Workshop: 8th Annual CIRANO-Sam M. Walton College of Business Workshop on Networks in Trade and Finance
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Friday, October 18, 2019
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| The 8th annual Workshop on Networks in Trade and Finance will take place on October 18 and October 19, 2019 at CIRANO. This workshop is organized jointly with CIRANO and the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and builds on the successful CIRANO Workshops on Networks in Trade and Finance that have taken place in Montreal, Fayetteville (Arkansas, USA) and Lucca (Italy) over the last seven years.
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External Activity: 2019 Canadian Econometric Study Group Meetings
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October 18-20, 2019
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| The conference is organized by the Departments of Economics at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Concordia University and will be hosted at UQAM. The theme is “Machine Learning Econometrics”, with invited speakers Gregory Duncan (Amazon and University of Washington) and Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago).
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Symposium: 40 Years of Bill 101 in Québec - Five Experts' Views
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
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| On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Bill 101 in 2017, the management of Language Problems and Language Planning magazine entrusted François Vaillancourt, CIRANO Researcher and Fellow and Emeritus Professor at Université de Montréal, with the responsibility of producing a special issue of this journal examining the effects of this law. This issue contains articles by Richard Bourhis, Charles Castonguay, Gilles Grenier, Michel Paillé and Marc Termotte. It has just been published and this conference presents the main results.
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Workshop: The contributions of experimental economics to the analysis of organizations and public policies
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
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| A series of three presentations by CIRANO researchers will illustrate the contributions of experimental economics in different sectors including portfolio management, tax evasion and employment discrimination.
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External Activity: Employment Diversity - Perspectives and Issues in Quebec and Canada
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October 29-31, 2019
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| CIRANO is a sponsor of this event. Several CIRANO researchers and Fellows are participating in the conference, including Ali Béjaoui (Université du Québec en Outaouais), Charles Bellemare (Université Laval), Maude Boulet (École nationale d'administration publique), Raquel Fonseca (Industrial Alliance Chair on the Economic Issues of Demographic Change and Université du Québec à Montréal) and Mircea Vultur (Université Laval).
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CEO Seminar: Philippe Rainville
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Monday, November 4, 2019
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| Mr Philippe Rainville, President and Chief Executive Officer of Aéroports de Montréal, will share his experience during a networking reception gathering researchers and business people. The presentation will be followed by a networking cocktail. By invitation only.
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Symposium: Portfolio Decarbonization - Issues and Challenges
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
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| This symposium is sponsored by the Desjardins Centre for Business Finance Innovation (Concordia), the S.A. Jarislowsky chair in corporate governance (Concordia) and the Financial and Organizational Information Chair (CIFO, ESG-UQAM).
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