Canadian Economics AssociationAssociation canadienne d’Economique

NEWSLETTERCHRONIQUE

Volume 28August / Août 2003

CONTENTS/CONTENU

* CEA NEWS *

I Faculty/Corps Professorala) New Appointments, Departures/Récentes

Nominations, Départsb) Visiting Appointments/Professeur(e)s Inviteé(e)sc) Awards & Other News/Distinctions & Autre Nouvelles

II Short-Term Visitors/Futurs Visiteurs

III Miscellaneous Information/Diversa) Conferences/Conférencesb) Other/Autres

IV Doctoral Theses/Thèses de Doctorat

V Recent Working Papers/Récents Cahiers de Recherche

VI Forthcoming Papers in the C.J.E./Articles à Paraître dans la Revue

VII Forthcoming Papers in C.P.P./Articles à Paraître dans Analyse de Politiques

Supplement to C.J.E./R.C.E. Publications Mail Registration No. 4190 L’enregistrement comme envoies de poste-publications No. 4190

CEA News

2004 CEA MeetingsThe 2003 CEA Meetings had over 750 registrants which is a

record. Thanks to Curtis Eaton and Frances Woolley for organizing a fine conference.

In 2004, the CEA Meetings will be at Ryerson University, Toronto from Friday June 4th to Sunday June 6th. Barbara Spencer, UBC, will be organizing the program. Tom Barbiero, Ryerson, is the local organizer. More information is available on the CEA web site: http://economics.ca

Harry Johnson PrizeEach year the Harry Johnson Prize is awarded to the authors

of the best article in the CJE. The winners in 2002 are:

Robin Boadway, Nick Marceau and Steeve Mongrain for their article, “Joint Tax Evasion” in the August issue of the journal.

John Vanderkamp PrizeCanadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques is pleased to

announce that the winner of the John Vanderkamp Prize for the best paper published in the journal in 2002 is:

Susan Johnson for the paper entitled “Canadian Union Density 1980 to 1998 and Prospects for the Future: An Empirical Investigation.”

The recipient receives $1,000. The winner was selected by a multidisciplinary panel. We would also like to mention the following paper for honourable mention:

Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan for the paper entitled “The Effect of Childcare and Early Education Arrangements on Developmental Outcomes of Young Children.”

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I Faculty/Corps Professoral

a) New Appointments, Departures/Récentes Nominations, Départs

University of Alberta, Department of Rural EconomySean B. Cash, formerly Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Agricultural and

Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, effective July 2003

Mel L. Lerohl retired July 2003

Augustana University CollegeYasser Fahmy, appointment effective August 2002Ross B. Emmett, resigned to take a position at James Madison College

at Michigan State University, effective July 2003

University of British ColumbiaMauricio Drelichman, appointment effective July 2003Sergio Firpo, appointment effective July 2003Michael Peters, formerly at the University of Toronto, effective

July 2003Shinishi Sakata, formerly at the University of Michigan, effective

July 2003Robert Allen resigned effective July 2003Margaret Slade retired July 2003Kenneth White took early retirement July 2003

University of CalgaryZuzana Janko, formerly a Ph.D. Graduate from University of California

at Riverside, effective July 2003

Concordia UniversityEffrosyni Diamantoudi, formerly at the University of Aarhus, Denmark,

effective July 2003Nils-Petter Lagerlof resigned to accept new position at York University,

effective June 2003Balbir Sahni retired June 2003Anastasios Anastasopoulos retired June 2003

Dalhousie University

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Sripad Motiram, formerly at the University of Southern California, effective July 2003

University of GuelphKurt Annen, formerly at Washington University, effective June 2003Laurent Cellarier, formerly at University of Southern California,

effective July 2003Maina Plesca, formerly Ph.D. candidate at the University of Western

Ontario, effective July 2003Ximing Wu, formerly Ph.D. candidate, at the University of California,

Berkeley, effective July 2003

University of LethbridgeSylvie Marceau, formerly at Holy Cross, effective July 2002David Krause, formerly with the Competition Bureau, effective

July 2002Stavroula Malla, formerly a Post-Doc, University of Saskatchewan,

Ag. Econ, effective July 2003

University of ManitobaTatiana Kornienko resigned in August 2003Costas Nicolaou died on May 3, 2003Paul Phillips will retire on December 31, 2003 and will be appointed

Senior Scholar on January 1, 2004

McGill UniversityJim Engle-Warnick, formerly at Nuffield College, Oxford University,

effective August 2003Sonia Laszlo, formerly at Ryerson University, effective August 2003Licun Xue, formerly at the University of Aarhus, effective August 2003

McMaster UniversityDavid Bjerk, formerly a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin,

effective July 2003Seungjin Han, formerly a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto,

effective July 2003David Butterfield retired in July 2003Alan Harrison, resigned to join Carleton University as Provost and

Professor of Economics

Université de MonctonPaul-Emile David, formerly at UNB (Saint John), effective July 2003Pierre-Marcel Desjardins, transfer to the Institut Canadien de

Recherche sur le developpement regional, effective June 2003

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Université de MontréalAlessandro Riboni, formerly Ph.D. at the University of Rochester,

effective July 2003(Université de Montréal) École des Hautes Études CommercialesInstitut d’économie appliquéeEduardo Fajnzylber, appointment effective June 2003Andrew Leach, appointment effective June 2003Ron Leung, appointment effective June 2003

University of OttawaCatherine Deri, formerly Ph.D. Economics, University of Toronto,

effective July 2003Jean François Tremblay, formerly with Industry Canada, effective

July 2003Philippe J. Crabbé retired July 2002

Université du Québec à MontréalSamuel Danthine, formerly Ph.D. at University of Rochester, effective

June 2003Arianna Degan, formerly Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania,

effective January 2004Paul Martel-Roy retired January 2003

Queen’s UniversityKatsumi Shimotsu, formerly at Yale University, effective July 2003James MacKinnon appointed Head of Department at Queen’s

University, effective July 2003Marvin McInnis retired August 2003

University of ReginaTomi Ovaska, formerly Ph.D. Candidate at West Virginia University,

effective July 2003Abdella Abdou, resigned to accept appointment at Brandon, effective

June 2003

Ryerson UniversityConstantine Angyridis, formerly Ph.D. candidate at the University of

Toronto, effective August 2003Halis Yildiz, formerly Ph.D. candidate at the Southern Methodist

University, effective August 2003Huiwen Zhov, formerly Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland,

effective August 2003Sonia Laszlo, resigned August 2003David Cape, retired September 2003

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University of Saskatchewan, Agricultural EconomicsDesmond Sobool, formerly a graduate student, effective May 2003Simon Weseen, effective August 2002Jack Stabler retired July 2003

Simon Fraser UniversityAlexandar Karaivanov, formerly Ph.D. candidate at the University of

Chicago, effective July 2003Simon Woodcock, formerly Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University,

effective July 2003Arthur Robson, formerly at the University of Western Ontario, effective

July 2003John Chant retired August 2003Dennis Maki retired August 2003Jock Munro retired August 2003

University of TorontoGueorgui Kambourov, formerly at the University of Western Ontario,

effective July 2003Andreas Park, formerly at the University of Cambridge, effective

July 2003Gustavo Indart, formerly at the Center for International Studies,

University of Toronto, effective July 2003John Munro retired June 2003Michael Peters resigned June 2003

University of VictoriaAlok Kumar, formerly Ph.D. candidate at Queen’s University, effective

July 2003Elisabeth Gugl, formerly Ph.D. candidate at Rice University, Texas,

effective July 2003Gerald Walter retired June 2003

University of WaterlooFadle M. Naqib retired June 2003Karl M.H. Bennett retired August 2003

University of Western OntarioElizabeth Caucutt, formerly at the University of Rochester, effective

July 2003

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Albert Banal-Estanol, formerly Ph.D. candidate at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, effective July 2003

Lance Lochner, formerly at the University of Rochester, effective July 2003

Peter Rupert, formerly at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, effective July 2003

Srihari Govindan resigned June 2003Clark Leith retired June 2003Mattias Polborn resigned June 2003Arthur Robson resigned June 2003

York University (Atkinson)Alena Kimakova, formerly at Brandeis University, effective July 2002George Georgopoulos, formerly at the University of Toronto

(Scarborough) effective July 2003

b) Visiting Appointments/Professeur(e)s Invité(e)s

University of British ColumbiaJohn Hartwick, Queen’s University, July 2003Shaun Vahey, Cambridge University, July 2003

University of GuelphGraeme Wells, Australian National University, Sept. 1 to Dec. 20/03

Université de MontréalPaul Beaudry, University of British Columbia, September 2003Yves Richelle, July 2003

University of New BrunswickBrian Ferguson, University of Guelph, July 2003

University of OttawaAkbar Tavakoli, Isfahan University, Iran, September 1, 2002 –

August 30, 2004

Université du Québec à MontréalStéphane Auray, Université de Toulouse, September 2003

Queen’s University

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Douglas Curtis, Trent University, Jan – April 2004Ugurhan Berkok, RMC, Kingston, Sept. – April 2003/04Kevin Clinton, Bank of Canada, Sept. – April 2003/04Afifa Khazri, RMC, Kingston, Jan. –April 2004Byron Lew, Trent University, Jan. – April 2004University of ReginaS.K.G. Sundaram, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India,

September 2003

University of VictoriaRebecca Valenzuela, Monash University, Australia, Sept – Dec 2003

University of Western OntarioSilvio Rendon, Universidad Carlos III, July 2003

c) Awards & Other News/Distinctions & Autre Nouvelles University of British ColumbiaMichael Devereux, awarded a Killam Research Fellowship by the

Canada Council for the Arts (the only economist in Canada to receive this award)

Michael Devereux, awarded the Bank of Canada Research FellowshipErwin Diewert, awarded the Killam Research Prize for the Social

Sciences in CanadaErwin Diewert, awarded the Distinguished University Scholar at UBCRobert Evans, awarded the Biely Prize – UBC’s premier awardRobert Evans named Institute Fellow, CIARThomas Lemieux, awarded the UBC Killam Research PrizeThomas Lemieux, awarded the Distinguished University Scholar at

UBCKevin Milligan, named the National Tax Association Dissertation

Award Winner

University of CalgaryEugene C. Beaulieu and Robert J. Oxoby, awarded Killam Resident

Fellowships for Fall 2003

University of GuelphRoss McKitrick awarded runner-up prize for 2002 Donner Prize, the

award for best book on Canadian public policy, for his book “Taken

by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global

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Warming” (Key Porter Books). The book was co-authored with Christopher Essex, Department of Applied Mathematics,

University of Western Ontario and was also shortlisted for the Canadian Science Writer’s Association Book Prize, 2002

Robert Swidinsky, Professor Emeritus standing, granted Fall, 2002University of ManitobaLinda DeRiviere Ph.D. Student – SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

RecipientTo commemorate the on-going career of Anthony Waterman (Department of Economics) to this point, and in celebration of a “milestone” birthday, St. John’s College and the Department of Economics held a reception in his honour on March 14 at St. John’s College. Dr. Waterman was presented with a volume of essays (edited by Derek Hum, Economics) entitled “Faith, Reason and Economics: Essays in Honour of Anthony Waterman”. Contributing essayists include Anthony’s colleagues, friends, and professional acquaintances in economics, history, philosophy and music, which will be available through University of Toronto Press.

McMaster UniversityAbigail Payne, effective 1 June 2003, Canada Research Chair in Public

Economics

Université de MontréalRené Garcia, Titulaire de la Chaire Hydro-Québec en gestion intégrée

des risques et finance mathématique de l’Université de MontréalÉric Renault, Titulaire du Prix Marcel-Dagenais de la Société

canadienne de science economique (SCSE), 2003

University of New BrunswickConstantine E. Passaris – recipient of the Allan P. Stuart Award for

Excellence in Teaching

Queen’s UniversityRobin W. Boadway, Harry Johnson Prize with Nicholas Marceau and

Steeve Mongrain for the best article in the Canadian Journal of Economics, 2002

R. Marvin McInnis, Emeritus Professor as of September 1, 2003Ruqu Wang, winner of the Department of Economics 2002/03 Prize for

Research Excellence

University of SaskatchewanWilliam Bishopp received the College of Arts & Science Teaching

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Award for Social SciencesMorris Altman was elected President of (SABE), the Society for the

Advancement of Behavioral Economics

University of TorontoAndrés Erosa: Ramon y Cajal Fellowship. Ministerio de Ciencia y

TechnologiaMorley Gunderson: Gérard Dion Award for Outstanding Contribution

to the Field of Industrial Relations (awarded by the Canadian Industrial Relations Association at annual meeting) – 2003

Morley Gunderson: First in citation ranking, Canadian Journal of Economics – 2003

Gillian Hamilton: Third most pages published in the Journal of Economic History between 1991 and 2000 (cited in Robert Whaples). “The Supply and Demand of Economic History, Recent Trends in the Journal of Economic History.” Journal of Economic History, June 2002: 524-532

Hao Li: Hoover Institution National Fellowship, 2002-2003Alex Maynard: Dean’s Excellence Award, Department of Economics,

University of Toronto, Summer 2002Angelo Melino: Listed in Who’s Who in Economics, 4th edition (based

on citations from 1990-2000)Joanne Roberts: Scholar, Canadian Institute for Advanced ResearchMark Stabile: Senior Research Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of

Health Research, 2002-2003Mark Stabile: Visiting Research Scholar, Centre for Health and

Wellbeing, Princeton University, 2002-2003Johannes Van Biesebroeck: Faculty Research Fellow at NBER

II Short-Term Visitors/Futurs Visiteurs

University of Alberta, Department of Rural EconomyRoger Sedjo, Senior Fulbright Scholar, Resources for the Future,

August 1 – November 30, 2003

Bank of CanadaAlain Guay, UQAMSteven Ambler, UQAMGregor Smith, Queen’s UniversityMike Bordo, Rutgers UniversityMichael Francis, Canberra University

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University of British ColumbiaYasuko Ishiguro, Kobe University of Commerce, April 1/03 –

March 31/04Armando Pineda, Colegio de Postgraduate, July 1/03 – June 30/04Chi-Young song, Kookmin University, January 1 – December 31/04University of CalgaryStephan Lutz, Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim,

Germany, Sept. 1 – Oct. 31/03Kenneth Carlaw, University of Canterbury, Sept. 27 – Oct. 4/03

Dalhousie UniversityGreg LeBlanc, Concordia University, Sept. 03 – April 04Margarett Enniss-Trotman, University of Guyana, Sept. 03 – May 04

Laval UniversityEpiphane, INSAE, Université nationale du Bénin, 03/09/29 to 03/10/27Francis Menjo Aloysus, 03/09/29 to 03/10/27Francis Menjo Baye, Université Yaoundé II, 03/09/29 to 03/10/27Joseph Cabral, Cheik Anta Diop University, 03/09/15 to 03/11/02Fatou Cissé, Cheik Anta Diop University, 03/09/15 to 03/11/02Caesar Cororaton, Pids Institute for Development Studies, 03/09/01 to

03/11/02Samuel Fambon, FSEG, Université Yaoundé II, 03/09/29 to 03/10/27Boureima Ki, 03/09/01 to 03/09/29Jean-Bosco Ki, CREA/UCAD, 03/09/01 to 03/09/29Damien Mededji, Université Clermont-Ferrand, 03/09/29 to 03/10/27Isidor Noumba, 03/09/29 to 03/10/27Isaac Tamba, 03/09/29 to 03/10/27

McGill UniversitySergei Severinov, Duke University, Sept. 2003 (1 week)

Queen’s UniversityMaurice Marchand, CORE, Belgium, September 2003Wenhau Yu, School of Public Policy and Management in Tsinghua

University, China, 2003/04

University of SaskatchewanJun Cui, Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, China, June-Dec

2003 & June-Dec 2004Ying Zhang, Shanxi University of Finance & Economics, China,

October 2003 – October 2004

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Simon Fraser UniversityMutsumi Matsumoto, Ritsumeikan University, August 2003 –

September 2004

University of VictoriaAmornthip Taethiengtam, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand,

July 03 – June 04

III Miscellaneous Information/Divers

a) Conferences

Fall 2003: Two conferences on competition policy, one for IO Economists, one for lawyers and other assorted rogues. Not yet certain of locations but the first will probably be in Banff. Sponsored by University of Lethbridge, plus some others.Contact: David Krause - david.drause@uleth.ca

September 3-6, 2003: “Structural Reform and the Transformation of Organizations and Business” to be held at the University of Cambridge, UK. Sponsored by Ashcroft International Business School & Athenian Policy Forum.Contact: Ross Catterall – r.e.catterall@apu.ac.uk ORChris Paraskevoulos – chrisp@yorku.ca

September 19-21, 2003: “Canadian Econometric Study Group Conference” to be held at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Contact: More information is available at: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/cesg2003

September 20, 2003: “Third Annual Economics Research Symposium” to be held at and sponsored by the Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan. Contact: Joel Bruneau – joel.bruneau@usask.ca or (306) 966-5228

September 29, 2003: “Refugees at the Canada – U.S. Border” to be held at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Sponsored by RIIM – Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis.Contact: devoretz@sfu.ca OR Linda_Sheldon@sfu.ca

October 3-5, 2003: “13th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group (CREE)” to

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be held at the University of Victoria, Victoria BC. Sponsored by Environment Canada.Contact: Conference Web site: http://web.uvic.ca/~rondeau/cree/cree2003.html

October 17-19, 2003: 32nd Annual Conference of the Atlantic Canada Economics Association “Perspectives on Productivity: Physical, Institutional and Human Capital, Canada and Atlantic Canada”. Papers on general topics are welcome. To be held at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, P.E.I. Sponsored by Atlantic Canada Economics Association – http://www.unb.ca/econ/aceaContact: Jim Sentance - sentance@upei.ca or

Robin Neill - rneill@upei.ca

October 17-19, 2003: “conference on Human Capital, Productivity and the Labour Market” to be held at the Ivey Spencer Conference Centre, 551 Windermere Road, London, Ontario. Sponsored by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Canada Program in Human Capital and Productivity (CIBC).Contact: Chris Robinson – robinson@uwo.ca

October 19-22, 2003: “IIéme Colloque du Réseau MONDER” to be held in Quebec, Canada. No sponsor to date.Contact: Martine Guay - mguay@ecn.ulaval.ca

October 23-24, 2003: “The Agricultural Industry Following the Western Grain Transportation Reform” to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sponsored by the Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba.Contact: Daryl F. Kraft - Daryl_Kraft@umanitoba.ca

October 24-26, 2003: “Conference on Monetary Policy in an International Context” to be held at the Ivey Spencer Conference Centre, 551 Windermere Road, London, Ontario. Sponsored by the Royal Bank Financial Group Foundation – Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI).Contact: Jim Davies – jdavies@uwo.ca

November 4-8, 2003: “First General PEP Meeting” to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam. Sponsored by PEP Project – financed by CRDI-Ottawa

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Contact: Sonia Moreau - sonia.moreau@ecn.ulaval.ca

November 7-8, 2003: “Department of Economics Annual Delta Marsh Conference” to be held at the University of Manitoba Delta Marsh Field Station. Sponsored by the Department of Economics.Contact: Fletcher Baragar - baragar@cc.UManitoba.CA

November 14, 2003: “Queen’s Public Economics Workshop Mini Conference” to be held at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Sponsored by the Department of Economics, Queen’s University.Contact: Robin Boadway - boadwayr@qed.econ.queensu.ca

February 13-14, 2004: “Issues of Post-Secondary Education” organized by Charles Beach, Robin Boadway and Marvin McInnis. To be held at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Sponsored by the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy.Contact: Charles Beach, Director, John Deutsch Institute - beachc@qed.econ.queensu.ca ORSharon Sullivan, John Deutsch Institute - sullivas@qed.econ.queensu.ca

May 14-16, 2004: “Canadian Economic Theory Conference” to be hold at McGill University, Montreal.Contact: Nurlan Turdaliev, Economics Department, McGill UniversityNurlan.turdaliev@mcgill.ca - telephone: 514.398.4827

b) Other

University of WaterlooA Ph.D. program in Applied Economics has been approved by the University of Waterloo and by the OCGS, and will commence September 2004.

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IV Doctoral Theses/Théses de Doctorat

University of Alberta – Department of Rural EconomyCyril Chami (Spring 2002) “Sustainable Tourism Development: A

Comparison Between Tanzania and Kenya”Innocent Karamagi (Fall 2002) “Examining technical and Economic

Efficiency: Empirical Applications Using Panel Data from Alberta

Dairy Farmers”David Nanang (Fall 2002) “Based Forest Planning Tools for sustainable

Forest Management”

University of British ColumbiaNikola Gradojevic (January 2003) “Non-linear Exchange Rate

Forecasting: The Role of Market Microstructure Variables”Stephan S. Whelan (February 2003) “Income Support Programs and

Labour Market Behaviour in Canada”Mark Vujicic (April 2003) “Recent Trends in the Nursing Labour

Market in Canada”Takashi Kano (May 2003) “Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics”

Concordia UniversityJing Yang (May 2003) “Agent-based Modelling and Market

Microstructure”Rafiqul Bhuyan (October 2002) “Informational Role of Open Interests in

Strategic Portfolio Decisions”

Guelph UniversityDingding Li (2002) “Estimation and Inference in Semiparametric

Regression Models with Weakly Dependent Data”

Laval UniversityNathalie Havet (January 2003) “Analyse théorique et empirique des

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differences de salaire et de carrière entre homes et femmes”

McMaster UniversityMikal Skuterud (June 2003) “Three Essays in Empirical Labour

Economics”

Université de MontréalHafedh Bouakez (avril 2003) “Les modèles à prix rigides et la

persistence des chocs monétaires”

University of OttawaYiagadeesen Samy (January 2003) “Trade and Labor Standards: A

Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Linkages”

Queen’s UniversityGregory G. Caldwell (May 2003) “Three Essays on Dynamic

Monopoly”Nathalie Boucher (May 2003) “Predicting National Data on the Use of

Private Vehicles in Canada for the 1980-1996 Period: An Application of the Bayesian Approach of Gibbs Sampling with

Data Augmentation”

University of Saskatchewan – Agricultural Economics DepartmentAmalia Yiannaka (June 2002) “Strategic Patent Breadth for Drastic

Innovations”Gholamreza Chabokrow (August 2002) “The Impacts of Decoupling

Payments in Agricultural Investment Using Dynamic Models”

University of Western OntarioTilman Klumpp (June 2003) “Essays in Game Theory and its

Application to Political Economy and Finance”Philippe Gregoire (June 2003) “Cooperation, Disclosure in Stock

Markets and Efficiency Wage”Abdurrahman Aydemir (June 2003) “Essays on Immigrant Selection

and Economic Assimilation”Robert Clark (June 2003) “The Economics of Advertising for

Established Products”Vladimir Ivanenko (June 2003) “Non-monetary Trade, Virtuality, and

Tax Burden in the Russian Transition of 1992-8”Ka-Man Lo (June 2003) “Essays in Financial Econometrics”Wanjing Geng (June 2003) “Analysis of Correlated Default Risk”

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V Recent Working Papers/Récents Cahiers de RechercheTo order individual copies of the working papers contact the institution

University of Alberta – Department of Rural EconomyWiktor Adamowicz, “Economic Indicators of sustainable Forest

Management: Theory versus Practice”Robin Naidoo and Wiktor L. Adamowicz, “Biodiversity and Nature-

Based Tourism: The Potential for Sustainable Development in Uganda”

Bank of CanadaDenise Côté, John Kuszczak, Jean-Paul Lam, Ying Liu and Pierre St-

Amant, “A Comparison of Twelve Macroeconomic Models of the Canadian Economy”

David Longworth, “Money in the Bank (of Canada)”Denise Côté, John Kuszczak, Jean-Paul Lam, Ying Liu and Pierre St-

Amant, “The Performance and Robustness of Simple Monetary Policy Rules in Models of the Canadian Economy”

Marc-André Gosselin et René Lalonde, “Un modèle (PAC) d’analyse et

de prevision des dépense des ménages américains”Alain Paquet, Louis Phaneuf et Nooman Rebei, “The Macroeconomic

Effects of Military Buildups in a New Neoclassical Synthesis Framework”

Joseph Atta-Mensah, “Collateral and Credit supply”David Jamieson Bolder, “A Stochastic Simulation Framework for the

Government of Canada’s Debt Strategy”Joseph Atta-Mensah et Ali Dib, “Bank Lending, Credit shocks, and the

Transmission of Canadian Monetary Policy”

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Andrew Rennison, “Comparing Alternative Output-Gap- Estimators: A

Monte Carlo Approach”Lynda Khalaf et Maral Kichian, “Testing the Stability of the Canadian

Phillips Curve Using Exact Methods”Michael R. King et Dan Segal, “Valuation of Canadian-vs. U.S.-Listed

Equity: Is There a Discount?”Toni Gravelle, Maral Kichian et James Morley, “Shift Contagion in

Asset Markets”Miroslav Misina, “Are Distorted Beliefs Too Good to be True?”René Lalonde et Patrick Sabourin, “Modélisation et prevision du taux

de change reel effectif américain”Kim McPhail, “Managing Operational Risk in Payment, Clearing, and

Settlement Systems”Eric Santor, “Banking Crises and Contagion: Empirical Evidence”Dominique Tremblay, “Salaire reel, chocs technologiques et

fluctuations économiques”Carol Ann Northcott, “Estimating Settlement Risk and the Potential for

Contagion in Canada’s Automated Clearing Settlement system”Greg Tkacz, “Inflation Changes, Yield Spreads, and Threshold

Effects”Francis Vitek, “An Empirical Analysis of Dynamic Interrelationships

Among Inflation, Inflation Uncertainty, Relative Price Dispersion, and Output Growth”

Marwan Chacra, “Oil-Price Shocks and Retail Energy Prices in Canada”

University of British ColumbiaCharles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, “Harsanyi’s

social Aggregation Theorem: A multi-Profile Approach with Variable-Population Extensions”

David Card, Thomas Lemieux and Craig Riddell, “Unionization and Wage Inequality: A comparative Study of the U.S., the U.K., and Canada”

The University of CalgaryM. Christopher Auld, “Robust system estimation of causal effects on

binary outcomes, with application to effect of alcohol abuse on employment”

M. Christopher Auld, “Causal effect of early initiation on adolescent smoking patterns”

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Dalhousie UniversityChristian Marfels, “European Community Merger Policy in Retrospect”

University of GuelphJ. Atsu Amegashie, “Negative externalities and the private provision of

public goods”J. Atsu Amegashie and Gordon M. Myers, “Financing Public Goods via

Lotteries”Brian S. Ferguson, “Issues in the Demand for Medical Care”J. Atsu Amegashie, “Property rights and the optimal value of an asset”T. Stengos and P. Lyssiotou, etc, “Demographic vs Expenditure

Flexibility in Engel Curves”T. Stengos and T. Manmuneas, etc, “Economic Development and the

Return to Human Capital: A Smooth Coefficient Semiparametric Approach”

T. Stengos, D. Milliment, etc, “The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Real Progress or Misspecified Models?”

J. Atsu Amegashie, “The all-pay auction when a committee awards the

prize”J. Atsu Amegashie and Toru Kikuchi, “Trade liberalization and labor

unions”J. Atsu Amegashie, “Misery loves company: social influence and the

supply/pricing decision of popular night clubs”J. Atsu Amegashie, “A political economy model of immigration quotas”J. Atsu Amegashie, “Burning out in sequential elimination contests”J. Atsu Amegashie, “Ex-post Inequality in contests”J. Atsu Amegashie and Joe Amoako-Tuffuor, “Price bargaining and

quantity bonus in developing economics”Louise Grogan, “What caused the post-transition fertility decline in

Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union?”Henry Thille, “Inventories and Price Volatility in a Cournot Duopoly”

Laval UniversityCahiers de Recherche du Département d’économiqueSylvain E. Dessy, “Endogenous Technical progress and the Emergence

of Child Labor Laws”Jean-Thomas Bernard, Marc Dupéré and Michel Roland, “International

Competition between Public or Mixed Enterprises”

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Cahiers de Recherche du CIRPÉEJean-Yves Duclos, Joan Esteban et Debraj Ray, “Polarization:

Concepts, Measurements, Estimation”Jean-Yves Duclos et Philippe Grégoire, “Absolute and Relative

Deprivation and the Measurement of Poverty”Jean-Yves Duclos et Paul Makdissi, “Restricted and Unrestricted

Dominance for Welfare, Inequality and Poverty Orderings”Jean-Yves Duclos, David Sahn et Stephen D. Younger, “Robust

Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons”Jean-Yves Duclos, Paul Makdissi et Quentin Wodon, “Poverty-

Efficient Transfer Programs: the Role of Targeting and Allocation Rules”

Jean-Yves Duclos, Vincent Jalbert et Abdelkrim Araar, “Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking: an Integrating Approach”

Steve Ambler, “Nominal Wage Rigidity as a Nash Equilibrium”Oliver Bargain et Nicolas Moreau, “Is the Collective Model of Labor

Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise”Shirley Chenny, Pascal St-Amour et Désiré Vencatachellum, “Slave

Prices from Succession and Bankruptcy Sales in Mauritius, 1825-1827”

Abedelkrim Araar, Jean-Yves Duclos et François Blais, “Effets redistributifs d’un régime d’allocation universelle: une simulation pour le Québec”

Georges Dionne et Tarek M. Harchaoui, “Banks’ Capital, Securitization

and Credit Risk: An Empirical Evidence for Canada”Sami Bibi et Jean-Yves Duclos, “Decomposing Poverty Changes into

Vertical and Horizontal Components”Jean-Yves Duclos, Paul Makdissi et Quentin Wodon, “Poverty-Reducing

Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents”Sylvain Dessy et Stéphane Pallage, “Gender Discrimination, Human

Capital, and Marriage”Bruce Shearer, “Piece Rates, Fixed wages and Incentives: ?Evidence

from a Field Experiment”Stephen Gordon et Pascal St-Amour, “Asset Returns and State-

Dependent Risk Preferences”Sylvain E. Dessy, “Endogenous Technical Progress and the Emergence

of child Labor Laws”Dominique Demougin et Claude Fluet, “Group vs. Individual

Performance Pay When Workers are Envious”Steve Ambler, Alain Guay et Luis Phaneuf, “Labor Market

Imperfections and the Dynamics of Postwar Business Cycles”Jean-Pierre Danthine et André Kurmann, “Fair Wages in a New

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Keynesian Model of the Business cycle”Martin Desrochers et Mario Lamberte, “Efficiency and Expense

Preference in Philippines’ Cooperative Rural Banks”Dominique Demougin et Claude Fluet, “Inequity Aversion in

Tournaments”Sylvain Dessy et Stéphane Pallage, “The Economics of Child

Trafficking”Cahiers de Recherche du GREENOliver Bonroy, “Minimum Quality Standard and Protectionism”Jean-Thomas Bernard, Marc Dupéré and Michel Roland, “International

Competition between Public or Mixed Enterprises”

McMaster UniversityCentre for Health Economics and Policy AnalysisB. Hutchison, F. Torrance-Rynard, J. Hurley, S. Birch, J.D. Eyles and

S.D. Walter, “Equity in Health Care Funding: Comparison of Expenditures in Ontario to Allocations Based on Population Need”C. Altmayer, B. Hutchison, V. Torrance-Rynard, J. Hurley, S. Birch

and J.D. Eyles, “Geographic Disparity in Premature Mortality in Ontario, 1992-1996”

J. Hurley, B. Hutchison, G. Buckley and C. Woodward, “Needs-based Funding for Home Care and Community Support Services in Ontario: A New Approach Based on Linked Survey and Administrative Data”

F. Miller, J. Hurley, S. Morgan, R. Goeree, P. Collins, G. Blackhouse, M. Giacomini and B. O’Brien, “Predictive Genetic Tests and

Health Care Costs: A Policy Framework and Illustrative Estimates”Department of EconomicsPaul Contoyannis, Andrew M. Jones and Roberto Leon-Gonzalez,

“Using Simulation-based Inference with Panel Data in Health Economics”

Martin Browning, Thomas F. Crossley and Eric Smith, “Asset Accumulation and Short Term Employment”

Bruce Chapman, Thomas F. Crossley and Taejong Kim, “Credit Constraints and Training after Job Loss”

Sung-Hee Jeon, “A Longitudinal Perspective on Women’s Labour Force Transitions: Trigger Events”

James Bruce, “Learning Algorithms in a Decentralized General Equilibrium Model”

Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population (QSEP)

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William Scarth, “Population Aging, Productivity, and Growth in Living

Standards”Neil J. Buckley, Frank T. Denton, A. Leslie Robb and Byron G.

Spencer, “The Transition from Good to Poor Health: An Econometric Study of the Older Population”

Program for Research on Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population (SEDAP)Kao-Lee Liaw, Lei Xu and Mingzhu Qi, “Quebec’s Lackluster

Performance in Interprovincial Migration and Immigration: How, Why, and What Can Be Done?”

Sule Alan, Thomas F. Crossley, Paul Grootendorst and Michael R. Veall, “Out-of Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs”

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark and Vincent Hildebrand, “The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data”

Steven G. Prus, “A Life-course Perspective on the Relationship between Socio-economic Status and Health: Testing the

divergence Hypothesis”Steven Kennedy, “Immigrant Mental Health and Unemployment”Steven Kennedy, “The Relationship between Education and Health in

Australia and Canada”Parminder Raina, Chris McIntyre, Bin Zhu, Ian McDowell, Lina

Santaguida, Betsy Kristjansson, Alexandra Hendricks and Larry W. Chambers, “Using Structural Equation Modeling to Understand the Rose of Informal and Formal Supports on the Well-being of

Caregivers of Persons with Dementia”

Jenny Ploeg, Lori Campbell, Margaret Denton, Anju Joshi, Sharon Davies, “Helping to Build and Rebuild Secure Lives and Futures: Intergenerational Financial Transfers from Parents to Adult Children and Grandchildren”

Eric G. Moore and Michael A. Pacey, “Geographic Dimensions of Aging in Canada 1991-2001”

Ellen M. Gee, Karen M. Kobayashi and Steven G. Prus, “Examining the ‘Healthy Immigrant Effect’ in Later Life: Findings from the Canadian Community Health Survey”

Université de MontréalCahiers de recherche, Département de sciences économiquesC. Bontemps et Nour Meddahi, “Testing Normality : A GMM

Approach”M.-C. Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Dufour et L. Khalaf, “Testing Mean-

Variance Efficiency in CAPM with Possibly Non-Gaussian Errors : An Exact Simulation-Based Approach”

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H.R. Moon et Benoit Perron, “Testing for a Unit Root in Panels with Dynamic Factors”

C. Blackorby, Walter Bossert et D. Donaldson, “Critical-Level Population Principles and the Repugnant Conclusion”

Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont et K. Suzumura, “Maximal-Element Rationalizability”

T.G. Andersen, T. Bollerslev et Nour Meddahi, “Correcting the Errors :

A Note on Volatility Forecast Evaluation Based on High-Frequency Data and Realized Volatilities”H. Moulin et Yves Sprumont, “Responsibility and Cross-Subsidization

in Cost Sharing”Nour Meddahi, “ARMA Representation of Integrated and Realized

Variances”Emanuela Cardia et P. Michel, “Altruism, Intergenerational Transfers

of Time and Bequests”C. Blackorby, Walter Bossert et D. Donaldson, “Harsanyi’s social

Aggregation Theorem : A Multi-Profile Approach with Variable-Population Extensions”

M. Allard, Camille Bronsard et C. Gouriéroux, “Aversion Analysis”Silvia Gonçalves et L. Kilian, “Bootstrapping Autoregressions with

Conditional Heteroskedasticity of Unknown Form”

(Université de Montréal) École des Hautes Études CommercialesInstitut d’économie appliquéeAlain Lapointe, “La performance de Montréal et l’économie du savoir :

un changement de politique s’impose”

Benoit Dostie, “Controlling for Demand Side Factors and Job Matching : Maximum Likelihood Estimates of the Returns to Seniority Using Matched Employer-Employee Data”

Robert Gagné et Pierre Thomas Léger, “Determinants of Physicians’ Decisions to Specialize”

University of OttawaN.V. Quyen and M.H. Zahedi Vafa, “Endogenous Growth: A

Sequential Stochastic Search Model for New Technology”S. Coulombe, “Human Capital, Urbanization, and Canadian Provincial

Growth”M. Beine and S. Coulombe, “Should Canadian Regions Adopt the U.S.

Dollar?”F. Demers and G. Rodriguez, “Estimation of the Taylor Rule for

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Canada Under Multiple Structural Changes”G. Rodriguez and Y. Samy, “Analyzing the Effects of Labor Standards

on U.S. Export Performance: A Time Series Approach With Structural Change”

G. Rodriguez and N. Rowe, “Why U.S. Money does not Cause U.S. Output, but does Cause Hong Kong Output”

G. Atallah, “Information Sharing and the Stability of Cooperation in Research Joint Ventures”

G. Atallah, “Production Technology, Information Technology, and Vertical Integration Under Asymmetric Information”

S. Coulombe, “International Trade, Interprovincial Trade, and Canadian Provincial Growth”

Queen’s UniversityDan Usher, “The Marginal Cost of Public Funds is the Ratio of Mean

Income to Median Income”Jeremy Lise, Shannon Seitz and Jeffrey Smith, “Equilibrium Policy

Experiments and the Evaluation of social Programs”

Ryerson UniversityIda Ferrara and Paul Missios, “Recycling and Waste Diversion

Effectiveness: Evidence from Ontario”Eric Kam and Mohammad Mohsin, “Monetary Policy and Endogenous

Time Preference”Eric Kam and Paul Missios, “Superneutrality in a Cash-in-Advance

Economy”Eric Kam and John Smithin, “Monetary Policy for the Small Open

Economy in Contemporary Conditions with (Perfectly) Mobile Capital”

Simon Fraser UniversityK. Carlaw and R. Lipsey, “GPT-Driven Endogenous Growth with

Uncorrelated Changes in TFP”C. Reed and C. Bekar, “Open Fields, Risk & Land Divisibility”G. Dow, “Partnership Markets with Adverse Selection”

University of TorontoTo download copies visit website: http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/ecipa/archieve/UT-ECIPA-… Michael K. Berkowitz and Jiaping Qiu, “A further Look at Household

Portfolio Choice and Health Status”…BERK-03-01.html

John H. Munro, “The Late-Medieval Origins of the Modern Financial Revolution: Overcoming Impediments from Church and State”

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…MUNRO-01-02.htmlPhilip Oreopoulos, “Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon? Evidence from

Changes in School-Leaving Laws:…OREO-03-01.html

Miquel Faig and Gregory Gagnon, “Scarce Collateral and Bank Reserves”…FAIG-03-01.html

Miquel Faig and Belén Jerez, “A Theory of Commerce”…FAIG-02-01.html

John Munro, “The Monetary Origins of the ‘Price Revolution’: South German Silver Mining, Merchant-Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1540”…MUNRO-00-02.html

Alain Delacroix and Shouyong Shi, “Directed Search On the Job and the Wage Ladder”…SHOUYONG-03-04.html

Shouyong Shi and Ted Temzelides, “A Search-Theoretic Model of Bureaucracy and Corruption”…SHOUYONG-03-01.html

Allen Head and Shouyong Shi, “A Fundamental Theory of Exchange Rates and Direct Currency Trades”…SHOUYONG-03-01.html

Shouyong Shi, “Nominal Bonds and Interest Rates: The Case of One-Period Bonds”…SHOUYONG-03-03.html

Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle and Matthew A. Turner, “Local Government Behavior, Bureaucratic Incentives, and Tenure Security in Rural China”…MTURNER-02-01.html

Matthew A. Turner and Quinn Weninger, “Meetings with Costly Participation: An Empirical Investigation”

…MTURNER-01-02.html

University of Victoria Kenneth G. Stewart and Michael C. Webb, “Capital Taxation,

Globalization and International Tax Competition”David E.A. Giles and Hui Geng, “Testing for Convergence in Output

and in ‘Well-Being’ in Industrialized Countries”Jyh-Yaw Joseph Chen and David E.A. Giles, “Gender convergence in

Crime: Evidence from Canadian Offence Charge Data”Chad Stroomer and David E.A. Giles, “Income Convergence and Trade

Openness: Fuzzy Clustering and Time Series Evidence”

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University of WaterlooJohn Burbidge, “Tax Deferred Savings Plans”Margaret Insley, “On the option to invest in pollution control under a

regime of tradable emissions allowances”Margaret Insley and K. Rollins, “Real options in harvesting decision on

publicly owned forest lands”Anindya Sen, “Does Protecting Smaller Firms Result in Lower Prices?

Evidence from Canadian Gasoline Markets”Anindya Sen and Brent Mizzen, “To Encourage or Not to Encourage

Seat Belt Use: Simultaneity Bias and Offsetting Behaviour”Anindya Sen, “Does Increased Abortion Lead to Reduced Crime?

Evaluating the Relationship between Crime, Abortion, and Fertility”

Anindya Sen, “Do Stricter Penalties or Media Publicity Reduce Alcohol

Consumption By Drivers?”Anindya Sen, Health Care is not a Luxury: Evidence from OECD data”

University of Western OntarioTo download copies of most papers visit web site:http: //www.ssc.uwo.ca/economics/econref/html/RRPaper.htmlDepartment of Economics (Includes joint TERF Reports)Peter A. Streufert, “A Pleasant Homeomorphism for Conditional

Probability Systems”Tiemen M. Woutersen, “Minimal Asymptotic Distributions for

Estimators of Panel Data Models”F.R.R. Crafts and C. Knick Harley, “Precocious British

Industrialization: A General Equilibrium Perspective”CIBC Working Paper Series (no new papers)http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/economics/econref/CIBCwp/WP.html

RBC Financial Group Econ. Policy Research Institutehttp://www.ssc.uwo.ca/economics/centres/epri/workingpapers.htmlEdgar Cudmore and John Whalley, “Border Delays and Trade

Liberalization”Joel Fried and Francesca Arnaboldi, “Canadian Retirement Savings

Plans and Italian Pension Reform”Terry secular and Yaohui Zhao, “Earnings and Labor Mobility in Rural

China: Implications for China’s WTO Entry”

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VI Forthcoming Papers in the C.J.E./ Articles à Paraître dans la Revue

Barry Eichengreen, “Understanding the Great Depression”Curtis Eaton and Mukesh Eswaran, “The Evolution of Preferences and

Competition: A Rationalization of Veblen’s Theory of Invidious Comparisons”

Gerhard Sorger, “Policy rule Nash equilibria”Ali Dib, “An Estimated Canadian DSGE Model with Nominal and Real

Rigidities”Margaret Insley, “On the option to invest in pollution control under

regime of tradable emissions allowances”Charles Beach and Ross Finnie, “A Longitudinal Analysis of Earnings

Changes in Canada”Maurice Marchand, Pierre Pestiau and Maria del Mar Racionera,

“Optimal redistribution when different workers are indistinguishable”

Naoto Jinji, “Strategic Policy for Product R&D with Symmetric Costs”Spiros Bougheas, Panicos Demetriades and Edgar Morgenroth,

“International Aspects of Public Infrastructure Investment”Toshihiro Matsumura, “Consumer-benefiting Exclusive Territories”Luitang Gong, “Comments on ‘Dynamics of Income Distribution’”Jan Rose Skaksen, “International Outsourcing when labor Market is

Unionized”Maurizio Zanardi, “Antidumping Law as a Collusive Device”Arthur Hosios and Aloysius Siow, “Unions Without Rents: The

Curious Economics of Faculty Unions”Francisco M. Gonzalez, “Informational Spillovers and the Coordination

of speculative Investments”Robin Cowan, William Cowan and G.M. Peter Swann, “Waves in

Consumption with Interdependence among Consumers”Haoming Liu, “A Cross-Country Comparison of the Cyclicality of Real

Wages”

VII Forthcoming Papers in Canadian Public Policy/Articles à Paraître dans AnalyseDe Politiques

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Joseph Schaafsma and William Land, “Budgetary Implications of a Publicly Funded Medical Savings Account Plan”

G. Currie, C. Donaldson and M. Lu, “What Does Canada Profit from the For-Profit Debate?”

Larry Smith, “Intertenancy Rent Decontrol in Ontario”Kathy Baylis and Hartley Furtan, “Free Riding on Federalism: Trade

Protection and the Canadian Dairy Industry”William J. McNally and Brian F. Smith, “Do Insiders Play by the

Rules?”Denis Saint-Martin, “Should the Federal Ethics Counsellor Become an

Independent Officer of Parliament”Marian Weber and Grant Hauer, “A Regional Analysis of Climate

Change Impacts on Canadian Agriculture”Issues and Commentaries

Pierre FortinKeynes Resurrected

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