in emerging economies | |
| Rebillard, Cyril (Banque de France): Capital Controls and Spillover Effects: Evidence from Latin American Countries | ||
| Patnaik, Ila (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy): Did the Indian capital controls work as a tool of macroeconomic policy? | ||
| Discussants | Rebillard, Cyril (Banque de France); Shah, Ajay (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy); Ahmed, Shaghil (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| PEF 1: Marginal Revolutionaries: The Mainstream Economics Crisis and Heterodox Approaches / Révolutionnaires marginaux : la crise économique et les approches hétérodoxes | ||
| Organizer | Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Carleton University) | |
| Chair | Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Auerback, Marshall (Economists for Peace and Security/Levy Institute): A Job Guarantee Program | |
| Woolsey, W. William (The Citadel): Market Monetarism: Targeting Nominal GDP | ||
| Le Roy, Danny (University of Lethbridge): What to do (if anything) about the current economic malaise: An Austrian Perspective | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| CSLS & CD Howe: Perspectives on First Nations Governance Issues / Enjeux relatifs à la gouvernance des Premières Nations | ||
| Organizers | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) Richards, John (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Chair | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Papers | Graham, John (Institute on Governance): Why So Little Progress Among Canada's First Nations? Dysfunctional Governance | |
| Quesnel, Joseph (Frontier Centre for Public Policy): A Decade of Nisga'a Self-government: A Positive Impact, but No Silver Bullet | ||
| Strahl, Chuck (Former Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs): The Case for First Nation School Authorities | ||
| Discussants | Calliou, Brian (Banff Centre) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH DEN |
| Cycles 1 / Cycles économiques 1 | ||
| Chair | Reza, Abeer (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Zhang, Yahong (Bank of Canada): Financial shocks, two sector labour market, and unemployment | |
| Jia (George), Ye (University of Prince Edward Island): Small Business Loan Guarantees as Insurance Against Aggregate Risks | ||
| Reza, Abeer (Carleton University): House Prices, Borrowing Constraints and Government Spending | ||
| Lambertini, Luisa (Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne): Mortgage Amortization and Amplification | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH ECC |
| IO Theory / Théorie en organisation industrielle | ||
| Chair | Entezarkheir, Mahdiyeh (Huron University College) | |
| Papers | An, Henry (University of Alberta): Aiming High and Selling Low: Can Supercentres Do Both? | |
| Lian, Zeng (Alan) (University of Calgary): Transmission Capacity and the Welfare Effects of Electricity Market Interaction | ||
| Rosell, Carlos (Finance Canada): Estimates of the Economic Costs of Anti-Competitive Regulation | ||
| Discussants | Lian, Zeng (Alan) (University of Calgary); Boyer, Marcel (Université de Montréal) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| Peer Effects in School / Effets des pairs à l'école | ||
| Chair | Self, James (Indiana University) | |
| Papers | Krauth, Brian (Simon Fraser University): Peers as treatments | |
| Hill, Andrew (University of British Columbia): Are opposite gender friends a good influence in high school? | ||
| Discussants | Milla, Joniada (University of Guelph); Ci, Wen (Carleton University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| Commodity Prices / Prix des produits de base | ||
| Chair | Ge, Houtian (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| Papers | Ntantamis, Christos (Mount Allison University, and CREATES): Bull and bear markets in commodity prices and commodity-related stocks: is there a relation? | |
| Ge, Houtian (University of Saskatchewan): A Computable General Equilibrium Model: Simulating Impacts of U.S. Cotton Subsidies on the World Cotton Market | ||
| Stevens, Jason (Cape Breton University): The information content of the crude oil price basis: a threshold analysis | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| Investment and International Trade I / Investissement et commerce international I | ||
| Chair | Gaisford, James D (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Qiu, Larry (University of Hong Kong): Foreign Acquisitions, Ownership Changes, and Exports | |
| Rodrigue, Joel (Vanderbilt University): Firm-Level Export and Investment Dynamics | ||
| Shen, Leilei (University of Toronto): Product Restructuring, Exports, Investment, and Growth Dynamics | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH SAL |
| Immigrants' Consumption and Income / Consommation et revenus des immigrants | ||
| Chair | Beach, Charles M. (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Hildebrand, Vincent (Glendon College York University): Measuring and accounting for the deprivation gap of Portuguese immigrants in Luxembourg | |
| Dadson, James Nicholas (Simon Fraser University): Immigrants' Real Incomes and Local Costs of Living | ||
| Lin, Maoqiong (Carleton University): Income, Consumption and Savings of Immigrant Families in Canada | ||
| McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick): Retirement Incomes and Labour Supply of Older Immigrants in Canada: 1991-2006 | ||
| Discussants | Lin, Maoqiong (Carleton University); Dadson, James Nicholas (Simon Fraser University); Mullock, Katharine (Department of Finance) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 142 |
| CMSG: Macro/Labour / Macroéconomie et marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Xiong, Hui (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Epstein, Brendan (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System): Heterogeneous Workers, Optimal Job Seeking, and Aggregate Labor Market Dynamics | |
| Glover, Andy (University of Texas at Austin): A Quantitative Rat-Race Theory of Labor Dynamics | ||
| Xiong, Hui (University of Toronto): A Directed Search Model of Occupational Mobility | ||
| Pollak, Andreas (University of Saskatchewan): Efficient social insurance, liquidity and the life cycle | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG: Foreign Aid and Africa / Aide étrangère et l'Afrique | ||
| Chair | Osberg, Lars (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Tsangarides, Charalambos (International Monetary Fund): Growth Spells and Stagnation Traps: is Africa Different? | |
| Annen, Kurt (University of Guelph): Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation | ||
| Samy, Yiagadeesen (Carleton University): Aid and Taxation: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different? | ||
| Discussants | Brou, Daniel (The University of Western Ontario); Venet, Baptiste (Université Paris Dauphine); Housseini, Bouba (Université Laval) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 146 |
| CDESG: Agriculture / Agriculture | ||
| Chair | Manaloor, Varghese (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Karaivanov, Alexander (Simon Fraser University): Contractual Structure in Agriculture with Endogenous Matching | |
| Ndlovu, Patrick Vusumuzi (University of Alberta): Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Maize under Conservation Agriculture in Zimbabwe. | ||
| Marcoul, Philippe (University of Alberta): Rural Producers' Organization, Production Finance and Inclusiveness | ||
| Discussants | Pollak, Andreas (University of Saskatchewan); Roy, Nilanjana (University of Victoria); Islam, Shahidul (Grant Macewan University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 403 |
| CEBERG 1: Environmental Economics: Managing Common Pool Resources / CEBERG 1 : Économie environnementale : la gestion des ressources communes | ||
| Organizers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Chair | Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Schott, Stephan (Carleton University): What can we expect from "cheap talk"? | |
| Spraggon, John (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Price Controls and Banking in Emissions Trading: Results from an Experimental Evaluation | ||
| Kimbrough, Erik (Simon Fraser University): Costly Rule-Following Predicts Cooperation in Commons Dilemmas | ||
| Discussants | Thomsen, Stephan (NIW Hannover); Buckley, Neil J. (York University); Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 405 |
| Topics in Health Economics / Sujets en économie de la santé | ||
| Chair | Guliani, Harminder (University of Regina) | |
| Papers | Olabiyi, Olayemi (University of Calgary): Determinants of high-income food insecurity in Canada: Implications for policy | |
| Owusu, Rebekah (University of Ottawa): Voluntary Contributions to Private Goods: The Economics of Blood Donations | ||
| Sedigh, Golnaz (University of Ottawa): The impact of economic factors on sleep: The roles of insomnia, work environment, chronic diseases and mental health | ||
| Discussants | Heger, Dörte (Queen's University); Irvine, Ian (Concordia University); Matheson, Jesse (University of Leicester) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 410 |
| CREE: Theory / CREE: Théorie | ||
| Chair | Missios, Paul (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Atallah, Samer (McGill University): Effects of Oil Tariffs and Technological Progress on Political Change | |
| Nkuiya Mbakop, Robeny Bruno (Université Laval): Antibiotic Use and Innovation in the Context of Bacterial Resistance: A Bio-economic Analysis of Strategic Effects Within the Pharmaceutical Industry | ||
| Wan, Rui (University of Calgary): Simultaneous vs. Sequential Move Stackelberg Nonrenewable Resource Production: Implications from Discrete-Time Models | ||
| Discussants | Wan, Rui (University of Calgary); Atallah, Samer (McGill University); Nkuiya Mbakop, Robeny Bruno (Université Laval) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 412 |
| Labour Economics: Theory / Théorie en économie du travail | ||
| Chair | Delacroix, Alain (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Siow, Aloysius (University of Toronto): Becker meets Ricardo: A social and cognitive skills model of human capabilities. | |
| Chisik, Richard (Ryerson University): Job Market Signaling, Stereotype Threat, and Counter-Stereotypical Behaviour | ||
| Bagchi, Aniruddha (Kennesaw State University): Workplace Deviance and Recession | ||
| Discussants | Delacroix, Alain (Université du Québec à Montréal); Bagchi, Aniruddha (Kennesaw State University); Siow, Aloysius (University of Toronto) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Foyer |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| Market Microstructure / Microstructure de marché | ||
| Chair | Huang, Alan (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Thompson, James (University of Waterloo): As Risk Transfer Markets Develop: The Effect of Transaction Costs | |
| Galbraith, John W (McGill University): Single-stock circuit breakers and the distribution of equity returns | ||
| Discussants | Perez Saiz, Hector (Bank of Canada); Xie, Tian (Queen's University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| Bank of Canada Session: Monetary and Fiscal Policy / Séance de la Banque du Canada: Politiques monétaires et budgétaires | ||
| Organizer | Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Seoane, Hernan (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Policy Switches in Emerging Economies | |
| Panovska, Irina (Washington University): State-Dependent Effects of Fiscal Policy | ||
| Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada): Regional Analysis of the Effects of Fiscal Shocks: A Factor-augmented Vector Autoregressive Approach | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| PEF 2: The Economics of the Occupy Movement / L'économie du mouvement des indignés | ||
| Organizer | Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | |
| Chair | MacLean, Brian K. (Laurentian University) | |
| Papers | Yalnizyan, Armine (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives): Inequality: How it Got to the Top of the Political and Economic Agenda | |
| Brennan, Jordan (York University): FROM `GOLDEN' TO `GILDED' AGE Differential Investiture and Redistribution in the Canadian political economy | ||
| Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers): Analytical Foundations of the Distinction Between the 1% and the 99% | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| CSLS & CD Howe: Issues on Aboriginal Economic Development / Enjeux sur le développement économique des autochtones | ||
| Organizers | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) Richards, John (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Chair | Strahl, Chuck (Former Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs) | |
| Papers | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards): Aboriginal Labour Market Performance in Canada, 2007-2011 | |
| Avillez, Ricardo (CSLS): The Impact of Broadband on Economic Development on First Nations in Canada | ||
| Howe, Eric C. (University of Saskatchewan): Bridging the Aboriginal Education Gap | ||
| Discussants | Feir, Donna Leanne (University of British Columbia); Richards, John (Simon Fraser University); Mueller, Richard (University of Lethbridge) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH ECC |
| International Trade: Environment, Health, and Labour / Commerce international: environnement, santé et marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Shen, Leilei (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Zhou, Li (University of Alberta): Native Students and the Gains from Exporting Higher Education: Evidence from Australia | |
| Wen, Yuan (University of Calgary): Ricardian vs. Armington: How Trade Patterns Influence the Magnitude of Carbon Leakage | ||
| Qirjo, Dhimitri (The University of British Columbia): Monitoring, Endogenous Comparative Advantage, and Immigration | ||
| Dar, Afshan (Carleton University): Trade and Labour Standards: Can There be a Race to the Bottom? | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| Transitions from Secondary to Post-Secondary Schooling / Transitions du secondaire au postsecondaire | ||
| Chair | Ford, Reuben (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Papers | Foley, Kelly (Copenhagen Business School): The consequences of delayed entry into post-secondary education | |
| Liu, Shuping (HEQCO): The labour market outcomes of different postsecondary pathways | ||
| Meyer, Tobias (Leibniz University Hanover): Secondary School Duration and Post-school Educational Decisions | ||
| Discussants | Payne, Abigail (McMaster University); Martinello, Felice (Brock University); Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| CWEN Session 1: Investment and Taxation / Séance RFÉ 1: Investissement et taxation | ||
| Organizer | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) | |
| Chair | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Garcia-Medina, B. Cecilia (University of Calgary): A Semiparametric Assessment of Policy Reform's Redistributive Effectiveness. | |
| Tedds, Lindsay M. (University of Victoria): Do Insiders follow the rules? Accuracy of Insider Reporting filings in Canada. | ||
| Discussants | Tedds, Lindsay M. (University of Victoria); Garcia-Medina, B. Cecilia (University of Calgary) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| Investment and International Trade II / Investissement et commerce international II | ||
| Chair | Tombe, Trevor (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Baker, Paul Leonard (University of Cambridge): Who Enters Into Bilateral Investment Treaties and Do They Have an Impact on Foreign Direct Investment? | |
| Bengoa, Marta (City University of New York at City): Does Foreign Direct Investment Replace Trade? Evidence for the European Union | ||
| Guerin, Selen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Outward Foreign Direct Investment and domestic performance: in search of a causal link | ||
| Discussants | Petkova, Neviana (University of Oregon); Rodrigue, Joel (Vanderbilt University); Tombe, Trevor (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH SAL |
| Cycles 2 / Cycles économiques 2 | ||
| Chair | Fieldhouse, David (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Pourpourides, Panayiotis (Cardiff University): R&D and Aggregate Fluctuations | |
| Hauzenberger, Klemens (Deutsche Bundesbank): A Time-Varying Structural VAR Model to Estimate the Effects of Changes in Fiscal Policy | ||
| Fieldhouse, David (University of Western Ontario): Understanding Innovation through Disaggregation | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH TES |
| CPP Invited Lecture / Conférence invitée d'Analyse de politiques | ||
| Sponsor | Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques | |
| Organizer | Emery, J C Herbert (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Emery, J C Herbert (University of Calgary) | |
| Speaker | Simpson, Wayne Douglas (University of Manitoba) | |
| Topic | The Decline of Canadian Economists and the Rise of Economists in Canada: Implications for Canada's Economics Journals | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SA 119 |
| CESG 1: Bootstrap Methods / Méthodes bootstrap | ||
| Chair | Stengos, Thanasis (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Davidson, Russell (McGill University): The Iterated Bootstrap | |
| Tabri, Rami (McGill University): Bootstrap Tests for Infinite Order Stochastic Dominance via the Method of Empirical Likelihood | ||
| Kaffo Melou, Maximilien (Université de Montréal): Bootstrap inference for linear dynamic panel data models | ||
| Discussants | Dovonon, Prosper (Concordia University); Chausse, Pierre (University of Waterloo); Tabri, Rami (McGill University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SA 121 |
| CMSG: Search Theory / Théorie du furetage | ||
| Chair | Tsuyuhara, Kunio (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Stacey, Derek (Queen's University): Commitment to Trading Mechanisms and Information Revelation in Directed Search Models | |
| Delacroix, Alain (Université du Québec à Montréal): Endogenous competition and Unemployment Fluctuations | ||
| Tsuyuhara, Kunio (University of Calgary): Repeated Moral Hazard with Worker Mobility via Directed On-the-Job Search | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 105 |
| CPEG 1: Tax Evasion / Évasion fiscale | ||
| Organizer | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | McKenzie, Kenneth (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Luitel, Hari Sharan (Algoma University College): A Reexamination of State Fiscal Health and Amnesty Enactment | |
| Clark, Jeremy (University of Canterbury): Socio-economic Diversity, Social Capital, and Tax Filing Compliance in the United States | ||
| Discussants | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary); Gray, David (University of Ottawa) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 142 |
| Bank of Canada Session: The Chinese Economy / Séance de la Banque du Canada: L'économie chinoise | ||
| Organizer | Bailliu, Jeannine (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Xu, TengTeng (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Xu, TengTeng (Bank of Canada): What Drives China's Interbank Market? | |
| Porter, Nathan (International Monetary Fund): Understanding Chinese Bond Yields and their Role in Monetary Policy | ||
| Ahmed, Shaghil (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System): How Sensitive Are Chinese Exports to Changes in the Exchange Rate: Implications for Current Account Adjustment | ||
| Discussants | Ahmed, Shaghil (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System); Patnaik, Ila (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG: Invited Lecture / GCEDE: Conférence invitée | ||
| Organizer | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Chair | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Foster, Andrew (Brown University) | |
| Topic | The Reemergence of Surplus Labor | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 316 |
| Immigration, Families and Networks / L'immigration, les familles et les réseaux | ||
| Chair | Worswick, Christopher (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Li, Ying (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics): Does Prospective Migration Increase Marital Instability? Evidence from Census 1980-2000 and NLSY79. | |
| Ferrer, Ana M. (University of Calgary): Does Moving Disrupt Immigrant Fertility? | ||
| Teng, Jiayuan (University of Guelph): Social Networks and the Migration Decision: Evidence from China | ||
| Discussants | Woolley, Frances (Carleton University); Worswick, Christopher (Carleton University); Skuterud, Mikal (University of Waterloo) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 403 |
| CEBERG 2: Market Experiments / Expériences de marché | ||
| Organizers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Chair | Morrison, William (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina): Misallocation Costs under Rent Control: An Experimental Investigation | |
| Jiang, Janet Hua (Bank of Canada): Eliminating Laboratory Asset Bubbles through Interest-Bearing Savings Account | ||
| Discussants | Mozumder, Pallab (Florida International University); Schott, Stephan (Carleton University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 405 |
| Health Trends, Expenditures and Insurance / Évolution de la santé, dépenses et assurance | ||
| Chair | Sarma, Sisira K (The University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Fonseca, Raquel (Université du Québec à Montréal): On The Rise of Health Spending and Longevity | |
| Menard, Sébastien (University of Le Mans): Optimal health insurance, absenteeism and dynamics of the epidemics: Beyond the moral hazard. | ||
| Gaudette, Étienne (Université du Québec à Montréal): Macroeconomic Consequences of Health Spending on Trends in Disability Among the Elderly | ||
| Discussants | Ho, Anson (Kansas State University); Michaud, Pierre-Carl (Université du Québec à Montréal); Olabiyi, Olayemi (University of Calgary) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 410 |
| CREE: Environmental Issues / Questions sur l'environnement | ||
| Chair | de Lamirande, Patrick (Cape Breton University) | |
| Papers | Janmaat, John (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus): Green with Lawn Envy: Spatial Variation of Water Demand in Kelowna, British Columbia | |
| Androkovich, Robert (Thompson Rivers University): Recreational Visits to the Adams River during the Annual Sockeye Run: A Travel Cost Analysis | ||
| Ferrara, Ida (York University): Does Waste Management Policy Crowd out Social and Moral Motives for Recycling? | ||
| Dennehy, Christopher (University of Alberta): Costs and Benefits of Wildlife Protection: The Woodland Caribou in the Alberta Oil Sands | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 412 |
| Banking / Activités bancaires | ||
| Chair | Jia (George), Ye (University of Prince Edward Island) | |
| Papers | Francis, Johanna (Fordham University): Excess Reserves During the U.S. Financial Crisis: A Bank-level Perspective | |
| Moran, Kevin (Université Laval): Shadow Banking and Regulation: A Quantitative Assessment | ||
| Boyer, Marcel (Université de Montréal): Alleviating coordination problems and regulatory constraints through financial risk management | ||
| Discussants | Kabaca, Serdar (University of British Columbia) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 508 |
| Search, Integration and Diffusion / Furetage, intégration et diffusion | ||
| Chair | Ogrokhina, Olena (University of Houston) | |
| Papers | Allen, Jason (Bank of Canada): Price Negotiation in Differentiated Products Markets: The Case of Insured Mortgages in Canada | |
| Ogrokhina, Olena (University of Houston): Convergence and Persistence of Prices within the European Union | ||
| Entezarkheir, Mahdiyeh (Huron University College): Market Value, Merger, and Market Structure: Evidence from a Panel of US Firms | ||
| 12:00-13:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH MHA |
| CWEN Luncheon and AGM / Diner et assemblée générale du RFÉ | ||
| Organizer | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) | |
| Chair | Payne, Abigail (McMaster University) | |
| Speaker | Anderson, Siwan (University of British Columbia) | |
| Topic | Legal Origins and HIV/AIDS | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | ES 162 |
| Banking and Monetary Issues / Questions banquaires et monétaires | ||
| Chair | Huynh, Kim (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Huynh, Kim (Bank of Canada): Retail Payments Innovation and the Cash Ratio | |
| Yagihashi, Takeshi (Old Dominion University): Health Care Inflation and Monetary Policy | ||
| Dilmaghani, Maryam (Saint Mary's University): An Evolutionary Model of Bank-runs with Boundedly Rational Agents | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| Corporate Finance I / Finance des entreprises I | ||
| Chair | Gao, Xiaodan (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Zhu, Hui (University of Calgary): Economic Links and Post-earnings Announcement Drift | |
| Mirza, Afrasiab (Queen's University): Illiquidity, Fire-sales and Capital Structure | ||
| Nica, Melania (London School of Economics): A Model of Corporate Governance with Social Ties | ||
| Discussants | Mirza, Afrasiab (Queen's University); Nica, Melania (London School of Economics); Kotowski, Maciej (Harvard University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| School of Public Policy Session: What's Next in Tax Reform? / L'avenir des réformes fiscales | ||
| Organizers | Mintz, Jack (University of Calgary) McKenzie, Kenneth (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Richardson, Stephen (University of Calgary) | |
| Panelists | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| McKenzie, Kenneth (University of Calgary) | ||
| Gendron, Pierre-Pascal (Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning) | ||
| Wilson, Thomas A. (University of Toronto) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| PEF 3: Political Economy Frameworks of Economic Policy Analysis / Cadres d'analyse de politique économique | ||
| Organizer | Pringle, David J (Carleton University) | |
| Chair | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Dow, Alexander (Glasgow Caledonian University): Economic History and Economic Theory: The Staples Approach to Economic Development | |
| Pringle, David J (Carleton University): Insights into Canadian economic policy analysis using a political economy framework. | ||
| Schmidt, Ingo (Athabasca University): Unmaking Neoliberal Europe | ||
| Discussants | Baragar, Fletcher (University of Manitoba) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| Teaching of Economics / Enseignement de l'économie | ||
| Chair | Parkin, Michael (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Self, James (Indiana University): Characteristics of Effective Voluntary Training Programme Leaders | |
| Cottrell, Marilyn (Brock University): Monopoly and the Realm of Imperfection: Oligopoly and Imperfect Competition | ||
| O'Shaughnessy, Bridget (McMaster University): Developmental Assignments in Economics: Building Skills throughout the Term | ||
| Discussants | Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University); Self, James (Indiana University); McGregor, Maureen (Mount Royal University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH DEN |
| Performance in High School / Réussite au secondaire | ||
| Chair | Childs, Stephen (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Worswick, Christopher (Carleton University): The School Performance of the Children of Immigrants in Canada | |
| Smith, Justin (Wilfrid Laurier University): What Makes Principals Effective in Raising Student Achievement? Evidence from North Carolina | ||
| Discussants | Krauth, Brian (Simon Fraser University); Feir, Donna Leanne (University of British Columbia) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH ECC |
| Urban and Regional Issues: Theory / Questions urbaines et régionales sous l'angle théorique | ||
| Chair | Dodds, Stefan A. (University of Winnipeg) | |
| Papers | Lindsey, Charles Robin (University of British Columbia): Strategic information provision about traffic conditions on a road network | |
| Langinier, Corinne (University of Alberta): Geographical Indications and Optimal Firm Labeling Strategy | ||
| Dodds, Stefan A. (University of Winnipeg): Real Estate Prices, Local Retail Markets and the Impact of Public Transit Improvements | ||
| Discussants | Baksi, Soham (University of Winnipeg); Lindsey, Charles Robin (University of British Columbia) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| Industry Canada Lecture / Conférence d'Industrie Canada | ||
| Chair | Ryan, Annette (Industry Canada) | |
| Speaker | Syverson, Chad (University of Chicago) | |
| Topic | What Determines Productivity? | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| CWEN Session 2: Health / Séance RFÉ 2: Santé | ||
| Organizer | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) | |
| Chair | Lluis, Stephanie (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo): Cost of Chronic illness for seniors: Cost of Chronic illness for seniors: are there gaps in insurance coverage? | |
| Deri Armstrong, Catherine (University of Ottawa): Gasoline Prices and Obesity: Canadian Evidence | ||
| Timmins, Lori (University of British Columbia): Does Health Insurance Matter for Young Adults?: Insurance, Health Status, and Medical Care Consumption | ||
| Discussants | Timmins, Lori (University of British Columbia); Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo); Deri Armstrong, Catherine (University of Ottawa) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| Specialization and International Trade / Spécialisation et commerce international | ||
| Chair | Dar, Afshan (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Alexander, Patrick (Queen's University): On the distance of international trade in the gravity model when imported intermediates are used in production | |
| Gervais, Antoine (University of Notre Dame): Agglomeration and Co-Agglomeration Patterns in Service Industries | ||
| Oh, Kyungsoo (University of Colorado at Boulder): Energy use in the US manufacturing and increasing imports from China | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH SAL |
| Cycles 3 / Cycles économiques 3 | ||
| Chair | Barnette, Justin (Kent State University) | |
| Papers | Alessandrini, Diana (University of Guelph): The business cycle human capital accumulation nexus and its effect on labor supply volatility | |
| Talukdar, Bidyut Kumar (Saint Mary's University): Organizational Learning and Optimal Environmental Policy | ||
| Barnette, Justin (Kent State University): A Recession's Aftermath: Lost Human Capital and More Inequality | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH TES |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence sur l'état des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Davidson, Russell (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Dufour, Jean-Marie (McGill University) | |
| Topic | Identification and Macroeconomics | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SA 104 |
| Measurement of Health for International Comparisons / Mesures de la santé pour comparaisons internationales | ||
| Chair | Nguyen, Van Hai (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Heger, Dörte (Queen's University): Measuring health and inequality in Canada and the United States using a comparable health index | |
| Akhand, Hafiz (University of Regina): Trends in Health Status of Baby Boomers and Their Predecessors, 1994 - 2010 | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SA 119 |
| Bank of Canada Session: Financial Stability Issues / Séance de la Banque du Canada: Questions de stabilité financière | ||
| Organizer | Côté, Denise (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Côté, Denise (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Peterson, Brian (Bank of Canada): The Canadian Housing Market: Turnover and Prices | |
| Perez Saiz, Hector (Bank of Canada): Competition and Strategic Control of a Central Counterparty: When Lower Risk Increases Profit | ||
| Li, Fuchun (Bank of Canada): A Semiparametric Early Warning Model for Financial Stress Events | ||
| Discussants | Tkacz, Greg (Saint Francis Xavier University); David, Alexander (University of Calgary); Sun, Yiguo (University of Guelph) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SA 121 |
| Competition and Collusion / Concurrence et collusion | ||
| Chair | Song, Yang (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Kelly, Ryan (Industry Canada): Agreeing to Disagree on Competition: Comparing the Boone and Lerner Indicies of Competition in Selected OECD Countries | |
| Kotchoni, Rachidi (University of Alberta): The Econometrics of Cartel Overcharge | ||
| Song, Yang (University of Calgary): Bertrand Competition in Differentiated Products: Competing, Price-Matching or Colluding? | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 105 |
| Agricultural Issues / Questions en agriculture | ||
| Chair | Marcoul, Philippe (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Manaloor, Varghese (University of Alberta): Demand for organic foods in Canada: How large is the premium? | |
| Darku, Alexander Bilson (University of Lethbridge): Concepts, Sources and Measurement of Agricultural Productivity in Canada. | ||
| Fulton, Murray E. (University of Saskatchewan): Operating in a Post Single-Desk Environment -- Port Access and Competition in Grain Handling on the Canadian Prairies | ||
| Hervouet, Adrien (Iemn-Iae): Promoting innovation on the seed market and biodiversity: the role of IPRs and commercialisation rules | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 142 |
| CPEG 2: Taxation of Capital / Taxation du capital | ||
| Organizer | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Crisan, Daria (Mount Royal University) | |
| Papers | Brou, Daniel (The University of Western Ontario): Explaining Tax Structures in Developing Countries: A Political Economy Approach | |
| Yilmaz, Fatih (University of Calgary): Taxing Financial Institutions: Implications for the Real Economy | ||
| Gross, Till (Carleton University): Capital Tax Competition with an Endogenous Capital Stock | ||
| Discussants | Tombe, Trevor (Wilfrid Laurier University); Engineer, Merwan (University of Victoria); Gonzalez, Francisco M (University of Calgary) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG: Education I / Éducation I | ||
| Chair | Castro, Juan F. (Universidad del Pacifico) | |
| Papers | Ksoll, Christopher (University of Oxford): The Causal Impact of an Additional Year of High School on the Distribution of Achievement: Evidence from Ghana. | |
| Laszlo, Sonia (McGill University): Social Exchange and Risk and Ambiguity Preferences | ||
| Lehrer, Kim (University of Oxford): Group Learning in Senior High Schools in Ghana: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment | ||
| Discussants | Laszlo, Sonia (McGill University); Ksoll, Christopher (University of Oxford); Aragon-Sanchez, Fernando (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 146 |
| International Financial Integration / Intégration financière internationale | ||
| Papers | Yu, Changhua (University of British Columbia): Financial Integration and International Propagation of Shocks | |
| Rivadeneyra, Francisco (Bank of Canada): International Reserves in a Model of Strategic Interaction | ||
| Sorkin, Igor (CUNY Graduate Center): The Law of One Price and the Financial Crisis effect | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 316 |
| Immigrants' Wage Assimilation / Assimilation salariale des immigrants | ||
| Chair | Akbari, Syed Ather H (Saint Mary's University) | |
| Papers | Nadeau, Serge (University of Ottawa): Human Capital Quality and Canada's Immigrant Wage Gap | |
| Javdani Haji, Mohsen (Simon Fraser University): Intra-firm Upward Mobility and Immigration | ||
| Miyairi, Masashi (University of Western Ontario): Immigrant job search and wage assimilation in Canada | ||
| Discussants | McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick); Ferrer, Ana M. (University of Calgary); Aydede, Yigit (Saint Mary's University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 403 |
| CEBERG 3: Mixed Systems of Finance / Systèmes financiers mixtes | ||
| Organizers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Chair | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) | |
| Papers | Cuff, Katherine L (McMaster University): An Experimental Investigation of the Political Economy of Mixed Systems of Finance | |
| Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University): An Experimental Investigation of the Political Economy of Mixed Systems of Finance with Exit | ||
| Buckley, Neil J. (York University): An Experimental Investigation of Mixed Systems of Public and Private Health Care Finance | ||
| Discussants | Kapoor, Sacha (University of Toronto); Jiang, Janet Hua (Bank of Canada); Morrison, William (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 405 |
| CMSG: Price Stickiness and Monetary Policy / Rigidité des prix et politique monétaire | ||
| Chair | Anthonisen, Niels (Mount Allison University) | |
| Papers | Barattieri, Alessandro (Université du Québec à Montréal): The Macroeconomic Effects of "Full Cost Pricing": a Case for Revisiting the Marginalist Controversy? | |
| Smith, Gregor (Queen's University): US Inflation Gap Persistence Deduced from Sticky Professional Forecasts | ||
| Anthonisen, Niels (Mount Allison University): On the Role of Sticky Prices in the Transmission of Monetary Policy | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 410 |
| Auctions / Enchères | ||
| Chair | Lebrun, Bernard (York University) | |
| Papers | Baba, Yumiko (Aoyamagakuin University): Unit-Price Auction Procedures | |
| Che, XiaoGang (University of Alberta): The role of a temporary buyout option in second price Internet auctions: Theory and evidence from eBay | ||
| Discussants | Lebrun, Bernard (York University); Baba, Yumiko (Aoyamagakuin University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 412 |
| Financial Frictions and International Trade / Frictions financières et commerce international | ||
| Chair | Pasricha, Gurnain (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Bourgeon, Pauline (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne): Do Financial Frictions and Trading Time matter for trade? Evidence from French firms | |
| Nitsch, Volker (Technische Universität Darmstadt): Cutting the Credit Line: Evidence from Germany | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL Gallery |
| SRDC session: Can performance-based funding improve the quality of workforce training? / Séance de la SRSA: Est-ce que le financement axé sur la performance améliore la qualité de la formation? | ||
| Organizer | Palameta, Boris (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Chair | Voyer, Jean-Pierre (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Panelists | Smith, Jeffrey A (University of Michigan) | |
| Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University) | ||
| Bouslov, Sergei (Ministry of Social Development) | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Foyer |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| Wages and Workers' Compensation / Salaires et indemnités des travailleurs | ||
| Chair | Brown, Laura (University of Manitoba) | |
| Papers | Glynn, Lisa (University of Toronto): Union Premiums, Tariffs, and Wage Inequality in Mexico | |
| Tschopp, Jeanne (University of Lausanne): The Wage Response to Shocks: The Role of Inter-Occupational Labor Adjustment | ||
| Ayadi, Mohamed (University Of Tunis): Workers' compensation and moral hazard in the Tunisian industry | ||
| Discussants | Beland, Louis-Philippe (Université de Montréal) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| PEF 4: The Economics of Co-operatives / L'économie des coopératives | ||
| Organizer | Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Carleton University) | |
| Chair | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Hudson, Ian (University of Manitoba): Do the Right Thing: An Experiment on the Willingness to Pay for Community Economic Development | |
| Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Carleton University): Up to Code? Financial Stability and Co-operative Financial Institutions | ||
| Uzea, Florentina Nicoleta (University of Saskatchewan): Another perspective on the efficiency of the federated co-operative structure: Insights from a federated marketing system | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| MacEwan University Session: Issues in Undergraduate Economic Teaching / Questions relatives à l'enseignement de l'économie au premier cycle | ||
| Organizers | Islam, Shahidul (Grant Macewan University) Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University) | |
| Chair | Manaloor, Varghese (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Islam, Shahidul (Grant Macewan University): Students Ratings of Teaching: Is Economics a Culprit? | |
| Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University): Connecting the Dots: Applying Classroom Learning in Economics at Workplace | ||
| Colonescu, Constantin (Grant MacEwan University): Economics open house: An eye-opening introductory economics course | ||
| Discussants | Gamtessa, Samuel (University of Alberta); Manaloor, Varghese (University of Alberta); Islam, Shahidul (Grant Macewan University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| CWEN Session: Success Comes in Many Forms: Exploring Options for Developing a Successful Career / Séance du RFÉ: la réussite sous toutes ses formes: différentes options pour une carrière réussie | ||
| Organizer | Payne, Abigail (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Payne, Abigail (McMaster University) | |
| Panelists | Ferrer, Ana M. (University of Calgary) | |
| Tedds, Lindsay M. (University of Victoria) | ||
| O'Shaughnessy, Bridget (McMaster University) | ||
| Foley, Kelly (Copenhagen Business School) | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH TES |
| Bank of Canada Lecture / Conférence de la Banque du Canada | ||
| Sponsor | Bank of Canada/Banque du Canada | |
| Chair | Schembri, Larry (Bank of Canada) | |
| Speaker | Devereux, Michael (University of British Columbia) | |
| Topic | Real Exchange Rate Adjustment in Europe: the Role of the Eurozone | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 105 |
| Applied Microeconomic Theory / Théorie microéconomique appliquée | ||
| Chair | Petrunia, Robert (Lakehead University) | |
| Papers | Bouchard St-Amant, Pier-André (Queen's University): Getting the Right Spin: A Theory of Optimal Viral Marketing | |
| Pyne, Derek (Thompson Rivers University): An Afterlife Capital Model of Religious Choice | ||
| Mohamed, Ghada (King Abdulaziz University): Media & Decision Making Analysis - Two global Economic crises | ||
| Discussants | Boucher, Vincent (Université de Montréal); Bouchard St-Amant, Pier-André (Queen's University); Dilmaghani, Maryam (Saint Mary's University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG and NCAER Policy Panel: India's Decentralization: Does it Work for the Poor? A panel by the CDESG and NCAER / Table-ronde du GCEDE et NCAER: Est-ce que la décentralisation de l'Inde fonctionne pour les pauvres? | ||
| Chairs | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) Shah, Shekhar (NCAER) | |
| Panelists | Foster, Andrew (Brown University) | |
| Nagarajan, Hari Krishnan (National Council of Applied Economic Research) | ||
| Deininger, Klaus (World Bank) | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 146 |
| Health Care Policy / Politiques des soins de santé | ||
| Chair | Menard, Sébastien (University of Le Mans) | |
| Papers | Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University): On the Margins of Medicare: Delisting Chiropractic Services | |
| Nguyen, Van Hai (University of Toronto): Saving Public Money at Private Expenses? Impact of Ontario's Generic Drug Pricing Reform on Out-of-Pocket Drug Expenditure | ||
| Discussants | Fonseca, Raquel (Université du Québec à Montréal); Yang, Wei (McMaster University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | SB 148 |
| Topics in Labour Economics I / Sujets en économie du travail I | ||
| Chair | Krauth, Brian (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Agopsowicz, Andrew (University of Western Ontario): Work and Fertility Decisions of Women: The Effects of Parental Leave and Childcare Policies Over the Life-cycle | |
| Summerfield, Fraser (University of Guelph): Temporary Help Agencies and Job Market Sorting | ||
| Dong, Xue (University of Western Ontario): The Impact of Asian Financial Crisis on Women's Work in Indonesia - Understanding Persistence of Increased Employment of Women beyond Financial Crisis | ||
| Ulrick, Shawn W (Federal Trade Commission): The Oaxaca Decomposition Applied To a Continuous Group Variable (With an Extension to a Probit Model) | ||
| Discussants | Summerfield, Fraser (University of Guelph); Dong, Xue (University of Western Ontario); Krauth, Brian (Simon Fraser University); Agopsowicz, Andrew (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 316 |
| CREE: Pollution Issues / Questions de pollution | ||
| Chair | Lazkano, Itziar (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) | |
| Papers | de Lamirande, Patrick (Cape Breton University): Self-enforcing quotas for pollution. | |
| Liu, Ida Jianqiao (University of Regina): Is There a Principle of Targeting in Environmental Taxation? | ||
| Moghadam, Arian (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania): An empirical test of Tiebout hypothesis: Evidence from Ontario | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 403 |
| CEBERG 4: The Evolution of Social Preferences / L'évolution des préférences sociales | ||
| Organizers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Chair | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) | |
| Papers | Thomsen, Stephan (NIW Hannover): The Development of Other-Regarding Preferences during Childhood and Adolescence | |
| Kapoor, Sacha (University of Toronto): Paging Inspector Sands: The Costs of Informing the Public about Impending Events | ||
| Discussants | Childs, Jason (University of Regina); Halevy, Yoram (University of British Columbia) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 405 |
| CESG 2: Short Presentation Session in Econometrics / Présentations courtes en économétrie | ||
| Chair | Thompson, Brennan (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Xie, Tian (Queen's University): Least Squares Model Averaging by Prediction Criterion | |
| Liang, Xin (McGill University): Necessary and sufficient conditions for partial identification and estimability of linear parameters | ||
| Tchuente Nguembu, Guy (Université de Montréal): Regularized LIML for many instruments | ||
| Kang, Byunguk (McGill University): Exact Inference Methods for Simultaneous Equations Model with Lagged Dependent Variables | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 410 |
| Contracts / Contrats | ||
| Chair | Pitchik, Carolyn (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Kotowski, Maciej (Harvard University): Engineered Ambiguity in the Principal-Agent Problem | |
| Semenov, Aggey (University of Ottawa): A Theory of Contracts with Limited Enforcement | ||
| Poitevin, Michel (Université de Montréal): Marketing versus Engineering: Who Should Decide? | ||
| Discussants | Lo, Pei-yu (The University of Hong Kong); Forand, Jean Guillaume (University of Waterloo); Bedard, Nicholas (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 412 |
| CPEG 3: Charities and Private Giving / Oeuvres de bienfaisance et dons privés | ||
| Chair | Goertz, Johanna (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Hossain, Belayet (Thompson Rivers University): The Effectiveness of Tax Incentives on Charitable Giving Expenditures across Donation Sectors in Canada | |
| Rosborough, Jonathan (Saint Francis Xavier University): Risk Preferences of Charitable Organizations in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Devlin, Rose Anne (University of Ottawa); Yilmaz, Fatih (University of Calgary) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | TFDL 508 |
| Urban and Regional Issues: Applied / Questions urbaines et régionales appliquées | ||
| Chair | Nitsch, Volker (Technische Universität Darmstadt) | |
| Papers | Huang, Haifang (University of Alberta): Do New Stadiums Revive Neighborhoods? Evidence from Mortgage Applications | |
| Miller, Sarah (Bank of Canada): The Influence of Provincial Borders on Canadian Migration | ||
| Sheard, Nicholas (Stockholm University): The effect of air transport on the production of goods and services | ||
| Discussants | Huang, Haifang (University of Alberta); Sheard, Nicholas (Stockholm University); Miller, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| 18:00-19:30 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH MHA |
| Innis Lecture / Conférence Innis | ||
| Chair | Dufour, Jean-Marie (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Gourieroux, Christian (University of Toronto) | |
| Topic | Bilateral Exposures and Systemic Solvency Risk | |
| 19:30-21:00 | Friday, June 8, 2012 | MH MHB |
| Reception / Réception | ||
| Sponsor | The School of Public Policy - University of Calgary | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Foyer |
| Coffee, Tea, Juices, Fruit, Pastries / Café, thé, jus, fruits, pâtisseries | ||
| Sponsor | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | ES 162 |
| CPEG 5: Fiscal Systems / Systèmes budgétaires | ||
| Organizer | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Mou, Haizhen (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| Papers | Doi, Takero (Keio University): Controlling Fiscal Deficits under Federal and Unitary Systems | |
| Ermasova, Natalia (Indiana University): Administrative innovations in capital budgeting at the state level in the USA during the Great Recession | ||
| Shiamptanis, Christos (Ryerson University): Fiscal Risk Assessment: Canada | ||
| Discussants | Pringle, David J (Carleton University); Smart, Michael G (University of Toronto); Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| Business Cycle Measurement / Mesure des cycles économiques | ||
| Chair | Fossati, Sebastian (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Dalkir, Elif (University of New Brunswick): A Reconsideration of Correlation between Macroeconomic Aggregates | |
| Fossati, Sebastian (University of Alberta): Dating U.S. Business Cycles with Macro Factors | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| Health and Retirement / Santé et retraite | ||
| Chair | Hildebrand, Vincent (Glendon College York University) | |
| Papers | Lepage-Saucier, Nicolas (Université du Québec à Montréal): Does Employment Protection Raise Stress? A Cross-Country and Cross-Province Analysis | |
| Gray, David (University of Ottawa): Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) Status Amongst the Retired Population: An Analysis of the Incidence | ||
| Dong, Yingying (University of California Irvine): Regression Discontinuity Applications with Rounding Errors in the Running Variable | ||
| Discussants | Hildebrand, Vincent (Glendon College York University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| Language and Ethnicity in Labour Markets / Langues et ethinicité dans le marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Gross, Till (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Hickey, Ross (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus): The costs of regulatory federalism: does provincial labour market regulation impede the integration of Canadian immigrants? | |
| Estevan, Fernanda (University of Ottawa): College Admission and High School Integration | ||
| Armstrong, Alex (Queen's University): Equilibrium and Efficiency in Bilingual Labour Markets | ||
| Discussants | Ferrer, Ana M. (University of Calgary); Annen, Kurt (University of Guelph); Curry, Philip (University of Waterloo) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| Bank of Canada Session: Corporate Finance I / Séance de la Banque du Canada: Finance des entreprises I | ||
| Organizer | Paligorova, Teodora (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Paligorova, Teodora (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Agarwal, Vikas (Georgia State University): Determinants and Implications of Fee Changes in the Hedge Fund Industry | |
| Paligorova, Teodora (Bank of Canada): Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and the Cost of Debt Financing | ||
| Beyhaghi, Mehdi (York University): The Long-Term Consequences of Experiencing the Originate-to-Distribute Model of Bank Credit for Borrowers | ||
| Discussants | Bulusu, Narayan (Bank of Canada); Agarwal, Vikas (Georgia State University); Pandes, Ari (University of Calgary) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH DEN |
| CNEH 1: Trade, Transport, Manufacturing & Wealth during the Golden Age of Globalization: 1850-1930 / Commerce, transport, fabrication et richesse durant l'Âge d'or de la globalisation des marchés : 1850-1930 | ||
| Organizer | Di Matteo, Livio (Lakehead University) | |
| Chair | Dupré, Ruth (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Di Matteo, Livio (Lakehead University): Land,Booms & Inequality: Evidence from Canada's Western Frontier | |
| Harley, Charles Knick (University of Oxford): Globalization and the Frontier: 1870-1930: the Canadian Prairies | ||
| Keay, Ian (Queen's University): Freight rates, transport costs, trade costs and the decline of the trans-Atlantic iron trade, 1870-1913 | ||
| Mosk, Carl A. (University of Victoria): American System of Manufactures: Factor Bias or the Democratization of Invention? | ||
| Discussants | Emery, J C Herbert (University of Calgary); Tassonyi, Almos T. (Ryerson University); Hinton, Michael (Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| Financial Economics I / Économie financière I | ||
| Chair | Zhao, Yan (East China University of Science and Technology) | |
| Papers | Tu, Yuanyuan (Queen's University): Financial Integration, international capital flows and risk sharing | |
| Nikzad, Rashid (Industry Canada): Extreme Value Theory with an Application to Bank Failures through Contagion | ||
| Zhao, Yan (East China University of Science and Technology): Borrowing constraints and the trade balance-output comovement | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| Health Care / Soins de santé | ||
| Chair | Fonseca, Raquel (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Devlin, Rose Anne (University of Ottawa): The Determinants of Influenza Take Up across Canadian Provinces | |
| Guliani, Harminder (University of Regina): Determinants of the use of prenatal ultrasounds: Evidence from Canada | ||
| McIntosh, James (Concordia University): Obesity and the Demand for Canadian Physician Services | ||
| Discussants | Menard, Sébastien (University of Le Mans); Gaudette, Étienne (Université du Québec à Montréal); Michaud, Pierre-Carl (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| Early Childhood Development / Développement au cours de la petite enfance | ||
| Chair | Warburton, Bill (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Ward, Courtney (Dalhousie University): Influenza, the in-utero environment, and later developmental outcomes in children | |
| Popli, Gurleen (University of Sheffield): Persistent Poverty and Children's Cognitive Development: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study | ||
| Discussants | Cleveland, Gordon (University of Toronto Scarborough); Warburton, Bill (University of British Columbia) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH SAL |
| CEBERG 5: Risk / Risque | ||
| Organizers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Chair | Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Papers | Freeman, David (University of British Columbia): Elicitation and Isolation Revisited | |
| Mozumder, Pallab (Florida International University): Investigating Hurricane Risk Mitigation Behavior: A Policy Experiment | ||
| Halevy, Yoram (University of British Columbia): Learning to be Probabilistic Sophisticated | ||
| Discussants | Spraggon, John (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University); Kimbrough, Erik (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH TES |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence - État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Boyer, Marcel (Université de Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Martimort, David (Paris School of Economics) | |
| Topic | A Mechanism Design Approach to Climate Agreements | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 104 |
| HRSDC Session: Employment Equity / Séance RHDCC: Equité en emploi | ||
| Organizer | Tu, Jiong (HRSDC) | |
| Chair | Bibi, Sami (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Tu, Jiong (HRSDC): The Employment Equity Act and Salary Inequality | |
| Bibi, Sami (Université Laval): The Employment Equity Act and the Wage Gap | ||
| Kuysten, Kristopher (University of Guelph): Balancing Benefits and Employment Incentives for People with Disabilities | ||
| Discussants | Elmarzougui, Eskandar (Université Laval); Nadeau, Serge (University of Ottawa); Ayadi, Mohamed (University Of Tunis) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 106 |
| CESG 3: Microeconometrics / Microéconométrie | ||
| Chair | Hodgson, Douglas (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Hoque, Ahmed (University of Victoria): Straightforward Variance Estimation for the Gini Coefficient with Stratified and Clustered Survey Data | |
| Webb, Matt (Queen's University): Reworking Wild Bootstrap Based Inference for Clustered Errors | ||
| Boucher, Vincent (Université de Montréal): My Friend Far Far Away: Asymptotic Properties of Pairwise Stable Networks | ||
| Hodgson, Douglas (Université du Québec à Montréal): Individual artist career patterns and the hedonic prediction of art prices at auction | ||
| Discussants | Webb, Matt (Queen's University); Kaffo Melou, Maximilien (Université de Montréal); Hodgson, Douglas (Université du Québec à Montréal); Boucher, Vincent (Université de Montréal) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 119 |
| Outsourcing and Unbundling / Utilisation des ressources externes et démantèlement partiel d'entreprise | ||
| Chair | Arzaghi, Mohammad (National Bureau of Economic Research) | |
| Papers | Arzaghi, Mohammad (National Bureau of Economic Research): The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis | |
| Bakhtiari, Sasan (University of New South Wales): Size Evolution and Outsourcing: Theory and Evidence from Australian Manufacturing | ||
| Minamihashi, Naoaki (Bank of Canada): Prevention of Competition by Competition Law: Unbundling on Fiber-Optic Networks | ||
| Discussants | Song, Yang (University of Calgary) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 121 |
| Industry Canada Session: Firm Dynamics and Productivity / Séance d'Industrie Canada: Dynamiques d'entreprise et productivité | ||
| Organizer | Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada) | |
| Chair | Ryan, Annette (Industry Canada) | |
| Papers | Chan, Kelvin Ka Yin (Industry Canada): Plant Dynamics and Productivity: the Canadian Petroleum and Coal Product Manufacturing Industry | |
| Petrunia, Robert (Lakehead University): Capital Structure Decisions: Lessons from Private Firms | ||
| Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada): Productivity Dynamics of Entrants and Exiters: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing | ||
| Discussants | Wang, Yanling (Carelton University); Mirza, Afrasiab (Queen's University); Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 105 |
| CPEG 4: Empirical Public Finance / Économie publique empirique | ||
| Organizer | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Clark, Jeremy (University of Canterbury) | |
| Papers | Irvine, Ian (Concordia University): Smoking Bans and the Well Being of Rational Smokers in a non-Paternalistic Framework | |
| Messacar, Derek (University of Toronto): Pre-retirement RRSP Withdrawals: Evidence of present-biased saving with commitment and tax avoidance behaviour | ||
| Discussants | Turner, Laura (University of Toronto); Morissette, Rene (Statistics Canada) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 142 |
| Bank of Canada Session: Capital Flows and Global Imbalances / Séance de la Banque du Canada: Flux de capitaux et déséquilibres mondiaux | ||
| Chair | Vasishtha, Garima (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Riera-Crichton, Daniel (Bates College): Banking Crises, External Turmoil and the Role of Gross Foreign Investment Reversals | |
| Volosovych, Vadym (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances | ||
| Clower, Erica (University of Washington): The Persistence and Determinants of Current Account Balances: The Implications for Global Rebalancing | ||
| Discussants | Qureshi, Mahvash (International Monetary Fund); Clower, Erica (University of Washington); Riera-Crichton, Daniel (Bates College) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG: Education II / Éducation II | ||
| Chair | Laszlo, Sonia (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Castro, Juan F. (Universidad del Pacifico): Higher Education Decisions in Peru: On the Role of Financial Constraints, Skills, and Family Background | |
| Rosales Arredondo, Irving (University of Calgary): How policies against child labor can harm developing nations | ||
| Okoye, Chidozie (University of Western Ontario): Education Policy and Rate of Return Estimates | ||
| Discussants | Rosales Arredondo, Irving (University of Calgary); Castro, Juan F. (Universidad del Pacifico); Lazkano, Itziar (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 146 |
| CDESG: Political Economy in India / Économie politique en Inde | ||
| Chair | Paul, Sohini (National Council of Applied Economic Research) | |
| Papers | Ural-Marchand, Beyza (University of Alberta): Does the US Biofuel Mandate Increase Poverty in India? | |
| Nagarajan, Hari Krishnan (National Council of Applied Economic Research): Can political reservations affect political equilibria in the long-term?:Evidence from local elections in rural India | ||
| Roy Chaudhuri, Arka (University of British Columbia): The Long-Run Effect of Colonization on Ethnic Conflict: Evidence from India | ||
| Discussants | Roy Chaudhuri, Arka (University of British Columbia); Ural-Marchand, Beyza (University of Alberta); Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Foyer |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| Financial Economics II / Économie financière II | ||
| Chair | Smimou, Kamal (University of Ontario Institute of Technology) | |
| Papers | Alausa, Waleem (University of Alberta): Dynamic Futures Hedging In The Presence of Multi-frequency Risks | |
| Liu, Yu (Concordia University): Estimation of Credit Migration Matrices: An Empirical study of An Internal Rating System | ||
| Wang, Steven Shuye (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University): Economic Freedom and IPO Underpricing | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| PEF 5: Poverty and Social Assistance in Canada / Pauvreté et aide sociale au Canada | ||
| Organizer | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| Chair | Brennan, Jordan (York University) | |
| Papers | Wood, Donna (University of Victoria): The Rise and Fall of Federal Contributions to Provincial Social Programs: the Canada Social Transfer and What's Left Over | |
| Stapleton, John (Open Policy): TRADING PLACES Single Adults Replace Lone Parents as the New Face of Social Assistance in Canada | ||
| Falvo, Nick (Carleton University): The Forgotten Poor: Singles on Social Assistance | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| CSLS: Canada's Economic Destiny: The Future of Productivity Growth in Canada / Le destin économique du Canada: l'avenir de la croissance de la productivité | ||
| Organizer | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Chair | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Panelists | Poschmann, Finn (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Ryan, Annette (Industry Canada) | ||
| Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada) | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH ECC |
| Information / Information | ||
| Chair | Yanni, Pierre-Yves (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Wang, Tao (Queen's University): Dynamic Equilibrium Bunching | |
| Bedard, Nicholas (University of Western Ontario): The Strategically Ignorant Principal | ||
| Kneeland, Terri (University of British Columbia): Cognitive Types | ||
| Discussants | Kneeland, Terri (University of British Columbia); Kotowski, Maciej (Harvard University); Sprumont, Yves (Université de Montréal) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| Consumer Finance / Finances des consommateurs | ||
| Chair | Mikhed, Vyacheslav (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Bulusu, Narayan (Bank of Canada): Frequency of consumption adjustment and the equity premium | |
| Zhou, Jie (Nanyang Technological University): Who changed their portfolios during the great financial crisis? | ||
| Barry, Scholnick (University of Alberta): Bankruptcy, Public Disclosure and Neighborhood Effects | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| Topics in Financial Economics / Sujets en économie financière | ||
| Chair | Okou, Cedric (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Brolley, Michael (University of Toronto): Informed Trading in a Low-Latency Limit Order Market | |
| Halmrast, Nathan (University of Toronto): Do Make/Take Fees Incentivize Liquidity Provision: Evidence from the TSX | ||
| Bouaddi, Mohammed (The American University in Cairo): Volatility Decomposition in a Data Rich Environment | ||
| Discussants | Bouaddi, Mohammed (The American University in Cairo); Alexeev, Vitali (University of Tasmania); Halmrast, Nathan (University of Toronto) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH SAL |
| CEBERG 6: Searching for Fact: On Acquiring Information and Updating Beliefs / Acquisition de l'information et mise à jour des croyances dans la recherche des faits | ||
| Organizers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Chair | Schott, Stephan (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Rodenburg, Kathleen (University of Guelph): Bayesian and Reinforcement Learning: An Experimental Comparison | |
| Walker, Graeme (Simon Fraser University): The Coevolution of Beliefs and Networks | ||
| Discussants | Freeman, David (University of British Columbia); Cuff, Katherine L (McMaster University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH TES |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence - État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Payne, Abigail (McMaster University) | |
| Speaker | Currie, Janet (Princeton University) | |
| Topic | Why Early Life Matters for Economics | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 105 |
| Bank of Canada Session: Empirical Macro Models for Current Analysis / Séance de la Banque du Canada: modèles macroéconomiques empiriques pour l'analyse courante | ||
| Chair | Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Ferraro, Domenico (Duke University): Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates? | |
| Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada): Evaluating Density Forecasts for U.S. Output Growth and Inflation in a Large Macroeconomic Dataset | ||
| Snaith, Stuart (University of Essex): Forecasting EUR-USD Implied Volatility: The Case of Intraday Data | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG Policy Panel I: Older, Wiser, and Richer? / Table-ronde du GCEDE I: Plus vieux, plus sage et plus riche? | ||
| Chair | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Panelists | Mason, Andrew (University of Hawaii at Manoa) | |
| Miller, Tim (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) | ||
| Askari, Mostafa (Parliamentary Budget Office) | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 146 |
| CNEH 2: The Role of Government in Economic History / Le rôle du gouvernement dans l'histoire économique | ||
| Organizer | Di Matteo, Livio (Lakehead University) | |
| Chair | Emery, J C Herbert (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Dupré, Ruth (HEC Montréal): The Fight over Prohibition of Alcohol Down Under: An analysis of Seven New Zealand Referendums [1911-1928] | |
| Hinton, Michael (Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis): Does the National Policy explain the growth of the Canadian cotton textile industry? | ||
| Tassonyi, Almos T. (Ryerson University): Feeding the Creatures: Borrowing and the Hard budget constraint- Ontario Municipalities in the 1930s | ||
| Discussants | Di Matteo, Livio (Lakehead University); Keay, Ian (Queen's University); Inwood, Kris (University of Guelph) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 316 |
| CESG 4: Instrumental Variables / Variables instrumentales | ||
| Chair | Davidson, Russell (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Chausse, Pierre (University of Waterloo): GEL for a Continuum: the linear case with many instruments | |
| MacKinnon, James G (Queen's University): Bootstrap Confidence Sets with Weak Instruments | ||
| Doko Tchatoka, Firmin Sabro (University of Tasmania): Testing for Partial Exogeneity with Weak Instruments | ||
| Discussants | Davidson, Russell (McGill University); Antoine, Bertille (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 403 |
| Topics in Development I / Sujets en développement I | ||
| Chair | Housseini, Bouba (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Roy, Nilanjana (University of Victoria): Health and Wealth: Short Panel Granger Causality Tests for Developing Countries | |
| Pham, Ngoc Q. (University of Maastricht): Privatization and Poverty Reduction in Vietnam: Optimal choices and its potential impacts | ||
| Venet, Baptiste (Université Paris Dauphine): Debt relief, concessionality and access to the international financial market | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 405 |
| International Trade: Institution, Innovation and Property Rights / Commerce international: institutions, innovations et droits de propriété | ||
| Chair | Beaulieu, Eugene C. (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Benz, Sebastian (Ifo Institute): Boon or bane: The impact of intellectual property rights on innovation | |
| Ghazalian, Pascal (University of Lethbridge): The TRIPs Agreement as a Coercive Threat: The Importance of Bilateral Trade Ties in Countries' Stronger Enforcement of IPRs | ||
| Wang, Yanling (Carelton University): Judicial Quality, Contact Intensity and Firm Exports: Evidence from China | ||
| Thurk, Jeff (University of Notre Dame): Trade Costs, Innovation, and the Gains from Trade | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 410 |
| Financial Literacy and Retirement / Littératie financière et retraite | ||
| Chair | Voyer, Jean-Pierre (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Papers | Mullock, Katharine (Department of Finance): Financial Literacy and Retirement Saving | |
| Michaud, Pierre-Carl (Université du Québec à Montréal): Optimal Financial Literacy and Saving for Retirement | ||
| Discussants | Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Carleton University); Beach, Charles M. (Queen's University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 412 |
| Environmental Policy Issues in a Changing World / Questions de politiques environnementales dans un monde en changement | ||
| Organizer | Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada) | |
| Chair | MacGee, Jim (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Baksi, Soham (University of Winnipeg): Credence Goods, Consumer Misinformation, and Equilibrium Quality | |
| Wibe, Jacob (University of Western Ontario): The Impact of Climate Change and Climate Policy on the Canadian Economy | ||
| Discussants | Rosell, Carlos (Finance Canada); Sawyer, David (International Institute for Sustainable Development) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 508 |
| Living Arrangements and Retirement / Modes de vie et retraite | ||
| Chair | Glynn, Lisa (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Turner, Laura (University of Toronto): Social Security, Endogenous Retirement and Intrahousehold Cooperation | |
| Horsewood, Nicholas (University of Birmingham): Early retirement and housing equity: Lessons from the European Union | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 637 |
| Bank of Canada session: Corporate Finance II / Séance de la Banque du Canada: Finance des entreprises II | ||
| Organizer | Paligorova, Teodora (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Paligorova, Teodora (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Petkova, Neviana (University of Oregon): International Joint Ventures Transformed: Foreign Buyouts, Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover | |
| Pandes, Ari (University of Calgary): Are Analysts Really Too Optimistic? | ||
| Durnev, Artem (University of Iowa): Corporate Social Responsibility and Asset Pricing | ||
| Discussants | Durnev, Artem (University of Iowa); Petkova, Neviana (University of Oregon); Huang, Alan (University of Waterloo) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL Gallery |
| CIGI Session: The European Debt Crisis: Issues of governance, institutional design, economic policies and risk of contagion / La crise de la dette en Europe: questions de gouvernance, institutions, politiques économiques et risque de contagion | ||
| Organizer | Jenkins, Paul (CIGI) | |
| Chair | Jenkins, Paul (CIGI) | |
| Panelists | Siklos, Pierre L (Balsillie School of International Affairs and CIGI) | |
| Stavrev, Emil (IMF) | ||
| Hodgson, Glen (Conference Board of Canada) | ||
| Ragan, Christopher (McGill University) | ||
| 12:00-14:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH MHA |
| Purvis Luncheon / Diner-conférence Purvis | ||
| Sponsor | CIRPEE | |
| Chair | Morck, Randall K. (University of Alberta) | |
| Speaker | Campbell, John (Harvard University) | |
| Topic | Mortgage Market Design | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | ES 162 |
| Corporate Finance II / Finance d'entreprise II | ||
| Chair | Beyhaghi, Mehdi (York University) | |
| Papers | Yang, Jun (Bank of Canada): Costly External Finance, Liquidity Risk and Default Risk | |
| Gao, Xiaodan (University of British Columbia): Corporate Cash Hoarding: The Role of Just-in-Time Adoption | ||
| Cule, Monika (University of Regina): Does corporate ethics and corporate governance matter for subjective well-being? | ||
| Discussants | Gao, Xiaodan (University of British Columbia); Yang, Jun (Bank of Canada) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| Venture Capital and Auctions / Capital de risque et enchères | ||
| Chair | Arya, Pyare (Saint Mary's University) | |
| Papers | Lebrun, Bernard (York University): Revenue-superior variants of the second-price auction | |
| Engineer, Merwan (University of Victoria): Hide and Seek Search: Why Angels Hide and Entrepreneurs Seek | ||
| Thiele, Veikko (Queen's University): The Market for Venture Capital: Entry, Competition, and the Survival of New Firms | ||
| Discussants | Thiele, Veikko (Queen's University); Lebrun, Bernard (York University); Vo, Dan (University of Victoria) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| Irving Fisher and the Origins of Modern Macroeconomics / Irving Fisher et les origines de la macroéconomie moderne | ||
| Organizer | Dimand, Robert W. (Brock University) | |
| Chair | MacLean, Brian K. (Laurentian University) | |
| Papers | Dimand, Robert W. (Brock University): Irving Fisher's Appreciation and Interest (1896) and the Origins of Modern Macroeconomics | |
| Laidler, David (University of Western Ontario): Professor Fisher and the Quantity Theory - a Significant Encounter | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| PEF Annual General Meeting - All Are Welcome / Assemblée annuelle | ||
| Organizer | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| CSLS: New Approaches to Well-Being and Poverty in Canada / Nouvelles approches sur le bien-être et la pauvreté au Canada | ||
| Organizer | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Chair | Ragan, Christopher (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Andrews, Brendon (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): Estimates of the Sensitivity of the Index of Economic Well-being to LIM and LICO Poverty Estimates | |
| Osberg, Lars (Dalhousie University): Measuring Economic Insecurity in Rich and Poor Nations | ||
| Gee, S. Kar-Fai (Queen's University): Estimates of Good Life Time (GLT) in Canada using the GSS | ||
| Discussants | Gordon, Stephen (Université Laval); Morissette, Rene (Statistics Canada); Richards, John (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH DEN |
| School Choice and Quality / Choix et qualités des écoles | ||
| Chair | Foley, Kelly (Copenhagen Business School) | |
| Papers | Leonard, Phil (McMaster University): Choice of Ontario High Schools and Student Sorting by Ability | |
| Johnson, David (Wilfrid Laurier University): Comparing Two Methods of Measuring School Quality from Standardized Assessments | ||
| Milla, Joniada (University of Guelph): University Quality and Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Youth | ||
| Discussants | Abbott, Brant (University of British Columbia); Foley, Kelly (Copenhagen Business School); Smith, Justin (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH ECC |
| Dynamic Games / Jeux dynamiques | ||
| Chair | Sprumont, Yves (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Forand, Jean Guillaume (University of Waterloo): Prevention vs. Remediation | |
| Lo, Pei-yu (The University of Hong Kong): Reputation and Competition among Information Intermediaries | ||
| Yanni, Pierre-Yves (Université du Québec à Montréal): Coarse Reputation and Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking | ||
| Discussants | Khounvongsa, Maibang (University of British Columbia) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| Mount Royal University - Policy Studies (MRU-POST): Policies for Finance, Human Capital and Energy Resources / Politiques en finance, capital humain et ressources énergétiques | ||
| Organizer | Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University) | |
| Chair | Atkinson, Benjamin (Mount Royal University) | |
| Papers | Howie, Peter (Mount Royal University): Inequality in a resource-dependant country: Kazakhstan as a case study | |
| Slonim, Alexander (Mount Royal University): Economic Chaos: Examining Applications of Chaos Theories in Financial Forecasting | ||
| Khan, Md. Syeed-Uz-Zaman (University of Manitoba): Remittance Behavior: A case study on Asian Immigrants. | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| Exchange Rate Estimation / Estimation des taux de change | ||
| Chair | Kostyshyna, Olena (Portland State University) | |
| Papers | Apergis, Nicholas (University of Piraeus): The Australian Dollar and Gold Prices | |
| Hossfeld, Oliver (Deutsche Bundesbank): Shall we Use Panel or Time Series Methods to Estimate Equilibrium Real Effective Exchange Rates? | ||
| Karimi, Mohammad (University of Ottawa): Currency Crises, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Capital Account Liberalization: A Duration Analysis Approach | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| Free Trade Agreements I / Accords de libre échange I | ||
| Chair | Baker, Paul Leonard (University of Cambridge) | |
| Papers | Mwilaria, Shadrack (West Virginia University): Trade protection and industry-specific volatility | |
| Yildiz, Halis (Ryerson University): On the Role of Hub and Spoke Agreements for the Stability of Free Trade: Free Trade Areas vs. Customs Unions | ||
| Discussants | Onder, Harun (The World Bank) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH SAL |
| CEBERG 7: Invited Lecture / Conférence invitée | ||
| Organizers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Chairs | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Speaker | Chen, Yan (University of Michigan) | |
| Topic | Social Identity in Economics: Theory and Experiments | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH TES |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence sur l'état des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Michaud, Pierre-Carl (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Kessler, Daniel P. (Stanford Law School) | |
| Topic | Reforming Medicare in the U.S. | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 104 |
| Topics in Labour II / Sujets en économie du travail II | ||
| Chair | Zubanov, Nikolay (Erasmus University Rotterdam) | |
| Papers | Akbari, Aliah (Dalhousie University): How does the care giver/receiver relationship affect the hours spent on caring for senior citizens in Canada? | |
| Feir, Donna Leanne (University of British Columbia): The Long Term Impacts of Indian Residential Schools | ||
| Beland, Louis-Philippe (Université de Montréal): Political Parties & Earnings Inequality: Evidence from US States | ||
| Discussants | Mayer, Katarina (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies); Schaufele, Brandon N. (University of Ottawa) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 119 |
| CREE: Natural Resources Theory / Théorie des ressources naturelles | ||
| Chair | Wan, Rui (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Nøstbakken, Linda (University of Alberta): International quota enforcement for transboundary resources | |
| Lazkano, Itziar (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): The Role of Capacity in Quota Compliance | ||
| Boyce, John (University of Calgary): The `Big Bang,' the Relative Scarcity of Natural Resources, and Biased Technological Change | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 121 |
| Immigration-Related Labour Market Issues: New Research Possibilities / Nouvelles possibilités de recherche sur les questions reliées à l'immigration et au marché du travail | ||
| Organizers | Ferrer, Ana M. (University of Calgary) Justus, Martha (Citizenship and Immigration Canada) | |
| Chair | Ferrer, Ana M. (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Thompson, Eden (Citizenship and Immigration Canada): The IMDB Redesigned - New Features and Research Avenues | |
| Riddell, W. Craig (University of British Columbia): Revising Canada's Immigrant Selection System: An Assessment of the Immigrant and Refugee Protection Act (2002) | ||
| Zhang, Haimin (University of British Columbia): Centralized vs. Decentralized Immigrant Selection: An Assessment of the BC Experience | ||
| Iturralde, Chona (Citizenship and Immigration Canada): IMDB Redesign - An Empirical Example | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 124A |
| Bank of Canada Session: Forecasting with Mixed Frequency Data / Séance de la Banque du Canada: estimations avec des données à fréquence mixte | ||
| Chair | Guérin, Pierre (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Berge, Travis (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City): Forecasting Fed Funds Target Changes with Large Datasets | |
| Guérin, Pierre (Bank of Canada): Markov-switching MIDAS models | ||
| Kim, Tae Bong (Korea Development Institute): Temporal Aggregation and Mixed Frequency Estimation of a New Keynesian model | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG: Topics in Development / Sujets en développement | ||
| Chair | Pongou, Roland (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Mughal, Mazhar (Université de Pau): Labor Effects of Foreign and Domestic Remittances - Evidence from Pakistan | |
| Chowdhury, Muhammad Murshed (University of Manitoba): Estimating Remittance Function of Chinese and Indian Immigrants: Evidence from Canadian Micro-data | ||
| Pongou, Roland (University of Ottawa): Anonymity and Infidelity: Ethnic Identity, Strategic Cross-Ethnic Sexual Network Formation, and HIV/AIDS in Africa | ||
| Discussants | Chowdhury, Muhammad Murshed (University of Manitoba); Mughal, Mazhar (Université de Pau); Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 146 |
| CDESG Policy Panel II: Can Mining ever lead to Development? / Table-ronde du GCEDE II: L'industrie minière, un filon pour le développement? | ||
| Chair | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Panelists | Aragon-Sanchez, Fernando (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Escobal, Javier (GRADE) | ||
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| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 148 |
| Growth and Productivity / Croissance et productivité | ||
| Chair | Li, Jiang (University of Victoria) | |
| Papers | Chun, Young Jun (Hanyang University): Population Aging, Technological Progress, and Economic Growth | |
| Khurana, Indu (Florida International University): Speed of Entrepreneurial Learning and Firm Growth | ||
| Li, Jiang (University of Victoria): Canada and US manufacturing labour productivity: long and short run relationships | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 316 |
| Bank of Canada Session: Wage, Labor Supply and the Life Cycle / Séance de la Banque du Canada: salaires, offre de travail et cycle de vie | ||
| Organizer | Cao, Shutao (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Cao, Shutao (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Ho, Anson (Kansas State University): Health Insurance and the College Premium | |
| Cao, Shutao (Bank of Canada): Fixed-term and permanent employment contracts: theory and evidence | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 403 |
| Topics on Youth / Sujets sur les jeunes | ||
| Chair | Ward, Courtney (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Ci, Wen (Carleton University): The Same Problem, different approaches, and new conclusions: What can be done to stop bullying? | |
| Zhang, Lihui (University of Regina): Longitudinal Profile of Victimization Among Canadian Youth | ||
| Matheson, Jesse (University of Leicester): The effect of education opportunity on teenage child birth: Evidence from over 5,000 Brazilian municipalities | ||
| Discussants | Zhang, Lihui (University of Regina); Pyne, Derek (Thompson Rivers University); Ward, Courtney (Dalhousie University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 405 |
| Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emission Policies using CGE Models / Utilisation des modèles EGC pour les politiques sur les changements climatiques et les émissions de gaz à effet de serre | ||
| Organizer | Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada) | |
| Chair | Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada) | |
| Papers | Wigle, Randall (Wilfrid Laurier University): Green jobs and renewable electricity policies: Employment impacts of Ontario's feed-in tariff | |
| Sawyer, David (International Institute for Sustainable Development): Applied Random Number Generation? Using CGE to Model Low Carbon Development in Kenya | ||
| Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada): Production versus Consumption-Based Emission Targeting: Implications for Developing and Developed Economies | ||
| Discussants | Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada); Wigle, Randall (Wilfrid Laurier University); MacGee, Jim (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 410 |
| Industry Canada Session: Human Capital and Labour Demand / Séance d'Industrie Canada: capital humain et demande de travail | ||
| Organizer | Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada) | |
| Chair | Shute, Larry (Industry Canada) | |
| Papers | Acharya, Ram (Industry Canada): Impact of International Trade on Canada's Employment, Skill and Wage Structures | |
| Bérubé, Charles (Industry Canada): Labour Reallocation and Productivity Growth: Evidence form Canada and the United States | ||
| Dixon, Jay (Industrie Canada): High Growth Firms in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Dar, Afshan (Carleton University); Rosell, Carlos (Finance Canada); Petrunia, Robert (Lakehead University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 412 |
| CMSG: Asset Pricing / Prix des actifs | ||
| Chair | Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| Papers | Yang, Zhe (Queen's University): Search, Liquidity and Business Cycles | |
| Okou, Cedric (HEC Montréal): An Extension of the Consumption-based CAPM Model | ||
| Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas (Carnegie Mellon University): An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 440A |
| CESG 5: Time Series / Séries temporelles | ||
| Chair | Antoine, Bertille (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Antoine, Bertille (Simon Fraser University): Efficient Inference with Time-Varying Identification Strength | |
| Dovonon, Prosper (Concordia University): Testing for Common GARCH Factors | ||
| Adamopoulos, Pauline (Ryerson University): A regime switching model with exogenous variables in a study of hedge funds | ||
| Discussants | MacKinnon, James G (Queen's University); Galbraith, John W (McGill University); Alexeev, Vitali (University of Tasmania) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 440D |
| Topics in Development II / Sujets en développement II | ||
| Chair | Eswaran, Mukesh (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Costa, Samia (University of St. Gallen): Government Repression and the Death Toll from Natural Disasters | |
| Housseini, Bouba (Université Laval): Welfare Dominance for Intertemporal Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism with Applications to Sub-Saharan Africa | ||
| Hanel, Petr (Université de Sherbrooke): A Tale of Two Cities or Romance of the Three Kingdoms: the role and position of the biotechnological industry cluster in Guangdong Province, China | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 508 |
| CPEG 6: Provincial Government Expenditures / CPEG 6: Dépenses des gouvernements provinciaux | ||
| Organizer | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Hickey, Ross (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus) | |
| Papers | Mou, Haizhen (University of Saskatchewan): The Cost of Government: Decomposing Provincial Expenditures, 1981-2007 | |
| Pandey, Manish (University of Winnipeg): Equalization Payments and Composition of Provincial Government Expenditures | ||
| Ferede, Ergete (Grant MacEwan University): The Stimulative Effects of Intergovernmental Grants and the Marginal Cost of Public Funds | ||
| Discussants | McMillan, Mel (University of Alberta); Kneebone, Ron D (University of Calgary); Tassonyi, Almos T. (Ryerson University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 637 |
| Market Power, Entry and Diversity / Pouvoir de marché, entrée et diversité | ||
| Chair | Santugini, Marc (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Santugini, Marc (HEC Montréal): Entry, Imperfect Competition, and Futures Market for the Input. | |
| Hong, Ding (University of Ottawa): Subsidy, Product Diversity and Buyer Power | ||
| Discussants | Erutku, Can (York University); Maher, Anabelle (Université de Montréal) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL Gallery |
| C.D. Howe Session I: New Issues in International Trade: IP, Services, and a Firm-Level View / Nouveaux enjeux en commerce international: propriété intellectuelle, services et perspectives de l'entreprise | ||
| Organizer | Schwanen, Daniel (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Chair | Downs, Andre (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada) | |
| Papers | Beaulieu, Eugene C. (University of Calgary): Overview of Research on the Effects of Trade Using Firm-Level Data | |
| Schwanen, Daniel (C.D. Howe Institute): Does Canada have a comparative advantage in Commercial Services? | ||
| Poschmann, Finn (C.D. Howe Institute): Where Do Canadian Patents Go? Trends and Policy Linkages | ||
| Discussants | Curtis, John M. (Senior Fellow, CD Howe Institute); Ryan, Annette (Industry Canada) | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Foyer |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | ES 162 |
| CPEG 7: Private and Public Provision / Approvisionnement privé et public | ||
| Organizer | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Irvine, Ian (Concordia University) | |
| Papers | Barnett, Richard (Drexel University): Private versus Public Old-Age Security | |
| Leroux, Marie-Louise (Université du Québec à Montréal): Public and private hospitals, waiting times, and redistribution | ||
| Discussants | Dahlby, Bev (University of Alberta); Mou, Haizhen (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| Defense and Security Economics / Économie de la défense et sécurité | ||
| Organizer | Berkok, Ugurhan (Royal Military College) | |
| Chair | Paterson, Bryan (Royal Military College of Canada) | |
| Papers | Reich, Otto (Massey University): Negotiating with terrorists: The costs of compliance | |
| Rowlands, Dane (Carleton University): Organizational structure and the effects of targeting terrorist leadership | ||
| Skogstad, Karl (Queen's University): Modeling Military Expenditures: External and Internal factors | ||
| Solomon, Binyam (Department of National Defence): NGOs in Peacekeeping: A spatial model | ||
| Discussants | Huynh, Kim (Bank of Canada); Mirza, Afrasiab (Queen's University); Solomon, Binyam (Department of National Defence); Alexander, Patrick (Queen's University) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| Labour Economics / Économie du travail | ||
| Chair | Miyairi, Masashi (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Zubanov, Nikolay (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The link between risk aversion and effort in an incentive pay scheme with multiplicative noise | |
| Skuterud, Mikal (University of Waterloo): Reported Sickness Absenteeism and the Weather: A Test of a Shirking Model of Efficiency Wages | ||
| Brochu, Pierre (University of Ottawa): Who Does Not Share their Tax Information? And Its Implication for Labour Economists | ||
| Reade, James (University of Birmingham): Punishing the Foreigner: Implicit Discrimination in the Premier League Based on Oppositional Identity | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| J.K. Galbraith Lecture / Conférence J. K. Galbraith | ||
| Chair | Weir, Erin (United Steelworkers) | |
| Speaker | McCracken, Michael C (Informetrica Limited) | |
| Topic | The Search for Full Employment: My Continuing Battle for the Unemployed | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| BYE Session: Bangladesh Development Issues / Questions relatives au développement du Bangladesh | ||
| Organizers | Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University) Mamun, Khawaja (Sacred Heart University) | |
| Chair | Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University) | |
| Papers | Raihan, Selim (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh): Employment Effects of FTA Agreements: The Perspectives from Bangladesh | |
| Rabbani, Mehnaz (McGill University): Mother's time: Work versus Child Care | ||
| Shonchoy, Abu (Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO): Ramadan School Holidays as a Natural Experiment: Impacts of Seasonality on School Enrollment Rates in Bangladesh | ||
| Discussants | Islam, Shahidul (Grant Macewan University); Raihan, Selim (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh); Shonchoy, Abu (Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH DEN |
| Financial Intermediation / Intermédiation financière | ||
| Chair | Gortz, Christoph (University of Nottingham) | |
| Papers | Dong, Gang (Nathan) (Columbia University): Mortgage Securitization: The Good, the Bad, or the Irrelevant? | |
| Renne, Jean-Paul (Banque de France): A model of the euro-area yield curve with discrete policy rates | ||
| Gortz, Christoph (University of Nottingham): News and Financial Intermediation in Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH ECC |
| Exchange Rate Issues / Questions sur les taux de change | ||
| Chair | Karimi, Mohammad (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Kostyshyna, Olena (Portland State University): Statistical properties of exchange rates in a simple monetary model with constant gain least squares learning | |
| Aleem, Abdul (University of New Brunswick Saint John): Monetary Policy Credibility and Exchange Rate Pass-Through: Some evidence from Emerging Countries | ||
| Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada): The Sensitivity of Producer Prices to Exchange Rates: Insights from Micro Data | ||
| Smimou, Kamal (University of Ontario Institute of Technology): Consumer Attitudes, Stock Market Liquidity, and The Macro Economy: A Canadian Perspective | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| EPRI 1: Getting them in: Pre-Postsecondary Education Experiences / L'accès aux études: expériences précédant le postsecondaire | ||
| Organizers | Mueller, Richard (University of Lethbridge) Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa) | |
| Chair | Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Haeck, Catherine (University of Leuven): All students left behind: An ambitious provincial school reform in Canada, but poor math achievements from grade 2 to 10. | |
| Chen, Kelly (Dalhousie University): Is Parental Activity Limitation Limiting Children's Access to Postsecondary Education? - Evidence from the Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) | ||
| Ford, Reuben (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): Early High School Interventions to Increase Students' Access to Post-secondary Education: Experimental Impacts from the Future to Discover Project | ||
| Zhao, Huizi (Heqco): Postsecondary Education Participation of Under-Represented Groups in Ontario: Evidence from the SLID Data | ||
| Discussants | Johnson, David (Wilfrid Laurier University); Haeck, Catherine (University of Leuven); Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University); Ford, Reuben (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| Production and International Trade / Production et commerce international | ||
| Chair | Rodrigue, Joel (Vanderbilt University) | |
| Papers | Sun, Ying (University of Toronto): Quantifying the Gains from Trade Across Countries with Consumer Heterogeneity | |
| Weder, Rolf (University of Basel): International Trade in Variety and Domestic Production | ||
| Yalcin, Erdal (CESifo-Group): Export Credit Guarantees and Export Performance: An Empirical Analysis for Germany | ||
| Kali, Raja (HEC Montreal): Growth Networks | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| Inflation Targeting / Cible d'inflation | ||
| Chair | Dalkir, Mehmet (University of New Brunswick) | |
| Papers | Dorich, Jose (Bank of Canada): Price level targeting, the zero bound on the nominal interest rate and imperfect credibility | |
| Santos, Joseph (South Dakota State University): Origins of contemporary Canadian monetary policy | ||
| Voss, Graham (University of Victoria): A Regional Analysis of Inflation Targeting in Canada: How Well Are Inflation Expectations Anchored? | ||
| Discussants | Dalkir, Mehmet (University of New Brunswick); Santos, Joseph (South Dakota State University); Voss, Graham (University of Victoria) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH SAL |
| CEBERG 8: Manipulating and Estimating Preferences / Manipulation et estimation des préférences | ||
| Organizers | Childs, Jason (University of Regina) Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| Chair | Spraggon, John (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | |
| Papers | Zrill, Lanny (University of British Columbia): Remarks on Revealed Preference and Parametric Estimation of Utility | |
| Morrison, William (Wilfrid Laurier University): Incentives to save in the presence of an endowment effect: some intertemporal choice experiments. | ||
| Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): Can Cognitive Dissonance Affect Social Preferences? | ||
| Discussants | Walker, Graeme (Simon Fraser University); Zrill, Lanny (University of British Columbia); Rodenburg, Kathleen (University of Guelph) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH TES |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence sur l'état des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Poitevin, Michel (Université de Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Reny, Philip C. (University of Chicago) | |
| Topic | Sequential Equilibrium in Infinite Games | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 104 |
| Matching and Job Search / Appariements et furetage sur le marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Lemieux, Thomas (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Biner, Burhan (DePaul University): A Search Model of Education-Job Mismatch | |
| Xu, Pai (University of Hong Kong): Matching by Luck or Search? Empirical Evidence from Executive Labor Market | ||
| Mayer, Katarina (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies): Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Random Matching and Bargaining Economy | ||
| Discussants | Lemieux, Thomas (University of British Columbia); Biner, Burhan (DePaul University); Xu, Pai (University of Hong Kong) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SA 121 |
| CMSG: Terms of Trade / Termes de l'échange | ||
| Chair | MacGee, Jim (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Tombe, Trevor (Wilfrid Laurier University): Internal Trade and Aggregate Productivity | |
| Shingal, Anirudh (University of Bern): Exploring foreign market access in government procurement | ||
| MacGee, Jim (University of Western Ontario): Retail Price Differences across U.S. and Canadian Cities during the Interwar Period | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG: Gender, Health and Education in India / Genre, santé et éducation en Inde | ||
| Chair | Samy, Yiagadeesen (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Paul, Sohini (National Council of Applied Economic Research): The impact of trade liberalization on domestic violence in India | |
| Das Gupta, Amlan (University of British Columbia): Veblen Consumption and the Calorie Puzzle of India | ||
| Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University): The Indian Ultrasound Paradox | ||
| Discussants | Samy, Yiagadeesen (Carleton University); Lehrer, Kim (University of Oxford); Ural-Marchand, Beyza (University of Alberta) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 146 |
| CDESG: Political Economy I / Économie politique I | ||
| Chair | Aragon-Sanchez, Fernando (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Xia, Bianjun (Zhejiang University): Social Insurance and Status | |
| Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University): The Welfare Effects of Economic Growth - Why Economists Can't Make Anyone Happy | ||
| Podhorsky, Andrea S. (York University): A Theoretical Analysis of the Fairtrade Certification Program | ||
| Discussants | Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University); Podhorsky, Andrea S. (York University); Xia, Bianjun (Zhejiang University) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | SB 148 |
| The Gasoline Market / Le marché de l'essence | ||
| Chair | Lian, Zeng (Alan) (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Erutku, Can (York University): Cost Shocks at the Pump: Asymmetric Pass-Through and Price Wars During Booms | |
| Arya, Pyare (Saint Mary's University): Nova Scotia Gasoline Market - Is there alternative to regulation? | ||
| Chang, Dongfeng (University of Calgary): The Demand for Gasoline: Evidence from Canadian Household Data | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 316 |
| CES Session: Growth and Well-being of the Chinese Economy / Croissance et bien-être de l'économie chinoise | ||
| Organizer | Lu, Ding (University of the Fraser Valley) | |
| Chair | Lu, Ding (University of the Fraser Valley) | |
| Papers | Fang, Tony (York University): The Determinants of Outward FDI by Chinese Firms: Evidence from Longitudinal Firm-level Data | |
| Shang, Qingyan (SUNY at Buffalo): Individual Well-being and Expected Future Income: Evidence from Urban China | ||
| Zhang, Jian (Temple University): Political Connection and Corporate Fraud: Evidence From China | ||
| Lu, Ding (University of the Fraser Valley): The "Middle Income Trap" and the BRIC economies | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 405 |
| CESG 6: Macroeconometrics / Macroéconométrie | ||
| Chair | Gordon, Stephen (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Gordon, Stephen (Université Laval): Integrating quarterly data into a dynamic factor model of US monthly GDP | |
| Ning, Cathy (Qiao) (Ryerson University): Asymmetric Dependence in the US Economy: Application to Money and the Phillips Curve | ||
| Sun, Yiguo (University of Guelph): Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Canadian Core and Total Inflation Rates | ||
| Discussants | Hauzenberger, Klemens (Deutsche Bundesbank); Gordon, Stephen (Université Laval); Ning, Cathy (Qiao) (Ryerson University) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 410 |
| Empirical and Behavioral Studies / Études empiriques et comportementales | ||
| Chair | Mohamed, Ghada (King Abdulaziz University) | |
| Papers | Cleveland, Gordon (University of Toronto Scarborough): The Cost of Producing Child Care Centre Services in the City of Toronto | |
| Mongeon, Kevin (University of New Haven): Home Advantage, Close Games, and Big Crowds: Economics and Existence of Rationally Biased Officiating | ||
| Yuan, Jia (University of Macau): Why Are Lottery Players Sharing Tickets? Evidence from China's Individual Lottery Betting Panel Data | ||
| Discussants | Woolley, Frances (Carleton University); Mohamed, Ghada (King Abdulaziz University); Yuan, Jia (University of Macau) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 412 |
| Physical Activity and Health / Activité physique et santé | ||
| Chair | McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick) | |
| Papers | Hajizadeh, Mohammad (University of Western Ontario): Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in obesity risk in Canada: 2000-2010 | |
| Sarma, Sisira K (The University of Western Ontario): The Effect of Physical Activity on Adult Obesity in Canada: Evidence from Panel Data | ||
| Shi, Jingye (University of Waterloo): Identifying a Causal Mechanism Linking Income and Participation in Leisure Time Physical Activities | ||
| Yu, Weiqiu (University of New Brunswick): Overweight and Obesity in Canada: A logistic-ordered Probit Econometric Analysis of Cycle 2.2 of the Canadian Community Health Survey | ||
| Discussants | Guliani, Harminder (University of Regina); McIntosh, James (Concordia University); Yu, Weiqiu (University of New Brunswick); Sarma, Sisira K (The University of Western Ontario) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 508 |
| Bank of Canada Session: The Role of Credit in the Economy / Séance de la Banque du Canada: Le role du crédit dans l'économie | ||
| Organizers | Xu, TengTeng (Bank of Canada) Minamihashi, Naoaki (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chairs | Xu, TengTeng (Bank of Canada) Minamihashi, Naoaki (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Terajima, Yaz (Bank of Canada): Effects of Funding Portfolios on the Credit Supply of Canadian Banks | |
| Nishiyama, Shin-Ichi (Tohoku University): How Bad was Lehman Shock?: Estimating a DSGE model with Firm and Bank Balance Sheets in a Data-Rich Environment | ||
| Zhang, Lin (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics): Credit Risk, Information and Coordination | ||
| Discussants | Huang, Haifang (University of Alberta); Zhang, Yahong (Bank of Canada); Peterson, Brian (Bank of Canada) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL 637 |
| International Trade and Tariffs / Commerce international et tarifs | ||
| Chair | Yildiz, Halis (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Collie, David (Cardiff University): Maximum-Revenue versus Optimum-Welfare Tariffs: A Delegation Game with Many Countries | |
| Gaisford, James D (University of Calgary): Should Smaller Countries Be More Protectionist? The Diversification Motive for Tariffs | ||
| Onder, Harun (The World Bank): Limiting Cross-Retaliation when Punishment is Limited: How DSU Article 22.3 Complements GATT Article XXVIII | ||
| Discussants | Gaisford, James D (University of Calgary); Yildiz, Halis (Ryerson University); Mwilaria, Shadrack (West Virginia University) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | TFDL Gallery |
| C.D. Howe Session II: New Issues for Canada's International Trade Policy / Nouveaux enjeux de politique commerciale pour le Canada | ||
| Organizer | Schwanen, Daniel (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Chair | Schwanen, Daniel (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Panelists | Downs, Andre (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada) | |
| Curtis, John M. (Senior Fellow, CD Howe Institute) | ||
| Tertzakian, Peter (Arc Financial Corp.) | ||
| Hanak, Daryl (Alberta International and Intergovernmental Relations) | ||
| 18:15-19:45 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH MHA |
| Presidential Address / Discours du président | ||
| Chair | Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | |
| Topic | Top Income Shares in Canada: Recent Trends and Why They Might Matter | |
| 19:45-21:15 | Saturday, June 9, 2012 | MH MHB |
| Reception / Réception | ||
| Sponsor | Analysis Group/Groupe d'Analyse | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Foyer |
| Coffee, Tea, Juices, Fruit, Pastries / Café, thé, jus, fruits, pâtisseries | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| CMSG: Default / Défaut de paiement | ||
| Chair | Forte, Sebastien (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Li, Li (University of Toronto): Sovereign Defaults and Interest Rate Spread in the Presence of Self Control Problem | |
| Partridge, James (University of Western Ontario): The Disappearance of AAA firms | ||
| Forte, Sebastien (McGill University): Bankruptcy Rates over the Business Cycle: An Investigation of the Effect of Aggregate Shocks in General Equilibrium | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| International Business Cycles I / Cycles économiques internationaux I | ||
| Chair | Singh, Rajesh (Iowa State University) | |
| Papers | Kabaca, Serdar (University of British Columbia): Search Frictions, Financial Frictions, and Labor Market Fluctuations in Emerging Markets | |
| Wong, M C Sunny (University of San Francisco): Spatial Analysis of the Dependence of World Business Cycles | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| Real Time Data / Données en temps réel | ||
| Chair | Ambler, Steven (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Siklos, Pierre L (Balsillie School of International Affairs and CIGI): The Credit Cycle and the Business Cycle in Canada and the U.S.: Two Solitudes? | |
| Morel, Louis (Bank of Canada): Assessing Underlying Inflation in Real-time: A Monthly Factor Model of CPI for Canada | ||
| Tkacz, Greg (Saint Francis Xavier University): Nowcasting GDP: Electronic Payments and the Timing of Data Releases | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| R&D / Recherche et développement | ||
| Chair | Hanel, Petr (Université de Sherbrooke) | |
| Papers | Sadeghzadeh, Javad (York University): R&D Subsidy and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis of the Indian Iron and Steel Industry with Plant-Level Data | |
| Ulku, Hulya (University of Manchester): Impact of R&D and Technology Diffusion on the Productivity of Manufacturing Firms in Turkey | ||
| Mohnen, Pierre (Maastricht University): R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Dynamic Modeling and Estimation on Firm Panel Data for Dutch and French Manufacturing | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH ECC |
| Small Businesses and Bankruptcy / Petites entreprises et faillite | ||
| Chair | Shiamptanis, Christos (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Krzepkowski, Matt (University of Calgary): Small Business Investment With Financing Constraints and Moral Hazard | |
| Peter, Jeffrey (University of Ottawa): Venture Capital: Project Selection and Management | ||
| Mikhed, Vyacheslav (University of Alberta): Do fiscal payments reduce personal bankruptcy? | ||
| Discussants | Nadeau, Serge (University of Ottawa); Song, Yang (University of Calgary); Glover, Andy (University of Texas at Austin) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| EPRI 2: Keeping them in: Practices Related to Persistence in PSE / Pratiques reliées à la persévérance au niveau postsecondaire | ||
| Organizers | Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa) Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Motte, Anne (Canadian Economics Association) | |
| Papers | Holmes, Jonathan (Queen's University): New Evidence on the Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Student Dropout in Canadian Universities | |
| Martinello, Felice (Brock University): Course Withdrawal Dates, Tuition Refunds, and Post-Secondary Persistence | ||
| Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa): Using administrative data to identify, target, and provide assistance to post-secondary students at risk of dropping out | ||
| DeClou, Lindsay (McMaster University): Who Stays and for How Long? Examining Attrition in Canadian Graduate Programs | ||
| Discussants | Martinello, Felice (Brock University); Fang, Tony (York University); Veall, Michael (McMaster University); Ci, Wen (Carleton University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| Economic Growth / Croissance économique | ||
| Chair | Chun, Young Jun (Hanyang University) | |
| Papers | Batu, Michael (University of Guelph): Altruism, Migration Dynamics and Economic Growth | |
| Dow, Gregory (Simon Fraser University): The Origins of Sedentism: An Excursion in Economic Prehistory | ||
| Discussants | Chun, Young Jun (Hanyang University); Batu, Michael (University of Guelph) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| AEDSB Session: Energy, Growth and Monetary Policy / Énergie, croissance et politique monétaire | ||
| Organizers | Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University) Mamun, Khawaja (Sacred Heart University) | |
| Chair | Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University) | |
| Papers | Akram, Tanweer (ING Investment Management): Central Bank Reserves, Monetary Aggregates, Bank Lending, and Concerns About Inflation | |
| Istiak, Khandokar (University of Calgary): Is the Relation Between Oil Price and Industrial Production Symmetric? Evidence From G-7 Countries | ||
| Discussants | Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University); Akram, Tanweer (ING Investment Management); Istiak, Khandokar (University of Calgary) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH SAL |
| Free Trade Agreement II / Accords de libre échange II | ||
| Chair | Spearot, Alan (University of California - Santa Cruz) | |
| Papers | Cherniwchan, Jevan (University of Calgary): Trade Liberalization and the Environment: Evidence from NAFTA | |
| de Munnik, Daniel (Bank of Canada): The Evolution of Canada's Global Export Market Share | ||
| Jean Louis, Rosmy (Vancouver Island University): An alternative approach to measuring consumption/production gains from trade | ||
| Discussants | de Munnik, Daniel (Bank of Canada); Cherniwchan, Jevan (University of Calgary); Spearot, Alan (University of California - Santa Cruz) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH TES |
| CREE: Topics in Environment / Sujets sur l'environnement | ||
| Chair | Ferrara, Ida (York University) | |
| Papers | Lin, James (University of Alberta): Electricity Markets with Carbon Capture and Storage | |
| Oestreich, (Andreas) Marcel (University of Guelph): Firms' Emissions and Self-Reporting under Competitive Audit Mechanisms | ||
| Elmarzougui, Eskandar (Université Laval): Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: An Investigation of the Pollution Halo and Pollution Haven Hypotheses | ||
| Bruce, Christopher J. (University of Calgary): The Effect of Entitlements and Equality on Cooperative Bargaining with Private, Unverifiable Information | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | SB 105 |
| Competition and Productivity / Compétition et productivité | ||
| Chair | Stoyanov, Andrey (York University) | |
| Papers | Moshiri, Saeed (University of Saskatchewan): Technological Change and Productivity in Canada | |
| Ahmad, Waseem (University of Alberta): Strategic Competition of Private Label and National Brand in a Vertically Linked Market | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | SB 144 |
| CDESG: Political Economy II / Économie politique II | ||
| Chair | Ksoll, Christopher (University of Oxford) | |
| Papers | Boichev, Georgi (Simon Fraser University): A Model of Poor Property Rights Protection in a Democracy | |
| Molina, Oswaldo (University of Oxford): Titling without registration: quietly undermining the property rights reform | ||
| Aragon-Sanchez, Fernando (Simon Fraser University): Party Nomination Procedures and Quality of Government | ||
| Discussants | Oloufade, Djoulassi (University of Ottawa); Nagarajan, Hari Krishnan (National Council of Applied Economic Research); Molina, Oswaldo (University of Oxford) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | SB 146 |
| CDESG: Africa / L'Afrique | ||
| Chair | Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Tran, Trang (University of Maryland, College Park): Civil conflict and firm performance in Cote d'Ivoire | |
| Nguimkeu, Pierre Evariste (Simon Fraser University): Social Barriers to Entrepreneurship in Africa: The Forced Mutual Help Hypothesis | ||
| Muyanga, Milu (Michigan State University): Fundamentals of Inclusive Agro-Enterprise Development: Effects of Population Density and Public Investments on Smallholder Agricultural Commercialization in Kenya | ||
| Oloufade, Djoulassi (University of Ottawa): Trade Openness, Conflict Risk and Income Inequality in Developing Countries | ||
| Discussants | Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University); Annen, Kurt (University of Guelph); Karaivanov, Alexander (Simon Fraser University); Roy Chaudhuri, Arka (University of British Columbia) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | SB 148 |
| Market Efficiency II / Efficience de marché II | ||
| Chair | Dayanandan, Ajit (University of Northern British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Alexeev, Vitali (University of Tasmania): Equity portfolio diversification: how many stocks are too many? Evidence from developed markets: 1988-2011 | |
| Wang, Liquan (St. Ambrose University): Insider Trading in Multi-Asset Securities Markets | ||
| Dayanandan, Ajit (University of Northern British Columbia): Business cycles and profit warnings | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Foyer |
| Coffee Break / Pause café | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Ariel |
| Microeconomics: Foundations / Fondements microéconomiques | ||
| Chair | Streufert, Peter (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Neary, Hugh (University of British Columbia): Why sunk costs are salient: two evolutionary arguments | |
| Streufert, Peter (University of Western Ontario): Set-Tree Games and the Representation of Plausibility by a Density Function | ||
| Khounvongsa, Maibang (University of British Columbia): A Game Representation for a Class of Non-Expected Utility Preferences | ||
| Discussants | Yanni, Pierre-Yves (Université du Québec à Montréal); Kotowski, Maciej (Harvard University); Streufert, Peter (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Bianca |
| International Business Cycles II / Cycles écomiques internationaux II | ||
| Chair | Kabaca, Serdar (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Singh, Rajesh (Iowa State University): Investment Composition and International Business Cycles | |
| Yao, Wen (Bank of Canada): International Business Cycles and Financial Frictions | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Cassio A |
| Mount Royal University-Policy Studies (MRU-POST): Policies for Developing Countries / Politiques pour les pays en développement | ||
| Organizer | Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University) | |
| Chair | Sarker, Subrata (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Leung, Ambrose (Bishop's University): Student Learning Styles and Performance in Introductory Economics | |
| Nag, Sharmistha (National Council of Applied Economic Research): Political Economy of Water Security in Rural India | ||
| Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University): Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: A System GMM Approach for Dynamic Panels | ||
| Discussants | Nag, Sharmistha (National Council of Applied Economic Research); Chowdhury, Muhammad Murshed (University of Manitoba); Sarker, Subrata (Bank of Canada) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Cassio B |
| Human Capital and Organizational Design / Capital humain et structure organisationnelle | ||
| Chair | Dow, Gregory (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Lluis, Stephanie (University of Waterloo): Uncertainty, Task Environment and Organization Design: An Empirical Investigation | |
| Stoyanov, Andrey (York University): Productivity gains from worker mobility and their distribution between workers and firms | ||
| Rupietta, Christian (University of Zurich): Is apprenticeship training important for innovation in highly developed countries? | ||
| Discussants | Zubanov, Nikolay (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Barnette, Justin (Kent State University); Brown, Laura (University of Manitoba) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH ECC |
| CPEG 8: Public Choice / CPEG 8: Choix publics | ||
| Organizer | Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Brou, Daniel (The University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Goertz, Johanna (University of Guelph): Inefficient Committees: Three Alternatives and Common Preferences | |
| Raiha, Davin (Stanford University): Strategy Lobbying | ||
| Reinhorn, Leslie J. (University of Durham): A theory of optimal government waste | ||
| Schaufele, Brandon N. (University of Ottawa): Campaign Contributions over CEOs' Careers | ||
| Discussants | Clark, Jeremy (University of Canterbury); Dodds, Stefan A. (University of Winnipeg); Boyce, John (University of Calgary); Wen, Jean-François (University of Calgary) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Escalus |
| EPRI 3: Preparing them: Development, Skills & Post-PSE Outcomes / Développement, connaissances et résultats après l'éducation postsecondaire | ||
| Organizers | Mueller, Richard (University of Lethbridge) Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Mueller, Richard (University of Lethbridge) | |
| Papers | Wismer, Andrew (University of Ottawa): Boys and Girls: An Empirical Portrait of Their Experiences, Behaviour, Achievements and Attitudes From Age 15 Through 25 | |
| Young, Rebecca (McMaster University): Working While in School: A Margin of Response? | ||
| Childs, Stephen (University of Ottawa): Early Labour Market Outcomes of STEM Students and the Role of Background Characteristics and Educational Pathways | ||
| Yang, Wei (McMaster University): Does compulsory volunteering affect subsequent behaviour? Evidence from a quasi experiment in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Warburton, Bill (University of British Columbia); Leonard, Phil (McMaster University); Ferrer, Ana M. (University of Calgary); Gray, David (University of Ottawa) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Guilden |
| Bank of Canada Session: Empirical Studies of Housing / Séance de la Banque du Canada : Études empiriques sur l'habitation | ||
| Organizer | Granziera, Eleonora (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Peterson, Brian (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Han, Lu (University of Toronto): Measuring the Thinness of the Real Estate Market | |
| Granziera, Eleonora (Bank of Canada): House Price Dynamics: Fundamentals and Expectations | ||
| Reynaud, Julien (Imf): The Canadian Real Estate Market: How Soft Would The Landing Be? | ||
| Sabourin, Patrick (Bank of Canada): Measures of Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI: Properties and Limitations in the Canadian Context | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH Hamlet |
| Central Banks / Banques centrales | ||
| Chair | Mahmoudi, Babak (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Anderson, Emily (Duke University): Dynamic Transparency and Information Acquisition | |
| Santor, Eric Benjamin (Bank of Canada): Large Scale Asset Purchases: Impact on Commodity Prices and International Spillover Effects | ||
| Mahmoudi, Babak (Queen's University): Open-Market Operations, Distributions and Market Segmentation | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH SAL |
| Free Trade Agreement III / Accords de libre échange III | ||
| Chair | de Munnik, Daniel (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Karacaovali, Baybars (University of Hawaii at Manoa): Trade Policy Determinants and Trade Reform in a Developing Country | |
| Missios, Paul (Ryerson University): Do South-South Preferential Trade Agreements Undermine the Prospects for Multilateral Free Trade? | ||
| Spearot, Alan (University of California - Santa Cruz): Relaxing CAFE: Offshoring, NAFTA, and Fuel Economy Standards | ||
| Discussants | Missios, Paul (Ryerson University); Karacaovali, Baybars (University of Hawaii at Manoa); Jean Louis, Rosmy (Vancouver Island University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | SB 146 |
| CDESG: Credit Markets / Marchés de crédits | ||
| Chair | Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | |
| Papers | Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Heterogeneous Signaling at the Convergence of Formal and Informal Finance in Ghana | |
| Zhou, Weina (University of British Columbia): China's saving rate and family structure | ||
| Kessler, Anke (Simon Fraser University): Beggar Thy Neighbor? Theory and Evidence of the (Dis-)Advantage of Informal Credit | ||
| Discussants | Kessler, Anke (Simon Fraser University); Opoku-Agyemang, Kweku (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Zhou, Weina (University of British Columbia) | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH TES |
| CEA Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle de l'ACE | ||
| Chair | Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal) | |
| 13:00-15:00 | Sunday, June 10, 2012 | MH ECC |
| CEA Executive Council Meeting 2 / Réunion du conseil exécutif de l'ACE 2 | ||
| Chair | Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal) | |