2024

Signaling Worker Quality in a Developing Country: Lessons from a Certification Program

Working Paper: 2024-1

M. Antonella Mancino, Wilfrid Laurier University, Leonardo Fabio Morales, Central Bank of Colombia, and Diego F. Salazar, National University of Singapore

Idiosyncratic Asset Return and Wage Risk of US Households

Working Paper: 2024-2

Stephen Snudden , Wilfrid Laurier University

Can Futures Prices Predict the Real Price of Primary Commodities?

Working Paper: 2024-3

Sephen Snudden, Wilfrid Laurier University, Markos Farag, University of Cologne, and Greg Upton, Louisiana State University

Don't Lose Your Cool: Temperature and Gun-Violence in North America

Working Paper: 2024-4

Nikolai Cook, Wilfrid Laurier University, Taylor Wright, Brock University

Predictable by Construction: Assessing Forecast Directional Accuracy of Temporal Aggregates

Working Paper: 2024-5

Stephen Snudden, Wilfrid Laurier University, Martin McCarthy, Reserve Bank of Australia

Forecasts of Period-Average Exchange Rates: New Insights from Real-Time Daily Data

Working Paper: 2024-6

Stephen Snudden, Wilfrid Laurier University, Martin McCarthy, Reserve Bank of Australia

Clean Air and Cognitive Productivity: Effect and Adaptation

Working Paper: 2023-1

Nikolai Cook, Wilfrid Laurier University, Anthony Heyes, University of Birmingham and Nicholas Rivers, University of Ottawa

Can Social Pressure Stifle Free Speech?

Working Paper: 2023-3

Juan S. Morales, Wilfrid Laurier University and Margaret Samahita, University College Dublin

What We RANDomly Did Not Learn: Opioid Elasticities and Underlying Mechanisms

Working Paper: 2023-4

M. Antonella Mancino, Wilfrid Laurier University and Cecilia S. Diaz-Campo, Washington University in St. Louis

Carpe Diem: Can daily oil prices improve model-based forecasts of the real price of crude oil?

Working Paper: 2023-5

Stephen Snudden, Wilfrid Laurier University, Amor Aniss Benmoussa, Bank of Canada and Reinhard Ellwanger, Bank of Canada

Seize the Last Day: Period-End-Point Sampling for Forecasts of Temporally Aggregated Data

Working Paper: 2023-6

Stephen Snudden, Wilfrid Laurier University, Lenin Arango-Castillo Bank of Canada and Reinhard Ellwanger, Bank of Canada

2022

Pollution Pictures: Psychological Exposure to Pollution Impacts Worker Productivity in a Large-scale Field Experiment

Working Paper: 2022-1

Nikolai Cook, Wilfrid Laurier University and Anthony Heyes, University of Ottawa & University of Exeter

Is the Bank of Canada concerned about inflation or the state of the economy?

Working Paper: 2022-2

Ke Pang and Christos Shiamptanis, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Do Pre-Registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?

Working Paper: 2022 – 3

Abel Brodeur, University of Ottawa Nikolai M. Cook, Wilfrid Laurier University, Jonathan S. Hartley, Stanford University, and Anthony Heyes, University of Birmingham.

We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us about Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments

Working Paper: 2022-4

Abel Brodeur, University of Ottawa Nikolai M. Cook, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Anthony Heyes, University of Birmingham.

Predictability of Aggregated Time Series

Working paper: 2021-5

Reinhard Ellwanger, Bank of Canada
and Stephen Snudden, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Futures Prices Are Useful Predictors of the Spot Price of Crude Oil

Working paper: 2021-4

Reinhard Ellwanger, Bank of Canada
and Stephen Snudden, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Rationalizing Policy Support for Zero Emission Vehicles in Canada

Working paper: 2021-3

Randall Wigle and Istvan Kery, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Background and Policy Directions for Decarbonizing Canadian Road Transportation

Working paper: 2021-2

Isti Kéry, Olivia Mullins and Randall Wigle, Wilfrid Laurier University.

The Economic Case for EV Supports? Or: Network Effects, EV Pessimism and EV Supports

Working paper: 2021-1

Randall Wigle, Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Fiscal implications of the pandemic

Working paper: 2020-2

Ke Pang, Wilfrid Laurier University
and Christos Shiamptanis, Wilfrid Laurier University

Insurable Losses, Pre-filled Claims and Honesty in Reporting

Working paper: 2020-1

William Morrison, Wilfrid Laurier University and Bradley Ruffle, McMaster University

Tax Austerity: Does it Avert Solvency Crises?

Working paper: 2019-3

Christos Shiamptanis, Wilfrid Laurier University

Identifying Countries at Risk of Fiscal Crisis: High-Debt Developed Countries

Working paper: 2019-2

Betty C. Daniel, University at Albany - SUNY and Christos Shiamptanis, Wilfrid Laurier University

The downside of being upbeat: The effects of consumer optimism on real economic activity

Working paper: 2019-1

Edda Claus, Wilfrid Laurier University
and Viet Hoang Nguyen, University of Melbourne

A Survey of the International Evidence and Lessons Learned About Unconventional Monetary Policies: Is a ‘New Normal’ in our Future?

Working paper: 2018-14

Domenico Lombardi, Banca di San Marino S.p.A. Pierre L. Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University and CIGI Samantha St. Amand, CIGI

What Drives Household Inflation Expectations in South Africa? Demographics and Anchoring Under Inflation Targeting

Working paper: 2018-13

Monique Reid, Department of Economics, University of Stellenbosch Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Stan Du Plessis, Research Fellow, University of Stellenbosch

Monetary Policy Transmission in Systemically Important Economies and China’s Impact

Working paper: 2018-12

Domenico Lombardi, Banca di San Marino S.p.A. Pierre L. Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University and CIGI Xiangyou Xie, Agricultural Bank of China, CIGI and University of Waterloo

A Survey of the International Evidence and Lessons Learned About Unconventional Monetary Policies: Is a ‘New Normal’ in our Future?

Working paper: 2018-11

Domenico Lombardi, Banca di San Marino S.p.A. Pierre L. Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University and CIGI Samantha St. Amand, CIGI

The Economic Case for EV Supports? Or: Network Effects, EV Pessimism and EV Supports

Working paper: 2018-10

Bradley J. Ruffle Wilfrid Laurier University and Anne Wilson Wilfrid Laurier University

Time preferences of older people with mild cognitive impairment

Working paper: 2018-9

Ya’akov M. Bayer Beer-Sheva Mental Health Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Bradley J. Ruffle Wilfrid Laurier University, Ro’i Zultan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tzvi Dwolatzky Rambam Health Care Campus, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Costly Superstitious Beliefs: Experimental Evidence

Working paper: 2018-8

Ya’akov M. Bayer Beer-Sheva Mental Health Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Bradley J. Ruffle Wilfrid Laurier University Ze’ev Shtudiner Ariel University Ro’i Zultan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Business Formalization in Vietnam

Working paper: 2018-7

Brian McCaig,
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University and Jordan Nanowski,
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Short-Selling Bans and the Global Financial Crisis: Are they Inter-Connected?

Working paper: 2018-6

Martin T. Bohl,
Department of Business and Economics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Badye Essid, Autorité des marchés financiers, Montréal and Pierre Siklos
Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Speculative Activity and Returns to Volatility of Chinese Major Agricultural Commodity Futures

Working paper: 2018-5

Martin T. Bohl,
Department of Business and Economics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Pierre Siklos
Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Claudia Wellenreuther, Department of Economics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Quantifying the Impact of the November 2014 Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect

Working paper: 2018-4

Richard C. K. Burdekin, Claremont McKenna College and Pierre Siklos
Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Asset Price Spillovers From Unconventional Monetary Policy: A Global Empirical Perspective

Working paper: 2018-3

Domenico Lombardi
Centre for International Governance Innovation and Pierre Siklos
Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Samantha St. Amand
Centre for International Governance Innovation

Boom-and-Bust Cycles in Emerging Markets: How Important is the Exchange Rate?

Working paper: 2018-2

Pierre Siklos
Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

An evaluation of policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector:
The cost-effectiveness of regulations versus emissions pricing

Working paper: 2018-1

Nicholas Rivers,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa and Randall Wigle*,
Balsillie School of International Affairs and Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Tat will tell: Tattoos and time preferences

Working paper: 2017-9

Bradley J. Ruffle,
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Anne Wilson,
Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Cooperation through Coordination in Two Stages

Working paper: 2017-8

Todd R. Kaplan, University of Exeter and University of Haifa and Bradley J. Ruffle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University and Ze’ev Shtudiner, Ariel University.

US Open Skies Agreements and Unlevel Playing Fields

Working paper: 2017-7

William G. Morrison,
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, and
Jaap de Wit, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam

Austerity Measures: Do they avert solvency crises?

Working paper: 2017-6

Christos Shiamptanis,
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University,

Revisiting the Macroeconomic Effects of Labor Reallocation

Working paper: 2017-5

Emmanouil Gkiourkas & Theodore Panagiotidis, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, and Gianluigi Pelloni, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Department of Economics, University of Bologna.

What Has Publishing Inflation Forecasts Accomplished? Central Banks And Their Competitors

Working paper: 2017-4

Pierre Siklos, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Centre for Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA)

Government bond yields at the effective lower bound: International evidence

Working paper: 2017-3

Domenico Lombardi, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Pierre Siklos, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Balsillie School of International Affairs, CAMA and
Samantha St. Amand, Centre for International Governance Innovation

Bank CEO inside debt and loan contracting

Working paper: 2017-2

Chen Liu, School of Business, Trinity Western University
and
Yan Wendy Wu, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Lehman Sisters:
Female Bank Executives and Risk-Taking

Working paper: 2017-1

Yan Wendy Wu, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Cindy Truong, Bank of Montreal,
and
Chen Liu, School of Business, Trinity Western University .

The Health and Capacity to Work of Older Men and Women in Canada

Working paper: 2016-03

Kevin Milligan, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia and Tammy Schirle,
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Volatility Spillovers Arising from the Financialization of Commodities

Working paper: 2016-02

Bryce Shelton, Wing Chan,
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Risk Taking, Intertemporal Choice, and Loss Aversion

Working paper: 2016-01

William Morrison,
Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Oxoby,
Department of Economics, University of Calgary.

Universally Subsidized Day Care and its Effects on Youth Crime Rates

Working paper: 2015-14

Kirsten Saguil and Christine Neill, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Waiting to Cooperate? Cooperation in one-stage and two-stage games

Working paper: 2015-13

Todd R. Kaplan, University of Exeter and University of Haifa and Bradley J. Ruffle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Clever Enough to Tell the Truth

Working paper: 2015-12

Bradley J. Ruffle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University and Yossef Tobol, School of Management, Jerusalem College of Technology and IZA.

The differential impact of universal child benefits on the labor supply of married and single mothers

Working paper: 2015-11

Kourtney Koebel and Tammy Schirle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

The Role of Critical Mass in Establishing a Successful Network Market: An Experimental Investigation

Working paper: 2015-10

Bradley J. Ruffle, Avi Weiss, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University and Amir Etziony, Hewlett-Packard, Israel.

Prospects for Integrated Carbon Taxes in Canada: Lessons From Federal-Provincial Tax Coordination

Working paper: 2015-9

Tracy Snoddon, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Predicting Sovereign Fiscal Crises: High-Debt Developed Countries

Working paper: 2015-8

Betty C. Daniel, Department of Economics, University at Albany – SUNY and Christos Shiamptanis, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Why is Italy doing so badly?

Working paper: 2015-7

Gianluigi Pelloni, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Johns Hopkins Bologna Centre and Marco Savioli, University of Bologna, and Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.

The Gender Wage Gap in the Canadian Provinces, 1997-2014

Working paper: 2015-6

Tammy Schirle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

The effect of index futures trading on volatility: Three markets for Chinese stocks

Working paper: 2015-5

Martin T. Bohl, Jeanne Diesteldorf, Department of Economics, Westfälische-Wilhelms University of Münster, and Pierre L. Siklos, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Prolonged Reserves Accumulation, Credit Booms, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy in Asia

Working paper: 2015-4

Andrew J. Filardo, Bank for International Settlements and Pierre L. Siklos, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

The credit cycle and the business cycle in Canada and the U.S.: Two solitudes?

Working paper: 2015-3

Pierre L. Siklos, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University and Brady Lavender, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Can monetary policy surprise the market?

Working paper: 2015-2

Edda Claus, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU Mardi Dungey, School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania, the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU and the Centre for Financial Analysis.

Sharing the Burden for Climate Change Mitigation in the Canadian Federation

Working paper: 2015-1

Christoph Böhringer, University of Oldenburg, Nicholas Rivers, University of Ottawa, Thomas Rutherford, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Randall Wigle, Wilfrid Laurier University.

First-Mover Advantage in Best-Of-Series:
An Experimental Comparison of Role-Assignment Rules

Working paper: 2014-16

Bradley J. Ruffle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University and Oscar Volij, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University.

Carbon Tax and Revenue Recycling: Impacts on Households in British Columbia

Working paper: 2014-15

Marisa Beck, University of WaterlooNicholas Rivers, University of Ottawa - Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Randall Wigle, Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics; Balsillie School of International AffairsHidemichi Yonezawa, Statistics Norway

Carbon Revenue: Recycling versus Technology Incentives

Working paper: 2014-14

Marisa Beck, Balsillie School of International Affairs and
Randall Wigle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University and Balsillie School of International Affairs

Estimating the International Spillover Effects of the U.S. Economy: the Role of Capital Control and Exchange Rate Policy

Working paper: 2014-13

K. Pang and Y. Tang.

The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union Density Rates: Evidence from Canadian Provinces

Working paper: 2014-12

Scott Legree, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo Tammy Schirle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University Mikal Skuterud, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo.

Changing the Schedule of Medical Benefits and the Effect on Primary Care Physician Billing: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Alberta

Working paper: 2014-11

Logan McLeod, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University Jeffrey A. Johnson, School of Public Health, University of Alberta.

Loss Aversion in the Laboratory

Working paper: 2014-10

William Morrison, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University Robert Oxoby, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Department of Economics, University of Calgary.

Workforce Aging and the Labour Market Opportunities of Youth: Evidence from Canada

Working paper: 2014-9

Sundip Dhanjal and Tammy Schirle, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

The Effects of Exchange Rates on Employment in Canada

Working paper: 2014-8

Haifang Huang, Department of Economics, University of Alberta Ke Pang, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University Yao Tang, Department of Economics, Bowdoin College.

How Monetary Policy is made: Two Canadian Tales

Working paper: 2014-7

Pierre L. Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University and Matthias Neuenkirch, RWTH Aachen University.

The Credit Cycle and The Business Cycle in Canada and The U.S.: Two Soltitudes?

Working paper: 2014-6

Brady Lavender, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Pierre L. Siklos, wilfrid Laurier University.

Risk Taking, Intertemporal Choice, and Loss Aversion

Working paper: 2014-5

Matthias Neuenkirch, University of Trier and Pierre L. Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Female Bank Executives: Impact on Performance and Risk Taking

Working paper: 2014-4

Cindy Truong and Yan Wendy Wu,
Department of Economics, University of Calgary.

The Burden of Prescription Drugs on Seniors: Reducing Out-of-Pocket Expenditures Through Lower Co-Payments

Working paper: 2014-3

Nicholas Corvari and Logan McLeod, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

Price Limit and Stock Volatality in China during Financial Crises

Working paper: 2014-2

Wing Chan, Derek Wang, Terence Chong.

Risk Assessment Under a Nonlinear Fiscal Policy Rule

Working paper: 2014-1

Christos Shiamptanis, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

Are the Bailouts of Wall Street Complements or Substitutes?

Working paper: 2013-16

Linus Wilson, Yan Wendy Wu, Stephanie Prejean

This paper has been published in the Atlantic Economic Journal. Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: wwu@wlu.ca

Credit Exposure & Valuation of Revolving Credit Lines.

Working paper: 2013-15

Robert A Jones, Yan Wendy Wu.

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: wwu@wlu.ca.

Overpaid CEOs Got FDIC Debt Guarantees.

Working paper: 2013-14

Linus Wilson, Yan Wendy Wu.

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: wwu@wlu.ca

Employment Reallocation & Unemployment Revisited: A Quantile Regression Approach.

Working paper: 2013-13

Theodore Panagiotidis, Gianluigi Pelloni.

Aggregation and the Staggering of Price Changes

Working paper: 2013-12

Emmanuel Dhyne, Jerzy Konieczny.

Trust and Vulnerability

Working paper: 2013-11

Chris Bidner, Ken Jackson.

Behavioural Mechanisms to Encourage Saving: Results of Two Intertemporal Choice Experiments

Working paper: 2013-10

William G. Morrison, Robert J. Oxoby.

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: wmorrison@wlu.ca

Financial Frictions and Credit Spreads

Working paper: 2013-9

Ke Pang, Pierre L. Siklos.

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: kpang@wlu.ca

The “Other” Benefits of Renewable Energy Promotion

Working paper: 2013-8

Marisa Beck, Nicholas Rivers, Randall Wigle.

The Effects of Exchange Rates on Employment in Canada

Working paper: 2013-7

Haifang Huang, Ke Pang, Yao Tang

The Variable Choice Set Logit Model Applied To the 2004 Canadian Election

Working paper: 2013-6

M. Gallego, N. Schofield, K. McAlister, JS Jeon

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: mgallego@wlu.ca

Evaluating the Relationship between Pay and Performance: Panel Data Evidence from Ontario Universities

Working paper: 2013-5

Hideki Ariizumi, Anindya Sen, Natasha De Sousa.

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: hariizumi@wlu.ca

Reference Dependence, Default Bias, and Provision of Training and Iinformation: An Intertemporal Choice Experiment

Working paper: 2013-4

William G. Morrison, Robert J. Oxoby

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: wmorrison@wlu.ca

Stand Together or Alone? Family Structure and the Business Cycle in Canada

Working paper: 2013-3

Hideki Ariizumi, Yaqin Hu, Tammy Schirle

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: hariizumi@wlu.ca

Vertical Trade, Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Exchange Rate Regime

Working paper: 2013-2

Ke Pang, Yao Tang.

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: kpang@wlu.ca

The Convergence Coefficient Across Political Regimes

Working paper: 2013-1

M. Gallego, N. Schofield

Please contact the authors for a copy of the paper: mgallego@wlu.ca

Elderly Income and Living Arrangements: Differences Across the Elderly Income Distribution in Canada

Working paper: 2012-1

Schirle, T.

Please contact the author for a copy of the paper: tschirle@wlu.ca

Sustainability in the presence of global warming: theory and empirics.

Working paper: 2012-3

Llavador, H., J.E. Roemer, J. Silvestre.

Can higher taxes still improve birth outcomes? Evidence from recent large increases.

Working paper: 2012-4

DeCicca, P., and J. Smith.

Income inequality among seniors in Canada: the role of women's labour market experience.

Working paper: 2011-1

Schirle, T.

Enter the dragon: interactions between Chinese, US, and Asia-Pacific equity markets, 1995-2010.

Working paper: 2011-2

Burdekin, R.C.K., and P.L. Siklos.

Central Bank Transparency: Another Look.

Working paper: 2011-3

Siklos, P.L.

Equilibrium exclusive dealing in Oligopoly.

Working paper: 2011-5

Ziss, S.

Contracting institutions and product quality.

Working paper: 2011-6

Essaji, A. and K. Fujiwara.

Gesell' tax and efficiency of monetary exchange.

Working paper: 2011-7

Menner, M.

Loss aversion and intertemporal choice: a laboratory investigation.

Working paper: 2010-01

Linus Wilson, Yan Wendy Wu, Stephanie Prejean

Long memory in diamond market returns and volatility.

Working paper: 2010-02

Lu, C., T. Tai-Leung Chong, and Wing Hong Chan

Tax expenditures vs. budgetary expenditures for Canadian post-secondary education.

Working paper: 2010-03

Essaji, A, and C. Neill.

Access to information, institutional capacity and inefficiency in the Mexican air transport sector.

Working paper: 2010-04

Valdes, V.

The Windsor-Detroit crossing: issues in P3s when infrastructure crosses borders

Working paper: 2010-05

Anderson, W.P.

Freight trucks, mitigating GHG emissions and the danger of incrementalism.

Working paper: 2010-06

Blank, S.

Sectoral and labour market impacts of border delays in Canada.

Working paper: 2010-07

Nguyen, T.T. and R.M. Wigle

Surface freight environmental footprints in the Ontario-Quebec continental corridor: focus on emissions.

Working paper: 2010-08

Lawson, J.

Reverse logistics networks with the gateway corridor components: a case of waste electrical and electronic equipment.

Working paper: 2010-09

Chen, C. and F. Taham

Towards effective inter-organization collaboration in trans-border supply chains.

Working paper: 2010-10

Haughton, M.

LCERPA Working Papers

2024

Signaling Worker Quality in a Developing Country: Lessons from a Certification Program

Idiosyncratic Asset Return and Wage Risk of US Households

Can Futures Prices Predict the Real Price of Primary Commodities?

Don't Lose Your Cool: Temperature and Gun-Violence in North America

Predictable by Construction: Assessing Forecast Directional Accuracy of Temporal Aggregates

Forecasts of Period-Average Exchange Rates: New Insights from Real-Time Daily Data

2023

Clean Air and Cognitive Productivity: Effect and Adaptation

Can Social Pressure Stifle Free Speech?

What We RANDomly Did Not Learn: Opioid Elasticities and Underlying Mechanisms

Carpe Diem: Can daily oil prices improve model-based forecasts of the real price of crude oil?

Seize the Last Day: Period-End-Point Sampling for Forecasts of Temporally Aggregated Data

Pollution Pictures: Psychological Exposure to Pollution Impacts Worker Productivity in a Large-scale Field Experiment

Is the Bank of Canada concerned about inflation or the state of the economy?

Do Pre-Registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?

We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us about Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments

2021

Predictability of Aggregated Time Series

Futures Prices Are Useful Predictors of the Spot Price of Crude Oil

Rationalizing Policy Support for Zero Emission Vehicles in Canada

Background and Policy Directions for Decarbonizing Canadian Road Transportation

The Economic Case for EV Supports? Or: Network Effects, EV Pessimism and EV Supports

2020

Fiscal implications of the pandemic

Insurable Losses, Pre-filled Claims and Honesty in Reporting

2019

Tax Austerity: Does it Avert Solvency Crises?

Identifying Countries at Risk of Fiscal Crisis: High-Debt Developed Countries

The downside of being upbeat: The effects of consumer optimism on real economic activity

2018

A Survey of the International Evidence and Lesso​ns Learned About Unconventional Monetary Policies: Is a ‘New Normal’ in our Future?

What Drives Household Inflation Expectations in South Africa? Demographics and Anchoring Under Inflation Targeting

Monetary Policy Transmission in Systemically Important Economies and China’s Impact

A Survey of the International Evidence and Lessons Learned About Unconventional Monetary Policies: Is a ‘New Normal’ in our Future?

The Economic Case for EV Supports? Or: Network Effects, EV Pessimism and EV Supports

Time preferences of older people with mild cognitive impairment

Costly Superstitious Beliefs: Experimental Evidence

Business Formalization in Vietnam

Short-Selling Bans and the Global Financial Crisis: Are they Inter-Connected?

Speculative Activity and Returns to Volatility of Chinese Major Agricultural Commodity Futures

Quantifying the Impact of the November 2014 Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect

Asset Price Spillovers From Unconventional Monetary Policy: A Global Empirical Perspective

Boom-and-Bust Cycles in Emerging Markets: How Important is the Exchange Rate?

An evaluation of policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector: The cost-effectiveness of regulations versus emissions pricing

2017

Tat will tell: Tattoos and time preferences

Cooperation through Coordination in Two Stages

US Open Skies Agreements and Unlevel Playing Fields

Austerity Measures: Do they avert solvency crises?

Revisiting the Macroeconomic Effects of Labor Reallocation

What Has Publishing Inflation Forecasts Accomplished? Central Banks And Their Competitors

Government bond yields at the effective lower bound: International evidence

Bank CEO inside debt and loan contracting

Lehman Sisters: Female Bank Executives and Risk-Taking

2016

The Health and Capacity to Work of Older Men and Women in Canada

Volatility Spillovers Arising from the Financialization of Commodities

Risk Taking, Intertemporal Choice, and Loss Aversion

2015

Universally Subsidized Day Care and its Effects on Youth Crime Rates

Waiting to Cooperate? Cooperation in one-stage and two-stage games

Clever Enough to Tell the Truth

The differential impact of universal child benefits on the labor supply of married and single mothers

The Role of Critical Mass in Establishing a Successful Network Market: An Experimental Investigation

Prospects for Integrated Carbon Taxes in Canada: Lessons From Federal-Provincial Tax Coordination

Predicting Sovereign Fiscal Crises: High-Debt Developed Countries

Why is Italy doing so badly?

The Gender Wage Gap in the Canadian Provinces, 1997-2014

The effect of index futures trading on volatility: Three markets for Chinese stocks

Prolonged Reserves Accumulation, Credit Booms, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy in Asia

The credit cycle and the business cycle in Canada and the U.S.: Two solitudes?

Can monetary policy surprise the market?

Sharing the Burden for Climate Change Mitigation in the Canadian Federation

2014

First-Mover Advantage in Best-Of-Series: An Experimental Comparison of Role-Assignment Rules

Carbon Tax and Revenue Recycling: Impacts on Households in British Columbia

Carbon Revenue: Recycling versus Technology Incentives

Estimating the International Spillover Effects of the U.S. Economy: the Role of Capital Control and Exchange Rate Policy

A Survey of the International Evidence and Lessons Learned About Unconventional Monetary Policies: Is a ‘New Normal’ in our Future?

An evaluation of policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector:
The cost-effectiveness of regulations versus emissions pricing

Lehman Sisters:
Female Bank Executives and Risk-Taking

First-Mover Advantage in Best-Of-Series:
An Experimental Comparison of Role-Assignment Rules