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| Preliminary Conference Program |
| 08:30-09:00 | Thursday | |
| CLSRN Registration / Inscription du RCCMTC | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | Thursday | |
| CLSRN 1: Returns to Education and Skills / Rendements en éducation et compétences | ||
| Chair | Dhuey, Elizabeth A (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Kyui, Natalia (Bank of Canada): Expansion of Higher Education, Employment and Wages: Evidence from the Russian Transition | |
| Summerfield, Fraser (University of Guelph): Education, Skill and Human Capital Mismatch in the Labour Market | ||
| Seki, Mai (Bank of Canada): Heterogeneous Returns to College Selectivity and the Value of Graduate Degree Attainment | ||
| 09:00-12:00 | Thursday | |
| CDESG Sessions at McGill University, Leacock 927 (9th floor) / Séances du GCEDE à l'Université McGill | ||
| Chair | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Dammert, Ana (Carleton University): Preventing Dengue through Mobile Phones: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Peru | |
| Ksoll, Christopher (University of Ottawa): Guns and Roses: Flower Exports and Electoral Violence in Kenya | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Thursday | |
| CLSRN 2: Personnel Economics / Économie du personnel | ||
| Chair | Lange, Fabian (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Lehrer, Steven F. (Queen's University): The Impact of Social Networks on Labour Market Outcomes: New Evidence from Cape Breton | |
| Pohl, Vincent (Queen's University): Efficiency Wages and Their Mechanisms: Empirical Evidence | ||
| Siow, Aloysius (University of Toronto): Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills | ||
| 13:00-16:00 | Thursday | |
| CDESG Sessions at McGill University, Leacock 927 (9th floor) / Séances du GCEDE à l'Université McGill, Leacock 927 (9th floor) | ||
| Chair | Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco (University of Toronto): Certified to migrate: Property rights and migration in rural Mexico | |
| Aragon-Sanchez, Fernando (Simon Fraser University): Modern Industries, Pollution, and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Mining in Ghana | ||
| Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University): Unintended Consequences of Women's Inheritance Rights on Female Mortality in India | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Thursday | |
| CLSRN 3: Child Development/Benefits / Développement des enfants | ||
| Chair | Phipps, Shelley A (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Ding, Weili (Queen's University): Did parenting practices respond to the introduction of universal childcare? | |
| Gottschalk, Peter (Boston College): The Impact of a Mother's Decision to Work on the Development of a Child's Human Capital | ||
| Schirle, Tammy (Wilfrid Laurier University): Income Effects of a Demogrant: the Universal Child Care Benefit and the Labour Supply of Canadians | ||
| 15:45-17:15 | Thursday | |
| CLSRN 4: Special Topics / Sujets spéciaux | ||
| Chair | Morissette, Rene (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Beland, Louis-Philippe (Université de Montréal): The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance | |
| Fuller, Sylvia (University of British Columbia): Career pathways for temporary workers: Exploring heterogeneous mobility dynamics with sequence analysis | ||
| Gray, David M. (University of Ottawa): The Receipt of Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) Status Among Canadian Seniors - Incidence and Dynamics | ||
| 16:00-18:00 | Thursday | |
| CEA Executive Council Meeting 1 / Réunion du conseil exécutif de l'ACE 1 | ||
| Chair | Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Thursday | |
| CDESG Research Exchange Panel at McGill University, Leacock 927 (9th floor) / GCEDE: Panel d'échange sur la recherche à l'Université McGill, Leacock 927 (9th floor) | ||
| Panelists | Escobal, Javier (GRADE) | |
| Gasparini, Leornardo (CEDLAS and University of La Plata) | ||
| Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | ||
| 17:00-19:00 | Thursday | |
| CWEN Cocktail Hour: Welcome to All! / L'apéro du RFÉ: Benelux, 245 rue Sherbrooke ouest | ||
| Organizers | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) Deri Armstrong, Catherine (University of Ottawa) | |
| 17:30-19:00 | Thursday | |
| CLSRN Keynote Address / Conférence invitée du RCCMTC | ||
| Chair | Phipps, Shelley A (Dalhousie University) | |
| Speaker | Lundberg, Shelly (University of California, Santa Barbara) | |
| Topic | Educational Inequality | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Friday | |
| Coffee and muffins / Café et muffins | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Lange, Fabian (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Mas, Alexandre (Princeton University) | |
| Topic | Labor Markets in the Aftermath of the Great Recession | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Empirical Analysis of Auctions / Analyse empirique des enchères | ||
| Chair | Xu, Pai (University of Hong Kong) | |
| Papers | Coviello, Decio (HEC Montréal): The Role of Publicity Requirements on Entry and Auctions Outcomes | |
| Conley, Timothy G. (University of Western Ontario): Detecting Bidders Groups in Collusive Auctions | ||
| Xu, Pai (University of Hong Kong): On the Asymptotic Distribution of the Transaction Price in a Clock Model of a Multi-Unit, Oral, Ascending-Price Auction within the Common-Value Paradigm | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Firm-Level Productivity Network 1: Management and Skill / Réseau sur la productivité des entreprises 1: Gouvernance et compétence | ||
| Organizer | Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | ab Iorwerth, Aled (Council of Canadian Academies) | |
| Papers | Dixon, Jay (Industrie Canada): High Growth Firms in Canada | |
| Brouillette, Dany (Industry Canada): Management Practices, Competition and the Performance of Enterprises in Canada | ||
| Veall, Michael (McMaster University): Is there Evidence of ICT Skill Shortages in Canadian Taxfiler Data? | ||
| Discussants | Veall, Michael (McMaster University); Sabetti, Leonard (George Mason University); Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| CDESG: Poverty / Pauvreté | ||
| Chair | Samy, Yiagadeesen (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Duclos, Jean-Yves (Université Laval): Multidimensional poverty targeting | |
| Domfe, George (University of Ghana): Determinants of Working Poverty among Informal Sector Workers in the MiDA Intervention Zone in Ghana | ||
| Motiram, Sripad (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): Unemployment Spells, Poverty and Growth: Evidence from India | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| CDESG: Health / Santé | ||
| Chair | Chemin, Matthieu (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Milazzo, Annamaria (Bocconi University): Why Are Adult Women Missing? Son Preference and Maternal Survival in India | |
| Bhattacharjee, Shampa (University of British Columbia): Political Cycles and Child Mortality: Evidence from State Assembly Elections in India | ||
| Brodeur, Abel (Paris School of Economics): The Remnants of War: Sex Industry in Thailand | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Business Cycle Shocks / Chocs et cycles économiques | ||
| Chair | Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Dorval, Bill (Queen's University): Measuring the contribution of anticipated shocks to the business cycles using the three-equation New Keynesian model | |
| Sola, Sergio (International Monetary Fund): Macroeconomic uncertainty and the effectiveness of monetary policy | ||
| Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada): Propagation Mechanisms for Government Spending Shocks: A Bayesian Comparison | ||
| Baumeister, Christiane (Bank of Canada): What Central Bankers Need to Know About Forecasting Oil Prices | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| CEBERG 1: Environmental Policy and Regulation / Politiques environnementales et réglementation | ||
| Chair | Buckley, Neil J. (York University) | |
| Papers | Buckley, Neil J. (York University): Intensity Targets Versus Cap-and-trade: Emissions Trading Markets with Volatile Output Demand | |
| Mozumder, Pallab (Florida International University): Pollution Tax, Health Insurance and Information: A Policy Experiment for Promoting Energy Efficiency | ||
| Childs, Jason (University of Regina): The Costs of Second Generation Rent Control : An Experimental Investigation | ||
| Discussants | Chatterjee, Chiradip (Florida International University); Childs, Jason (University of Regina); Buckley, Neil J. (York University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Risk in Capital Markets / Risques dans les marchés de capitaux | ||
| Chair | Das, Sonali (International Monetary Fund) | |
| Papers | Sufana, Razvan (York University): An extension to the generalized forecast error variance decomposition with application to volatility transmission among US sector indexes | |
| Das, Sonali (International Monetary Fund): The Effect of Leverage on Asset Sales between Financial Institutions: Deal Level Evidence | ||
| Kadilli, Anjeza (University of Geneva): A Regime Switching Approach for the Predictability of Financial Market Returns and the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis | ||
| Zhou, Xiaozhou (HEC Montreal): Liquidity-adjusted intraday Value at Risk modeling and risk management: an application to data from Deutsche Börse | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Oil Shocks / Chocs pétroliers | ||
| Chair | Moran, Kevin (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Karnizova, Lilia (University of Ottawa): The transmission of oil price shocks in a multi-sector economy | |
| Jo, Soojin (Bank of Canada): The effects of oil price uncertainty on global real economic activity | ||
| Metoiole Some, Dommèbèiwin Juste (Université de Montréal): Oil Shocks in a Small-Open Oil-Exporting Economy | ||
| Moran, Kevin (Université Laval): Learning About Future Oil Prices | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| CPEG I: Political Economy and Accountability / Économie politique et responsabilité | ||
| Chair | Burbidge, John (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Raiha, Davin (Stanford University): Durable Policy, Electoral Accountability, and Active Waste | |
| Marina, Dodlova (University Paris Ouest Nanterre): Political Accountability and Real Authority of Government Bureaucracy | ||
| Kim, Jin Woong (University of Ottawa): The Political Economy of Equalization Payments in a Fiscal Federalism | ||
| Sengupta, Bodhisattva (Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati): Endogenous leadership in a federal country | ||
| Discussants | Barnett, Richard (Drexel University); Arbex, Marcelo (University of Windsor); Garon, Jean-Denis (Université du Québec à Montréal); Burbidge, John (University of Waterloo) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Health Behaviors / Comportements en santé | ||
| Chair | Pierard, Emmanuelle (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Warman, Casey (Dalhousie University): Unintended Consequences of Government Health Regulation: Evidence from Canada's Bicycle Helmet Laws | |
| Sarma, Sisira K (The University of Western Ontario): The Effect of Leisure-time Physical Activity on Obesity, Diabetes, High BP and Heart Disease among Canadians: Evidence from 2000/01 to 2005/06 | ||
| Discussants | Rybczynski, Kathleen (University of Waterloo); Pierard, Emmanuelle (University of Waterloo) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| CMSG Session: Allocation of Talent and Productivity / Allocation du talent et productivité | ||
| Chair | Castro, Rui (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Kaymak, Baris (Université de Montréal): Allocation of Schooling and US Economic Growth | |
| Ranasinghe, Ashantha (University of Manitoba): Property Rights, Extortion and the Misallocation of Talent | ||
| Castro, Rui (Université de Montréal): Occupational Choice, Human Capital, and Financing Constraints | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Credit Markets / Marchés du crédit | ||
| Chair | Reza, Abeer (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Yepez, Carlos (University of Manitoba): Financial Cycles and Labor Productivity over the Business Cycle | |
| Reza, Abeer (Carleton University): Search Frictions, Bank Leverage, and Gross Loan Flows | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Gravity in International Trade / Modèles gravitationnels en commerce international | ||
| Chair | Beaulieu, Eugene C. (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Vezina, Pierre-Louis (University of Oxford): There goes gravity: How eBay reduces trade costs | |
| Yotov, Yoto (Drexel University): Gravity, Scale and Exchange Rates | ||
| Cyrus, Teresa (Dalhousie University): How Does Culture Affect Trade? | ||
| Discussants | Yotov, Yoto (Drexel University); Vezina, Pierre-Louis (University of Oxford); Brown, Mark (Statistics Canada) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Trade networks and Multinationals / Réseaux commerciaux et multinationales | ||
| Chair | Liu, Michelle (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Matschke, Xenia (Universität Trier): U.S. multinationals and preferential market access | |
| Liu, Michelle (University of Toronto): Scope and Quality in International Networks | ||
| Naghavi, Alireza (University of Bologna): Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the Organization of Multinational Firms | ||
| Discussants | Liu, Michelle (University of Toronto); Naghavi, Alireza (University of Bologna); Matschke, Xenia (Universität Trier) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Cooperation, conformity, networks / Coopération, conformisme et réseaux | ||
| Chair | Au Yong, Ke Xian (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Chen, Haiyun (Simon Fraser University): Cooperation, Competition, and Linguistic Diversity | |
| Dastranj Tabrizi, Rogayeh (Simon Fraser University): Economics of Crime Networks | ||
| Lee, Jonathan (Queen's University): Social Contagion as an Incentive to Share | ||
| Nica, Melania (London School of Economics): Conformity and Separation of Careerist Experts | ||
| Discussants | Nica, Melania (London School of Economics); Lee, Jonathan (Queen's University); Dastranj Tabrizi, Rogayeh (Simon Fraser University); Chen, Haiyun (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Advances in Corporate Finance / Percées en finance des corporations | ||
| Chair | Entezarkheir, Mahdiyeh (Huron University College) | |
| Papers | Feng, Felix Zhiyu (Duke University): Paying Executive Bonuses During Financial Crises: Optimal Dynamic Contracts under Limited Commitment | |
| Sarkar, Sudipto (McMaster University): Optimal Price Cap under Price-Cap Regulation | ||
| Entezarkheir, Mahdiyeh (Huron University College): Market Value, Mergers, and Market Share: Evidence from a Panel of US Firms | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| CESG Session: Regularization / Séance CESG: Régularisation | ||
| Chair | Carrasco, Marine (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Chausse, Pierre (University of Waterloo): Assessing the inter-generation mobility - a functional data regression approach | |
| Shin, Youngki (University of Western Ontario): The Lasso for High-Dimensional Regression with a Possible Change-Point | ||
| Tchuente Nguembu, Guy (Université de Montréal): Inference with many weak instruments using regularization techniques | ||
| Discussants | Tchuente Nguembu, Guy (Université de Montréal); Carrasco, Marine (Université de Montréal); Chausse, Pierre (University of Waterloo) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| CWEN Executive Breakfast (By invitation only) / Déjeuner du conseil exécutif du RFÉ (sur invitation) | ||
| Chair | Fortin, Nicole M. (University of British Columbia) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| PEF 1: Will the Eurozone Remain Locked in a Permanent Crisis or Are There Viable Long-Term Solutions? / Le destin de la zone Euro: crise permanente ou solutions à l'horizon? | ||
| Organizer | Seccareccia, Mario (University of Ottawa) | |
| Chair | Lavoie, Marc (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Bibow, Joerg (Skidmore College): Resolving the euro crisis | |
| Costantini, Orsola (Università di Pavia/ University of Ottawa): When the Crisis becomes the Norm: a Comparison between Canada and Three Countries of the Eurozone | ||
| Sawyer, Malcolm (University of Leeds): Developing alternative economic policies for the Economic and Monetary Union | ||
| Seccareccia, Mario (University of Ottawa): Reuniting Money and the State: Why the ECB has evolved from a Lender of Last Resort to a Fiscal Authority of Last Resort and why this Institutional Evolution is not enough | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Amenities and Housing Prices / Prix et caractéristiques des logements | ||
| Chair | Reynaud, Julien (Imf) | |
| Papers | Albouy, David (University of Michigan): Urban Quantities and Amenities | |
| Ntantamis, Christos (Mount Allison University, and CREATES): Bull and Bear Markets in Canadian Housing Prices | ||
| Reynaud, Julien (Imf): Gauging Excess Supply of Housing in Canada | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Promotion and Status / Promotion et statut | ||
| Chair | Amery, Behnoush (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Amery, Behnoush (University of Waterloo): The Relationship between Education and Job Allocations in the Workplace | |
| Fissuh, Eyob (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada): Gender Differences in Promotion: An Empirical Analysis Based Linked Workplace and Employee Data | ||
| Discussants | Fissuh, Eyob (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada); Belley, Philippe (Kansas State University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Labour: Firm Behaviour / Économie du travail: Comportement des entreprises | ||
| Chair | Vilhuber, Lars (Cornell University) | |
| Papers | Cette, Gilbert (Banque de France): Labour Relations Quality and Productivity: An Empirical Analysis on French Firms | |
| Batool, Syeda (University of Paris-1): Non Random Sorting and Size-Wage gap in French Establishments | ||
| Ghazalian, Pascal (University of Lethbridge): Female Labour Force Participation in MENA's Manufacturing Sector: The Implications of Firm-related and National Factors | ||
| Discussants | Vilhuber, Lars (Cornell University); Cette, Gilbert (Banque de France); Ural-Marchand, Beyza (University of Alberta) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| CREE Session: Environment Economics - Theory / Séance CREE: Économie de l'environnement (théorie) | ||
| Chair | Nimubona, Alain-Désiré (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Nimubona, Alain-Désiré (University of Waterloo): Search for Abatement Technologies | |
| Séguin, Charles (Université du Québec à Montréal): Non-linear differential games with Skiba points | ||
| Discussants | Goyette, Jonathan (Université de Sherbrooke); Kakeu, Johnson (Georgia Institute of Technology) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Determinants of success in post-secondary education / Facteurs de succès en éducation postsecondaire | ||
| Chair | McGee, Andrew (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Papers | Chandler, Vincent Robert Gaudet (Queen's University): Funding to Graduate Students: Its Impact and Allocation. Evidence from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. | |
| Smith, Jeffrey A (University of Michigan): Gender and the STEM Trajectory | ||
| Milla, Joniada (University of Guelph): Tertiary Education Choices as Response to New Unexpected Information | ||
| Discussants | McGee, Andrew (Simon Fraser University); Smith, Justin (Wilfrid Laurier University); Lehrer, Steven F. (Queen's University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Friday | |
| Labour: Children / Économie du travail : enfants | ||
| Chair | Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Lefebvre, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal): The impact of a universal low-fee childcare program on the distribution of income and expenditures within the family: A natural experiment from Canada | |
| Dunbar, Geoff (Simon Fraser University): Collective Households, Children and Teachers' Strikes | ||
| Milligan, Kevin (University of British Columbia): Sex Differences in the Production of Human Capital in Young Children | ||
| Discussants | Dunbar, Geoff (Simon Fraser University); Turner, Laura (University of Toronto); Zahedi, Razieh (University of Calgary) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Friday | |
| Coffee Break / Pause-café | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| IRPP Session: Canada's Labour Market in the Upcoming Decade: Prospects and Policy Issues / Séance IRPP : Le marché du travail canadien dans la prochaine décennie : perspectives et défis politiques | ||
| Chair | Green, David (University of British Columbia) | |
| Panelists | Halliwell, Cliff (formerly HRSDC) | |
| Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University) | ||
| Antunes, Pedro (Conference Board of Canada) | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CDESG: Political Economy 1 / Économie politique 1 | ||
| Chair | Dao, Minh (Eastern Illinois University) | |
| Papers | Kumar, Alok (University of Victoria): Foreign Aid, Incentives and Efficiency: Can Foreign Aid Lead to the Efficient Level of Investment? | |
| Morgan, Horatio (Ryerson University): The Political Economy of Trade-Financial Liberalization and Financial Underdevelopment: A perspective from China | ||
| Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University): Trust and Vulnerability | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CDESG: Conflict / Conflits | ||
| Chair | Laszlo, Sonia (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Lehrer, Kim (University of Oxford): Returning Home: Post-Conflict Livelihoods in Northern Uganda | |
| Heffernan, Ian (University of Calgary): Conflict, Redistribution and Repression | ||
| Majumdar, Sumon (Queen's University): Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CWEN Session I - Health and Welfare of Children / Séance du RFÉ I: Santé et bien-être des enfants | ||
| Chair | Deri Armstrong, Catherine (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Guliani, Harminder (University of Regina): Area variations in the utilization of prenatal diagnostic imaging by the type of provider: Evidence from Canada | |
| Chen, Kelly (Digonex Technologies, Inc.): Child Health and Parental Paid Work | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CEBERG 2: Common Pool and Renewable Resources / CEBERG 2: Ressources renouvelables communes | ||
| Chair | Schott, Stephan (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Tasneem, Dina (McGill University): An Experimental Study of Exploitation of a Renewable Resource in Continuous Time | |
| Weninger, Quinn (Iowa State University): Overconfidence and economic performance: Evidence from the last true hunters | ||
| Schott, Stephan (Carleton University): Coalition formation with endowment constraints in limited access CPR environments | ||
| Discussants | Schott, Stephan (Carleton University); Tasneem, Dina (McGill University); Weninger, Quinn (Iowa State University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Experiments and Behaviour / Comportements et expérimentations | ||
| Chair | Courty, Pascal (University of Victoria) | |
| Papers | Michaud, Pierre-Carl (Université du Québec à Montréal): Health Club Attendance, Expectations and Self-Control | |
| Lopera Baena, Maria Adelaida (Université Laval): Causal effects of fatigue and rest on workers' productivity: Evidence from the field | ||
| McGee, Andrew (Simon Fraser University): Whoever you want me to be: Personality and Incentives | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CIFAR Session: Happiness / Séance de l'ICRA: Le bonheur | ||
| Organizer | Helliwell, John F. (CIFAR/University of British Columbia) | |
| Chair | Fortin, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Barrington-Leigh, Christopher (McGill University): Quiet Happiness Revolution Continues | |
| Wang, Shun (KDI School of Public Policy and Management): World Happiness: Trends, Differences and Explanations | ||
| Huang, Haifang (University of Alberta): Comparing the Happiness Effects of Real and On-line Friends | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CPEG II: Empirical Effects of Taxation / Effets empiriques de la fiscalité | ||
| Chair | Irvine, Ian (Concordia University) | |
| Papers | Witte, Stefan (Saarland University): Effects of the 2009 Scrappage Premium on German Households' Consumption Patterns | |
| Echevin, Damien (Université de Sherbrooke): Wealth Tax Experiments in France | ||
| Joulfaian, David (US Department of Treasury): Household Debt and Capital Gains Taxation | ||
| Munroe, David (Columbia University): Mansion Tax: The Effect of Transfer Taxes on the Residential Real Estate Market | ||
| Discussants | Marr, Christa (Clark University); Raiha, Davin (Stanford University); Bérubé, Charles (Industry Canada); Sen, Anindya (University of Waterloo) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Bank of Canada Session: Topics in Business Cycles / Séance de la Banque du Canada sur les cycles économiques | ||
| Chair | Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Bahadir, Berrak (University of Georgia): Housing Market Dynamics with Delays in the Construction Sector | |
| Alpanda, Sami (Bank of Canada): Housing and Fiscal Policy | ||
| Aysun, Uluc (University of Central Florida): Bank size and macroeconomic shock transmission | ||
| Oh, Jiyoon (Korea Development Institute): The Cyclicality of Firm Size Distribution and Its Effect on Aggregate Fluctuations | ||
| Discussants | Takamura, Tamon (Bank of Canada); Kumar, Gitanjali (Bank of Canada); Terajima, Yaz (Bank of Canada); Zubairy, Sarah (Bank of Canada) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Chinese Economist Society / Société des économistes chinois | ||
| Organizer | Fang, Tony (University of Manitoba) | |
| Papers | Shen, Kailing (Xiamen University): Paperless Tigers: Do Urban Chinese Employers Prefer Temporary Migrants? | |
| Zhang, Jipeng B. (Nanyang Technological University): A Field Experiment on Prosocial Behavior with Hierarchy Leadership | ||
| Fang, Tony (University of Manitoba): Globalization, Unions and Labor Demand Elasticity in China | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Healthcare Provision / L'offre des soins de santé | ||
| Chair | Strumpf, Erin (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Trandafir, Mircea (Universite de Sherbrooke): Returns to childbirth technologies: Evidence from preterm births | |
| Wang, Chao (Sara) (McMaster University): Mandatory Universal Drug Plan, Access to Health Care and Health: Evidence from Quebec | ||
| Strumpf, Erin (McGill University): The Impact of Integrated Primary Care on Health Care Services Utilization and Costs: Quebec's Family Medicine Groups | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CMSG Session: International Trade / Commerce international | ||
| Chair | Ramanarayanan, Ananth (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Imura, Yuko (Bank of Canada): Endogenous Trade Participation with Incomplete Exchange Rate Pass-Through | |
| Ramanarayanan, Ananth (University of Western Ontario): Imported Inputs and the Gains from Trade | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Empirical Analysis of Monetary Policy / Analyse empirique de la politique monétaire | ||
| Chair | Kia, Amir (Utah Valley University) | |
| Papers | Weber, Sebastian (International Monetary Fund): Assessing the Determinants of Interest Rate Transmission Through Conditional Impulse Response Functions | |
| Hayat, Zafar (Massey University): The Pros and Cons of a Discretionary Monetary Policy Strategy: An empirical Assessment | ||
| Huang, YuFan (University of Washington): Aiming Low or Reacting Strong? Time-varying Policy Targets and Regime-Switching Coefficients in U.S. Monetary Policy Reaction Function | ||
| Kia, Amir (Utah Valley University): The Impact of Monetary policy Transparency on Risk and Volatility of Interest Rates: Evidence from the United States | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Schooling and Wage Inequality / Éducation et écarts de salaires | ||
| Chair | Champagne, Julien (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Hendricks, Lutz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Accounting for the Evolution of U.S. Wage Inequality | |
| Alessandrini, Diana (University of Guelph): On the cyclicality of schooling decisions: the role of education policies | ||
| Champagne, Julien (Université du Québec à Montréal): Reconciling the divergence in aggregate U.S. wage series | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CETC Session: Contract Theory / Théorie des contrats | ||
| Chair | Pongou, Roland (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Kirkegaard, Rene (University of Guelph): Local Incentive Compatibility in Moral Hazard Problems: A Unifying Approach | |
| Blouin, Max (Université du Québec à Montréal): Socially Optimal Law Enforcement | ||
| Discussants | Martinez-Gorricho, Silvia (University of Alicante); Chatterjee, Debipriya (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Capital Markets Development / Développement des marchés des capitaux | ||
| Chair | Ngakosso, Antoine (Université Marien Ngouabi) | |
| Papers | Ngakosso, Antoine (Université Marien Ngouabi): Communication et rendement fiscal | |
| Ndo Ndong, Jean-Sylvain (Universit� Omar Bongo): Risque de crédit et réglementation prudentielle, cas du Gabon | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CESG Session: Short Presentations / Séance CESG: Présentations courtes | ||
| Chair | Thompson, Brennan (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Kang, Byunguk (McGill University): Reverse regressions and distribution of test statistics in univariate and multivariate models | |
| Liang, Xin (McGill University): Necessary and sufficient conditions for identification in a simultaneous equation system | ||
| Lin, Zhenjiang (Carleton University): Statistical Test Inversion and Numerical Projections with Particle Swarm Optimization | ||
| Saunders, Charles (Carleton University): Dynamic Panel with MIDAS Covariates: Estimation and Fit | ||
| Haghani, Sherry (York University): Modeling Hedge Fund Lifetimes: A Dependent competing Risks Framework with Latent Exit Types | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| PEF 2: The Political Economy of Financial Markets in the Wake of Global Financial Crisis / L'économie politique des marchés financiers au lendemain de la crise financière mondiale | ||
| Organizer | Young, Kevin L (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | |
| Chair | Dufour, Mathieu (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) | |
| Papers | McKeen-Edwards, Heather (Bishop's University): Reducing systemic risk? : Assessing efforts to identify and regulate systemically important financial institutions | |
| Young, Kevin L (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Is Financial Sector Lobbying Unique? Evidence from an Evolving Interest Ecology? | ||
| Pigeon, Marc Andre J (Carleton University): Basel and Me: Members and the Coop Perspective On Regulatory Reform of Financial Services | ||
| Leblond, Patrick (University of Ottawa): The Discipline of Bond Markets in the Euro Area: Too Much, Too Late? | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Urban Economics 1 / Économie urbaine 1 | ||
| Chair | Davidoff, Thomas (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Islam, Shahidul (Grant Macewan University): Impact of LRT and Social Crime on House Prices in Edmonton | |
| Simpson, Wayne Douglas (University of Manitoba): Banking Relocation and the Inner City | ||
| Magesan, Arvind (University of Calgary): Paging Inspector Sands: The Costs of Public Information | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CSLS-CD Howe: Aboriginal Labour Market and Education Issues / Enjeux sur le marché du travail et en éducation chez les Autochtones | ||
| Organizers | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) Richards, John (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Chair | Rainer, Chris (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada) | |
| Papers | Capeluck, Evan (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): Labour Market Prospects for the Metis in the Canadian Mining Sector | |
| Richards, John (Simon Fraser University): Assessing the Role of Provincial Education Systems and Reserve `Non-Systems' in Interprovincial Variation in Aboriginal Student Performance | ||
| Anderson, Barry (Solte Consulting): First Nations Education in British Columbia Are There Lessons for the Rest of Canada? | ||
| Discussants | Boisvert, David (Metis National Council); Wall, John (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada); Drummond, Don (Queen's University); Thompson, Karihwakeron Tim (Assembly of First Nations) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| CREE Session: Energy Issues / Séance CREE: Enjeux dans le domaine de l'énergie | ||
| Chair | Moshiri, Saeed (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| Papers | Imbert-Boyd, Gabriel (Bank of Canada): An Analysis of the Determinants of North American Natural Gas Prices | |
| Lombardi, Marco (Bank for International Settlements): Monetary policy and the oil futures market | ||
| Parsons, Mark D (Alberta Treasury Board and Finance): Pipeline constraints, oil price differentials, and the Canadian economy | ||
| Discussants | Zhu, Yunfa (Environment Canada); Gertz, Aaron (University of Western Ontario); Stevens, Jason (University of Prince Edward Island) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Primary school enrolment: determinants and outcomes / Inscription au primaire: déterminants et résultats | ||
| Chair | Belley, Philippe (Kansas State University) | |
| Papers | Dhuey, Elizabeth A (University of Toronto): The Long-Run Effects of Early Childhood Maturity on Fertility and Marital Outcomes | |
| Eid, Jean (Wilfrid Laurier University): Full day versus half day kindergarten: longer run effects on test scores | ||
| Ouili, Idrissa (Université de Montréal): Censored Probit with Sample Selection:Application to the impact of number of siblings on child schooling | ||
| Discussants | Milligan, Kevin (University of British Columbia); Brodeur, Abel (Paris School of Economics); Belley, Philippe (Kansas State University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Friday | |
| Inequality / Inégalité | ||
| Chair | Cortes, Guido Matias (University of Manchester) | |
| Papers | Norris, Sam (Harvard University): Consumption Inequality in Canada, 1997-2011 | |
| Robinson, Chris (University of Western Ontario): Different Paths? Human Capital prices, Wages and Inequality in Canada and the US | ||
| Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco (McGill University): Income Inequality and Saving | ||
| 12:00-13:30 | Friday | |
| CWEN Luncheon Lecture and AGM / Diner-Conférence du RFÉ et Assemblée générale | ||
| Sponsor | Canadian Research Data Centre Network/Réseau canadien des Centres de données de recherche | |
| Organizer | Fortin, Nicole M. (University of British Columbia) | |
| Chair | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) | |
| Speaker | Black, Sandra (University of Texas at Austin) | |
| Topic | The Other Side of the Glass Ceiling: The Effect of Women at the Top | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence État des connaissances | ||
| Sponsor | CIREQ | |
| Chair | Perron, Benoit (Université de Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Ng, Serena (Columbia University) | |
| Topic | Predicting Recessions | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CNEH 1: Accounting and Trade / Comptabilité et commerce | ||
| Chair | Karakacili, Eona (Western University) | |
| Papers | McWatters, Cheryl Susan (University of Ottawa): Refreshing and reframing accounting's double-entry `controversy': accounting as cognitive artefact | |
| Lewis, Frank D. (Queen's University): The National Policy and Canadian Manufacturing Productivity, 1870 - 1913 | ||
| Minns, Chris (London School of Economics): Poverty and Progress among Canadian Immigrants, 1911-1931 | ||
| Discussants | Minns, Chris (London School of Economics); Lew, Byron J (Trent University); Torres, Javier (University of British Columbia) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Firm-Level Productivity Network 2: Overview panel / Réseau sur la productivité des entreprises 2: vue d'ensemble (panel) | ||
| Organizers | Ryan, Annette (Industry Canada) Shute, Larry (Industry Canada) | |
| Chair | Drummond, Don (Queen's University) | |
| Panelists | Rahman, Mohammad Saifur (University of Calgary) | |
| Lileeva, Alla (York University) | ||
| Dostie, Benoit (HEC Montréal) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Topics in Industrial Economics / Sujets spéciaux en économie industrielle | ||
| Organizer | Boyer, Marcel (Université de Montréal) | |
| Chair | Crémieux, Pierre-Yves (UQAM, Groupe d'analyse) | |
| Papers | Harrington, Joseph (University of Pennsylvania): Exploring the Boundaries of Unlawful Collusion: Price Coordination when Firms Lack Full Mutual Understanding | |
| Riordan, Michael (Columbia University): Vertical Integration, Outsourcing, and Cost Reduction | ||
| Boyer, Marcel (Université de Montréal): The Determination of Optimal Fines in Cartel Cases | ||
| Discussants | Sahuguet, Nicolas (HEC Montréal); de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne (Queen's University); Gonzalez, Patrick (Université Laval) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CWEN Panel Session on the Gender Pay Gap in Professorial Salaries / Écart de rémunération entre les hommes et les femmes chez les professeurs | ||
| Chair | Dhuey, Elizabeth A (University of Toronto) | |
| Panelists | Smith, Jeffrey A (University of Michigan) | |
| Bowlus, Audra J (University of Western Ontario) | ||
| Fortin, Nicole M. (University of British Columbia) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CEBERG 3: Field Experiments / CEBERG 3: Expériences sur le terrain | ||
| Chair | Cadsby, Bram (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Bezu, Sosina (Norwegian University of Life Sciences): Generosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face | |
| Kapoor, Sacha (University of Toronto): Beauty at Work | ||
| Cadsby, Bram (University of Guelph): Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment | ||
| Discussants | Kapoor, Sacha (University of Toronto); Cadsby, Bram (University of Guelph); Bezu, Sosina (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Careers in Science / Carrières en sciences | ||
| Chair | Held, Brian (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Beaudry, Catherine (École Polytechique de Montréal): The permanent effect of extraordinary events on scientists' performance | |
| Courty, Pascal (University of Victoria): Retaining and attracting top academic talent: Evidence from the Canadian Research Chair Program | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CPEG III: Tax Compliance and Tax Amnesties / CEPG III: Observation fiscale et amnisties | ||
| Chair | Garon, Jean-Denis (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Luitel, Hari Sharan (Algoma University): Sensitivity of Assumptions in Duration Analysis | |
| Mahar, Gerry J. (Algoma University): Wiping the Slate Clean: Is Tax Amnesty a Good Tax Policy? | ||
| Yilmaz, Fatih (University of Calgary): Can E-Filing Reduce Tax Compliance Costs in Developing Countries? | ||
| Discussants | Tsoungui Belinga, Vincent de Paul (Université de Montréal); Witte, Stefan (Saarland University); Echevin, Damien (Université de Sherbrooke) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| 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 | Chapman, James (Bank of Canada): Securitization, Risk Retention, and Charter Values | |
| Perez Saiz, Hector (Bank of Canada): Liquidity Emergency Facilities in the Recent Crisis: Flexibility vs Signalling in the Discount Window and TAF | ||
| Anand, Kartik (Bank of Canada): The `Celtic Case': Guarantees, transparency and dual debt crises | ||
| Discussants | Das, Sonali (International Monetary Fund); Anand, Kartik (Bank of Canada); Milne, Frank (Queen's University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| TNCR Session: Canadian Engagement in Emerging Economies (China) / L'implication du Canada dans les économies émergentes (Chine) | ||
| Sponsor | Transnational Corporations Review (TNCR) | |
| Organizers | Deng, Hugh (Carleton University) Wang, Lance (Transnational Corporations Review) | |
| Chair | Samonis, Val (Royal Roads University) | |
| Papers | Zhang, Eugenia (Transnational Corporations Review): A Preliminary Analysis of Mutual Dependence for Agri-Food Trade between Canada and China | |
| Lu, Jinyong (University of International Business and Economics, Beijing): The Development Status, Potential, and Main Features of China's Multinational Corporations | ||
| Liu, Jianping (Hubei University): The R&D Production Efficiency and the Influencing Factors on Chinese Industrial Sector | ||
| Yu, Chunjiao (Hubei University): The Technological Sophistication of China's Manufactured Export and Its Determinants | ||
| Discussants | Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada); Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada); van Assche, Ari (HEC Montréal); Wang, Yanling (Carelton University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| International Perspectives on Health / Perspectives internationales en santé | ||
| Chair | Hajizadeh, Mohammad (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Zhao, Junying (McMaster University): Forecasting Health Expenditures: Methods and Applications to International Databases | |
| Hajizadeh, Mohammad (McGill University): Socioeconomic Inequalities in HIV/AIDS Prevalence in Sub-Saharan African Countries: Evidence from the Demographic Health Surveys | ||
| Fonseca, Raquel (Université du Québec à Montréal): The Effect of Education on Health: Cross-Country Evidence | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CMSG: Technology / CMSG: Technologie | ||
| Chair | Schmidt, Julia (Graduate Institute Geneva) | |
| Papers | Alexopoulos, Michelle (University of Toronto): The Media is the Measure | |
| Packalen, Mikko (University of Waterloo): Words in Patents: Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention | ||
| Schmidt, Julia (Graduate Institute Geneva): Technological Standardization, Endogenous Productivity and Transitory Dynamics | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Economic Growth / Croissance économique | ||
| Chair | Dao, Minh (Eastern Illinois University) | |
| Papers | Cai, Wenbiao (University of Winnipeg): The Role of Openness in Urbanization and Growth | |
| Acharya, Ram (Industry Canada): Model for Measuring the Social Returns to R&D in Multi-sectors Endogenous Growth Framework | ||
| Sen, Anindya (University of Waterloo): Estimating the Effects of Democracy on Economic Growth: Evidence from an Unbalanced Panel | ||
| Wu, Tommy (Hong Kong Monetary Authority): Intellectual property rights and growth in a North-South model of firm heterogeneity, innovation, and imitation | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Money, Credit and the Real Economy / La monnaie, le crédit et l'économie réelle | ||
| Chair | Kopoin, Alexandre (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Barattieri, Alessandro (Université du Québec à Montréal): The Connection between the Financial Sector and the Real Economy: Measurement and Implications for Monetary Policy | |
| Djigbenou, Marie-Louise (Banque de France / University Montesquieu of Bordeaux): Determinants of Global Liquidity Dynamics: a FAVAR approach | ||
| Kopoin, Alexandre (Université Laval): Bank Capital, Credit Market Frictions and International Shocks Transmission | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| International trading: Understanding Firms 1 / Le rôle des entreprises dans le commerce international 1 | ||
| Chair | Kamata, Isao (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | |
| Papers | Nguyen, Ha (University of Luxembourg): Competition, Product Quality, and Heterogeneous Firms | |
| Kamata, Isao (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Revealed Comparative Advantage and Extensive Margins of Heterogeneous Firms | ||
| Lopez, Ricardo (Brandeis University): Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Imports of Intermediate Inputs: A Microeconometric Analysis of Chilean Manufacturing Plants | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Trade Policy 1 / Politiques commerciales 1 | ||
| Chair | Beaulieu, Eugene C. (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Appau, Adriana B (University of Lethbridge): Analyzing Sub-Saharan Africa Trade Patterns in the Presence of RTAs The Case of COMESA, SADC,ECCAS and ECOWAS | |
| Fofana, Mory Fodé (Industry Canada, Government of Canada): The effect of the regulatory framework of economic freedom on the dynamics of foreign direct investment: An empirical comparison between Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. | ||
| Sydor, Aaron (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada): The Declining Use of NAFTA in Canadian Exports | ||
| Stoyanov, Andrey (York University): Do Preferential Trade Agreements Affect Tariffs of Non-Members? | ||
| Discussants | Sydor, Aaron (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada); Fofana, Mory Fodé (Industry Canada, Government of Canada); Appau, Adriana B (University of Lethbridge) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| The Great Recession and the Teaching of Macroeconomics / La grande récession et l'enseignement de la macroéconomie | ||
| Sponsor | Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis in Canada | |
| Organizer | Konieczny, Jerzy (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Chair | Fortin, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Panelists | Ambler, Steven (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Konieczny, Jerzy (Wilfrid Laurier University) | ||
| Ragan, Christopher (McGill University) | ||
| Scarth, William (McMaster University) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CETC Session: Information 1 / Information 1 | ||
| Chair | Semenov, Aggey (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Wang, Yun (University of Pittsburgh): Bayesian Persuasion with Multiple Receivers | |
| Degan, Arianna (Université du Québec à Montréal): Persuasive signaling | ||
| Sadanand, Asha (University of Guelph): Signalling Games with Multiple Senders | ||
| Discussants | Semenov, Aggey (University of Ottawa); Lai, Ernest (Lehigh University); Xie, Jia (Bank of Canada) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| The Political Economy of Capital Markets / L'économie politique des marchés des capitaux | ||
| Chair | Vymyatnina, Yulia (European University at St.Petersburg) | |
| Papers | Dang, Vinh Quoc Trieu (University of Macau): Estimating the Value of Political Connection via the 2011 Egyptian Revolution | |
| Kim, Sang-Hyun (Michigan State University): Internalizing Political Externality: Evidence from Japanese Corporations | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Contracts and legal system / Contrats et système légal | ||
| Chair | Hartwick, John M (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Boodoo, Muhammad Umar (University of Toronto): Governance structures, unions, and their relation to CEO pay | |
| Jayaraman, Rajshri (European School of Management and Technology): Productivity responses to a contract change | ||
| Hartwick, John M (Queen's University): Benefit Charges for Firms and Households for Maintenance of the Legal System | ||
| Discussants | Hartwick, John M (Queen's University); Boodoo, Muhammad Umar (University of Toronto); Jayaraman, Rajshri (European School of Management and Technology) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| PEF 3: Childcare in Canada - What and how are families doing? / Les familles et le système de garde d'enfants au Canada | ||
| Organizer | Robson, Jennifer (Carleton University) | |
| Chair | Robson, Jennifer (Carleton University) | |
| Panelists | Connolly, Marie (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Stewart, Jennifer (Carleton University) | ||
| Stalker, Glenn (York University) | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CRDCN Session 1: Immigrants and the labour market / Séance RCCDR 1: Les immigrants et le marché du travail | ||
| Organizer | McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick) | |
| Chair | McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick) | |
| Papers | Fu, Chunling (Simon Fraser University): Immigrant labour Market Participation and Earnings: The Effect Regulation | |
| Worswick, Christopher (Carleton University): Immigrant Married Women's Labour Supply and Human Capital Investment Behaviour: Evidence form Longitudinal data for Canada | ||
| Akbari, Syed Ather H (Saint Mary's University): An investigation of the causes of immigrant and non-immigrant earning differentials across Canadian regions | ||
| Discussants | Agopsowicz, Andrew (University of Western Ontario); Skuterud, Mikal (University of Waterloo); Sharaf, Mesbah (Concordia University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Transportation / Transports | ||
| Chair | Magesan, Arvind (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Randrianarisoa, Laingo Manitra (Université Laval): Effects of corruption on Efficiency of the European Airports | |
| Choub Faha, Christophe Péguy (Université Laval): Airport Traffic, Regional Employment and Economic Growth: A Causality Analysis | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CSLS-Canada-2020: Income Inequality Issues / Enjeux sur les inégalités de revenu | ||
| Organizers | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) Carney, Diana (Canada 2020) | |
| Chair | Lang, Eugene (Canada 2020) | |
| Papers | Mishel, Lawrence (Economic Policy Institute): The Pay of Corporate Executives and Financial Professionals as Evidence of Rents in Top 1 Percent Incomes | |
| Mohsenzadeh, Shabnam (McMaster University): Top shares and the Ontario Public Sector | ||
| Milligan, Kevin (University of British Columbia): Income inequality in Canada: Trends in the Census 1980-2005 | ||
| Murphy, Brian (Statistics Canada): Income Trajectories of High Income Canadians 1982-2010 | ||
| Discussants | Fallis, George (York University); Duclos, Jean-Yves (Université Laval) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Housing I / Marché immobilier I | ||
| Chair | Kishor, N. Kundan (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) | |
| Papers | Xu, Shaofeng (Bank of Canada): An Equilibrium Analysis of the Rise in House Prices and Mortgage Debt | |
| Kishor, N. Kundan (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): What Moves the Price-Rent Ratio? A Latent Variable Approach | ||
| Mankart, Jochen (University of St. Gallen): Uninsurable Risks, Bank Defaults and Loan Supply | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| CREE Session: Short Presentations in Resource Economics / Séance CREE: Présentations courtes en économie des ressources naturelles | ||
| Chair | Martin, Patrick (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Niu, Shilei (University of Waterloo): An Options Pricing Approach to Ramping Rate Restrictions at Hydro Power Plants | |
| Maher, Anabelle (Université de Montréal): Effect of storage on the evolution of an open access renewable resource: the case of rice-fish culture. | ||
| Williams, Olayinka (University of Ottawa): The integration of wind power generation with hydroelectricity in an electric grid | ||
| Mihashi, Rina (The University of Tokyo): Human capital, institutional quality, natural capital, and trade openness for human development | ||
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Skill development among youth and young adults / Développements des compétences chez les jeunes | ||
| Chair | Leonard, Phil (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Chan, Ping Ching Winnie (Statistics Canada): Does adult learning pay? Evidence from Canadian administrative data | |
| Heger, Dörte (Queen's University): The Impact of Post-Secondary Education on Language Ability | ||
| McIntosh, James (Concordia University): Problems With PISA: The Case of Canada. | ||
| Discussants | Leonard, Phil (McMaster University); Webb, Matt (Queen's University) | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Friday | |
| Labour Market Polarization / La polarisation du marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Ural-Marchand, Beyza (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Bechara, Peggy (Rwi): Employment Polarization and Occupational Dynamics | |
| Cortes, Guido Matias (University of Manchester): The Micro and Macro of Job Polarization | ||
| Ural-Marchand, Beyza (University of Alberta): Gender Wage-Productivity Di fferentials and Global Integration in China | ||
| Discussants | Ural-Marchand, Beyza (University of Alberta); Cortes, Guido Matias (University of Manchester) | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Friday | |
| Coffee Break / Pause-café | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Bank of Canada Lecture / Conférence de la Banque du Canada | ||
| Sponsor | Bank of Canada/Banque du Canada | |
| Chair | Schembri, Lawrence (Bank of Canada) | |
| Speaker | Beaudry, Paul (University of British Columbia) | |
| Topic | The Great Reversal In the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks since 2000 | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| CNEH 2: Invention and Labour Markets / Inventions et marché du travail | ||
| Chair | McWatters, Cheryl Susan (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Dudley, Leonard (Université de Montréal): Necessity's Children? The Inventions of the Industrial Revolution | |
| Lew, Byron J (Trent University): Real Wages, Immigration, and the Diffusion of Tractors on the Canadian Prairies, 1920-1960 | ||
| Gillezeau, Robert (University of Michigan / Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition): The Knights of Labor, War Contracts, and Break Points: The Economic Geography of American Trade Unions | ||
| Discussants | Keay, Ian (Queen's University); Armstrong, Alex (Queen's University); Chernoff, Alex (Queen's University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Firm-Level Productivity Network 3: Trade / Réseau sur la productivité des entreprises 3: Commerce | ||
| Organizer | Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Couture, Lydia (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Fung, Loretta (National Tsing Hua University): Exposure of Canadian Retailers to Cross-Border Shopping | |
| Winter, Jennifer (School of Public Policy, University of Calgary): Internal Trade and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from Canada | ||
| Brown, Mark (Statistics Canada): How thick is the Border? The cost of Shipping Goods across the Canada-U.S. Frontier, 1994 to 2009 | ||
| Discussants | Vezina, Pierre-Louis (University of Oxford); Sydor, Aaron (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada); Petrunia, Robert (Lakehead University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| CDESG Panel 1: Growth in Africa: A Policy Perspective / Panel du CDESG 1: Point de vue sur les politiques de croissance en Afrique | ||
| Panelists | Chemin, Matthieu (McGill University) | |
| Kimou, Assi Jose Carlos (University of Cocody-Abidjan, Fulbright visiting scholar University of South Florida) | ||
| Kieyah, Joseph (KIPPRA) | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Pricing with Market Power / Détermination des prix et pouvoir de marché | ||
| Papers | Tappata, Mariano (University of British Columbia): Opaque Pricing. Evidence from the Hotel Industry. | |
| Brencic, Vera (University of Alberta): How do Online Job Boards and Resume Banks Respond to Changes in the Labor Market Conditions? Evidence from Price-Setting | ||
| Discussants | Brencic, Vera (University of Alberta); Tappata, Mariano (University of British Columbia) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| PEP Session in Development Economics / Séance PEP en économie du développement | ||
| Chair | Moran, Kevin (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Lemelin, André (Université du Québec): Household savings under intertemporal optimization with truncated rational expectations in a recursive dynamic CGE | |
| Cockburn, John (Université Laval): Global extreme poverty rates for children, adults and the elderly | ||
| Beyene, Lulit Mitik (Institute for Economic and Social Development Research): Public investment in irrigation and training for an agriculture-led development: a CGE approach for Ethiopia | ||
| Discussants | Moran, Kevin (Université Laval); Beyene, Lulit Mitik (Institute for Economic and Social Development Research); Lemelin, André (Université du Québec) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| CEBERG 4: Social Preferences / CEBERG 4: Préférences sociales | ||
| Chair | Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University): Transparency, Empowerment, Disempowerment and Trust in an Investment Environment | |
| McGee, Peter (National University of Singapore): After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision | ||
| Zilinsky, Jan (University of Chicago): Information and Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from an On-line Experiment | ||
| Discussants | McGee, Peter (National University of Singapore); Zilinsky, Jan (University of Chicago); Mestelman, Stuart (McMaster University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Urban Economics II / Économie urbaine II | ||
| Chair | Simpson, Wayne Douglas (University of Manitoba) | |
| Papers | Davidoff, Thomas (University of British Columbia): Do Reverse Mortgage Borrowers Use Credit Ruthlessly? | |
| Zhou, Li (University of Alberta): Do Urban Casinos Affect Nearby Neighborhoods? Evidence from Canada | ||
| Gurzo, Krisztina (University of Regina): Hedonic Pricing in Regina's Housing Market | ||
| Discussants | Simpson, Wayne Douglas (University of Manitoba) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Integration of Immigrants 1 / Intégration des immigrants 1 | ||
| Chair | Skuterud, Mikal (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Torres, Javier (University of British Columbia): Repeat after Me, My Name is Javier: Immigrants English Proficiency Improvement Four Years After Arrival | |
| Skuterud, Mikal (University of Waterloo): Is the Heightened Emphasis on Language in Recent Changes to Canada's Immigrant Selection Policy Shortsighted? | ||
| Sharaf, Mesbah (Concordia University): Quality adjustment of immigrant human capital | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Development Economics / Économie du développement | ||
| Chair | Pelli, Martino (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Dong, Xue (University of Western Ontario): Economic Shock and Household Labor Response in Indonesia | |
| Manzano, Osmel (Inter American Development Bank): Productivity Spillover of Resource Exploitation: Evidence from Venezuelan Industrial Surveys | ||
| Pelli, Martino (University of Alberta): Intensive Margin of Electrification: Evidence from Rural India | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Productivity Measurement / Mesurer la productivité | ||
| Chair | Nakamura, Alice (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Diewert, W. Erwin (University of British Columbia): US TFP Growth and the Contribution of Changes in Export and Import Prices to Real Income Growth | |
| Yu, Kam (Lakehead University): Measuring the Efficiency of the Canadian Health Care System | ||
| Sadeghzadeh, Javad (York University): Innovation Subsidies and Productivity Growth: A Quantitative Analysis of Indian Industry | ||
| Discussants | Nakamura, Alice (University of Alberta); Sadeghzadeh, Javad (York University); Yu, Kam (Lakehead University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| CMSG Session: International Macroeconomics / Macroéconomie internationale | ||
| Chair | Ravenna, Federico (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Sosa Padilla, Cesar (McMaster University): Sovereign Defaults and Banking Crises | |
| Letendre, Marc-Andre (McMaster University): Agency Costs and International Cycles | ||
| Ravenna, Federico (HEC Montréal): The Cost of Commitment | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Growth / Croissance | ||
| Chair | Okoye, Chidozie (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Hong, Bei (National university of Singapore): Education or Innovation? A growth and welfare comparisions of different policies scenarios | |
| Okoye, Chidozie (University of Western Ontario): Productivity Differences in a Model of Appropriate Technology and Skill Choice | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Trade and Multinationals / Commerce et multinationales | ||
| Chair | Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita (University of Winnipeg) | |
| Papers | Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita (University of Winnipeg): International allocation of productive assets and trade liberalization | |
| Hovhannisyan, Nune (University of Colorado Denver): Technology Gap and International Knowledge Transfer: New Evidence from the Operations of Multinational Corporations | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Trade Policy 2 / Politiques commerciales 2 | ||
| Chair | Hakobyan, Shushanik (Middlebury College) | |
| Papers | Li, Xiaofeng (Capital University of Economics and Business): The Impact of Free Trade on Wage Inequality: an Analysis for the US | |
| Pham, Ngoc Q. (University of Maastricht): Household Welfare and Pricing of Rice in Vietnam: Does Being the World's Biggest Rice Exporter Matter? | ||
| Hakobyan, Shushanik (Middlebury College): Trade Patterns after the Expiration of the Generalized System of Preferences | ||
| Discussants | Hakobyan, Shushanik (Middlebury College); Li, Xiaofeng (Capital University of Economics and Business); Pham, Ngoc Q. (University of Maastricht) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| IRPP Session: The Future of Federal-Provincial Relations and Fiscal Arrangements / Séance IRPP : L'avenir des relations fédérales-provinciales et des accords fiscaux | ||
| Chair | St-Hilaire, France (IRPP) | |
| Panelists | Courchene, Thomas J. (Queen's University) | |
| Matier, Chris (Parliamentary Budget Office) | ||
| Boadway, Robin W. (Queen's University) | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| CETC-GEEP Session: Political Economy 1 / CETC-GEEP: Économie politique 1 | ||
| Chair | Forand, Jean Guillaume (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Orset, Caroline (Université Laval): The Political Economy of Scientific Uncertainty: how communication campaigns are affected by scientific uncertainty? | |
| Li, Ming (Concordia University): Strategic communication and group formation | ||
| Wu, Jiabin (University of Wisconsin-Madison): The Evolution of Preferences in Political Institutions | ||
| Discussants | Degan, Arianna (Université du Québec à Montréal); Orset, Caroline (Université Laval); Gonzalez, Patrick (Université Laval) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Defense and Security Economics / Économie de la défense et de la sécurité | ||
| Organizer | Berkok, Ugurhan (Royal Military College) | |
| Chair | Berkok, Ugurhan (Royal Military College) | |
| Papers | Berkok, Ugurhan (Royal Military College): Lowballing in Procurement | |
| Luo, Zijun (Colgate University): Social Conflict and the Political Economy of Third-Party Intervention | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| CESG Session: Bootstrap Methods I / Séance CESG : Les méthodes bootstrap I | ||
| Chair | Tabri, Rami (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Davidson, Russell (McGill University): Bootstrap tests for overidentification in linear regression models | |
| Doko Tchatoka, Firmin Sabro (University of Tasmania): On bootstrap validity for exogeneity tests with possibly weak instruments | ||
| Wang, Wenjie (Kyoto University): Bootstrap Inference for Instrumental Variable Model with Many Weak Instruments | ||
| Discussants | Doko Tchatoka, Firmin Sabro (University of Tasmania); MacKinnon, James G (Queen's University); Dovonon, Prosper (Concordia University) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| PEF 4: The Costs of Homelessness / Le coût de l'itinérance | ||
| Organizer | Keller, Cameron (Mental Health Commission of Canada) | |
| Chair | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Gaetz, Stephen (York University): The Real Cost of Homelessess: Can we do the right thing and save money? | |
| Latimer, Eric (McGill University): Cost offsets of Housing First programs in 5 Canadian cities | ||
| Hughes, James (Graham Boeckh Foundation): Closing the Gap between Performance and Ability: A New Canadian Policy Framework in Homelessness | ||
| Keller, Cameron (Mental Health Commission of Canada): Implementation of Housing First in Five Canadian Cities: How do you make the shoe fit, when one size does not fit all? | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| CRDCN Session 2: Longitudinal analysis of health / Séance RCCDR 2: Analyse longitudinale en santé | ||
| Organizer | McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick) | |
| Chair | Worswick, Christopher (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | McLeod, Logan (Wilfrid Laurier University): Longitudinal Relationship between Participation in Physical Activity and Health | |
| McDonald, Ted (University of New Brunswick): Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Cancer Incidence and Mortality Canada: new evidence from a linked Census-administrative dataset | ||
| Pierard, Emmanuelle (University of Waterloo): Child Health and Parental Smoking: Panel Data Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth | ||
| Discussants | Spin, Paul (Dalhousie University); Warman, Casey (Dalhousie University); Sarma, Sisira K (The University of Western Ontario) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Law, Economics, and Religion / Droit, économie et religion | ||
| Chair | Smith, Justin (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Chan, Alan (Crandall University): Church Revenue and Worship Attendance: An empirical study of Canadian Baptists | |
| Carmody, Chi (University of Western Ontario): Fairness in International Economic Law & Relations | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Agricultural Economics / Économie de l'agriculture | ||
| Chair | Klein, Kurt (University of Lethbridge) | |
| Papers | Ali, Md Kamar (University of Lethbridge): Water Allocation Policies in Alberta: A Comparative Analysis | |
| Yu, Weiqiu (University of New Brunswick): Changes in the Distributional Structure of China's Agricultural Products: Process and Impact Factors | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Housing II / Immobilier II | ||
| Chair | Ho, Anson (Kansas State University) | |
| Papers | Rouillard, Jean-François (Université de Sherbrooke): Business Cycle, Land Dynamics and Financial Shocks | |
| Tu, Yuanyuan (Queen's University): The Dynamics of Canadian City-level Housing Markets | ||
| Ho, Anson (Kansas State University): Tax-deferred Saving Accounts in the Presence of Housing | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Labour: Learning / Apprentissage dans le marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Agopsowicz, Andrew (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Belley, Philippe (Kansas State University): Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap | |
| Held, Brian (University of Western Ontario): Evidence of an Ability Learning Process Among University Graduates | ||
| Zahedi, Razieh (University of Calgary): Divorce and Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills of Children | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Institutional Design of Capital Markets / Conception institutionnelle des marchés des capitaux | ||
| Chair | Brolley, Michael (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Thiele, Veikko (Queen's University): Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Theory of Angel Markets | |
| Antweiler, Werner (University of British Columbia): Long-Term Prediction Markets | ||
| Brolley, Michael (University of Toronto): Do Off-Exchange Trading Venues Improve Welfare and Visible Market Quality? | ||
| Chateau, John peter (University of Macau): Gram-Charlier processes and equity-indexed annuities | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| CREE Session: Empirical Issues in Resource Economics / Séance CREE: Enjeux empiriques en économie des ressources naturelles | ||
| Chair | Moghadam, Arian (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Papers | Martin, Patrick (University of Guelph): The sensitivity of the resource curse to alternative measures of resource abundance. | |
| Moshiri, Saeed (University of Saskatchewan): Asymmetric Effects of Oil Price Shocks in Oil-Exporting Countries; Developing versus Developed Countries | ||
| Withey, Patrick (Saint Francis Xavier University): Direct and Indirect Granger Causality between Energy, CO2 emissions and Income in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Atallah, Samer (McGill University); Alexeev, Vitali (University of Tasmania); Samano, Mario (HEC Montréal) | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Topics in the Economics of Education / Sujets en économie de l'éducation | ||
| Chair | Kyui, Natalia (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Aydede, Yigit (Saint Mary's University): Economic Benefits of Studying Economics in Canada: A Comparison of Wages of Economics Majors with those in Other Disciplines Circa 2005 | |
| Bouchard St-Amant, Pier-André (Queen's University): University Funding Policies: Buildings or Citizens? | ||
| Goensch, Iris (University of Giessen): Does the availability of secondary schools increase primary schooling? Empirical evidence from northern Senegal. | ||
| Lee, Hakki (University of Pittsburgh): Biased Preference, Fertility and Gender Inequality in Education | ||
| Pandey, Manish (University of Winnipeg): Explaining low high school attainment in Northern Communities: An analysis of the Aboriginal Peoples Surveys | ||
| 16:00-17:30 | Friday | |
| Labour: Human Capital / Capital humain | ||
| Chair | Brown, Laura (University of Manitoba) | |
| Papers | Turner, Laura (University of Toronto): It's Not Me, It's You: Social Skills and Human Capital in the Labor and Marriage Markets | |
| Bowlus, Audra J (University of Western Ontario): Technological Change in the Production of Human Capital Over the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s | ||
| Chen, Uniko (Yi-Jian) (University of Michigan): The Impact of the Expansion in Post-Secondary Education on the University Wage Premium in Taiwan---Supply-Demand Framework | ||
| 17:45-19:15 | Friday | |
| Innis Lecture / Conférence Innis | ||
| Chair | Lemieux, Thomas (University of British Columbia) | |
| Speaker | Head, C. Keith (University of British Columbia) | |
| Topic | What Separates Us? Sources of Resistance to Globalization | |
| 19:30-21:00 | Friday | |
| Reception / Réception | ||
| Sponsor | IRPP | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Saturday | |
| Coffee and Muffins / Café et muffins | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Statistics Canada: Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research | ||
| Organizer | Leung, Dany (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Leung, Dany (Statistics Canada): The Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research: The Centre, the Application Process and the Data Sets | |
| Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada): Productivity Growth in the Canadian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Industry: Evidence from Micro Data | ||
| Lafrance, Amelie (Statistics Canada): Inter-firm Profitability Differences | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| CDESG: Finance and Remittances / Finance et envoi de fonds | ||
| Chair | Jackson, Ken (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Arestoff, Florence (Paris Dauphine): Financial Behavior and mobile banking in Madagascar: Promises are only binding to those who believe them. | |
| Mughal, Mazhar (Université de Pau): Do Migrant Remittances React to Bouts of Terrorism? | ||
| Salardi, Paola (University of Sussex): Wage Disparities and Occupational Intensity by Gender and Race in Brazil: An Empirical Analysis Using Quantile Decomposition Techniques | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Firm-Level Productivity Network 4: Finance and Growth / Réseau sur la productivité des entreprises 4: Finance et croissance | ||
| Organizer | Veall, Michael (McMaster University) | |
| Chair | Sadeghzadeh, Javad (York University) | |
| Papers | Pandes, Ari (University of Calgary): Effective Junior Equity Market Regulation | |
| Wang, Yanling (Carelton University): Foreign Acquisition, Domestic Acquisition and Plant Survival | ||
| Law, Stephen M. (Mount Allison University): Estimating Productivity Growth in Canadian Cable Television | ||
| Discussants | Sarkar, Sudipto (McMaster University); Secrieru, Oana (Royal Military College); Pillai, Unni (SUNY Albany) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| CDESG: Household / Ménages | ||
| Chair | Grogan, Louise (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Grogan, Louise (University of Guelph): Household Formation Rules and the Demand for Sons | |
| Housseini, Bouba (Université Laval): Health, Demography and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa using a Simultaneous Equations Model | ||
| Dauphin, Anyck (Université du Québec en Outaousais): On the Efficiency of Polygynous Households of West Africa | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| CEBERG 5: Strategic Games / CEBERG 5: Jeux stratégiques | ||
| Chair | Song, Fei (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Tergiman, Chloe (University of British Columbia): Naive Play and the Process of Choice in Guessing Games | |
| Kimbrough, Erik (Simon Fraser University): Sustaining Group Reputation with Information and Impartial Justice | ||
| Song, Fei (Ryerson University): Deception: An Unintended Consequence of Delegation | ||
| Discussants | Kimbrough, Erik (Simon Fraser University); Song, Fei (Ryerson University); Tergiman, Chloe (University of British Columbia) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Teaching of Economics / L'enseignement de la science économique | ||
| Chair | McGregor, Maureen (Mount Royal University) | |
| Papers | Holmes, Hannah (McMaster University): Since When is Economics Fun? Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes Assessment in Economics Field Courses | |
| O'Shaughnessy, Bridget (McMaster University): Multiple Choice Question Analysis on Economics Tests | ||
| Wong, Andrew (University of Alberta): The Use of e-Campus in Teaching Undergraduate Principles of Economics | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| CPEG IV: Tax Evasion / Évasion fiscale | ||
| Chair | Kryvoruchko, Iryna (University of Regina) | |
| Papers | Arbex, Marcelo (University of Windsor): Tax evasion: Is this a government fight, or can anyone join? | |
| Bourgain, Arnaud (University of Luxembourg): From tax evasion to tax planning | ||
| Cuff, Katherine L (McMaster University): Dual Corporate Tax Evasion | ||
| Discussants | Kesselman, Jonathan (Simon Fraser University Vancouver); Sengupta, Bodhisattva (Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati); Kim, Jin Woong (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Health and the Labor Force / Santé et la population active | ||
| Chair | Pohl, Vincent (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Das, Pranay Kumar (University of Manitoba): Effects of Health on Labor Force Participation in Canada: New Evidence from A Longitudinal Analysis | |
| Pohl, Vincent (Queen's University): The Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings. Evidence from Chile | ||
| Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude (Dalhousie University): War during Childhood: The Long Run Effects of Warfare on Children's Health | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Structural Estimation of IO Models / Estimation structurelle en organisation industrielle | ||
| Chair | Rivers, David A. (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Suzuki, Junichi (University of Toronto): Identification and Counterfactuals in Dynamic Models of Market Entry and Exit | |
| Rivers, David A. (University of Western Ontario): On the Identification of Production Functions: How Heterogeneous is Productivity? | ||
| Discussants | Rivers, David A. (University of Western Ontario); Suzuki, Junichi (University of Toronto) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Strategic Commitments and Market Power / Pouvoir de marché et engagement stratégique | ||
| Chair | Ju, Heng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) | |
| Papers | Song, Yang (University of Calgary): "Puppier Puppy-Dog" and "Fatter Fat-Cat" under Price-Matching Strategy | |
| Kashefi, Mohammad Ali (Bielefeld): Supply Chain Configuration under Information Sharing | ||
| Ju, Heng (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): Territorial Requirement and Exclusive Dealing in China's Automobile Franchises | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| CMSG Session: The Technology of Production / Technologie de production | ||
| Chair | Vincent, Nicolas (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Poschke, Markus (McGill University): Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth | |
| Vincent, Nicolas (HEC Montréal): Investment and Productivity Dynamics at the Plant and the Firm Level | ||
| Michaels, Ryan (University of Rochester): Coordinated labor Supply within the Firm: Evidence and Implications | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Unemployment over the Business Cycle I / Chômage et cycles économiques I | ||
| Chair | Chen, Yu (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Lkhagvasuren, Damba (Concordia University): Sectoral Mismatch, Wages and Mobility | |
| Herreno, Juan (Inter-American Development Bank): Equilibrium Unemployment During Financial Crises | ||
| Chen, Yu (University of Waterloo): Unemployment in recession and recovery | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| The State of the Canadian Financial System / L'état du système financier canadien | ||
| Chair | Pang, Ke (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Guidara, Alaa (Laval University): Capital adjustment and insolvency risk under underwriting cycles : A study of Canadian property-liability insurance firms | |
| Li, Fuchun (Bank of Canada): A Macro Stress Test Model of the Default Risk of Canadian banking System | ||
| Gagnon, Jean-Marie (Université Laval): Savings in Canada, a Balance Sheet Approach | ||
| Pang, Ke (Wilfrid Laurier University): The effects of exchange rates on employment in Canadian manufacturing industries | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| IO and Auctions / Organisation industrielle et enchères | ||
| Chair | Kirkegaard, Rene (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Au Yong, Ke Xian (University of Western Ontario): Simultaneous ascending auctions with resale | |
| Francetich, Alejandro (Stanford): Becoming a Neighbor: Endogenous Winner's Curse in Dynamic Mechanisms | ||
| Halaburda, Hanna (Bank of Canada): The Role of Coordination Bias in Platform Competition | ||
| Discussants | Kirkegaard, Rene (University of Guelph); Au Yong, Ke Xian (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Offshoring / Délocalisation | ||
| Chair | Couture, Lydia (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Alexander, Patrick (Queen's University): Offshoring, wages and profits | |
| Couture, Lydia (Statistics Canada): Offshoring ans Business Organization: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Firms | ||
| Steingress, Walter (Université de Montréal): Specialization Patterns in International Trade | ||
| Discussants | Couture, Lydia (Statistics Canada); Alexander, Patrick (Queen's University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| CETC Session: Economics of Organizations / Séance CETC: l'économie des organisations | ||
| Chair | Zhao, Jingang (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| Papers | Chatterjee, Debipriya (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Endogenous Hierarchies Under Representational Concerns | |
| Martinez-Gorricho, Silvia (University of Alicante): Harmful Information in a Two-Sided Asymmetric Information Setting | ||
| Pongou, Roland (University of Ottawa): On-the-Job Trial Tournament: Productivity Rank and Earnings | ||
| Discussants | Wu, Jiabin (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Forand, Jean Guillaume (University of Waterloo); Horan, Sean (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| News / Nouvelles | ||
| Chair | Wagner, Joel (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Guo, Jang-Ting (University of California, Riverside): News about Aggregate Demand and the Business Cycle | |
| Khan, Hashmat (Carleton University): Investment-Specific News Shocks and U.S. Business Cycles | ||
| Wagner, Joel (McMaster University): Recycling Yesterday's News | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Monetary Policy / Politique monétaire | ||
| Chair | Bruneau, Gabriel (Banque du Canada) | |
| Papers | Dai, Tiantian (Renmin University of China): The Role of Multi-stage Production for the Monetary Transmission Mechanism | |
| Istiak, Khandokar (University of Calgary): Interest Rate, Leverage, and Money Shocks | ||
| Bruneau, Gabriel (Banque du Canada): Countercyclical loan-to-value ratios and monetary policy | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| CESG Session: Nonparametric Methods / Séance CESG: Méthodes non paramétriques | ||
| Chair | Perron, Benoit (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Tripathi, Gautam (University of Luxembourg): Nonparametric estimation of returns to scale | |
| Zinde-Walsh, Victoria (McGill University): Density, conditional distribution and density, conditional moments and their kernel estimators as generalized functions | ||
| Chen, Heng (Bank of Canada): Wavelet Estimators for the Discontinuous Quantile Model | ||
| Discussants | Shin, Youngki (University of Western Ontario); Li, Fuchun (Bank of Canada); Perron, Benoit (Université de Montréal) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Kari Polanyi Levitt and her Contributions to Canadian Economics / Les contributions de Kari Polanyi Levitt à la science économique au Canada | ||
| Organizers | Dimand, Robert W. (Brock University) Seccareccia, Mario (University of Ottawa) | |
| Chair | Dimand, Robert W. (Brock University) | |
| Panelists | Lal, Kishori (Retired from Statistics Canada) | |
| Mendell, Marguerite (Concordia University) | ||
| Sanchez, Julia (Canadian Council for International Co-operation) | ||
| Seccareccia, Mario (University of Ottawa) | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Food markets / Marchés des aliments | ||
| Chair | Yu, Weiqiu (University of New Brunswick) | |
| Papers | Klein, Kurt (University of Lethbridge): Ten Years After BSE Discovered in Canada: An Assessment of its Impact on Canada's Beef Industry | |
| Chernoff, Alex (Queen's University): Modeling the Price of Dairy Quotas under Price Ceiling Legislation | ||
| Lopez, Rigoberto (University of Connecticut): Spillover and Competitive Effects of TV Advertising in the Carbonated Soft Drink Market | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| CSLS-Banque de France: Productivity Research from the UK, France, the United States and Canada / Recherche sur la productivité au Royaume-Uni, en France, aux EU et au Canada | ||
| Organizers | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) Cette, Gilbert (Banque de France) | |
| Chair | Fortin, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Aizcorbe, Ana (Bureau of Economics Analysis): Measuring Productivity for the US Health Sector | |
| Oulton, Nicholas (LSE): Long and short term effects of the financial crisis on labour productivity, capital and output | ||
| Cette, Gilbert (Banque de France): Upstream Product Market Regulations, ICT, R&D and Productivity | ||
| Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards): Can Measurement Issues Explain the Canada-U.S. ICT Investment per Worker Gap? | ||
| Discussants | Diewert, W. Erwin (University of British Columbia); Sichel, Dan (Wellesley College) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Status and Well Being / Statut et bien-être | ||
| Chair | Carmody, Chi (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Daley, Angela (Dalhousie University): The Well-Being of Children in Northern Canada | |
| Arvin, Mak (Trent University): Happiness and Corruption: An Empirical Analysis | ||
| Darku, Alexander Bilson (University of Lethbridge): Income Inequality, Status Seeking, and Savings Rates in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Arvin, Mak (Trent University); Carmody, Chi (University of Western Ontario); Daley, Angela (Dalhousie University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Environment Canada Session 1: Environmental Policy / Politiques environnementales | ||
| Organizer | Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada) | |
| Chair | Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada) | |
| Papers | Bataille, Christopher (Navius Research Inc.): The Canadian climate policy laboratory: From checkerboard to equimarginal and broad based? | |
| Joe, St. Lawrence (Government of Canada): Linking the Environment and the Economy: a brief update on international guidelines | ||
| Rivers, Nicholas (University of Ottawa): An evaluation of the Ontario vehicle feebate | ||
| Discussants | Brown, Mark (Statistics Canada); Cairns, Robert D (McGill University); ab Iorwerth, Aled (Council of Canadian Academies) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Immigration Impact / Impacts de l'immigration | ||
| Chair | Damas de Matos, Ana (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Olney, William W. (Williams College): Remittances and the Wage Impact of Immigration | |
| Zhang, Haimin (University of British Columbia): Immigrants and Crime: Evidence from Canada | ||
| Gross, Dominique (Simon Fraser University): The impact of cross-border worker policy on wages in Switzerland | ||
| Discussants | Sharaf, Mesbah (Concordia University); Mahboubi, Parisa (University of Guelph); Damas de Matos, Ana (HEC Montréal) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Education and Training / Éducation et formation | ||
| Chair | Hui, Shek-wai (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Papers | Huynh, Kim (Bank of Canada): Efficacy of Voluntary Training and Heterogeneous Performance | |
| Webb, Matt (Queen's University): On the Effectiveness of Graduate Retention Programs | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Short Papers in International Finance / Présentations courtes en finance internationale | ||
| Chair | Castro, Rui (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Abdel Razek, Noha (University of Alberta): Competing Hypotheses of the Causes of the US Current Account Deficit | |
| Dmitriev, Mikhail (Boston College): Price Stability in Small Open Economies | ||
| MacDonald, Margaux (Queen's University): Patterns of International Capital Flows and Productivity Growth: New Evidence | ||
| Kortava, Ekaterina (University of Glasgow): Reassessing the Stylized Facts about Exchange Rate Pass-through | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| University Funding / Financement des universités | ||
| Chair | Pivovarova, Margarita (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Ci, Wen (Carleton University): Who Entered and Who Left? School Program Streaming and Attrition: Evidence from French Immersion Programs | |
| Murrell, David (University of New Brunswick): Comparing University Finances in Canada: Private Universities with Charity Status versus Very Small Public Universities | ||
| Ragued, Safa (Université Laval): Access or Quality: Can A Publicly Funded Higher Education System Have Both? | ||
| Discussants | Pivovarova, Margarita (University of Toronto); Bouchard St-Amant, Pier-André (Queen's University); Burbidge, John (University of Waterloo) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Saturday | |
| Income Support Programs / Programmes de soutien du revenu | ||
| Chair | Brochu, Pierre (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | vom Berge, Philipp (Institute for Employment Research): Minimum wages and employment: A spatial identification strategy for Germany | |
| Jales, Hugo (University of British Columbia): Estimating the Effects of Minimum Wage in Brazil: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Saturday | |
| Coffee Break / Pause-café | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence État des connaissances | ||
| Chair | Poitevin, Michel (Université de Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Peters, Michael (University of British Columbia) | |
| Topic | Competition in Mechanisms | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Industry Canada and Statistics Canada: Productivity and Determinants / Séance d'Industrie Canada et Statistique Canada: Productivité et déterminants | ||
| Organizers | Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada) Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada) | |
| Chair | Shute, Larry (Industry Canada) | |
| Papers | Rao, Someshwar (SRAO Consulting INC): Trend Labour Productivity Growth: Role of Demand Conditions | |
| Wang, Weimin (Statistics Canada): Correction for Variations in Capacity Utilization in the Measurement of Productivity Growth: A Non-Parametric Approach | ||
| Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada): Industry Productivity: The Role of Offshoring | ||
| Discussants | Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada); Willox, Michael (Finance Canada); Cao, Shutao (Bank of Canada) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| CDESG Keynote Address / Conférence invitée du GCEDE | ||
| Organizer | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Speaker | Ravallion, Martin (Georgetown University) | |
| Topic | The Idea of Antipoverty Policy | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| CLEA Session: Crime / Criminalité | ||
| Chair | Curry, Philip (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Navarro, Salvador (University of Western Ontario): Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Understanding Disparate Results | |
| McCannon, Bryan (Saint Bonaventure University): Prosecutor Elections, Mistakes, and Appeals | ||
| Curry, Philip (University of Waterloo): Estimating the effects of clearance rates on crime | ||
| Discussants | Khalil, Umair (University of Rochester); Summerfield, Fraser (University of Guelph); Coviello, Decio (HEC Montréal) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| CWEN Session II - New Evaluations of the Gender Earnings Gap / Séance du RFÉ II: Nouvelles évaluations de l'écart des revenus entre les femmes et les hommes | ||
| Chair | Schirle, Tammy (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo): Exiting Poverty: Does Sex Matter? | |
| Plesca, Miana (University of Guelph): Women's Higher Returns to Post-Secondary Education: Increased Productivity or Longer Hours Worked? | ||
| Teng, Jiayuan (University of Guelph): Explaining the Canadian Gender Wage Gap of Highly Educated Workers | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| CEBERG 6: Public Goods and Public Finance / CEBERG 6: Bien publics et finance publique | ||
| Chair | Cuff, Katherine L (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Jiang, Janet Hua (Bank of Canada): Experimental Evidence of Bank Runs as Pure Coordination Failures: Do Sunspots matter? | |
| Petersen, Luba (University of California Santa Cruz): Expectations and Monetary Policy: Experimental Evidence | ||
| Sanchez, Miguel Alejandro (University of Alicante): Public Goods: Voluntary Contributions and Risk | ||
| Thomas, Stephanie (McMaster University): An Experimental Investigation of the Political Economy of Mixed Systems of Finance | ||
| Discussants | Petersen, Luba (University of California Santa Cruz); Jiang, Janet Hua (Bank of Canada); Thomas, Stephanie (McMaster University); Sanchez, Miguel Alejandro (University of Alicante) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Teaching Economics at Undergraduate Level / L'enseignent de la science économique au premier cycle | ||
| Organizer | Islam, Shahidul (Grant Macewan University) | |
| Chair | Islam, Shahidul (Grant Macewan University) | |
| Papers | Leung, Ambrose (Mount Royal University): VARK Learning Styles and Student Performance in Principles of Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics | |
| Habib, Ahsan (Adrian College): Integrating Circular Flow Chart in Economics Courses | ||
| Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University): Student preference of attributes of economics teaching: analysis of evidences from 'ratemyprofessor.com' | ||
| Colonescu, Constantin (Grant MacEwan University): Integrating Themes in Teaching an Undergraduate Course: The Case of Intermediate Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics | ||
| Discussants | Colonescu, Constantin (Grant MacEwan University); Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University); Habib, Ahsan (Adrian College); McGregor, Maureen (Mount Royal University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Poverty Measurement / Mesurer la pauvreté | ||
| Chair | Steele, Marion (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Roberge, Helene (Ressources Humaines et Développement des Compétences Canada): La consommation : une mesure alternative pour évaluer le niveau de bien-être économique des familles à faible revenu | |
| Steele, Marion (University of Guelph): The Very Poor and the Tax and Benefit Return: Who think they have filed and who have actually filed? | ||
| Discussants | Steele, Marion (University of Guelph); Zhang, Xuelin (Statistics Canada) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| CPEG V: Political Competition and Fiscal Determinants / Compétition politique et déterminants fiscaux | ||
| Chair | Degan, Arianna (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Winer, Stanley (Carleton University): A Time Series Perspective on Political Competition and Fiscal Structure: Testing Principal-Agent Analysis on Canada, 1870 -2011 | |
| Galindo Silva, Hector (Université de Montréal): New Parties and Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from Colombian Local Governments | ||
| Ferede, Ergete (Grant MacEwan University): The Timing and Direction of Statutory Tax Rate Changes by the Canadian Provinces | ||
| Discussants | Galletta, Sergio (University of Lugano); Marina, Dodlova (University Paris Ouest Nanterre); Galindo Silva, Hector (Université de Montréal) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| IO and Environmental Economics / Organisation industrielle et économie de l'environnement | ||
| Chair | Pillai, Unni (SUNY Albany) | |
| Papers | Grover, David (London School of Economics): Technology composition in a long-run pollution transition: evidence from the virtual elimination of ozone depleting substances in developing countries | |
| Furukawa, Yuichi (Chukyo University): Technological Change and International Interaction in Environmental Policies | ||
| Pillai, Unni (SUNY Albany): Source of Technological Progress in the Solar Panel Industry | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Taxation / Fiscalité | ||
| Chair | Epstein, Brendan (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | |
| Papers | Anagnostopoulos, Alexis (Stony Brook University): Value Preserving Welfare Weights for Social Optimization Problems | |
| Smith, Constance (University of Alberta): The Welfare and Stabilization Benefits of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from Canadian Provinces | ||
| Epstein, Brendan (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System): Beyond Taxes: Understanding the Labor Wedge | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| CMSG Session: Productivity / Productivité | ||
| Chair | Kurmann, Andre (Federal Reserve Board) | |
| Papers | Mukoyama, Toshihiko (Federal Reserve Board): The Cyclicality of Job-to-Job Transitions and Its Implications for Aggregate Productivity | |
| Kurmann, Andre (Federal Reserve Board): News about the Identification of TFP News | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Unemployment over the Business Cycle II / Chômage et cycles économiques II | ||
| Chair | Pollak, Andreas (University of Saskatchewan) | |
| Papers | Fuller, David (Concordia University): Unemployment Insurance Take-up Rates in an Equilibrium Search Model | |
| Pollak, Andreas (University of Saskatchewan): Employment Insurance and the Business Cycle | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Asset Pricing Anomalies / Anomalies dans l'évaluation des actifs financiers | ||
| Chair | Tong, Guoshi (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Galvani, Valentina (University of Alberta): Core Anomalies | |
| Tong, Guoshi (University of British Columbia): Structural Tests of Bond Return Predictability | ||
| Kontonikas, Alexandros (University of Glasgow): Stock market reaction to Fed funds rate surprises: State dependence and the financial crisis | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Trade and Exports / Commerce et exportations | ||
| Chair | Tientao, Aligui (Université de Bourgogne) | |
| Papers | Oberoi, Bindu (Delhi University, Indraprastha College for Women): Trends in and Determinants of India's Textile Exports after Liberalisation | |
| Tientao, Aligui (Université de Bourgogne): Trade and African Regional Agreements: a spatial econometric approach | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Trade Theory / Théorie en commerce international | ||
| Chair | Mondria, Jordi (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Schmitt, Nicolas (Simon Fraser University): Inventories and Market Clearing in International Trade: The Role of Export and Import Wholesalers | |
| Ivus, Olena (Queen's Univ): Intellectual property rights and foreign market entry mode | ||
| Mondria, Jordi (University of Toronto): International Trade with Inattentive Importers | ||
| Discussants | Ivus, Olena (Queen's Univ); Mondria, Jordi (University of Toronto); Schmitt, Nicolas (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Assessing Monetary and Financial Policies (Under Chatham House Rule) / Évaluation des politiques monétaires et financières (séance sous la règle de Chatham) | ||
| Chair | Siklos, Pierre L (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Santos, Joseph (South Dakota State University): Did IT work? Measuring the performance of Canadian monetary policy | |
| Schembri, Lawrence (Bank of Canada): A Tale of Two Countries and Two Booms, Canada and the United States in the 1920s and the 2000s: The Roles of Monetary and Financial Stability Policies | ||
| Siklos, Pierre L (Wilfrid Laurier University): The Monetary Policy Council and The Governing Council: Two Peas In a Pod? | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Monetary Policy Design / Élaboration de politiques monétaires | ||
| Chair | Rhee, Jay Hyuk Jae (University of Windsor) | |
| Papers | Farvaque, Etienne (Université du Havre): Optimal Term Length for an Overconfident Central Banker | |
| Moore, Bartholomew (Fordham University): Monetary Policy Regimes and Inflation in the New-Keynesian Model. | ||
| Rhee, Jay Hyuk Jae (University of Windsor): Unemployment fluctuations, and Optimal Monetary policy in a Small Open Economy | ||
| Douch, Mohamed (Royal Military College): Inflation-Price-Level Targeting in a Small Open Economy with Imperfect Pass-Through | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Integration of Immigrants 2 / L'intégration des immigrants 2 | ||
| Papers | Damas de Matos, Ana (HEC Montréal): The Careers of Immigrants | |
| Mahboubi, Parisa (University of Guelph): Labour Market Outcomes across Generations of Immigrants in Canada | ||
| Zhou, Jin (University of Western Ontario): Does Network Matter? Job Search with Return Migration Option in China | ||
| Discussants | Torres, Javier (University of British Columbia); Gross, Dominique (Simon Fraser University); Bechara, Peggy (Rwi) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Foreign Exchange Markets / Les marchés des changes | ||
| Chair | Aleem, Abdul (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Qureshi, Mahvash (International Monetary Fund): Is the Exchange Rate Regime Really Irrelevant for External Adjustment? | |
| Aleem, Abdul (Dalhousie University): Exchange Rate Pass-Through in emerging countries: Does monetary policy credibility matter? | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Theories of Money and Payment Systems / Théories de la monnaie et des systèmes de paiements | ||
| Chair | Bright, Robert (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Wong, Tsz-Nga (Bank of Canada): Monetary Policies, Unemployment and Inflation | |
| Ang, Joshua Ping (University of Connecticut): Endogenous Emergence of Money as a Store of Value | ||
| Bright, Robert (University of Guelph): Transaction Demand for Money and the Market Structure and Symmetry of Alternative Forms of Payment | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| CESG Session: Bootstrap Methods II / Séance CESG : Les méthodes bootstrap II | ||
| Chair | MacKinnon, James G (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Dovonon, Prosper (Concordia University): Bootstrapping GMM tests under first order underidentification | |
| Hounyo, Koomla Ulrich (Université de Montréal): Bootstrapping Realized Volatility Using Contiguity Methods | ||
| Tabri, Rami (McGill University): Asymptotic and Bootstrap Empirical Likelihood Ratio Tests for Strong Stochastic Dominance Between Two Income Distributions | ||
| Discussants | Davidson, Russell (McGill University); Webb, Matt (Queen's University); Thompson, Brennan (Ryerson University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| PEF 5: The Financing of Long Term Residential Care in Canada and the United States / Séance FEP 5 : Le financement des soins de longue durée au Canada et aux États-Unis | ||
| Organizer | MacDonald, Martha (Saint Mary's University) | |
| Chair | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Rosenau, Pauline (Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston): Exploring Policy Options to Improve the Financial Accountability of US Nursing Homes | |
| Panos, Justin (York University): A Hostage to Fortune: Financialization, Regulation and Long-term Care in North America | ||
| MacDonald, Martha (Saint Mary's University): Individual Charges for Long Term Residential Care in Canada | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Advances in the Estimation of Gravity Equations / Percées dans l'estimation des modèles gravitationnels | ||
| Organizer | Head, C. Keith (University of British Columbia) | |
| Chair | Head, C. Keith (University of British Columbia) | |
| Papers | Head, C. Keith (University of British Columbia): Gravity Equations: Workhorse, Tookit, Cookbook | |
| Morales, Eduardo (Columbia University): Gravity and Extended Gravity: Estimating a Structural Model of Export Entry | ||
| Charbonneau, Karyne B (Princeton University): Multiple Fixed Effects in Nonlinear Panel Data Models - Theory and Evidence | ||
| Discussants | Morales, Eduardo (Columbia University); Charbonneau, Karyne B (Princeton University); Ries, John (University of British Columbia) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Canadian Public Policy Lecture / Conférence de la revue Analyse de politiques | ||
| Organizer | Emery, J C Herbert (University of Calgary) | |
| Chair | Emery, J C Herbert (University of Calgary) | |
| Panelists | Boothe, Paul (Western University) | |
| Speaker | Boothe, Paul (Western University) | |
| Topic | Making Good Regulations | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Bank of Canada Session: Recent Developments in Inflation Forecasting / Développements récents sur la prévision de l'inflation | ||
| Organizer | Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Jain, Monica (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Manzan, Sebastiano (Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College): Forecasting the distribution of economic variables in a data-rich environment | |
| Gibbs, Christopher (University of Oregon): Systematic Inflation Forecast Errors, Forecast Combination, and the Forecast Combination Puzzle | ||
| Jain, Monica (Bank of Canada): Conservatism in Inflation Forecasts | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Finance Foundations of Macroeconomics: Sentiment / Le rôle des sentiments dans les bases financières de la macroéconomie | ||
| Chair | Nabin, Munirul Haque (Deakin University) | |
| Papers | Jorge, Jose (Fundação Universidade Porto): Ratings and Sentiments | |
| Liu, Xuan (East Carolina University): Is Relative Risk Aversion Time-varying? Evidence from Households' Portfolio Choice Data | ||
| Nabin, Munirul Haque (Deakin University): Herd Behaviour in the Stock Market and the Dynamics of Wealth Distribution: Developed vs Emerging Economies. | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| CREE Session: Resource Economics - Theory / Séance CREE : L'économie des ressources naturelles (théorie) | ||
| Chair | Janmaat, John (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus) | |
| Papers | Cairns, Robert D (McGill University): Faustmann's Formulae for Forest Capital | |
| Kakeu, Johnson (Georgia Institute of Technology): Capital-Resource Economies and Resource Exhaustion | ||
| Stevens, Jason (University of Prince Edward Island): Optimal extraction of a non-renewable resource under uncertainty: the implications of a capacity constraint | ||
| Discussants | Martin, Patrick (University of Guelph); Wan, Rui (University of Calgary); Leach, Andrew (University of Alberta) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Removing Financial Barriers to Post-Secondary Education: Latest Contributions to Knowledge / Éliminer les obstacles financiers aux études postsecondaires: contributions récentes | ||
| Organizer | Ford, Reuben (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation) | |
| Chair | Rahman, Atiq (HRSDC) | |
| Papers | Grekou, Douwere (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): Manageable Student Debt Thresholds | |
| Voyer, Jean-Pierre (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): Predicting student loan delinquency and default | ||
| Hui, Shek-wai (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): Results from a Randomized Field Test Making Post-secondary and Student Aid Applications the Default for BC High School Students | ||
| Discussants | Baldwin, Noel (Council of Ministers of Education) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Saturday | |
| Social interaction and Peer Effects / Interactions sociales et influence des pairs | ||
| Chair | Skuterud, Mikal (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Fortin, Bernard (Université Laval): Social Network, Peer Pressure, and Labor Supply | |
| Kivinen, Steven (Queen's University): A Coevolutionary Model of Unemployment and Social Networks | ||
| Pivovarova, Margarita (University of Toronto): Peer effects in the classroom: evidence from new peers | ||
| 12:00-14:00 | Saturday | |
| Purvis Luncheon / Diner-conférence Purvis | ||
| Sponsor | CIRPÉE | |
| Chair | Oreopoulos, Philip (University of Toronto) | |
| Speaker | Fryer, Roland (Harvard University) | |
| Topic | Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence État des connaissances | ||
| Sponsor | CIRPÉE | |
| Chair | Clark, Robert (HEC Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Gowrisankaran, Gautam (University of Arizona) | |
| Topic | Bargaining Models With Application to Hospital Mergers | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CNEH 3: Institutions, Expectations and Development / Institutions, attentes et développement | ||
| Chair | Mukherjee, Anirban (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) | |
| Papers | Smith, Gregor (Queen's University): Forecasting Interwar Deflations | |
| Velk, Tom (McGill University): Economic activity following the Civil War indexed by Postal Money Order Data | ||
| Stein, Guilherme (Fundação Getúlio Vargas - SP): The Cuban Experiment: Measuring the Role of the 1959 Revolution on Economic Performance using the Synthetic Control Method | ||
| Discussants | Hinton, Michael (Minerva's Owl Consulting Economists); Roy Chaudhuri, Arka (University of British Columbia) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CDESG Panel 2: Labour and Development: Options for Better Jobs / Marché du travail et développement: options pour de meilleurs emplois | ||
| Organizer | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Chair | Grimard, Franque (McGill University) | |
| Panelists | Betcherman, Gordon (University of Ottawa) | |
| Hallward-Driemeier, Mary (World Bank) | ||
| Gasparini, Leornardo (CEDLAS and University of La Plata) | ||
| Dong, Xiao Yuan (University of Winnipeg) | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CLEA Session: Law and Economics / Séance CLEA : Analyse économique du droit | ||
| Chair | Curry, Philip (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Dibadj, Reza (University of San Francisco and University of California Berkeley): Networks of Judicial Review in Corporate Law | |
| Danese, Giuseppe (Simon Fraser University): The case for a trusteeship approach to corporate governance | ||
| Discussants | Carmody, Chi (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CWEN-CHWEN Invited Session - Health Issues in Canada and China / Séance invitée RFE-CHWEN : Question de santé au Canada et en Chine | ||
| Chair | Curtis, Lori (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Qi, Liangshu (Tsinghua University): Health Care Utilization and Patients' Well-being under China's New Health Insurance Programs | |
| Jia, Nan (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics): The wage effect of childbirth on urban Chinese women: estimation with a new identification strategy | ||
| Rybczynski, Kathleen (University of Waterloo): Alternative Therapies, Worker Health, and Absenteeism in the United States | ||
| Ward, Courtney (Dalhousie University): Fetal health, sex ratios and cigarette smoking | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CEBERG 7: Learning / CEBERG 7 : L'apprentissage | ||
| Chair | Moir, Robert (University of New Brunswick Saint John) | |
| Papers | Arifovic, Jasmina (Simon Fraser University): Repeated Battle of Sexes: Experimental Evidence and Individual Evolutionary Learning | |
| Baranskyy, Andriy (Simon Fraser University): Double-sided learning in a principal-agent environment with moral hazard. | ||
| Moir, Robert (University of New Brunswick Saint John): Do People Use Iterative Elimination? | ||
| Kostyshyna, Olena (Bank of Canada): Are sunspots Learnable? An Experimental Investigation in a Simple General Equilibrium Model | ||
| Discussants | Moir, Robert (University of New Brunswick Saint John); Kostyshyna, Olena (Bank of Canada); Arifovic, Jasmina (Simon Fraser University); Baranskyy, Andriy (Simon Fraser University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Factor Analysis 1 / Analyse factorielle 1 | ||
| Organizer | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Chair | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Carrasco, Marine (Université de Montréal): In-sample inference and forecasting in misspecified factor models | |
| Perron, Benoit (Université de Montréal): Bootstrap prediction Intervals for Factor Models | ||
| Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université du Québec à Montréal): Factor Augmented Autoregressive Distributed Lag (FADL) Models | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CIGI Session: Overburdened Central Banks? Balance Sheets and Beyond / Séance CIGI : Les banques centrales à bout de souffle? Bilans et autres enjeux | ||
| Organizer | Jenkins, Paul (CIGI) | |
| Chair | Lombardi, Domenico (CIGI) | |
| Panelists | Ambler, Steven (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Siklos, Pierre L (Wilfrid Laurier University) | ||
| Ragan, Christopher (McGill University) | ||
| Duguay, Pierre (Consultant) | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CPEG VI: Optimal Taxation, Tax Reform and Stabilization / Taxation optimale, réformes fiscales et stabilisation | ||
| Chair | Cuff, Katherine L (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Kesselman, Jonathan (Simon Fraser University Vancouver): Challenges in Shifting Canadian Taxation toward Consumption | |
| Burbidge, John (University of Waterloo): Using Distance Functions to Understand Interest Taxation | ||
| Discussants | Winer, Stanley (Carleton University); Munroe, David (Columbia University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Regulation and Government Businesses / Réglementation et entreprises publiques | ||
| Chair | Ding, Hong (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Sahuguet, Nicolas (HEC Montréal): Selling to a cartel of retailers: a model of hub and spoke collusion | |
| Fellows, Garret Kent (University of Calgary): Strategic Input Decisions Under Rate of Return Regulation | ||
| Ding, Hong (University of Ottawa): Subsidy and Product Diversity in the case of Complementary Products | ||
| Discussants | Ding, Hong (University of Ottawa); Sahuguet, Nicolas (HEC Montréal); Fellows, Garret Kent (University of Calgary) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Sovereign Debt and Fiscal Policy / Dette souveraine et politique budgétaire | ||
| Chair | Landon, Stuart (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Shiamptanis, Christos (Ryerson University): Austerity measures: Do they avert solvency crisis? | |
| Tsoungui Belinga, Vincent de Paul (Université de Montréal): Effects of fiscal policy in a small open economy: Evidence from Canada | ||
| Landon, Stuart (University of Alberta): Rule-Based Resource Revenue Stabilization Funds: A Welfare Comparison | ||
| Discussants | Luitel, Hari Sharan (Algoma University); Bourgain, Arnaud (University of Luxembourg); Shiamptanis, Christos (Ryerson University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Innovation Empirical / Innovation (empirique) | ||
| Chair | Kelly, Ryan (Industry Canada) | |
| Papers | Sabetti, Leonard (George Mason University): Spending on R&D and University Cooperation among U.S. Startup Firms | |
| Kelly, Ryan (Industry Canada): Venture Capital and Firm Performance in Canada | ||
| Giovannetti, Emanuele (Anglia Ruskin University): Internet Access: the Role of Asymmetry and Trust in Explaining Connectivity Cycles | ||
| Discussants | Kelly, Ryan (Industry Canada); Dachs, Bernhard (AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology); Sabetti, Leonard (George Mason University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CMSG - Credit and Bankruptcy over the Business Cycle / Crédit et faillites au fil du cycle économique | ||
| Chair | Fieldhouse, David (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | MacGee, Jim (University of Western Ontario): Aggregate Fluctuations, Consumer Credit and Bankruptcy | |
| Zhang, Yahong (Bank of Canada): Household Leverage, Slow Recovery and Monetary Policy | ||
| Fieldhouse, David (University of Western Ontario): Income Loss and Bankruptcies over the Business Cycle | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Topics in Growth and Development / Enjeux en croissance et en développement | ||
| Chair | Batu, Michael (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Liu, Zheng (Concordia University): Do Redistributive Policies Affect Economic Growth? --An Empirical Study based on Canadian data | |
| Ge, Zhizhuang (Arizona State University): Specialization and Unbalanced Sector Growth | ||
| Batu, Michael (University of Guelph): An Overlapping Generations Economy with Religiosity | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Advances in Asset Pricing / Percées dans l'évaluation des actifs financiers | ||
| Chair | Okou, Cedric (ESG UQAM) | |
| Papers | Jin, Jianjian (Bank of Canada): Jump-Diffusion Long-Run Risks Models, Variance Risk Premium, and Volatility Dynamics | |
| Okou, Cedric (ESG UQAM): Risk-Return Trade-Off and Long-Run Asset Allocation | ||
| Alexeev, Vitali (University of Tasmania): Portfolio diversification with high frequency data. | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| International Trade: China 1 / La Chine et le commerce international 1 | ||
| Chair | Bas, Maria (CEPII -PSE) | |
| Papers | Flueckiger, Matthias (University of Basel): Chinese Export Competition and Structural Changes in Europe | |
| Liu, Runjuan (University of Alberta): Tariff Pass-through and Household Welfare in China: How Important is the Private Sector? | ||
| Bas, Maria (CEPII -PSE): Trade Liberalization and Export Prices: The case of China. | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Trade and investment / Commerce et investissement | ||
| Chair | Cho, Jaehan (Arizona State University) | |
| Papers | Cho, Jaehan (Arizona State University): Intangible Capital Transfer Within Multinationals: Evidence from Korean MNCs | |
| Peluffo Geronazzo, Silvia Adriana (Universidad de la Republica): The Role of Investments in Export Growth: Evidence from a middle-income country | ||
| Leblebicioglu, Asli (University of Texas at Dallas): The Impact of Banking Deregulations on Inbound Foreign Direct Investment: Transaction-level Evidence from the United States | ||
| Discussants | Peluffo Geronazzo, Silvia Adriana (Universidad de la Republica); Leblebicioglu, Asli (University of Texas at Dallas); Cho, Jaehan (Arizona State University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CETC-GEEP Session: Political Economy 2 / CETC-GEEP: Économie politique 2 | ||
| Chair | Degan, Arianna (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Horan, Sean (Université du Québec à Montréal): Implementation of Majority Voting Rules | |
| Forand, Jean Guillaume (University of Waterloo): Markovian Elections | ||
| Gonzalez, Patrick (Université Laval): Does Transparency Reduce Corruption? | ||
| Discussants | Papai, Szilvia (Concordia University); Block, Juan (Washington University in St. Louis); Huang, Ce (William) (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Labour Market Dynamics 1 / Dynamique du marché du travail 1 | ||
| Chair | Huynh, Kim (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Agopsowicz, Andrew (University of Western Ontario): Post-schooling wage growth of women: quantifying the respective roles of job search and human capital accumulation | |
| Cajner, Tomaz (Federal Reserve Board): The Fading Dynamism of the US Labor Market: The Role of Demographics | ||
| Ben Yahmed, Sarra (Sciences Po and Aix-Marseille University): Gender Wage Gaps across Skills and Trade Openness | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CESG Session: Econometric Theory / Séance CESG : Théorie économétrique | ||
| Chair | Davidson, Russell (McGill University) | |
| Papers | MacKinnon, James G (Queen's University): Nonnested Hypothesis Tests for Binary Response Models | |
| Ma, Jun (University of British Columbia): Adjusted Empirical Likelihood Estimation and Specification Test for Conditional Moment Restriction Model | ||
| Discussants | Tabri, Rami (McGill University); Zinde-Walsh, Victoria (McGill University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Consequences of Health Policy / Conséquences des politiques de santé | ||
| Chair | Watson, Barry (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Shajarizadeh, Ali (University of Calgary): The Evolution of New Pharmaceutical Prices in Canada | |
| Lim, Mook (Dalhousie University): Aggregate Savings and Public Provision of Health Care Services: The case of South Korea | ||
| Haeck, Catherine (Université du Québec à Montréal): Prenatal nutritional program and child health at birth: empirical evaluation of the impact of the OLO program in Canada. | ||
| Discussants | Lim, Mook (Dalhousie University); Shajarizadeh, Ali (University of Calgary); Watson, Barry (Dalhousie University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| AEDSB Session: Bangladesh Development Issues: Micro Credit / Séance AEDSB: Enjeux de développement au Bangladesh: le micro-crédit | ||
| Organizers | Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University) Sarker, Subrata (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Alam, Rafat (Grant Macewan University) | |
| Papers | Berg, Claudia (The George Washington University): Moneylenders and Microfinance: The Effects of Microfinance on the Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh | |
| Mozumder, Pallab (Florida International University): Natural Disaster, Credit Availability and School Attendance: Evidence from Bangladesh | ||
| Bidisha, Sayema Haque (University of Dhaka): The Role of Credit in Food Security and Dietary Diversity: An Empirical Assessment in the Context of Bangladesh | ||
| Mahmoud, Chowdhury (Concordia University): Did consumption pattern become different in Bangladesh: across time and strata | ||
| Discussants | Mozumder, Pallab (Florida International University); Bidisha, Sayema Haque (University of Dhaka); Berg, Claudia (The George Washington University) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| CSLS - PEF Panel: What Has Happened to Living Standards in Canada? / Qu'arrive-t-il aux niveaux de vie au Canada? | ||
| Organizer | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Chair | Richards, John (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Panelists | Fong, Francis (TD Bank) | |
| Fortin, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal) | ||
| Russell, Ellen (Wilfrid Laurier University) | ||
| Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Environment Canada Special Lecture / Conférence spéciale d'Environnement Canada | ||
| Chair | Hermanutz, Derek (Environment Canada) | |
| Speaker | Cameron, Trudy Ann (University of Oregon) | |
| Topic | Demand for Health Risk Reductions in Environmental Policy | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Bank of Canada Session: Are forecasts optimal? Evaluation methods and evidence from the surveys / Séance de la Banque du Canada: Est-ce que les prévisions sont optimales? Méthodes d'évaluation et résultats d'enquêtes | ||
| Organizer | Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Owyang, Michael (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) | |
| Papers | Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada): Forecast Optimality Tests in the Presence of Instabilities | |
| Molodtsova, Tanya (Emory University): How Well Do Professionals Forecast Exchange Rates? Evidence from Survey Data | ||
| Owyang, Michael (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis): The Federal Reserve's Forecast Asymmetries Over the Business Cycle | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Advances in International Finance Theory / Percées en théorie de la finance internationale | ||
| Chair | Razo-Garcia, Raul (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Razo-Garcia, Raul (Carleton University): A two-country model of speculative attacks | |
| Hoddenbagh, Jonathan (Boston College): Financial Integration, Fiscal Unions and Currency Unions | ||
| Suzuki, Tomoya (Kansai University): Transmission Mechanism of a Terrorist Shock in a Small Open Economy | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Incomes and Welfare / Revenus et bien-être | ||
| Chair | Roberge, Helene (Ressources Humaines et Développement des Compétences Canada) | |
| Papers | Smith, Justin (Wilfrid Laurier University): Diversity and Donations: The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving | |
| Zhang, Xuelin (Statistics Canada): Low income dynamics in Canada: recent evidence from the Longitudinal Administrative Databank | ||
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| EPRI Session 1: Policy and Program Effects on Education / Effets des politiques et des programmes en éducation | ||
| Organizer | Mueller, Richard (University of Lethbridge) | |
| Chair | Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Ford, Reuben (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation): Early High School Interventions to Increase Students' Access to Post-secondary Education: Experimental Impacts from the BC AVID Pilot Project | |
| Wismer, Andrew (University of Ottawa): The Reality of Parental Contributions Received by Low-Income Student Borrowers | ||
| Leonard, Phil (McMaster University): What if High School were a Year Longer? Evidence from Newfoundland | ||
| Oreopoulos, Philip (University of Toronto): The Effectiveness of the Pathways to Education Program | ||
| Discussants | Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University); Ford, Reuben (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation); Morin, Louis-Philippe (University of Ottawa) | |
| 14:30-16:00 | Saturday | |
| Retirement and Aging / Retraites et vieillissement de la population | ||
| Chair | Schirle, Tammy (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Dong, Yingying (University of California Irvine): Mandatory Retirement and Its Impacts on Consumption in China | |
| Nikpoor, Somaieh (University of Ottawa): Aging Population and Public Pensions in Canada | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Saturday | |
| Coffee Break / Pause-café | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| State of the Art Lecture / Conférence État des connaissances | ||
| Sponsor | MacroMontréal | |
| Chair | Ruge-Murcia, Francisco J. (Université de Montréal) | |
| Speaker | Shimer, Robert (University of Chicago) | |
| Topic | Competitive Search and Competitive Equilibrium | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CNEH 4: Trade and Migration / Commerce et migration | ||
| Chair | Velk, Tom (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Blouin, Arthur (University of Warwick): Migration and the Cultural Transmission of Knowledge | |
| Hinton, Michael (Minerva's Owl Consulting Economists): Canadian Economic Growth and the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 | ||
| Holmes, Gordon (McMaster University): Canadian Trade Statistics by Country and Product, 1832 to 1960 | ||
| Discussants | Lewis, Joshua (University of Toronto); Lewis, Frank D. (Queen's University) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Innovation Theory / Théorie de l'innovation | ||
| Chair | de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne (Queen's University): Competition, Licensing, and Incentives to Innovate | |
| Versaevel, Bruno (EMLYON Business School): Patent Pools and Dynamic R&D Incentives | ||
| de Lamirande, Patrick (Cape Breton University): Managerial collusive behavior under asymmetric incentive schemes | ||
| Discussants | de Lamirande, Patrick (Cape Breton University); Versaevel, Bruno (EMLYON Business School) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| IRPP Session: Foreign Direct Investment Rules in Canada: What Happens After CNOOC-Nexen? / Séance IRPP: Les règles de l'investissement direct étranger au Canada: l'après CNOOC-Nexen | ||
| Chair | Ragan, Christopher (McGill University) | |
| Panelists | Boothe, Paul (Western University) | |
| Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | ||
| Assaf, Dany (Torys LLP) | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CDESG: India / Inde | ||
| Chair | Rosenblum, Daniel (Dalhousie University) | |
| Papers | Das Gupta, Amlan (University of British Columbia): Electoral Democracy as a Disciplining Device for Politicians: Evidence from India | |
| Mukherjee, Anirban (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): Community identity and skill mismatch: A study of the Indian labour market | ||
| Roy Chaudhuri, Arka (University of British Columbia): The Economic Lives of Muslims in India, 1983-2005 | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Law and Economics / Analyse économique du droit | ||
| Chair | Curry, Philip (University of Waterloo) | |
| Papers | Kimou, Assi Jose Carlos (University of Cocody-Abidjan, Fulbright visiting scholar University of South Florida): Legal system Effectiveness and Business Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does the Legal Origin Matter? | |
| Khalil, Umair (University of Rochester): Juvenile Crime: The Effect of Alcohol, Drugs and Peers. | ||
| Mai, Joseph (York University): Jurisdictional justice and economic incentives: empirical evidence on foreign firms versus domestic firms in intellectual property litigation in Canada | ||
| Discussants | Sen, Anindya (University of Waterloo) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CEBERG 8: Risk and Expectations / CEBERG 8: Risques et attentes | ||
| Chair | Morrison, William (Wilfrid Laurier University) | |
| Papers | Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): Optimism in a Taking Game | |
| Yuan, Jia (University of Macau): How Much Is the Cost Associated with the Behavioral Fallacy? Evidence from China Individual Lottery Betting Data | ||
| Morrison, William (Wilfrid Laurier University): Risk Taking, Intertemporal Choice and Found Money in the Laboratory | ||
| Discussants | Yuan, Jia (University of Macau); Morrison, William (Wilfrid Laurier University); Smith, Alexander (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Factor Analysis 2 / Analyse factorielle 2 | ||
| Organizer | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Chair | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Foroni, Claudia Sabina (Norges Bank): U-MIDAS: MIDAS regressions with unrestricted lag polynomials | |
| Kumar, Gitanjali (Bank of Canada): High-frequency real economic activity indicator for Canada | ||
| Bouaddi, Mohammed (The American University in Cairo): Nonlinear Factor Model using the Marginal Distributions of a Large Data Set | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Inequality Measures / Mesures d'inégalité | ||
| Papers | Makdissi, Paul (University of Ottawa): On the measurement of over-opulence | |
| Ayadi, Mohamed (University Of Tunis): Multidimensional generalized Sen-Shorrocks-Thon poverty measures with an application to Tunisia | ||
| Thompson, Brennan (Ryerson University): Statistical Inference for a Class of Affluence Measures | ||
| Discussants | Ayadi, Mohamed (University Of Tunis); Thompson, Brennan (Ryerson University); Makdissi, Paul (University of Ottawa) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CPEG VII: Determinants of Public Expenditure / Déterminants des dépenses publiques | ||
| Chair | Devlin, Rose Anne (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Mehta, Nirav A. (University of Western Ontario): Supply, Demand, and Social Learning: An application to competition in public education | |
| Leroux, Marie-Louise (Université du Québec à Montréal): Behavioral Biases and Long Term Care Insurance: A Political Economy Approach | ||
| Galletta, Sergio (University of Lugano): How to Tame two Leviathans? Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure | ||
| Discussants | Devlin, Rose Anne (University of Ottawa); Forand, Jean Guillaume (University of Waterloo); Ferede, Ergete (Grant MacEwan University) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Topics in Economic Theory / Questions en économie théorique | ||
| Chair | Mak, Eric (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Cato, Susumu (Tokyo Metropolitan University): Impossibilities of Stationary Ordinal Equity | |
| Mak, Eric (University of Toronto): The Road to Maturation | ||
| Spiegelman, Eli (Université du Québec à Montréal): Rational self-deception | ||
| Discussants | Mak, Eric (University of Toronto); Spiegelman, Eli (Université du Québec à Montréal); Cato, Susumu (Tokyo Metropolitan University) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Regulation and IO Model Estimation / Réglementation et estimation de modèles en organisation industrielle | ||
| Chair | Erutku, Can (York University) | |
| Papers | Erutku, Can (York University): Econometrics Lessons from the Kingston Retail Gasoline Price-Fixing Cartel | |
| Yuan, Zhe (University of Toronto): Entry and Incumbent Response in the Airline Industry | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CMSG Session: Taxation and Regulation of Capital / Séance CMSG: Imposition et réglementation du capital | ||
| Chair | Cociuba, Simona (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Kuruscu, Burhanettin (University of Toronto): Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation | |
| Cociuba, Simona (University of Western Ontario): Interest Rate Policy and Financial Regulation: How to Control Excessive Risk Taking? | ||
| Gross, Till (Carleton University): Capital Taxation, Intermediate Goods, and Production Efficiency | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Financial Markets / Marchés financiers | ||
| Chair | Partridge, James (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Rempel, Mark (Bank of Canada): The Furfine Algorithm: A Wrong Turn or a Stepping Stone in the Analysis of Overnight Markets? | |
| Rabinovich, Stanislav (Amherst College): A Theory of Dynamic Overinvestment | ||
| Oikonomou, Rigas (HEC Montréal): Multiple Maturities Incomplete Financial Markets and Government Debt Management | ||
| Partridge, James (University of Western Ontario): Inertia in Household Asset Holdings | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Natural Resources Firms and Commodities Markets / Ressources naturelles et marché des produits de base | ||
| Chair | Mnasri, Mohamed (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Jamali, Ibrahim (American University of Beirut): Does Expansionary Monetary Policy Drive Commodity Prices Up? Evidence from Futures Markets | |
| Mnasri, Mohamed (Université du Québec à Montréal): How Do Firms Hedge Risks? Empirical Evidences From U.S. Oil and Gas Producers | ||
| Ouederni, Karima (HEC Montréal): Determinants of dividend policy of north american gold mining firms | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| International Trade: China 2 / La Chine et le commerce international 2 | ||
| Chair | Beaulieu, Eugene C. (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Morrow, Peter (University of Toronto): Tariffs and the Organization of Trade in China | |
| van Assche, Ari (HEC Montréal): Spatial Linkages and Export Processing Location in China: A Province-Level Analysis | ||
| Rodrigue, Joel (Vanderbilt University): Firm Selection Across International Markets: Evidence from Chinese Exporters | ||
| Discussants | van Assche, Ari (HEC Montréal); Rodrigue, Joel (Vanderbilt University); Morrow, Peter (University of Toronto) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Technology and Production / Technologies et production | ||
| Chair | Haghiri, Morteza (Memorial University of Newfoundland) | |
| Papers | Haghiri, Morteza (Memorial University of Newfoundland): Using generalized additive mixed models to examine input relationships in the Canadian cable television industry | |
| Nikzad, Rashid (Industry Canada): Canadian Worldwide Patent Activity: An Industrial Level Analysis | ||
| Tolhurst, Tor (University of Guelph): Are Technological Advancements in Crop Production Equivalent in Good and Bad Years? | ||
| Discussants | Nikzad, Rashid (Industry Canada); Tolhurst, Tor (University of Guelph); Haghiri, Morteza (Memorial University of Newfoundland) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Bank of Canada Session: New Developments in the Pricing of Liquidity / Séance de la Banque du Canada : Percées récentes dans l'établissement des prix de la liquidité | ||
| Organizers | Rivadeneyra, Francisco (Bank of Canada) Gungor, Sermin (Bank of Canada) | |
| Chair | Rivadeneyra, Francisco (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Garriott, Corey (Bank of Canada): High frequency trading and market quality: Causal evidence from HFT entry | |
| Fontaine, Jean-Sebastien (Banque du Canada): Funding Liquidity and Equity Risk Premium | ||
| Rivadeneyra, Francisco (Bank of Canada): Liquidity Risk in Safe and Near-Safe Assets | ||
| Discussants | Brolley, Michael (University of Toronto); Guidara, Alaa (Laval University); Tabova, Alexandra (Federal Reserve Board) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CETC Session: Information 2 / Information 2 | ||
| Chair | Li, Ming (Concordia University) | |
| Papers | Semenov, Aggey (University of Ottawa): Delegation to a potentially uninformed agent | |
| Xie, Jia (Bank of Canada): The Economics of Advice with Endogenous Information | ||
| Lai, Ernest (Lehigh University): Eliciting Private Information with Noise: The Case of Randomized Response | ||
| Discussants | Sadanand, Asha (University of Guelph); Li, Ming (Concordia University); Wang, Yun (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CESG Session: Microeconometrics / Microéconométrie | ||
| Chair | Huynh, Kim (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Hodgson, Douglas (Université du Québec à Montréal): Changes in Age-Valuation Profiles for Eighteenth-Century Rococo and Neoclassical Painters | |
| Bastani, Parisa (University of Cambridge): Nonparametric Estimation of Mixing Distributions in Discrete Choice Models: Heterogeneity and WTP Distribution | ||
| Kim, Jun Sung (Cornell University): Structural Estimation of Pairwise Stable Networks: An Application to Social Networks in Rural India | ||
| Discussants | Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Bank of Canada); Dong, Yingying (University of California Irvine); Conley, Timothy G. (University of Western Ontario) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Capital Markets Integration / L'intégration des marchés des capitaux | ||
| Chair | Barry, Scholnick (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Wang, Steven Shuye (Renmin University of China): Institutional Trading Performance in a Retail Investor Dominated Emerging Market | |
| Fuchs, Andreas (Princeton University): Does Ownership Matter? Sovereign Debt Ratings and Home-country Bias | ||
| Pasricha, Gurnain (Bank of Canada): Why do emerging markets liberalize capital outflow controls? Fiscal versus net capital flows concerns | ||
| Barry, Scholnick (University of Alberta): Distance as a Bankruptcy Filing Cost | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Health Insurance / Assurance santé | ||
| Chair | Zhao, Kai (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Papers | Kredler, Matthias (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Macroeconomic Implications of Long-Term Care Policy | |
| Zhao, Kai (University of Western Ontario): Does the Social Safety Net Improve Welfare? A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CESG Session: Copulas / Séance CESG: Copules | ||
| Chair | Luger, Richard (Georgia State University) | |
| Papers | Huang, Wanling (University of Texas - Pan American): Modeling international financial returns with regime-switching regular vine copulas | |
| Medovikov, Ivan (Brock University): Generalized Copula-Based Measure of Serial Dependence in Vector Time Series | ||
| Burda, Martin (University of Toronto): Copula Based Factorization in Bayesian Multivariate Infi nite Mixture Models | ||
| Discussants | Luger, Richard (Georgia State University); Prokhorov, Artem (Concordia University); McCausland, William (Université de Montréal) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| PEF Keynote address / Conférence invitée du PEF | ||
| Chair | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| Speaker | Hébert, Guillaume (IRIS) | |
| Topic | A History of Neoliberalism in Quebec | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Global Macroeconomics and International Financial Stability / Macroéconomie globale et stabilité financière internationale | ||
| Organizer | Akram, Tanweer (ING Investment Management) | |
| Chair | Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University) | |
| Papers | Akram, Tanweer (ING Investment Management): "The Economics of Japan's Lost Decades and Alternative Policies for Renewed Prosperity" | |
| Mukerji, Purba (Connecticut College): Measuring Vulnerability to Spillovers | ||
| Parenteau, Robert (MacroStrategy Edge): Sector Financial Balance Approach to Financial Stability | ||
| Discussants | Parenteau, Robert (MacroStrategy Edge); Akram, Tanweer (ING Investment Management); Mukerji, Purba (Connecticut College) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CSLS Panel: Multifactor Productivity Growth in Canada: Trends, Measurement Issues and Interpretation / Croissance de la productivité au Canada: tendances, enjeux de mesure et interprétation | ||
| Organizer | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Chair | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Panelists | Diewert, W. Erwin (University of British Columbia) | |
| Shute, Larry (Industry Canada) | ||
| Sichel, Dan (Wellesley College) | ||
| St Amant, Pierre (Bank of Canada) | ||
| Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada) | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CD Howe Session: Long-Term Investment Returns: Expectations and Policy Implications / Rendements à long-terme sur les investissements: attentes et politiques | ||
| Organizer | Laurin, Alexandre (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Chair | Bergevin, Philippe (C.D. Howe Institute) | |
| Papers | Aubry, Jean-Pierre (CIRANO): What Investment Returns Can We Expect the Economy to Support in the Long-Term? | |
| Allaire, Laurence (CIRANO): Expected Long-Term Returns and Their Implications for Defined-Benefits Pension Funds and Retirement Savings | ||
| Switzer, Lorne N (Concordia University): The Equity Risk Premium in the U.S., Canada and International Markets: An Update | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Environment Canada Session 2: Environmental Policy Modeling / Modélisation des politiques environnementales | ||
| Organizer | Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada) | |
| Chair | Leach, Andrew (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Wigle, Randall (Wilfrid Laurier University): The "Other" Benefits of Renewable Energy Promotio | |
| Zhu, Yunfa (Environment Canada): Impacts of Technology uncertainty on Energy Use, Emission and Abatement Cost in USA: Simulation results from an Integrated Assessment Model | ||
| Yonezawa, Hidemichi (University of Ottawa): Intranational carbon leakage: The case of Canada | ||
| Ghosh, Madanmohan (Environment Canada): Border Tax Adjustments in the Climate Policy Context: CO2 versus Broad-based GHG Emission Targeting | ||
| Discussants | Cockburn, John (Université Laval); Arif, Faisal (Industry Canada); Wen, Yuan (University of Calgary); Antweiler, Werner (University of British Columbia) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Labour Market Dynamics 2 / Dynamique du marché du travail 2 | ||
| Chair | Kivinen, Steven (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Shang, Ying (Capital University of Economics and Business): Nonparametric Estimation of Income Mobility in the U.S. | |
| Lepage-Saucier, Nicolas (Université du Québec à Montréal): The consumption response to job displacements, layoffs and hours losses. | ||
| Kim, Soobin (Michigan State University): Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Korea | ||
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| CREE Session: Policy Issues in Environmental Economics / Enjeux de politiques en économie de l'environnement | ||
| Chair | Winter, Jennifer (School of Public Policy, University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Silva, Emilson (University of Alberta): Perfectly Coalition-Proof Overlapping Environmental Agreements | |
| Moghadam, Arian (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania): Pollution shifting and community demographics | ||
| Garon, Jean-Denis (Université du Québec à Montréal): Double dividend of non-renewable resource taxation in a federation with equalization payments | ||
| Discussants | Liu, Mengxiao (University of Toronto); Silva, Emilson (University of Alberta); Winter, Jennifer (School of Public Policy, University of Calgary) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| EPRI Session 2: Labour Market Outcomes / Répercussions de l'éducation sur le marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Sweetman, Arthur (McMaster University) | |
| Papers | Frenette, Marc (Statistics Canada): An Investment of a Lifetime? The Long-term Labour Market Returns to a Terminal High School Diploma | |
| Li, Qing (McMaster University): Immigrant Source Country Educational Quality and Receiving Country Labour Market Outcomes | ||
| Childs, Stephen (University of Ottawa): Early Labour Market Outcomes and the Returns to Education: Evidence from the YITS-A | ||
| Connolly, Marie (Université du Québec à Montréal): Intergenerational Transmission of Education and Income in Canadian Youth | ||
| Discussants | Haeck, Catherine (Université du Québec à Montréal); Frenette, Marc (Statistics Canada); Leonard, Phil (McMaster University) | |
| 16:30-18:00 | Saturday | |
| Long Term Consequences / Conséquences à long terme | ||
| Chair | Lefebvre, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Yuksel, Mutlu (Dalhousie University): For Better For Worse: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Family Formation | |
| Feir, Donna Leanne (University of British Columbia): The Intergenerational Consequences of Residential Schooling | ||
| Discussants | Feir, Donna Leanne (University of British Columbia); Lefebvre, Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| 18:15-19:45 | Saturday | |
| CEA Presidential Address / Discours du président de l'ACE | ||
| Chair | Lemieux, Thomas (University of British Columbia) | |
| Speaker | Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal) | |
| Topic | Credit Risk | |
| 19:45-22:15 | Saturday | |
| Reception / Réception | ||
| Sponsor | Analysis Group/Groupe d'analyse | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Sunday | |
| Coffee and muffins / Café et muffins | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CDESG: Political Economy 2 / Économie politique 2 | ||
| Chair | Goyette, Jonathan (Université de Sherbrooke) | |
| Papers | Estevan, Fernanda (University of Ottawa): The political economy of public spending between compulsory and higher education | |
| Amegashie, J. Atsu (University of Guelph): Asymmetric Information, Fiscal Capacity, and Fiscal Accountability | ||
| Goyette, Jonathan (Université de Sherbrooke): Corruption, credit constraints and the allocation of talent | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CDESG: Education / Éducation | ||
| Chair | Lehrer, Kim (University of Oxford) | |
| Papers | Shonchoy, Abu (Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO): Ramadan School Holidays as a Natural Experiment: Impacts of Seasonality on School Dropout in Bangladesh | |
| Sokhna, Ousmane (CRES / University of Dakar): The impact evaluation of school feeding programs on the internal effectiveness of rural public primary schools: Evidence from a randomized trial in Senegal | ||
| Atallah, Samer (McGill University): Like Parent Like Child: the Misfortunes of Educational Attainment within Egyptian Households | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CEBERG 9: Financial Markets and Labour Economics / CEBERG 9: Marchés financiers et économie du travail | ||
| Chair | Gregoire, Philippe (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Matthews, Peter (Middlebury College): Compensating Differentials: The View From The Lab | |
| Xie, Huan (Concordia University): Bubbles and Traders' Expectations in Asset Markets with An Inflow of New Traders | ||
| Gregoire, Philippe (Université Laval): The impact of brokers on the dynamics of a Walrasian auction | ||
| Discussants | Xie, Huan (Concordia University); Gregoire, Philippe (Université Laval); Matthews, Peter (Middlebury College) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CPEG VIII: Public Policy Analysis / Analyse de politiques publiques | ||
| Chair | Hicks, Chantal (Statistics Canada) | |
| Papers | Bérubé, Charles (Industry Canada): The Effectiveness of Direct and Indirect Support to Business R&D Revisited | |
| Kryvoruchko, Iryna (University of Regina): The Role of Government Policy in Shaping Canadian Foundations | ||
| Hicks, Chantal (Statistics Canada): LifePaths microsimulation model and the analysis of public policy: New perspectives | ||
| Discussants | Yilmaz, Fatih (University of Calgary); Joulfaian, David (US Department of Treasury); Mahar, Gerry J. (Algoma University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CMSG Session: Macroeconomic Aspects of Environmental Economics / Séance CMSG: Aspects macroéconomiques en économie de l'environnement | ||
| Chair | Tombe, Trevor (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Doda, Lider Baran (London School of Economics): Green growth in the shadow of a climate change backstop technology | |
| Stefanski, Radoslaw (Université Laval): Structural Transformation and Pollution | ||
| Tombe, Trevor (University of Calgary): Taxes versus Standards (Again): Misallocation and Productivity Effects of Intensity Targets | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CMSG Session: Macro Policy / Séance CMSG: Politiques macroéconomiques | ||
| Chair | Ruge-Murcia, Francisco J. (Université de Montréal) | |
| Papers | Bouakez, Hafedh (HEC Montréal): Government Spending and the Zero Bound on Interest Rates in a Small Open Economy | |
| Schroth, Josef (Bank of Canada): Fiscal policy coordination in monetary unions | ||
| Ruge-Murcia, Francisco J. (Université de Montréal): Skewness Risk and Bond Prices | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Banking / Le secteur banquaire | ||
| Chair | Tewfik, Christine (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Takamura, Tamon (Bank of Canada): A General Equilibrium Model with Banks and Default on Loans | |
| Martin, Julien (Université Catholique de Louvain): The Few Leading the Many: Foreign Affiliates and Business Cycle Comovement | ||
| Tewfik, Christine (University of Toronto): Financial frictions and investment delay in the business cycle | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Trade and FDI / Commerce et investissements directs étrangers | ||
| Chair | Secrieru, Oana (Royal Military College) | |
| Papers | Hou, Lei (Capital University of Economics and Business, P.R.China): Financial Structure,Productivity and Risk of Foreign Direct Investment | |
| Qirjo, Dhimitri (SUNY Plattsburgh): FDI and Temporary or Permanent Immigration | ||
| Secrieru, Oana (Royal Military College): Exporting and FDI with Endogenous Productivity | ||
| Discussants | Qirjo, Dhimitri (SUNY Plattsburgh); Secrieru, Oana (Royal Military College); Hou, Lei (Capital University of Economics and Business, P.R.China) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Trade and Environment / Commerce et environnement | ||
| Chair | Beaulieu, Eugene C. (University of Calgary) | |
| Papers | Viju, Crina (Carleton University): Taking an Option on the Future: Subsidizing Biofuels for Energy Security or Reducing Global Warming | |
| Wan, Rui (University of Calgary): The Dirty Secrets of Clean Technologies-Environment-for-Trade Policy with Vertical Market Structure | ||
| Wen, Yuan (University of Calgary): Carbon Emissions and the Effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol | ||
| Discussants | Wan, Rui (University of Calgary); Wen, Yuan (University of Calgary); Viju, Crina (Carleton University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CETC Session: Applications of Game Theory / Théorie des jeux appliqués | ||
| Chair | Horan, Sean (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Xue, Licun (McGill University): Externalities, Renegotiable Agreements and Efficiency | |
| Zhao, Jingang (University of Saskatchewan): Two Mathematical Versions of the Coase Theorem | ||
| Huang, Ce (William) (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics): Mixed-strategy Equilibria in Directed Search with Uninformed Buyers | ||
| Discussants | Zhao, Jingang (University of Saskatchewan); Xue, Licun (McGill University); Blouin, Max (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Fixed Income Issues / Enjeux sur les titres à revenu fixe | ||
| Chair | Tabova, Alexandra (Federal Reserve Board) | |
| Papers | Abbritti, Mirko (Universidad de Navarra): Global Factors in the Term Structure of Interest Rates | |
| Coleman, Simeon (Nottingham Trent University): How tight is the knot? International yield curve dynamics and interactions. | ||
| Tabova, Alexandra (Federal Reserve Board): The replacement of safe assets in the U.S. bond portfolio and implications for the U.S. bond home bias | ||
| Discussants | Tabova, Alexandra (Federal Reserve Board); Abbritti, Mirko (Universidad de Navarra); Coleman, Simeon (Nottingham Trent University) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CESG Session: Macroeconometrics / Séance CESG: Macroéconométrie | ||
| Chair | Gordon, Stephen (Université Laval) | |
| Papers | Guérin, Pierre (Bank of Canada): Markov Switching Mixed Frequency VAR Models | |
| Kormilitsina, Anna (Southern Methodist University): Consistent Estimation of the Variance of the Laplace Type Estimators | ||
| Sekkel, Rodrigo (Bank of Canada): Forecasting with Many Models: Model Confi dence Sets and Forecast Combination | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| PEF 7: Inflation Targeting After the Crisis: Cracks in the / PEF 7: Cible d'inflation au lendemain de la crise : fissures dans le consensus? | ||
| Organizer | Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | |
| Chair | Stanford, James (Canadian Auto Workers) | |
| Papers | Aquanno, Scott (University of Toronto): The New Politics of Macroeconomic Stability: The Evolution of Canadian Monetary Policy | |
| Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University): Inflation targeting in developing countries: how much should we care? | ||
| Grasselli, Matheus (McMaster University): Debt Dynamics in the Great Moderation and Beyond: Accumulation, Deleverage and Implications for Monetary and Fiscal Policy | ||
| Discussants | Lavoie, Marc (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Short Papers in Financial Economics / Présentations courtes en économie financière | ||
| Chair | Dionne, Georges (HEC Montréal) | |
| Papers | Singh, Vikkram (Sheridan College): Integration of Financial Markets in Emerging Markets post 2008 - an oxymoron? | |
| Dabbous, Amal (Concordia University): A Staggered Pricing Approach to Modeling Speculative Storage: Implications For Commodity Price Dynamics | ||
| Mikhed, Vyacheslav (University of Alberta): Inequality, debt and bankruptcy: evidence from insolvent's balance sheets | ||
| Zhang, Peixin (University of Paris West Nanterre La Défense): Incentive approach to regulatory reforms in banking industry | ||
| Mirza, Afrasiab (Queen's University): Capital Rules and Leverage Ratio Restrictions | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Economics of Remittances in Developing Countries / Envois de fonds dans les pays en voie de développement | ||
| Organizer | Das, Anupam (Mount Royal University) | |
| Chair | Akram, Tanweer (ING Investment Management) | |
| Papers | Chowdhury, Muhammad Murshed (University of Manitoba): Does Financial Development Influence the Remittance-Growth Nexus? Evidence from Dynamic Panel Estimations | |
| Serieux, John (University of Manitoba): Does the Origin of Remittance Flows Matter for Saving Behaviour? Results from a Bangladeshi Household Survey | ||
| Khan, Md. Syeed-Uz-Zaman (University of Manitoba): Comparative effectiveness of non-market financial flows towards Sub-Saharan African and Asian countries. | ||
| Discussants | Leung, Ambrose (Mount Royal University); Rowlands, Dane (Carleton University); Sarker, Subrata (Bank of Canada) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Immigration Issues / Enjeux en immigration | ||
| Papers | Oloufade, Djoulassi (University of Ottawa): Dual Citizenship Institution: A Pareto Improvement? | |
| Basu, Bharati (Central Michigan University): The Role of Insurance in Determining the Level of Remittances:New Evidence from Latin American Immigrants to the US | ||
| Discussants | Basu, Bharati (Central Michigan University); Oloufade, Djoulassi (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Labour Economics 1 / Économie du travail 1 | ||
| Chair | Brown, Laura (University of Manitoba) | |
| Papers | Ochsen, Carsten (University of Applied Labour Studies): Relative Cohort Size and Unemployment in the United States | |
| Dörr, Annabelle (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg): Assignment Mechanisms, Selection Criteria, and the Effectiveness of Training Programs | ||
| Tanaka, Atsuko (University of Calgary): Employee Loyalty, Training and Female Labor Supply | ||
| Bazarkulova, Dana (University of Manitoba): Time Allocation Gender Gap in Native-born and Foreign-born Families in Canada | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| CREE Session: Empirical Issues in Environment Economics / Séance CREE : Enjeux empiriques en économie de l'environnement | ||
| Chair | Oestreich, (Andreas) Marcel (University of Guelph) | |
| Papers | Souza-Rodrigues, Eduardo (University of Toronto): Demand for Deforestation in the Amazon | |
| Ordas Criado, Carlos (Université Laval): Parametric vs nonparametric dichotomous choice contingent valuation models: testing the kernel estimator and its revealed performance | ||
| Janmaat, John (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus): Water Conservation: What is it? How can it be encouraged? Evidence from Kelowna, British Columbia | ||
| Discussants | Ordas Criado, Carlos (Université Laval); Janmaat, John (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus); Souza-Rodrigues, Eduardo (University of Toronto); Martínez Espiñeira, Roberto (Memorial University of Newfoundland) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| EPRI Session 3: Schooling Transitions / Transitions scolaires | ||
| Chair | Morin, Louis-Philippe (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Finnie, Ross (University of Ottawa): The Determinants and Early Labour Market Consequences of Dropping Out of School in Canada: A Longitudinal Analysis | |
| DeClou, Lindsay (McMaster University): Graduate Attrition by Discipline: Analyzing Administrative Data from an Ontario Research University | ||
| Mueller, Mercedes (University of Ottawa): Second time's a charm: Evidence on Canadian graduates who pursue further post-secondary education | ||
| Pavlic, Dejan (University of Ottawa): Student Persistence: Examining Transfer Student Patterns at the University of Ottawa and Algonquin College. | ||
| Discussants | Li, Qing (McMaster University); Wismer, Andrew (University of Ottawa); Chan, Ping Ching Winnie (Statistics Canada); Mueller, Mercedes (University of Ottawa) | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Sunday | |
| Local Labour Markets and Migration / Marchés du travail locaux et migration | ||
| Chair | Marchand, Joseph (University of Alberta) | |
| Papers | Arzaghi, Mohammad (National Bureau of Economic Research): Migration as a Way to Diversify: Evidence from Rural to Urban Migration in the US | |
| Laporte, Christine (Statistics Canada): Inter-provincial workers in Alberta | ||
| Marchand, Joseph (University of Alberta): Skills, Tasks, and Energy Booms | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Sunday | |
| Coffee Break / Pause-café | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CDESG: Gender and Social Structures / Structures sociales et genre | ||
| Chair | Estevan, Fernanda (University of Ottawa) | |
| Papers | Zhou, Weina (University of British Columbia): How Does A Traumatic Experience During Youth Affect Later Life? Evidence from the Send-down Program during the Chinese Cultural Revolution | |
| Abdelfattah, Noha (University of Victoria): The effect of domestic work on human capital investment: the Egyptian case. | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CEBERG 10: Risk, Ambiguity and Preferences / CEBERG 10: Risque, ambiguïté et préférences | ||
| Chair | Webb, Ryan (New York University) | |
| Papers | Bessey, Donata (Yonsei University): Religious attendance and preferences | |
| Kneeland, Terri (University of British Columbia): Rationality and consistent beliefs: theory and experimental evidence | ||
| Webb, Ryan (New York University): Neural foundations for context-dependent choice | ||
| Discussants | Kneeland, Terri (University of British Columbia); Webb, Ryan (New York University); Bessey, Donata (Yonsei University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| Factor Analysis 3 / Analyse factorielle 3 | ||
| Organizer | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Chair | Stevanovic, Dalibor (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Mésonnier, Jean-Stéphane (Banque de France): Bank leverage shocks and the macroeconomy: a new look in a data-rich environment | |
| Ahmadi, Pooyan Amir (Goethe University): Credit Shocks, Monetary Policy, and Business Cycles: Evidence from a Structural Time Varying Bayesian FAVAR | ||
| Karstanje, Dennis (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Common Factors in Commodity Futures Curves | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CPEG IX: Giving, Redistribution and Social Preferences / Dons, redistribution et préférences sociales | ||
| Chair | Leroux, Marie-Louise (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| Papers | Marr, Christa (Clark University): Perception of Deception: The Fall in Redistribution Preferences and Rise in Government Mistrust after the Great Recession | |
| Devlin, Rose Anne (University of Ottawa): The Impact of Visible Minorities on Majority Giving | ||
| Barnett, Richard (Drexel University): Voting for income-immiserizing redistribution in the Meltzer-Richard model | ||
| Discussants | Lkhagvasuren, Damba (Concordia University); Kryvoruchko, Iryna (University of Regina); Leroux, Marie-Louise (Université du Québec à Montréal) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| Issues in Finance / Enjeux en finance | ||
| Chair | Chaigneau, Pierre (HEC Montreal) | |
| Papers | Chen, Liang (University of Calgary): Moral Hazard and Risk on the CEOs Market | |
| Chaigneau, Pierre (HEC Montreal): Incentives for risk-taking: bonuses and dismissals | ||
| Basiri, Kiana (HEC Montréal): Household Insolvency Options and Competition | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| Intellectual Property: Patents / Propriété intellectuelle et brevets | ||
| Organizer | Cosac, Teodora (Industry Canada) | |
| Papers | Arif, Faisal (Industry Canada): Assessing the Effectiveness of the Patent System: A Literature Review | |
| Collette, Elias (Canadian Intellectual Property Office): Patent families as proxy for innovation that leads to productivity growth | ||
| Lazarus, Gary (Industry Canada): Patents in Canada: A Statistical Update | ||
| Discussants | Gallini, Nancy (University of British Columbia); Beaudry, Catherine (École Polytechique de Montréal) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CMSG Session: Monetary Policy / Séance CMSG: Politique monétaire | ||
| Chair | Lubik, Thomas (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) | |
| Papers | Cacciatore, Matteo (HEC Montréal): Market Deregulation and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union | |
| Nakajima, Makoto (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia): Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents | ||
| Lubik, Thomas (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond): Indeterminacy and Learning: An Analysis of Monetary Policy in the Great Inflation | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CMSG Session: Search, Housing, Mobility / Séance CMSG: Recherche de logements et mobilité | ||
| Chair | Stacey, Derek (Ryerson University) | |
| Papers | Andrew, Kevin (Queen's University): Wages, Unemployment and Migration | |
| Stacey, Derek (Ryerson University): The Distribution of House Prices and Income Inequality Within Cities | ||
| Delacroix, Alain (Université du Québec à Montréal): Pricing and Signaling with Frictions. | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| Business Cycle Econometrics / Économétrie des cycles économiques | ||
| Chair | Ahking, Francis (University of Connecticut) | |
| Papers | Gordon, Stephen (Université Laval): Identifying business cycle turning points in real time | |
| Luo, Sui (University of Washington): Is It One Break or Ongoing Permanent Shocks That Explains U.S. Real GDP? A Bayesian Analysis Using an Unobserved Component | ||
| Ahking, Francis (University of Connecticut): Measuring U.S. Business Cycles: A Comparison of Two Methods and Two Indicators of Economic Activities | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| Trade, Technology and Productivity / Commerce, technologie et productivité | ||
| Chair | Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada) | |
| Papers | Paz, Lourenco (Syracuse University): Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: An Analysis Using the 1989-1998 Brazilian Trade Liberalization. | |
| Sposi, Michael (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas): Capital Goods Trade and Economic Development | ||
| Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada): Import Prices and Currency Invoicing | ||
| Discussants | Sposi, Michael (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas); Tomlin, Ben (Bank of Canada); Paz, Lourenco (Syracuse University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CETC Session: Cooperative Game Theory / Théorie des jeux coopératifs | ||
| Chair | Xue, Licun (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Papai, Szilvia (Concordia University): Matching With Minimal Priority Rights | |
| Gugl, Elisabeth (University of Victoria): The Rotten Kid Theorem and Almost Transferable Utility | ||
| Discussants | Gugl, Elisabeth (University of Victoria); Pongou, Roland (University of Ottawa) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CESG Session: Financial Econometrics / Économétrie de la finance | ||
| Chair | Morin, Lealand (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Luger, Richard (Georgia State University): Unfolding GARCH models | |
| Morin, Lealand (Queen's University): Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Diffusion Processes using Extreme Values or Bounds | ||
| Gungor, Sermin (Bank of Canada): Multivariate tests of mean-variance efficiency and spanning with a large number of assets and time-varying covariances | ||
| Diez de los Rios, Antonio (Bank of Canada): A New Linear Estimator for Gaussian Dynamic Term Structure Models | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CESG Session: Bayesian Methods / Méthodes bayésiennes | ||
| Chair | Burda, Martin (University of Toronto) | |
| Papers | Liu, Xiaochun (Emory University): Markov Switching Quantile Autoregression | |
| McCausland, William (Université de Montréal): Bayesian inference and model comparison for random choice structures | ||
| Samano, Mario (HEC Montréal): Bayesian Inference for Conditional Average Treatment Effects from a Job Training Program | ||
| Discussants | McCausland, William (Université de Montréal); Samano, Mario (HEC Montréal); Burda, Martin (University of Toronto) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| PEF 8: Economics of the Possible: Opportunities and Constraints in Québec a Year After the Printemps Érable / Opportunités et contraintes au Québec un an après le printemps érable | ||
| Organizer | Dufour, Mathieu (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) | |
| Chair | Falvo, Nick (Carleton University) | |
| Papers | Pineault, Eric (University of Québec at Montréal): Directionless Interventionism: the scourge of contemporary social democracy, elements for a renewed economics of the possible | |
| Couturier, Eve-Lyne (Iris): From Social-democracy to Neoliberalism: Politics of Continuity in Québec | ||
| Harvey, Pierre-Antoine (Centrale des syndicats du Québec): Is there a progressive exceptionalism in Quebec? If so, could it be strengthened? | ||
| Dufour, Mathieu (John Jay College of Criminal Justice): Fiscality as a Tool of Economic Transformation and Development: Prospects for Québec | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CSLS Session: Productivity Developments at the Provincial Level in Canada / Développements sur la productivité au niveau provincial au Canada | ||
| Organizer | Sharpe, Andrew (Centre for The Study of Living Standards) | |
| Chair | Ragan, Christopher (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Spiro, Peter (University of Toronto): A Sectoral Analysis of Ontario's Weak Productivity Growth | |
| Grand-Maison, Etienne (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): A Detailed Analysis of Productivity Performance in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1997-2010: the Role of the Oil and Gas Sector | ||
| M-Muntean, Tatiana (Ontario Ministry of Finance): Intangible assets and their contribution to productivity growth in Ontario | ||
| Discussants | Tapp, Stephen (Institute for Research on Public Policy); Tang, Jianmin (Industry Canada); Gu, Wulong (Statistics Canada) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| Labour Economics 2 / Économie du travail 2 | ||
| Chair | Jia (George), Ye (University of Prince Edward Island) | |
| Papers | Lin, Maoqiong (Carleton University): Family Strategies and the Labor Supply of Married Immigrant Women | |
| Kong, Weiyang (Dalhousie University): Do immigrants share the same happiness profile as native born Canadians? | ||
| Islam, Khan (University of Manitoba): Heterogeneous Impact of Micro-credit on Household Labor Supply:A Dynamic Approach | ||
| Jia (George), Ye (University of Prince Edward Island): Health Insurance Coverage and Self Employment | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| CREE Session: Short Presentations in Environment Economics / Présentations courtes en économie de l'environnement | ||
| Chair | Cairns, Robert D (McGill University) | |
| Papers | Gertz, Aaron (University of Western Ontario): Structural change and climate policy in developing countries | |
| Galiana, Isabel Marie (McGill University): Generating low-carbon investment in electricity markets | ||
| Oestreich, (Andreas) Marcel (University of Guelph): Carbon Emissions and Stock Returns | ||
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| EPRI Session 4: Preparing for PSE and the Labour Market / Préparation aux EPS et au marché du travail | ||
| Chair | Lehrer, Steven F. (Queen's University) | |
| Papers | Lehrer, Steven F. (Queen's University): Understanding College Major Choice Decisions in Canada | |
| Tessier, Nicholas (University of Ottawa): Personal and Contextual Factors in the Educational Transition of Canadian Adolescents in Foster Care: Evidence from the Youth in Transition Survey | ||
| Kottelenberg, Michael (Queen's University): Characterizing Dynamic Skill Formation in Canada: Tracking the Effects of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skill Development from Early Childhood to College-University | ||
| Afshar, Kaveh (University of Ottawa): Mismatches of education aspirations and attainment: a behavioural economics approach | ||
| Discussants | Kottelenberg, Michael (Queen's University); Veall, Michael (McMaster University); Lehrer, Steven F. (Queen's University) | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Sunday | |
| Labour: Gender and Ethnic Gaps / Écarts selon le genre et le groupes ethnique | ||
| Chair | Zibrowius, Michael (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) | |
| Papers | Yip, Chi Man (McGill University): Gender-Oriented Statistical Discrimination Theory: Empirical Evidence from the Hong Kong Labor Market | |
| Zibrowius, Michael (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg): Ethnic background and youth unemployment | ||
| Discussants | Yip, Chi Man (McGill University); Zibrowius, Michael (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg); Mahajan, Kanika (Indian Statistical Institute) | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Sunday | |
| CEA Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle de l'ACE | ||
| 13:00-15:30 | Sunday | |
| CEA Executive Council Meeting 2 / Réunion du conseil exécutif de l'ACE 2 | ||
| Chair | Lemieux, Thomas (University of British Columbia) | |