PAST WINNERS

2024

Best Paper: Jane Platt (University of British Columbia) for “Parental involvement laws: the impacts of abortion restrictions on teen maternal health in the US”

Best Poster: Anna Chernesky (University of British Columbia) for “Migration and the classroom: the effects of immigration on the test scores and school experience of native students in Europe"

2023

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

Best Poster: Colby Chambers (University of British Columbia) for “Protest and Prejudice: The Impact of Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Behaviour” (pictured below)

2022

Best Research Paper: “Willingness To Pay for Digital Privacy: Do Risk Preferences Matter?” Doina Rusu (Simon Fraser University)

Best Presentations: “Marriage, Menarche, and Mortality: Early Marriages, Women’s Health, and Child Mortality in Yemen” Michelle Bronsard (Université de Montréal), and "Return to University Education in China with Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design" Weiyu Chen (Simon Fraser University)

See SFU Post with comments from the students!

2021

Best Research Paper: “Damage Functions and the Social Cost of Carbon: Estimating Marginal Damages Under the Representative Concentration Pathways” Alyssa Russell (University of Victoria)

Best Presentation: “Reelection Incentives and Regional Policy Responses to COVID-19” Daniel Moore (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Honourable Mention: “Natural Hazards and Retrospective Voting: Evidence from Chile" Javier Cortes Orihuela (University of British Columbia)

2020

Best Research Paper: Jaycee Tolentino (University of British Columbia) for “The Politics of Disaster Relief.” 

The prize for Best Presentation was awarded to Kyra Carmichael (University of Ottawa) for her paper “Sticky or Flexible? Evaluating Revisions in Bank of Canada Staff Forecasts of the Policy Interest Rate.” 

2019 

Best Research Paper: "The Minimum Wage, Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Market for Alternative Credit" Ian Sapollnik (University of British Columbia)

Best Poster Presentation: "The Economist: Underrepresentation of Women in the Profession" Rida Aamer (University of Toronto)  

2018

Best Research Paper: "Does corruption differentially impact the productivity of female-managed microenterprises? A study of Latin America and the Caribbean" Minnie Cui (University of Toronto) 

Best Presentation: "Short-Term Inflation Forecasting in Canada Using Machine Learning" Galen Wray (University of Waterloo)

2017

Best Research Papers: “Spillovers in European Sovereign Bond Markets During the Financial Crisis”   Maria teNyenhuis (St. Francis Xavier), and “Rationalizing the Obscene: An Inquiry on Mexican Cartel Behaviour” Nelson Wong (University of British Columbia).

Best Presentations: “Who Wants to Find a Lover Online and Why? A Study of the Determinants of Online Dating Usage and the Effect of First-Time Meeting Venue on Relationship Outcomes ” Sibyl Song (University of British Columbia), and “The Effect of Income Inequality and Other Socioeconomic Factors on Political Participation in Canadian Federal Elections “ Matthew Peters (St. Mary’s University)

 

Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award:

The Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award was conferred at the Canadian Economics Association (CEA) Conference from 2014 - 2017. The purpose of this award is to promote high-quality research in the subject areas relevant for the Bank of Canada's mandate. From 2018 onwards, this award is administered uniquely by the Bank of Canada.  For more information please visit the web site for the Bank of Canada Research Paper Awards

 

Past Graduate Student Paper Prize Winners

2017 Winner: 
Pierluca Pannella (University of British Columbia): “Credit Bubbles and Misallocation”.

2016 Winner:
Li, Bingjing (University of British Columbia): “Export Expansion, Skill Acquisition and Industry Specialization: Evidence from China”

Honourable Mention:
Becerra, Oscar (University of British Columbia): & ldquo: Pension Incentives and Formal-Sector Labor Supply: Evidence from Colombia”

2015 Winner:
Hugo Jales (UBC) - "Estimating the Effects of Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach."

Honourable mentions:
Chad Kendall (UBC) - "Rational and Heuristic Trading Panics in an Experimental Asset Market "  

Derek Messacar (U. of Toronto) - "The Crowd-Out Effects and Welfare Implications of Retirement Savings Nudges."

2014 Winner:
Jonathan Hoddenbagh (Boston College)  "The financial accelerator and the optimal state-dependent contract", Review of Economic Dynamics 24, March 2017, pp. 43-65.

Honourablemention:
Edouard Djeutem (Simon Fraser University) - "Model uncertainty and the Forward Premium Puzzle."