Programm: 3rd CIREQ Ph.D. Students’ Conference

08:20-08:30

Inscription/Registration

08:30-10:15

Session I

Rayhaneh Esmaeilzadeh (Concordia University)
A Dynamic Analysis of Canadian Male Self-Employment: Evidence from the SLID

Pavel Sevcik (Université de Montréal)
Political Economy of Financial Contracts and Investor Protection

Shengzu Wang (McGill University)
Exchange Rate Volatility and Monetary Policy Credibility: Theory and Some Evidence

10:15-10:30

Pause/Break

10:30-11:40

Session II

Jason Dean (McGill University)
The Economic Assimilation of Urban Immigrants in Canada during the Wheat Boom Era of 1896-1913

Walid Marrouch & Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné (HEC Montréal)
Regulating Man-Made Sedimentation in Riverways

11:40- 11:50

Pause/Break

11:50-13:00

Session III

Paul Samuel Njiki Njiki (Université de Montréal)
On the cost of the fair return rule

Jin Zhang (McGill University)
Pairwise Farsightedly Stable Free Trade Networks

13:00-14:15

Diner/Lunch

14:15-16:00

Session IV

Tzvetana Rakovski (McGill University)
Causality Test of the Inter-relationship between Trade and Growth in Developing Countries

Firmin Doko (Université de Montréal)
Exogeneity Tests and Weak-Identification

Christos Ntantamis (McGill University)
Detecting Housing Submarkets using Unsupervised Learning of Finite Mixture Models

16:00-16:15

Pause/Break

16:15-18:00

Session V

Daniel Salomon (Université de Montréal)
Banks As Better Monitors and Firms’ Financing Choices

Shen Guo (Concordia University)
Optimal Monetary Policy and Expectation Driven Business Cycles

Constant Aimé Lonkeng Ngouana (Université de Montréal)
Home Production and Investment-Specific Technological Change