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Canadian Economics Association Association canadienne d’économique

Newsletter Chronique

Volume 45

February/février 2012

CONTENTS

CEA Executive Council 2 New Appointments 2

Visiting Appointments 3 Departures 4

Awards & Other News 5 Short-Term Visitors 7

Doctorates 8 New Programs 9

Obituaries 10 CWEN Report 13 Announcement 13

Conferences 14 Forthcoming Papers – CPP 16

Publications 16

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CEA conseil exécutif 2 Nominations récentes 2

Professeur(e)s invité(e)s 3 Départs 3

Distinctions et autre nouvelles 4 Visiteurs à court terme 5

Doctorats 7 Programmes nouveaux 9

Nécrologie 10 CWEN/RFÉ 13

Annonce 13 Conférences 14

Articles à paraître dans Analyse de politiques 16 Publications 16

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CEA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL NOMINATIONS / ELECTIONS/ CEA COUNSEIL EXÉCUTIF The Nominating Committee of the Canadian Economics Association welcomes suggestions from all members regarding potential nominees for President of the Association, for Members of the Executive Council, for Fellows of the Association, and for recipients of the Distinguished Service Award. Suggestions should be sent to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Association, Steve Ambler – steve.ambler@gmail.com. Suggestions received by May 1, 2012, will be considered at the June 2012 meeting.

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NEW APPOINTMENTS/ NOMINATIONS RÉCENTES University of Alberta Vera Brenčič Assistant Professor July 1, 2012 – Associate Professor

Jane Ruseski Assistant Professor July 1, 2012 – Associate Professor

Université Laval Carlos Ordas Criado Juillet 2011 – professeur adjoint University of Lethbridge

Mohammed Kamar Ali January 1, 2012 – Assistant Professor and Research Associate

University of Manitoba

Dr. Derek Hum July 1, 2011 – Senior Scholar (previously Full Professor)

Queen’s University Morten Nielsen Promoted to Full Professor effective July 1, 2011 University of Saskatchewan ~ Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics

Ray Bollman November 1, 2011 – appointed adjunct faculty member for a five-year term

Metin Cakir July 2011 to June 2014 – appointed as Visiting Van Vliet Chair, Assistant Professor

Viktoriya Galushko, Department of Economics, University of Regina

November 1, 2011 – appointed adjunct faculty member for a five-year term

Eric Micheels July 2011 to June 2015 – appointed as a term Assistant Professor

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Wayne Robinson May 2011 to June 2014 – appointed as a term Lecturer

David Natcher Appointed Assistant Dean, College of AgBio University of Toronto Kory Kroft, Post-doctoral Associate in Economics, Yale University, School of Management

July 1, 2011 – Assistant Professor

Wilfrid Laurier University Azim Essaji July 1, 2011 – promotion to Associate Professor

Tammy Schirle July 1, 2011 – promotion to Associate Professor

Justin Smith July 1, 2011 – new appointment to Assistant Professor

Trevor Tombe July 1, 2011 – new appointment Assistant Professor

Wendy Wu July 1, 2011 – promotion to Associate Professor

University of Winnipeg

Stefan Dodds August 1, 2011 – Assistant Professor from Carleton University

Hai Ta July 1, 2011 – Assistant Professor, previously Ph.D. student at McGill University

VISITING APPOINTMENTS / PROFESSEUR(E)S INVITÉ(E)S University of Alberta

Lu Zhang November 2011 to November 2012 – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Carleton University

Zhaoyang Li October 2011 to October 2012 – School of Mathematics, Shandong University, China

Henry Thille September 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 – University of Guelph

Dalhousie University

Wei-quan Liu August 15, 2011 to January 31, 2012 – Shandong University of Finance

Yong Qi August 15, 2011 to July 31, 2012 – China University of Political Science and Law

Yinliang Xu September 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012 – Shandong University of Finance

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Université de Montréal ~ Département des sciences économiques

Nikolay Gospodinov 1er septembre 2011 au 31 août 2012 – Concordia University

Queen’s University

David Longworth January 1 to May 3, 2012 – Fellow, C.D. Howe Institute; and former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada

University of Saskatchewan ~ Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics

Yun Hua Wu

December 2011 to September 2012 – College of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China – working with Dr. Richard Gray

DEPARTURES / DÉPARTS University of Alberta

Bev Dahlby July 1, 2012 – recruited by School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

Université Laval Jean-Thomas Bernard Juillet 2011 – retraite et poste à l’Université d’Ottawa Gérald Leblanc Septembre 2011 – retraite University of Manitoba Derek Hum June 30, 2011 – retirement Janet Jiang June 17, 2011 – new position Yunmi Kim August 31, 2011 – new position Justin Smith June 30, 2011 – new position Université de Montréal ~ Département des sciences économiques Pascal Lavergne January 1, 2012 – resignation Lyndon Moore 1er août 2011 – relocated to University of Melbourne University of New Brunswick Vaughan Dickson December 31, 2011 – retirement Richard McGaw June 30, 2011 – retirement University of Saskatchewan ~ Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics

Jing Zhang July 1, 2011 – accepted a permanent position as a research economist with Health Solutions, Research Triangle Institute (RTA International), North Carolina

Simon Fraser University Pascal Lavergne January 1, 2012 – resignation

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Wilfrid Laurier University Alastair Robertson December 31, 2011 – retirement

AWARDS AND OTHER NEWS / DISTINCTIONS ET AUTRE NOUVELLES University of Alberta Brad Humphreys Professor

Appointed editor of Contemporary Economic Policy, July 1, 2011

Dalhousie University

Barry Lesser

Named as this year’s recipient of the Faculty of Graduate Studies Distinguished Service Award (Faculty). The award was established to recognize long-standing and extraordinary service to graduate level education at Dalhousie.

Daniel Rosenblum

Named as one of two Albert Berry Junior Scholar Paper Prize winners for 2011. Daniel won for his paper “Economic Incentives for Sex-Selective Abortion in India”. Named after professor Albert Berry from the University of Toronto, the Albert Berry Prize is awarded annually to the best paper submitted to the Canadian Development Economics Study Group sessions by a graduate student or new scholar in development economics.

HEC Montréal ~ Institut d’économie appliqué Robert Gagné Prix Esdras-Minville (rayonnement externe) University of New Brunswick J. Ted McDonald University of New Brunswick Merit Award Queen’s University

Charles Beach

Received the 2011 Queen’s University Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision; and Honoree of John Deutsch Institute festschrift conference on “Income, Inequality and Immigration”, Queen’s University, September 30 - October 1, 2011

University of Saskatchewan ~ Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics Tom Allen Received the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award

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Ken Belcher Awarded the Agriculture Students Association Professor of the Year (2010-2011); and received the 2011 North American College Teacher of Agriculture Award

Bijon Brown M.Sc. candidate

Awarded a Canadian Wheat Board Agricultural Economics Scholarship

Belal Fallah

Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics, received top honors as the 1st place winner for the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award

Richard Gray Awarded the Enhancement Chair in Canadian Grain Policy (2011-2016)

William Kerr Awarded the title of Distinguished Chair for the period of July 1, 2011 to June 20, 2014

Rim Lassoued Ph.D. candidate

Won 2nd prize in the poster paper competition at the “Future Farms & Food in Canada: First Annual Canadian Agricultural Policy Conference”

Penny Li M.Sc. candidate

Awarded a Canadian Wheat Board Agricultural Economics Scholarship

Tekuni Nakuja M.Sc. candidate

Awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship, September 2011 to August 2012

Rob Roy Received the University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union Academic Advising Award (2010-2011)

Mohammad Torshizi Ph.D. candidate

Awarded a Canadian Wheat Board Graduate Fellowship; and won 1st prize in the poster paper competition at the “Future Farms & Food in Canada: First Annual Canadian Agricultural Policy Conference”

Nicoleta Uzea

Ph.D. graduate in the Department of Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics, is the winner of the Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) 2011 William Applebaum Award for the outstanding Ph.D. thesis dissertation

Simon Fraser University

Krishna Pendakur Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence for 2011

University of Toronto

Samuel Hollander FRSC, OC, University Professor Emeritus

Received the Thomas Guggenheim Prize for the History of Economic Thought, in a ceremony at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’ersheva, Israel, on December 16, 2011

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SHORT-TERM VISITORS / VISITEURS À COURT TERME Carleton University

Zhiyang Liu July 1, 2011 – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

HEC Montréal ~ Institut d’économie appliqué

Stefano Gagliarducci 14 novembre au 25 novembre 2011 – Università di Roma Tor Vergata

Lars Vilhuber 2 septembre 2011 au 30 avril 2012 – Cornell University

Université de Montréal ~ Département des sciences économiques Bing Yang Zheng October 2011 – Shanghai University Queen’s University Russell Cooper March 26-30, 2012 – European University Institute University of Saskatchewan Yosuke Hirose January 2011 – Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Nurlanbek Qapas October 2011 – Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

Dong Yue Wang September 2011 – Beihang University, Beijing, China

Simon Fraser University Bin Yang Zheng October 2011 – Shanghai University

University of Waterloo

Hayato Nakanishi December 2011 to March 2012 – Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

University of Western Ontario Steven Durlauf March 2012 – University of Wisconsin-Madison

John Quah March 2012 – Oxford University

Chris Taber February 2012 – University of Wisconsin-Madison

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DOCTORATES / DOCTORATS University of Alberta

Aslan Behnamian Fall 2011

Three Essays of the Market for Canadian Bonds: An Examination of Diversification Benefits and Yield Spreads

Yanqin Chang Fall 2010 Three Essays on International Finance

Samuel Gamtessa Fall 2011

Three Essays on Energy Efficiency and Environmental Policies

Wei He Fall 2011

The Effects of the Exchange Rate on Sectoral Profits, Value Added, Wages and Employment

Zhen He Fall 2011 Three Studies of Shopping Centers

Junaid bin Jahangir Fall 2011

Determining the Effects on Residential Electricity Prices and Carbon Emissions of Electricity Market Restructuring in Alberta

Dalhousie University

Zhe Ren May 2011

Two-Dimension Oligopolistic Product Differentiation and a Multilevel Model of Canadian Prescription Drug Price Dynamics

Université Laval Agnès W. Zabsonré Juin 2011 Welfare Comparisons When Populations Differ in Size

University of Manitoba Andrew Buchel August 12, 2011

Three Essays on the Concept, Measurement, and Consequences of Social Capital

Université de Montréal ~ Département des sciences économiques Bertrand Hounkannounon Octobre 2011

Bootstrap for panel data models with an application to the evaluation of public policies

Octave Keutiben Njopmouo Octobre 2011

Essais sur des questions internationals en économie des resources naturelles

Dalibor Stevanovic Juin 2011

Factor models, VARMA processes and parameter instability with applications in macroeconomics

Queen’s University Nicolas Martineau November 2011

Essays on Political Parties, Their Organization, and Policy Choice

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University of Saskatchewan ~ Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics Simona Lubieniechi December 5, 2011

Greenhouse Gas Policy Effectiveness in an Unharmonized World

Ningning (Helen) Zou May 2, 2011

Canadian Consumers’ Functional Food Choices: Labelling and Reference-Dependent Effects

University of Toronto Baran Doda, 2011 Three Essays on Macroeconomics

Florian Hoffmann, 2011 Estimating Models of Learning and Mobility Dynamics Using Administrative Data

Arvind Magesan, 2011 Essays on Empirical Dynamic Games

NEW PROGRAMS / PROGRAMMES NOUVEAUX University of Saskatchewan ~ Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics

A new Post-Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Agriculture and Land Management was launched in January 2011. This one-year PGD (30 credit units) is designed to provide students holding a Bachelor’s Degree in a non-agricultural discipline with sufficient training in agri-business, land management and aboriginal governance to enable them to operate at the interface between the agri-business sector and the aboriginal community.

University of Winnipeg

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce the launch of a new graduate program in September 2012 – a Master of Arts degree in Environmental, Resource and Development Economics. This program is designed for students interested in the economics of sustainable development. In addition to core courses in economic theory and quantitative methods, students will take field courses in environmental, resource and development economics. Students will also be required to complete a research project under the supervision of one of our faculty members. Further information can be found at: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/erde/ .

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OBITUARIES David Hopper (February 22, 1927 - November 22, 2011) The Canadian agricultural economist David Hopper, founding president of the International Development Research Centre, passed away in November at his home outside Washington, DC, at the age of 84. He was born in Ottawa in 1927, the second of three sons of Clayton Hopper, an agricultural economist, and of Eva Hill Hopper, a businesswoman. David Hopper graduated in agriculture from McGill University’s Macdonald College, in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, in 1950, and then went to study agricultural economics and cultural anthropology at Cornell University. He received his PhD from Cornell in 1957, after two years in a village in India, observing its economic organization for his dissertation. He became an associate professor of agricultural economics at the Ontario Agricultural College (now the University of Guelph) in 1957, and was also a visiting professor of agricultural economics at the Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota. David Hopper returned to India as an agricultural economist with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi in 1962, and then from 1966 was associate field director for the Rockefeller Foundation’s agricultural program in India, as well as deputy team leader for Asian Development Bank’s Asian Agricultural Survey and a consultant to the World Bank on Indian farming. His outstanding achievement was as the founding president of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 1970 to 1978, giving Canada new prominence in development studies with the first international organization to focus exclusively on helping researchers in developing countries contribute to solving the problems of their own countries. After establishing the IDRC as a going concern with regional offices in Colombia, Kenya, Lebanon, Senegal, and Singapore (and after marrying Ruth Zagorin, head of the social science division of IDRC), David Hopper joined the World Bank in 1978 as vice-president for South Asia and then as senior vice-president for policy planning and research until his retirement in 1990. Reference: Phillip Fine (2011) “Obituaries: David Hopper, 84, Agricultural Economist: A pioneer in thinking global, acting local,” The Globe and Mail, December 28, p. S8.

Robert W. Dimand Brock University

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Gideon Rosenbluth (January 23, 1921 - August 8, 2011) The distinguished progressive scholar and activist Gideon Rosenbluth, professor emeritus of economics at the University of British Columbia, died of a heart attack at the age of ninety while swimming with a friend this past August. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he served as president of the Canadian Economics Association (1978-79) and of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (1966-67), as managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics (1973-76, initially with Bernard Bonin and then on his own), and as an elected member of UBC’s Senate and Board of Governors. Born in Berlin in 1921, Gideon was the second of three children in a Jewish family. The family moved to England when the Nazis took power in 1933. Gideon went to school in England, and studied economics at the London School of Economics from 1939. In June 1940, Gideon and many other Jewish refugees (including my uncle) were interned and then transported to camps in Canada – apparently the British Government did not distinguish clearly between Jewish refugees and pro-Nazi enemy aliens. Once released, Gideon enrolled in October 1941 (a few weeks after the semester began) as one of ten students in the third year of the University of Toronto’s honours program in economics and political science, a cohort that included the noteworthy future economists Meyer Bucovetsky and Harry Johnson, cofounder with Gideon of a political economy club (Rosenbluth 2001). They studied J. M. Keynes with recent Harvard graduate Roger Anderson and the history of political thought with C. Brough Macpherson, while Harold Innis made them write essays relating the ideas of Joan Robinson and Edward Chamberlin on imperfect and monopolistic competition and Joseph Schumpeter on business cycles to Canada’s economic past and present. After graduating from Toronto, Gideon worked at the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and then the National Bureau of Economic Research. He took his PhD in economics at Columbia University, and taught at Princeton and Stanford. He returned to Canada to teach at Queen’s, moving to UBC in 1962. In a 1968 survey of Canadian contributions to economics, Harry Johnson characterized Gideon’s NBER monograph on Concentration in Canadian Manufacturing Industries (1957) as having “attained a classic status in its field.” Gideon continued this research interest in imperfect and monopolistic competition with an examination of Canadian Anti-Combines Administration, 1952-1960 (Rosenbluth and Thorburn 1963). In addition to these applied studies, Gideon collaborated with UBC colleagues on demand theory (Archibald and Rosenbluth 1975, Lipsey and Rosenbluth 1971). Gideon’s presidential

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address to the Canadian Economics Association developed an economic model of the supply of and demand for scholarly articles, which he applied to the history of the CJE and its predecessor, the Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science (Rosenbluth 1979). A founder of the BC branch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Gideon Rosenbluth was committed to social justice and to the use of economic analysis for the benefit of humanity, rather than as an abstract exercise in intellectual puzzle-solving. He wrote a notable study of The Canadian Economy and Disarmament (1967) during the Vietnam War, took a leading role in critiquing the economic policies of small-c conservative BC governments (Allen and Rosenbluth, eds., 1986 and 1992), and, especially in recent years, engaged in scholarly environmental activism, writing with his former student Peter Victor (e.g. Victor and Rosenbluth 2007). Beloved by his family and his many friends, respected and admired by colleagues and generations of students, Gideon Rosenbluth stayed active physically and as a scholar and socially-concerned citizen to the end of a full and productive life. Selected writings: Robert C. Allen and Gideon Rosenbluth, eds. (1986) Restraining the Economy: Social Credit Economic Policies for British Columbia in the Eighties, Vancouver: New Star Books. Robert C. Allen and Gideon Rosenbluth (1992) False Promises: The Failure of Conservative Economics, Vancouver: New Star Books. G. C. Archibald and Gideon Rosenbluth (1975) “The ‘New’ Theory of Consumer Demand and Monopolistic Competition,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 89, No. 4 (November), pp. 569-90. Richard G. Lipsey and Gideon Rosenbluth (1971), “A Contribution to the New Theory of Demand: A Rehabilitation of the Giffen Good,” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2 (May), pp. 131-63. Gideon Rosenbluth (1957) Concentration in Canadian Manufacturing Industries: A Study, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gideon Rosenbluth and H. G. Thorburn (1963) Canadian Anti-Combines Administration, 1952-1960, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Gideon Rosenbluth (1967) The Canadian Economy and Disarmament, Toronto: Macmillan. Gideon Rosenbluth (1979) “Presidential Address: Publishing Economics,” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 12, No. 4 (November), pp. 551-574.

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Gideon Rosenbluth (2001) “Harry G. Johnson (1923-1977): Rosenbluth on Harry, the Workaholic Student and Radical,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 60, No. 3 (July), pp. 606-611. Peter Victor and Gideon Rosenbluth (2007) “Managing without Growth,” Ecological Economics, Vol. 61, Nos. 2-3 (March), pp. 492-504.

Robert W. Dimand Brock University

REPORT BY CANADIAN WOMEN ECONOMISTS NETWORK / RÉSEAU DE FEMMES ECONOMISTES (RFÉ) CWEN/RFÉ was happy to provide a break for interviewees and interviewers at the CEEE meetings in December 2011 in Toronto. Be sure to attend our events at the CEA annual meeting in Calgary (CWEN luncheon, professional development session, paper sessions, and more). CWEN sponsors travel grants for graduate student and junior faculty (application deadline March 1, 2012). Find details and announcements at http://www.yorku.ca/cwen/. Please note than CWEN/RFÉ has a new email address – cwen.rfe@gmail.com. ANNOUNCEMENT / ANNONCE

Creation of the GILLES DOSTALER AWARD Thanks to the generosity of his widow MARIELLE CAUCHY, a new academic prize is created in the memory of our colleague and friend GILLES DOSTALER. This prize - of 500 euros - will recognize scholarly achievements of young research fellows working on one of Gilles Dostaler's many fields of interest. It will be awarded to scholars below the age of 40 in recognition of an outstanding work not necessarily already published. As for the other ESHET academic awards, self-nominations are not allowed. The name of the laureate will be announced at the annual conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). For the 2012 prize, nominations should be sent by the end of February to PROFESSOR CATHERINE MARTIN : Catherine.Martin@univ-paris1.fr

For the ESHET Executive Committee and Council, Gilbert Faccarello

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CONFERENCES / CONFÉRENCES

Journée en hommage à Gilles Dostaler

Le laboratoire PHARE (Pôle d’Histoire de l’Analyse et des Représentations Economiques), Université de Paris 1, et les Cahiers d’Economie Politique - Papers in Political Economy, organisent avec le LED (Laboratoire d’Economie Dionysien), Université de Paris 8 Saint Denis, le LEREPS (Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur l'Economie, les Politiques et les Systèmes sociaux), Université de Toulouse 1, l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), l’Association pour le Développement des Etudes Keynésiennes (ADEK), Alternatives Economiques et les Editions Albin Michel une journée en hommage au Professeur Gilles Dostaler (UQAM Montréal) qui nous a quittés le 26 février. Cette journée se tiendra le samedi 26 novembre à la Maison des Sciences Economiques (106-112 boulevard de l’Hôpital 75013, métro Campo-Formio). Catherine Martin (Université Paris 1), pour le comité d’organisation : Carlo Benetti (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), Jérôme de Boyer (Université Paris Dauphine), Marielle Cauchy (Philosophe, Montréal), Ghislain Deleplace (Université Paris 8), Daniel Diatkine (Université d’Evry), Gilbert Faccarello (Université Paris 2), Cristina Marcuzzo (Université La Sapienza, Rome), Catherine Martin (Université Paris 1), Christian Tutin (Université Paris Est Créteil). Title: Growing Forward in a Volatile Environment (Second

Annual Canadian Agriculture Policy Conference) Dates: January 11-13, 2012 Location: Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario Contact person: Dr. Richard Gray and Buwani Dayananda Contact e-mail: Richard.Gray@usask.ca; and Buwani.Dayananda@usask.ca Web address: http://www.ag-innovation.usask.ca/2012policyconference.html Title: Colloque CIREQ de macroéconomie / CIREQ

Macroeconomics Conference Dates: 27-28 avril / April 2012 Location: Hôtel de l’Institut, 3535, rue Saint-Denis, 6e étage/6th

floor, Montreal, PQ

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Contact person: Rui Castro (Université de Montréal, CIREQ); Paul Gomme (Concordia University, CIREQ); or Francisco Ruge-Murcia (Université de Montréal)

Contact e-mail: rui.castro@umontreal.ca paul.gomme@concordia.ca; or francisco.ruge-murcia@umontreal.ca Web address: http://www.cireq.umontreal.ca/activites/120427/120427.html Title: Colloque CIREQ en économétrie: les problèmes de

grandes dimensions en économétrie / CIREQ Econometrics Conference: High-Dimensional Problems in Econometrics

Dates: 4-5 mai / May 2012 Location: Hôtel de l’Institut, 3535, rue Saint-Denis, 6e étage/6th

floor, Montreal, PQ Contact person: Marine Carrasco and Silvia Gonçalves (Université de

Montréal, CIREQ, CIRANO) Contact e-mail: marine.carrasco@umontreal.ca; or silvia.goncalves@umontreal.ca Web address: http://www.cireq.umontreal.ca/activites/120504/120504.html Title: Boom and Bust Again: The Sequel Dates: May 15 & 16, 2012 Location: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Contact person: Brenda Carrier Contact e-mail: brenda.carrier@ualberta.ca Web address: http://www.ipe.ualberta.ca/EventsandSeminars/BoomandBustAgaintheSequel.aspx Title: History of Economics Society (HES) 2012 Annual

Conference Dates: June 22-25, 2012 Location: Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Contact: Robert Dimand, Economics Department Contact e-mail: hes2012@brocku.ca Title: Annual Canadian Econometrics Study Group

(CESG) Dates: October 27-28, 2012 Location: Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Contact: Morten Nielson - mon@econ.queensu.ca

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FORTHCOMING PAPERS IN CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY (CPP) / ARTICLES À PARAÎTRE DANS ANALYSE DE POLITIQUES Paul Lanoie and Alexandra Rochon-Fabien: Promoting Pollution Prevention in Small Businesses: Costs and Benefits of the “Enviroclub” Initiative J.C. Herbert Emery, Aaron C. Bartoo, Jesse Matheson, Ana Ferrer, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, Valerie Tarasuk and Lynn McIntyre: Evidence of the Association between Household Food Insecurity and Heating Cost Inflation in Canada from 1998-2001 Andrea Baumann and Mabel Hunsberger: Impact of Public Policy on Nursing Employment: Providing the Evidence Michele Battisti, Jane Friesen and Ross D. Hickey: How Student Disability Classifications and Learning Outcomes Respond to Special Education Funding Rules: Evidence from British Columbia

PUBLICATIONS Toward Improving Canada’s Skilled Immigration Policy: An Evaluation Approach, Charles Beach, Alan G. Green and Christopher Worswick, C.D. Howe Institute (Toronto 2011), Policy Study No. 45, 172 pp.

The information in this Newsletter is based on questionnaires completed by chairs of Economics departments in Canadian universities and on unsolicited submissions. The latter may be sent to: Professor Robert Dimand, Newsletter Editor, Department of Economics, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1 or e-mail rdimand@brocku.ca.