New CEA Fellows:

The title of Fellow of the Canadian Economics Association is conferred to recognize the achievements and contribution to the discipline of the most prominent economists who have spent a significant portion of their career in Canada.   The CEA is also please to induct three new Fellows this year:
Nicole Fortin, Richard Harris, and John Hartwick

State of the Art Lectures 
The Economics of Artificial Intelligence 

CEA Presidential Address
Basic Income and The Labour Market: Labour Supply, Precarious Work, & Technological Change 

Congratulations to the 2023 Award Winners:

The Canadian Economics Association is pleased to share the following award winners that were announced at the 57^th Annual Meetings of the CEA in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
 

Doug Purvis Memorial Prize:

The Doug Purvis Memorial Prize went to “The Consequences of the Bank of Canada’s Ballooned Balance Sheet” by Jeremy Kronick, Steve Ambler, Thor Koeppl  (published by the C. D. Howe Institute)



The Purvis Prize Committee Also Awards Honourable Mention to: 

“Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in Canada” edited by Lindsay Tedds and Jennifer Robson, and 

“Loss of Life and Labor Productivity: The Canadian Opioid Crisis” by Joseph Marchand and Alexander Cheung (with Patricia Mark).

Thank you to the Purvis Prize Committee members, John Hoicka, Joseph Macaluso, Nouri Najjar
Angela Redish (chair) & Casey Warman

The Canadian Journal of Economics:

The Harry Johnson Prize for best paper in the CJE went to Olivier Fortin-Gagnon, Maxime Leroux, Dalibor Stevanovic and Stéphane Surprenant, for “A Large Canadian Database for Macroeconomic Analysis,” published in the November 2022 issue.

The Robert Mundell Prize for best paper by a young researcher went to Alex Chernoff (Bank of Canada) for "Firm Heterogeneity, Technology Adoption, and the Spatial Distribution of Population," published in the May 2021 issue.

CWEC Sylvia Ostry Service Award:

Dr. Evelyn Forget and
Dr. Victoria Zinde-Walsh

CWEC Young Researcher Award:
 

Donn Feir

Canadian Public Policy Awards:

Canada Public Policy presented the Vanderkamp prize to Mario Fortin (University of Sherbrooke) for his paper "The Fiscal Impact of Quantitative Easing"

The runner up was given to Pierre Brochu and Jonathan Créchet (University of Ottawa) for their paper "Survey Non-Response in COVID-19 Times: The Case of the Labour Force Survey"

Mike McCracken Award for Economic Statistics:

The Mike McCracken Award recognizes theoretical and applied contributions to the development or use of economic statistics in Canada. The award is presented every second year. For 2023, the prize committee selected Andrew Sharpe (Centre for the Study of Living Standards) as the winner of the Mike McCracken Award.

Thank you to the McCracken Prize Committee Members.

Embrace Day Graduate Student Posters:

Best Poster winner went to:
Felix Fosu (University of Calgary) for "Building the Walls of International Trade after War: Can Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (DRMs) Help?" 
 

Runner up went to:
Raphaël Langevin (McGill University) for "Consistent Estimation of Finite Mixtures: An Application to Latent Group Panel Structures" 

The Embrace Day Reception "Fan favourite" went to:

Wenshuang Yu (University of Calgary) for "Access to High-Income Countries and Product Innovation: Evidence from China"

Bank of Canada – CEA Undergraduate Research Poster Awards:

The Award for Best Paper went to Yoon Jeong (Lauren) Hwang (Simon Fraser University) for “The impact of framing on demand for plastic: an experimental study”

The Award for Best Poster went to Colby Chambers (UBC) for “Protest and Prejudice: The Impact of Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Behaviour”

Thank you to the Bank of Canada for their support of this initiative.

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