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Siwan Anderson  [webpage]
Fields: development economics, economics of gender
Recent Research:
"Caste as an Impediment to Trade," working paper.
"Missing Women: Age and Disease" (with Debraj Ray), Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
"What determines female autonomy? Evidence from Bangladesh" (with Mukesh Eswaran), Journal of Development Economics, 2009.

Paul Beaudry  [webpage]
Fields: macroeconomics, technical change, labour economics
Recent Research:
"Does Industrial Composition Matter for Wages: An Empirical Evaluation based on Search and Bargaining Theory” (with David Green and Ben Sand), working paper.
"Organizational Skill and Management in the Theory of Economic Growth" (with Patrick Francois), Review of Economic Studies, 2010.
"Letting Different Views about Business Cycles Compete" (with Bernd Lucke), NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009.

Matilde Bombardini  [webpage]
Fields: international trade, political economy
Recent Research:
"Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows" (with Giovanni Gallipoli and German Pupato), working paper.
"Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?" (with Francesco Trebbi), working paper.
"Firm Heterogeneity and Lobby Participation," Journal of International Economics, 2008.

Brian Copeland  [webpage]
Fields: international trade, environmental economics
Recent Research:
"How does trade affect the environment?" in Is Economic Growth Sustainable? (G. Heal, ed.), Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming.
"Trade, tragedy and the commons"  (with M. Scott Taylor), American Economic Review, 2009.
"The basic economics of services trade" (with Aaditya Mattoo) in A Handbook of International Trade in Services (A. Mattoo, R. Stern, G. Zanini, eds.), Oxford University Press, 2007.

Michael Devereux  [webpage]
Fields: open economy macroeconomics
Recent Research:
"International and Intra-national Real Exchange Rates: Theory and Evidence" (with Viktoria Hnatkovska), working paper.
"Country Portfolios in Open Economy Macro Models" (with Alan Sutherland), Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
"Expenditure Switching vs. Real Exchange Rate Stabilization: Competing Objectives for Exchange Rate Policy" (with Charles Engel), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007.

Erwin Diewert  [webpage]
Fields: microeconomics, mathematical economics, measurement economics
Recent Research:
"Measuring Productivity in the Public Sector:  Some Conceptual Problems," working paper.
"Understanding PPPs and PPP-Based National Accounts: Comment," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010.
"The Aggregation of Capital over Vintages in a Model of Embodied Technical Progress," Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2009.

Mauricio Drelichman  [webpage]
Fields: economic history, international economics, political economy
Recent Research:
"Risk Sharing with the Monarch: Excusable Defaults and Contingent Debt in the Age of Philip II" (with Hans-Joachim Voth), working paper.
"Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt and Default in the Age of Philip II" (with Hans-Joachim Voth), Economic Journal, forthcoming.
"The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: A Reconstruction of Castile's Fiscal Position, 1566-1596" (with Hans-Joachim Voth), Journal of Economic History, 2010.

Ivar Ekeland
Fields: demand theory, contract theory, hedonic models
Recent Research:
"The microeconomics of efficient group behavior: identification" (with Pierre-André Chiappori), Econometrica, 2009.
"The microeconomics of group behavior: general characterization" (with Pierre-André Chiappori), Journal of Economic Theory, 2006.

Mukesh Eswaran  [webpage]
Fields: development economics, economics of gender
Recent Research:
"Domestic Violence and Women's Autonomy: Evidence from India" (with Nisha Malhotra), working paper.
"What determines female autonomy? Evidence from Bangladesh" (with Siwan Anderson), Journal of Development Economics, 2009.
"Wellbeing and Affluence in the Presence of a Veblen Good" (with B.C. Eaton), Economic Journal, 2009.

Nicole Fortin  [webpage]
Fields: labour economics, economics of gender and family, wage inequality
Recent Research:
"Gender Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out, AIDS, and the Persistent Appeal of Housewifery", working paper.
"Unconditional Quantile Regressions", (with S. Firpo and T. Lemieux), Econometrica, 2009.
"Higher Education Policies and the College Premium: Cross-State Evidence from the 1990s," American Economic Review, 2006.

Patrick Francois  [webpage]
Fields: business cycles and growth, development economics, norms and institutions
Recent Research:
"Competition Builds Trust" (with Thomas Fujiwara and Tanguy van Ypersele), working paper.
"Cultivating Trust: Norms, Institutions and the Implications of Scale", (with Chris Bidner), Economic Journal, forthcoming.
"Managerial Skill Acquisition In the Theory of Economic Development" (with Paul Beaudry), Review of Economic Studies, 2010.

Giovanni Gallipoli  [webpage]
Fields: macroeconomics, labour economics
Recent Research:
"Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows" (with Matilde Bombardini and German Pupato), NBER Working Paper No. 15097, 2009.
"Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labour Supply" (with Laura Turner), CLSRN working paper.
"Education and Crime over the Life Cycle" (with Giulio Fella), working paper.

David Green  [webpage]
Fields: labour economics, applied econometrics, economic history
Recent Research:
"Does Industrial Composition Matter? An Empirical Evaluation based on Search and Bargaining theory" (with Paul Beaudry and Benjamin Sand), NBER working paper, 2009.
"Understanding the Wage Patterns of Canadian Less Skilled Workers: The Role of Implicit Contracts" (with James Townsend), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
"Breaking the Cycle? The Effect of Education on Welfare Receipt Among Children of Welfare Recipients" (with Michael B. Coelli and William P. Warburton), Journal of Public Economics, 2007.

Yoram Halevy  [webpage]
Fields: economic theory, experimental economics
Recent Research:
"Other Regarding Preferences: Outcomes, Intentions or Interdependence?" (with Michael Peters), working paper.
"Strotz meets Allais: Diminishing Impatience and the Certainty Effect," American Economic Review, 2008.
"Ellsberg Revisited: an Experimental Study," Econometrica, 2007.

Joseph Henrich  [webpage]
Fields: coevolution, development, cognition and cultural learning
Recent Research:
"Most People are not WEIRD" (with S. Heine and A. Norenzayan), Nature, 2010.
"The Evolution of Cultural Adaptations: Fijian taboos during pregnancy and lactation protect against marine toxins" (with N. Henrich), Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 2010.
"Markets, religion, community size and the evolution of fairness and punishment" (with J. Ensminger, R. McElreath, A. Barr, H. C. Barrett, A. Bolyanatz, J. Camilo Cardenas, M. Gurven, E. Gwako, N. Henrich, C. Lesorogol, F.W. Marlowe, D. Tracer, J. Ziker), Science, 2010.

Viktoria Hnatkovska  [webpage]
Fields: international finance, macroeconomics
Recent Research:
"International and Intra-national Real Exchange Rates: Theory and Evidence" (with Mick Devereux), working paper.
"Home Bias and High Turnover: Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets," Journal of International Economics, forthcoming.
"Financial Integration, Macroeconomic Volatility and Welfare" (with M. Evans), Journal of the European Economic Association P&P, 2007.

Florian Hoffmann  [webpage]
Fields: labor economics, macroeconomics, applied econometrics
Recent Research:
"An Empirical Model of Life-Cycle Earnings and Mobility Dynamics," working paper.
"A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on University Achievement" (with Philip Oreopoulos), Journal of Human Resources, 2009.
"Professor Qualities and Student Achievement" (with Philip Oreopoulos), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009.

Hiroyuki Kasahara  [webpage]
Fields: econometrics, international trade, macroeconomics
Recent Research:
"Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence" (with Bev Lapham), working paper.
"Nonparametric Identification of Finite Mixture Models of Dynamic Discrete Choices" (with Katsumi Shimotsu), Econometrica, 2009.
"Does the Use of Imported Intermediates Increase Productivity? Plant-level Evidence" (with Joel Rodrigue), Journal of Development Economics, 2008.

Ashok Kotwal  [webpage]
Fields: development economics, globalization
Recent Research:
"Alternatives to Public Distribution System " (with Bharat Ramaswami), working paper.
"Economic Liberalization and Indian Economic Growth: What is the Evidence?" (with Bharat Ramaswami and Wilima Wadhwa), Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming.
"What More Do We Want to Know about Indian Economy?" in Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy (C. Ghate, ed.), Oxford, forthcoming.

Amartya Lahiri  [webpage]
Fields: international macroeconomics, economic growth
Recent Research:
"Risk Allocation, Debt Fuelled Expansion and Financial Crisis" (with Paul Beaudry), NBER working paper, 2009.
"A Tale of Two States: Maharashtra and West Bengal," (with Kei-Mu Yi), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009.
"Persistent Real Exchange Rates" (with Alok Johri), Journal of International Economics, 2008.

Thomas Lemieux  [webpage]
Fields: labour economics, applied econometrics
Recent Research:
"Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure" (with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin), working paper.
"Unconditional Quantile Regressions" (with Sergio Firpo and Nicole Fortin), Econometrica, 2009.
"Performance Pay and Wage Inequality" (With Bentley MacLeod and Daniel Parent), Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 2009.

Li Hao  [webpage]
Fields: microeconomic theory
Recent Research:
"Optimal Deadlines for Agreements" (with Ettore Damiano and Wing Suen), working paper.
"First in Village or Second in Rome?" (with Ettore Damiano and Wing Suen), International Economic Review, forthcoming.
"Suspense: Dynamic Incentives in Sports Contests" (with William Chan and Pascal Courty), Economic Journal, 2009.

Wei Li  [webpage]
Fields: information economics, contract theory
Recent Research:
"Misinformation" (with Li Hao), working paper.
"Peddling Influence through Intermediaries," American Economic Review, forthcoming.
"Changing One’s Mind when the Facts Change: Incentives of Experts and the Design of Reporting Protocols," Review of Economic Studies, 2007.

Vadim Marmer  [webpage]
Fields: econometric theory, applied econometrics
Recent Research:
"Weak Identification in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design" (with Donna Feir and Thomas Lemieux), working paper.
"Quantile-Based Nonparametric Inference for First-Price Auctions" (with Art Shneyerov), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.
"Nonlinearity, Nonstationarity, and Spurious Forecasts," Journal of Econometrics, 2008.

Kevin Milligan  [webpage]
Fields: public economics, applied econometrics
Recent Research:
"Son Preference and the Role of Culture: Evidence from Asian Immigrants to Canada" (with Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund), NBER Working Paper No. 15391, 2009.
"How Household Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: The Effect of Aging and Health Shocks" (with Courtney Coile), Review of Income and Wealth, 2009.
"Child benefits, maternal employment, and children's health: Evidence from Canadian child benefit expansions" (with Mark Stabile), American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2009.

Hugh Neary  [webpage]
Fields: comparative economic systems, industrial organization

Michael Peters  [webpage]
Fields: microeconomic theory
Recent Research:
"Unobservable Heterogeneity in Directed Search," working paper.
"Definable and Contractible Contracts" (with Balazs Szentes), working paper.
"Pure Strategy and No Externalities with Multiple Agents," Economic Theory, 2004.

Anji Redish  [webpage]
Fields: economic history, monetary history, monetary economics
Recent Research:
"Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907 or 1893)?" (with Michael Bordo and Hugh Rockoff), working paper.
"Coin Sizes and Payments in Commodity Money Systems" (with Warren Weber), Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming.
"Good versus Bad Deflation" (with Michael Bordo and John Landon Lane), in The Economics of Low Inflation (D. Altig, ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Marit Rehavi  [webpage]
Fields: public economics, political economy, health economics
Recent Research:
"Sex and Politics: Do Female Legislators Affect State Spending?" working paper.
"Distinguishing the Reporting Elasticity from the Real Elasticity: Evidence from Charitable Donations," working paper.
"Different Models or Measures? Party Effects at the Local and National Levels," working paper.

Craig Riddell  [webpage]
Fields: labour economics, industrial relations, public policy
Recent Research:
"The Causal Effects of Education on Adaptability to Employment Shocks: Evidence from the Canadian Labour Market" (with Xueda Song), CLSRN Working Paper No. 8, 2009 .
"The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005" (with Brahim Boudarbat and Thomas Lemieux) Canadian Public Policy, 2010.
"Economic Change and Worker Displacement in Canada: Consequences and Policy Responses” in A Festschrift in Honour of David Dodge’s Contributions to Canadian Public Policy, Bank of Canada, 2009.

Sergei Severinov  [webpage]
Fields: game theory, microeconomics, industrial organization

Henry Siu  [webpage]
Fields: macroeconomics, business cycle theory, monetary and fiscal policy
Recent Research:
"What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Employment over the Life Cycle and Business Cycle" (with Martin Gervais, Nir Jaimovich and Yaniv Yedid-Levi), working paper.
"The young, the old, and the restless: demographics and business cycle volatility" (with Nir Jaimovich), American Economic Review, 2009.
"The fiscal role of conscription in the US World War II effort," Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008.

Kevin Song  [webpage]
Fields: Econometric Theory
Recent Research:
"Simulated MLE for Discrete Choices using Transformed Simulated Frequencies", (with Donghoon Lee) May 2011, Working Paper.
"An Improved Bootstrap Test of Stochastic Dominance" (with Oliver Linton and Yoon-Jae Whang), Journal of Econometrics 2010, 154, 186-202.
"Testing Predictive Ability and Power Robustification", January 2012, forthcoming in Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

Francesco Trebbi  [webpage]
Fields: political economy, applied econometrics, macroeconomics
Recent Research:
"Measuring Central Bank Communication: An Automated Approach with Application to FOMC Statements" (with David Lucca), working paper.
"The Political Economy of the US Mortgage Default Crisis" (with Atif Mian and Amir Sufi), American Economic Review, forthcoming.
"Electoral Rules and Minority Representation in US Cities" (with Philippe Aghion and Alberto Alesina), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008.

Yaniv Yedid-Levi
Fields: macroeconomics, business cycle analysis, international macroeconomics
Recent Research:
"What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Employment over the Life Cycle and Business Cycle" (with Martin Gervais, Nir Jaimovich and Henry Siu), working paper.
"Why does Employment in all Major Sectors Move Together over the Business Cycle?," working paper.
"International Business Cycles with Search and Sticky Wages," working paper.