February 2019 Newsletter
 
A LOOK BACK ON OUR EVENTS
First conference of the CIRANO 25years Series devoted to the trade war between the United States and China

This conference, organized as part of CIRANO's 25th Anniversary, brought together four experts to offer their perspective on the implications of this trade war for Canada.
Organized in collaboration with BMO
 
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CEO Seminar with Louis Gagnon (Intact)

Mr Louis Gagnon, President of Canadian Operations at Intact Financial Corporation, shared his experience during a networking reception gathering researchers and business people.
 
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Planification fiscale des sociétés québécoises et recours aux paradis fiscaux

Julien Martin, Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Holder of the Chaire de recherche UQAM sur l’impact local des firmes multinationales and CIRANO Fellow, presented the results of the CIRANO report « Planification fiscale des sociétés québécoises et recours aux paradis fiscaux », published in November 2018.
 
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Analytical Framework of Human Resources: Measure, Assess, and Decide to Optimize Human Capital Management

This seminar provided an overview of the book L’analytique ressources humaines : mesurer, évaluer et décider pour optimiser la gestion du capital humain directed by Michel Cossette. The book, written in collaboration with a number of HR professors and specialists, provides insights and tools on the performance of HR programs aimed at helping professionals to better structure and strengthen their analytical thinking and strategic efforts.
 
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OUTREACH
Robert Lacroix promoted Officer of the Order of Canada
tw Robert Lacroix, first president and co-founder of CIRANO and Emeritus Professor and Rector of the Université de Montréal, was promoted Officer of the Order of Canada by Governor General Julie Payette.
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Thierry Warin joins SKEMA Business School global augmented intelligence laboratory
tw Thierry Warin, CIRANO Fellow and creator of Mondo International and Social Data Science Lab, is to join SKEMA in January. He will be founding and leading the SKEMA AI Global Lab.  
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Julien Martin, Holder of the Chaire de recherche UQAM sur l’impact local des firmes multinationales
tw Julien Martin, professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal and CIRANO Fellow, holds this new UQAM Strategic Research Chair.
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Paul Beaudry, CIRANO Associate Fellow, appointed Bank of Canada deputy governor
tw The Bank of Canada appointed Paul Beaudry, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia and CIRANO Associate Fellow, as deputy governor, starting in February next year.
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Jean-Marie Dufour organizer of the 19th IWH-CIREQ-GW Macroeconometric Workshop
tw Jean-Marie Dufour, William Dow Professor of Political Economy at McGill University and CIRANO Fellow, was member of the scientific committee for the 19th IWH-CIREQ-GW Macroeconometric Workshop: Uncertainty, Expectations and Macroeconomic Modelling hold on December 12-13, 2018 at Halle (Germany).  
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Catherine Haeck, Scientific Committee member of the Grand Rally for our Little Ones
tw Catherine Haeck, CIRANO Fellow, Professor at the Department of Economics at the ESG UQAM, and Scientific Committee member of the Grand Rally for our Little Ones, participated in the opening panel of the Grand Rally for our Little Ones which took place on November 20 and 21 in Québec City.
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Calls for papers
2019 Canadian Economics Association (CEA) Annual Conference
tw The Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference will this year be hosted in Banff by the University of Calgary, May 31 to June 2, 2019.
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59th annual conference of the Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE)
tw The next annual conference of the Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE) will be held from Wednesday, May 8, 2019 to Friday, May 10, 2019 at the office of the École Nationale d’Administration Publique (ENAP).
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Upcoming events
CEO Seminar, Manon Brouillette
Monday, February 18, 2019
Ms Manon Brouillette, President and CEO of Videotro from 2013 to December 2018, will share her experience during a networking reception gathering researchers and business people. By invitation only
 
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Second meeting of the 2019 Cohort of Avant-Garde@CIRANO
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
The theme of this year is "Environment and Climate Change". Event reserved for the 2019 Cohort of Avant-Garde  
 
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Public Transit Pricing: Impacts of a Pricing Overhaul
Thursday, February 28, 2019
The ASDEQ Montreal Chapter and CIRANO invite you to to join in the discussion on this subject which is at the heart of societal issues with two panelists who will attempt to answer these questions. This conference will be conducted by Mrs. Geneviève Charette, Senior Economist at AECOM and followed by a short networking period.  
 
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Workshop on Personalized Medicine
March 14-15, 2019
This workshop entitled "Personalized Medicine: Legal and Economic Analyses in a Fast-Changing Field" will bring together speakers from North America and overseas, invited by professors Marie-Louise Leroux (ESG UQAM and CIRANO) and Philippe De Donder (ESG UQAM and CIRANO).  
 
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Recent publications
Monography
L’analytique ressources humaines : mesurer, évaluer et décider pour optimiser la gestion du capital humain
(Under the direction of Michel Cossette)
Working Papers
La performance et le développement économiques à long terme du Québec : Les douze travaux d’Hercule-Québec (Mis à jour, revus et corrigés – 7e édition)
(Marcel Boyer)
Cooperation, Dependence and Eviction - How Platform-To-Business Relationships in Mobile Telephony Ecosystems Should Be Addressed in A Competition Law Perspective?
(Frédéric Marty, Julien Pillot)
Tradable Climate Liabilities: A Thought Experiment
(Étienne Billette de Villemeur, Justin Leroux)
Playing with Fire? Debt near Retirement in Canada
(Nicolas Bédard, Pierre-Carl Michaud)
The Effect of College Education on Health and Mortality: Evidence from Canada
(Guy Lacroix, François Laliberté-Auger, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Daniel Parent)
Coopération, dépendance et éviction - Quelle appréhension concurrentielle des liens inter-entreprises dans les écosystèmes de téléphonie mobile ?
(Frédéric Marty, Julien Pillot)
The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-time Employment
(Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Étienne Lalé)
Robust Estimation with Exponentially Tilted Hellinger Distance
(Bertille Antoine, Prosper Dovonon)
The Asymptotic Properties of GMM and Indirect Inference under Second-order Identification
(Prosper Dovonon, Alastair Hall)
Inference in Second-Order Identified Models
(Prosper Dovonon, Frank Kleibergen, Alastair Hall)
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