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CIREQ is a research center in economics and related social sciences which is committed to promoting research in different areas of economics and to bridging theoretical and applied research in order to achieve a deeper understanding of the economy.
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Welcoming New Researchers to Our Team!

We are pleased to announce the addition of 21 new research members to CIREQ. Their arrival further strengthens our commitment to promoting research in various areas of economics and related social sciences, aiming for a deeper understanding of the economy and the challenges of economic growth. We warmly welcome our new members and look forward to their valuable contributions towards advancing our research endeavors. To discover CIREQ's newest members, please follow the link provided here.

upcoming conferences and workshops

2 October 2023, 15:00-19:00 (Studio-Cabaret de l'Espace St-Denis)

Interdisciplinary Events 2021-2023

Highlights from our events

CIREQ Applied Economics Conference: Issues in Labour and Urban Economics, 8-9 September 2023
We are extremely happy that Enrico Moretti accepted our invitation to give the keynote lecture in the CIREQ Applied Economics Conference. Enrico is the Michael R. Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics at Berkeley. His research 

career has been broad and prolific, touching most areas of labor economics. Enrico’s early work deepened our understanding of human capital externalities, leading organically to three areas of his research, that of agglomeration economies, peer effects, and place-based policies. Alongside his groundbreaking work on externalities, Enrico Moretti has also written papers in diverse topics such as party vs voter preference in determining the roll-call votes of elected representatives, the intergenerational transmission of human capital, the impact of compulsory education on political participation and crime, the consequences of pollution for health, the role of children’s gender in household formation, among many other topics. He has received several awards including the Carlos Alberto Award, the prestigious Rosen Prize from the Society of Labor Economists as well as the William Bowen Prize for his book “The Geography of New Jobs”.

Together with Enrico Moretti’s fascinating keynote lecture on the role of city size in determining labor market outcomes, the conference was composed of a fantastic line up of speakers. In the first day, Fernand Rojas Ampuero (Center for International Affairs, Harvard University) discussed and presented the long run negative effects on children of displacing lower income families from slums into social housing. Her research showed how these displacements led to worse outcomes such as education and employment that persisted well into adult life of the children. In the same day, Heather Sarsons (Vancouver School of Economics, UBC) analyzed how taking into account consumer preferences for fairness in goods production can reconcile different contradictory findings of the effect of minimum wages on labor markets. In the second day, we were pleased to have Winne van Dijk (Yale University) who highlighted how a right to counsel law for tenants in New York led to unintended large increases in rents. Also in the second day, Lorenzo Lagos (Brown University) analyzed the important question of making the workplace more gender balanced with better amenities such as childcare facilities. His findings point to the important role of unions in achieving these goals.

The conference was finished by an exquisite lunch prepared by the staff at ITHQ.


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Virtual Exchange with Mark Carney.

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Virtual Exchange with Mark Carney, Financial Adviser to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for COP26 and as UN Special Envoy for Climate Finance and Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, Louise Roy, Chancellor Emeritus of the Université de Montréal and Chair of the Board of Directors of CIRANO, and Benoit Perron, Director of the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal and Research Fellow at CIRANO and CIREQ.
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