November 2019 Newsletter
 


  • From 11:30am to 1:30pm

    Signature conference organized as part of CIRANO's 25th anniversary activities, in collaboration with Desjardins.

    Pauline D'Amboise, Secretary General and Vice President Governance and Sustainable Development at Desjardins, will make a presentation on the theme "Sustainable Development: A Strategic Vector for Companies".

    A roundtable discussion will follow.

    Details and Registration (seats are limited)

  • From 2:00pm to 6:00pm

    Symposium to mark the publication of the book Le Québec économique 8 : Le développement durable à l’ère des changements climatiques, under the direction of Marcelin Joanis and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné.

    Authors of the book and community stakeholders will discuss the challenges related to these issues.

    Details and Registration (seats are limited)

 
A LOOK BACK ON OUR EVENTS
CEO Seminar: Philippe Rainville (Aéroports de Montréal)

On November 4 at CIRANO, Mr Philippe Rainville, President and Chief Executive Officer of Aéroports de Montréal, shared his experience during a networking reception gathering researchers and business people.. The theme of his presentation was: "Making an airport a destination". Mr Rainville discussed his arrival at the head of Aéroports de Montréal, his vision for customer experience, the development projects at Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and the community spirit he has succeeded in developing among employees, including the change in the airport's brand image.

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Workshop: The contributions of experimental economics to the analysis of organizations and public policies

On October 23rd at CIRANO, a series of three presentations by CIRANO researchers illustrated the contributions of experimental economics in different sectors including portfolio management, tax evasion and employment discrimination.

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Symposium: 40 Years of Bill 101 in Québec - Five Experts' Views

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. This symposium, organized on October 22nd at CIRANO, in collaboration with the Observatoire de la Francophonie économique, presented its main results.

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8th Annual CIRANO-Sam M. Walton College of Business Workshop on Networks in Trade and Finance

The 8th annual Workshop on Networks in Trade and Finance took 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. It aims to bring together a group of researchers in the related areas of trade, finance, economic development, sociology, and business.

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OUTREACH
CIRANO partner of the Research Chair in Intergenerational Economics
tw CIRANO is pleased to continue to support research on intergenerational economic issues. Raquel Fonseca, CIRANO Researcher and Fellow and Associate Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal, and Pierre-Carl Michaud, CIRANO Researcher and Fellow and Full Professor et HEC Montréal, are the co-holders.
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Sophie Bernard participated in a research workshop with the Canadian delegation as part of the G7
tw Last October, in France, Sophie Bernard, CIRANO Researcher and Fellow and Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, participated in the G7 Research Workshop "Plastics in the Environment". She was there with the Canadian delegation led by Chief Scientist Dr. Mona Nemer.
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François Vaillancourt participated in the 6th edition of the Colloque francophone des services des finances des universités canadiennes
tw Following a request from the National Bank of Canada, a partner of CIRANO, François Vaillancourt, CIRANO Researcher and Fellow and Emeritus Professor at Université de Montréal, made a presentation entitled "Les universités et leur contribution à l'économie québécoise : cadre conceptuel et rendements privé et social" (Universities and their contribution to the Québec economy: conceptual framework and private and social returns).
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Marta Bengoa participated in the World Trade Organization Public Forum 2019
tw Marta Bengoa, CIRANO Associated Researcher and Fellow, Associate Professor of International Economics at the Colin Powell School at City University of New York (CUNY-CCNY), participated in the World Trade Organization Public Forum 2019 last October in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Frédéric Marty appointed member of the Autorité de la Concurrence (France)
tw Frédéric Marty, CIRANO Researcher and Researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), joins the Collège of the Autorité de la concurrence (College of the Competition Authority) (France) as a qualified person in the regulated professions.
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Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin and Ingrid Peignier spoke at the 7th Annual Canadian Common Ground Alliance Damage Prevention Symposium
tw On October 9, 2019, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, CIRANO CEO and Full Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, and Ingrid Peignier, Senior Director of Partnerships and Research Valorization and Project Director at CIRANO, presented the CIRANOMTL study done with InfoExcavation "Occupational Health and Safety Risks Related to Damages to Underground Infrastructures".
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Symposium: Portfolio Decarbonization - Issues and Challenges
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
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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Conference CIRANO 25years: Sustainable Development, A Strategic Opportunity for Companies
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
During this signature conference organized as part of CIRANO's 25th anniversary activities, Pauline D'Amboise, General Secretary and Vice-President, Governance and Sustainable Development at Desjardins, will make a presentation on the theme "Sustainable Development: A Strategic Vector for Companies". Her presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion moderated by Daniel Normandin, Executive Director of the EDDEC Institute. The panelists will be Sophie Bernard (Polytechnique Montréal and CIRANO), Justin Leroux (HEC Montréal and CIRANO) and Ms. D'Amboise.Organized in collaboration with Desjardins.
 
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Symposium: Launch of Le Québec économique 8 : Le développement durable à l’ère des changements climatiques
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
To mark the publication of the book Le Québec économique 8 : Le développement durable à l’ère des changements climatiques (Sustainable Development in the Era of Climate Change), under the direction of Marcelin Joanis and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, CIRANO is organizing a half-day symposium on the theme of sustainable development. Authors of the book and community stakeholders will discuss the challenges related to these issues.
 
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Seminar: Economic Warfare and Expected Dominance Theory
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Ulrich Blum, Full Professor of Economics at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) (Germany) and Founding Director of the Center for Economics of Materials (CEM), will present his work on the economic warfare.
 
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Seminar: Management of Technological and Application Infrastructures by Public Organizations - Challenges and Practices for Evolution and Sustainability
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Simon Bourdeau (Université du Québec à Montréal et CIRANO), Thibaut Coulon (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Dragos Vieru (Université TÉLUQ) will present the results of the CIRANO report "Gestion d’infrastructures technologiques et applicatives par les organisations publiques : Enjeux et pratiques d’évolution et de durabilité".
 
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Workshop: Joint Montreal Macro Brownbag
Friday, November 29, 2019
The Joint Montreal Macro Brownbag gives Montreal-based researchers in macroeconomics the opportunity to meet and discuss each others’ work. The event brings together researchers from all economics departments in Montreal and promotes their collaboration.
 
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Interruption of Secondary and Post Secondary Education in Canada: A Dynamic Analysis
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Bernard Fortin (Université Laval and CIRANO) and Safa Ragued will present the results of the CIRANO report "Interruption des études secondaires et postsecondaires au Canada : une analyse dynamique" (written with Marcelin Joanis).
 
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Conference: Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Products and Technologies - From Silicon Valley to Quebec
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
CIRANO, the Arbour Foundation and Polytechnique Montreal are proud to organize a conference on the theme "Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Products and Technologies - From Silicon Valley to Quebec", presented by Rubén Caballero, Former Vice-President of Engineering at Apple. Following the presentation, Thierry Warin, CIRANO Researcher and Fellow, and Director of the SKEMA Global Lab in Augmented Intelligence, will lead the discussion. By invitation only.
 
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Project Reports
An Analysis of the Ins and Outs of Migration within Canada
(Paul Gomme, Gazi Mohammad Jamil, Tatyana Koreshkova, Damba Lkhagvasuren)
Favoriser l’innovation dans le secteur public québécois
(Luc Bernier)
Évaluation de l’impact du crédit d’impôt à l’investissement au Québec
(Pierre Mohnen, Jean Philippe Agbantey)
Working Papers
Fonds de la Francophonie pour les Infrastructures en Afrique (FFIA)
(Marcel Boyer, Ping Huang)
Persuasion Bias in Science: An Experiment on Strategic Sample Selection
(Arianna Degan, Ming Li, Huan Xie)
Fair Long-Term Care Insurance
(Marie Louise Leroux, Pierre Pestieau, Grégory Ponthière)
How is Machine Learning Useful for Macroeconomic Forecasting?
(Philippe Goulet Coulombe, Maxime Leroux, Dalibor Stevanovic, Stéphane Surprenant)
Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth about the Arab Spring
(Ali Fakih, Pascal L. Ghazalian)
All publications