Venue : Demarais Building, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 12102
8:00 - 8:30 Coffee
8:30 - 8:40 Opening Remarks
Yazid Dissou, Chair, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
8:40 - 10:30 Session 1 on Labour and Health Economics
Chair: Gilles Grenier, University of Ottawa
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8:40 - 9:30 Keynote speaker 1: David Card, UC-Berkeley
[The Role of Firms in the Labor Market: What Have We Learned] -
9:30 - 10:00 Kory Kroft, University of Toronto
[Long Time Out: Unemployment and Joblessness in Canada and the United States] -
10:00 - 10:30 Abel Brodeur, University of Ottawa
["Terrorism, Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks"]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:50 Session 2 on Political Economy
Chair: Serge Nadeau, University of Ottawa
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11:00 - 11:50 Keynote speaker 2: Erik Snowberg, CREC, UBC
[Econographics and Political Behavior] -
11:50 - 12:20 Christopher Cotton, Queen’s University
[Clueless Politicians] -
12:20 - 12:50 Roland Pongou, University of Ottawa
[Political Popularity under Social Influences]
12:50 - 13:50 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Session 3 on Experimental and Environmental Economics
Chair: Rose-Anne Devlin, University of Ottawa
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14:00 - 15:00 Keynote speaker 3: John List, University of Chicago
[Using field experiments to speak to policymakers] -
15:00 - 15:30 Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of Toronto
[Subways and Urban Air Pollution] -
15:30 - 16:00 Anthony Heyes, CRC in Environmental Economics, University of Ottawa
[The Effect of Air Pollution on Investor Behavior: Evidence from the S&P 500]
Conferral of Honorary Doctorates and Reception
All individuals participating in the academic procession need to go to DMS 4165 at 3:45pm for gowning.
Room DMS 4101 16:30 19:00
16:30- 17:45 Official ceremony
18:00- 19:00 Reception