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The Mike McCracken Award for Economic Statistics The Mike McCracken Award for Economic Statistics recognizes theoretical and applied contributions to the development or use of economic statistics in Canada. The Award was established in 2010 and is now awarded every two years. It is endorsed by the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) and is presented at its annual meetings. The award is for $2,000 as sponsored by the Canadian Economics Association, the journal Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques and a generous contribution in 2017 from the McCracken family. About Mike McCracken Mike was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was educated at Rice University and Southern Methodist University. He began his Canadian career at the Economic Council of Canada where he served as the first Director of the CANDIDE Canadian macro econometric modeling project. In 1972, he co-founded and became President of Informetrica, a Canadian-based economic research and information company, providing long-term national, provincial, and industrial forecasts to companies, governments, and other organizations across Canada and abroad. He also served as president of the Canadian Association for Business Economics (1979-81 and 1988-90) and Chair of the U.S. Conference of Business Economists (1994). He is well known for the countless formal and informal ways he has contributed to the improvement and application of official economic statistics in Canada. He died in 2015. Congratulations to the 2025 Winner: Jean-Marie DufourProfessor Jean-Marie Dufour has been awarded the 2025 Mike McCracken Award for Economic Statistics. This biennial award, endorsed by the Canadian Economics Association, recognizes individuals who have made significant theoretical and applied contributions to the development or use of economic statistics in Canada. Professor Dufour has played a leading role in econometrics with his pioneering research on resampling and simulation-based methods, identification-robust methods, and the definition and analysis of causal relationships. The local projection methodology he pioneered is now a standard part of the macroeconomics toolkit and is widely used by government and private sector economists, as well as in academic research. Professor Dufour has also contributed significantly to the building of the Canadian economics statistics community. His contributions to mentoring, supervising and co-authoring with students and colleagues are vast. He has played a major role as the Director of the Canadian Econometrics Study Group, planning its annual conferences. The Mike McCracken Award recognizes Professor Dufour's enduring impact on economic statistics in Canada, acknowledging his role in advancing the theoretical foundations and practical applications of econometric analysis, and its influence both in Canada and internationally.
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