The 55th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association was held on-line June, 3rd-5th, 2021. The conference was hosted by the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. Professor Francisco Ruge-Murcia of McGill University is the program chair, while Professor Steeve Mongrain from Simon Fraser University will provide support for the on-line format.
The CIRANO-JDI-Phelps-RIIB Sessions on Competition Policy and Regulation took place on June 5, 2021.
- Nonparametric Identification of First-Price Auction with Unobserved Competition: A Density Discontinuity Framework, Yao Luo (University of Toronto)*, Emmanuel Guerre (Queen Mary University of London)
- Manipulated Procurement, Decio Coviello (HEC Montréal)*, Clarissa Lotti (University of Tor Vergata), Andrea Guglielmo (MyFair), Giancarlo Spagnolo (SITE)
- The Inner Workings of a Hub-and-Spoke Cartel in the Automotive Fuel Industry, Daniel Chaves (University of Western Ontario)*, Marco Duarte (University of Wisconsin-Madison)