The Doug Purvis Prize is awarded annually to the authors of a highly significant, written contribution to Canadian economic policy. The award was established in 1994 in honour and memory of noted Canadian economist Doug Purvis. The competition is open to all forms of print media in which material relevant to Canadian economic policy appears, including books, single articles in scholarly journals, government studies including monographs done for royal commissions, think tank reports and a series of articles in newspapers or magazines. The Doug Purvis Memorial Prize selection committee is made up of five Canadian economists from academia, government and the private sector. For more information on the Purvis Prize, you can visit the Doug Purvis Foundation's web site.

Nominations are requested for the 17th award of an annual prize to honour the memory of the late Douglas D. Purvis. An award of $10,000 is to be presented for a work of excellence relating to Canadian economic policy and published in 2009. The award is open to all forms of written media in which material relevant to Canadian economic policy appears, including a series of articles in newspapers or magazines, books, single articles in scholarly journals, government studies including monographs done for royal commissions, other official documents, and think-tank reports. To be eligible, the material must be in the public domain and primarily, but not necessarily exclusively, related to some issue in Canadian economic policy.

Nominations should be in by 15 March 2010. Include five copies of the nominated piece, name and address of the nominator and full details of the nominee, including affiliation. To submit a nomination of your own or someonrk, or to obtain further details, write to: The Purvis Prize, c/o Steve Ambler, Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal,QC, H3C 3P8. E-mail: steve.ambler@gmail.com. Electronic submissions are preferred, in which case five copies are not required.

The prize has been made possible by generous donations from: AIC Mutual Funds, Bank of Montreal, Canada Trust, Canadian National Railways, CIBC World Markets, CI Mutual Funds, First Horizon Capital Corporation, Lang Michener, Mapleridge Partners, Mondiale Asset Management, Norshield Financial Group, Nortel Networks, Royal Bank of Canada, Shaw Industries and Toron Capital Markets.

The selection committee is nominated by the Canadian Economics Association and the Canadian Association for Business Economists. The 2008 committee was comprised of John Hoicka, Joseph Macaluso, Paul Masson, Michael Veall (chair) and William Watson.

2009	Michael Baker (University of Toronto and NBER), Jonathan Gruber (MIT and NBER), and Kevin Milligan (UBC) are the winners of the 2009 Purvis Prize for their article Universal Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply, and Family Well Being, Journal of Political Economy 116(4), August 2008.
2008	Gérard Bélanger (Département d'économique, Université Laval) is the winner of the 2008 Doug Purvis Memorial Prize for his book, L'économie du Québec, Mythes et Réalité, Editions Varia, Montréal, 2007.
2007	David Green (University of British Columbia) and Jonathan Kesselman (Simon Fraser University) for their edited volume Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, UBC Press, 2006
2006	Emmanuel Saez (University of California at Berkeley) and Michael Veall (McMaster University) for their research paperThe Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence, American Economic Review 95(3) 2005, 831-849.
2005	Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia) for his contributions to Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice (Geneva: ILO, 2004) and to Producer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice (Washington: IMF, 2004). Announcement and Citation
2004	Brian R. Copeland (University of British Columbia) and M. Scott Taylor (University of Calgary) for their book Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence (Princeton University Press, 2003)
2003	Paul Collins (Strikeman Elliot), Edward Iacobucci (University of Toronto), Michael Trebilock (University of Toronto) and Ralph Winter (University of British Columbia) for their book The Law and Economics of Canadian Competition Policy, University of Toronto Press, 2002.
2002	Jack Mintz (C.D. Howe Institute) for his book Most Favoured Nation: Building a Framework for Smart Economic Policy (Brookings Institution, 2001).
2001	Frances Woolley (Carleton University) and Carole Vincent (Institute for Research on Public Policy) for their book Taxing Canadian Families: What's Fair, What's Not, Choices, vol. 6 (July 2000): 3-42.
2000	Ronald Kneebone (University of Calgary) and Kenneth McKenzie (University of Calgary) for Past (In)Discretions: Canadian Federal and Provincial Policy
1999	John Helliwell (University of British Columbia) for How Much Do National Borders Matter (Brookings Institution).
1998	Jonathan Kesselman (University of British Columbia) for General Payroll Taxes: Economics, Politics and Design(Canadian Tax Foundation).
1997	Pierre Fortin (Université du Québec à Montréal) for his article The Great Canadian Slump, Canadian Journal of Economics.
	Edward Greenspon (The Globe and Mail) and Anthony Wilson-Smith (MacLean's Magazine) for Double Vision - The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power (Doubleday).
1996	Bob Young (University of Western Ontario) for The Secession of Quebec and the Future of Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press with the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University).
1995	Tom Courchene (Queen's University) for Social Canada in the Millenium (C.D. Howe Institute)
1994	Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia) and David Card (University of British Columbia) for A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment in Canada and the United States
	David Laidler (University of Western Ontario) and William Robson (CD Howe Institute) for The Great Canadian Disinflation (C.D. Howe Institute).