The Canadian Women Economists Committee/Comité des Femmes Économistes Canadiennes was created in 2017 as a standing committee of the Canadian Economic Association charged with supporting and promoting the advancement of women in the Canadian economics profession. We interpret 'women' broadly, to include those who identify as a woman and those whose gender expression may be perceived by society as being associated with being a woman or female. 

It follows directly from the Canadian Women Economist Network (CWEN) which was founded in 1990 as an independent association of persons interested in promoting women economists and their ideas. The change from CWEN to CWEC recognizes that this responsibility of supporting and promoting women does not just fall on women alone, but on the profession as a whole. Over the past three decades, CWEC/CWEN has been instrumental in promoting women’s involvement with and within the wider Canadian economics community.

Check out our Winter 2026 Newsletter featuring an interview with Lisa Stockley (Charles River Associates).

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April 27

Justine Guillochon, Laval University, Green Tax Pass-Through to Retail Fuel Prices and Firm Heterogeneity: Evidence from France

Combining a natural experiment and high-frequency information on retail fuel prices, we investigate the level, dynamic, heterogeneity, and dependence of the pass-through of a green tax. The green tax’s economic incidence passes largely to consumers but with significant heterogeneity across gas stations. The magnitudeand speed of pass-through vary between 84% and 100%, and two and eleven days. The frequency of price changes shapes the tax’s incidence. Firms frequently adjusting prices pass through the tax, whereas those that do not, adjust their high markups due to strategic complementarities that slow down the pass-through according to a heterogeneous-firm model.

Apoorva Babbar, University of Calgari, Generative AI in Corporate Settings: Does Gender Matter?

What is the impact of firms’ responses to Generative AI on investor behaviour? This paper studies this question by analyzing gender differences in executive communication about AI during earnings calls of U.S. publicly traded firms. Using earnings call transcripts combined with stock return data, I study how investors react to AI-related discussions by male and female executives specifically around the ChatGPT launch. The results show that markets respond differently to AI communication depending on the gender of the speaker. Mentions of AI by female executives are associated with lower short-run abnormal returns, while AI mentions by male executives do not significantly affect market reactions. However, expressions of certainty about AI by female executives generate positive market responses, suggesting that tone of communication play an important role in how investors interpret AI-related discussions.

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CWEC/CFÉC is starting a new initiative to share work by Canadian Women Economists and/or on gender-related topics in Economics. Please fill in this form to get your work listed on our website - we update submissions at the end of the month starting January 31 2025. 

By Canadian Woman economist we mean the following. The word ‘woman’ is interpreted quite broadly to include those who identify as a woman and those whose gender expression may be perceived by society as being associated with being a woman or female. "Canadian" means that you are either a Canadian working abroad or a person working in Canada. Canadian citizenship is not required if you work in Canada.

2nd Queen’s WECAN Conference (Queen’s Women Economists in Canada Conference)

 From the organizers: 

We are excited to let you know that the Queen’s Economics Department (QED) and the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy (JDI) are hosting the 2nd Queen’s WECAN Conference (Queen’s Women Economists in Canada Conference). The one-day conference aims to celebrate and highlight the research contributions of women economists across Canada. We would like to invite you to this year’s conference at the Delta Hotel in Kingston, Ontario on Saturday, May 9, 2026.

We believe this intimate, annual conference format will complement the important goals and efforts of the Canadian Women Economists Committee (CWEC) by providing an additional valuable platform for engagement and recognition.

Each year, the Queen’s WECAN Conference will spotlight a different field in economics, with the second year focusing on Labour Economics, Education, and related fields. Our speakers this year feature five economists from Canadian universities: Serena Canaan (Simon Fraser University), Elizabeth Caucutt (Western University), Sonia Laszlo (McGill University), Clementine Van Effenterre (University of Toronto), and Angela Zheng (McMaster University). The conference website with the preliminary program and details can be found here.

The conference will wrap up with a reception and dinner, to which you are cordially invited. There is no fee for registration or for the lunch, reception, or dinner. The program is designed to allow an efficient day trip, and we have reserved a number of rooms at the Delta Kingston Waterfront Hotel at a special rate for those of you who prefer to stay overnight. Unfortunately, we are unable to assist with travel or accommodation costs. A link for booking accommodations at the Delta Hotel is available on the conference website. The registration link will be available on the website soon, with a deadline of April 17th.

This year's QED Frontiers of Macroeconomics Workshop is scheduled for May 8th, also at the Delta Hotel. We encourage attendees to stay for both conferences. The Frontiers of Macroeconomics workshop will feature talks from Cristina Arellano (Minneapolis Fed), Rui Castro (Montreal), Fatih Guvenen (Toronto), Natalia Kovrijnykh (ASU), and Ben Lester (Philadelphia Fed). Past conference programs can be found here.

We sincerely hope you will join us to hear some excellent speakers, discuss research, and meet colleagues this May. Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues. We look forward to an enjoyable day and to seeing you in Kingston.

Regards,

Beverly Lapham,   Amy Hongfei Sun,  Ming Xu,  Karen Ye