Presidential Address: Georges Dionne (HEC Montréal), "Credit Risk"

Purvis Luncheon Speaker: Roland Fryer (Harvard University), "Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination"

CWEN Luncheon Speaker: Sandra Black (University of Texas at Austin), "The Other Side of the Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Women at the Top"

Innis Lecture: Keith Head (Sauder School of Business, UBC), "What Separates Us? Sources of Resistance to Globalization"

State of the Art Lectures:

• Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona), "Bargaining Models With Application to Hospital Mergers".

• Alexandre Mas (Princeton), "Labor Markets in the Aftermath of the Great Recession"

• Serena Ng (Columbia University), "Predicting Recessions"

• Michael Peters (University of British Columbia), "Competition in Mechanisms"

• Rob Shimer (University of Chicago), "Competitive Search and Competitive Equilibrium"

• Note that Nicholas Bloom's lecture had to be cancelled due to unforseen circumstances.

Bank of Canada Lecture: Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia), "The Great Reversal In the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks since 2000"

Canadian Public Policy Lecture: Paul Boothe (Ivey School of Business) "Making Good Regulations"

CDESG Invited Lecture: Martin Ravallion (Georgetown University)

Environment Canada Lecture: Trudy Ann Cameron (University of Oregon)