February 5th, 2012
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Recent Conferences and Workshops
November 24th 2011
Economic Outlook 2012: Moving Slowly...Is there a Problem Ahead?
Keynote speaker: Craig Alexander (SVP and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group)Panelists:
Ann Gray (Director: Corporate Development, Canada's Technology Triangle);
Mike Murray (CAO, Region of Waterloo)
Tammy Schirle (Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University)
Emcee: Lynn Haddrall (Editor-in-Chief, Grand River Media)
Moderator: Daiene Vernille (Producer/Director; Provincewide, CTV Southwestern Ontario)
View Craig Alexander's slide presentation
View an article about this event in the Waterloo Region Record
November 4-5, 2011
Canadian Public Economics Group Annual Meetings
Wilfrid Laurier university, Waterloo, Ontario.Featured invited talks by
John Duggan
Director, W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy (University of Rochester)
John Roemer
The Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics
(Yale University)
For more information on this event, please contact mgallego@wlu.ca or visit www.cpeg.ca .
October 7-8, 2011
Zero Bound and New Directions for Monetary Policy
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo , Ontario.This conference, (co-sponsored with the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis in Canada) explored many of the issues that have arisen following the global financial crisis, economic slowdown and the resulting responses by central banks. The conference featured plenary talks by
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé (Columbia University)
Gauti Eggertsson (Federal Reserve Bank of New York).
For more information on this event, please contact J. Konieczny.
This event featured keynote addresses by Jeffrey Frankel (Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and Sherry Cooper (Executive Vice-President, Global Economic Strategist, BMO Financial Group).
To view Sherry Cooper's presentation, click here.
To view Jeffrey Frankel's presentation, click here.
To watch a video clip of Howard Green (BNN) interviewing Jeffrey Frankelat our event, click here (part 1) and here (part 2).
Featuring:
Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
- Director of the International Finance and Macroeconomics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research,
- Member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee (NBER)
- Appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers by President Clinton
- Served at the Federal Reserve Board, the Institute for International Economics and the International Monetary Fund.
And
Executive Vice-President, Global Economic Strategist, BMO Financial Group;
- Chief Economist at BMO Capital Markets
- Cited as one of the most influential women in Canada.
- Author of "The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future" (2008)
- Served on the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) before moving to Canada in 1983.
For more information, please contact Megan Harris: mharris@wlu.ca
This event featured keynote addresses by David Rosenberg (Chief Economist and Strategist, Gluskin Sheff + Associates) and Hugh Brown (Executive Managing Director and Financial Sector Strategist, BMO Capital Markets).
To view David Rosenberg's presentation, click here.
To view Hugh Brown's presentation, click here.
To watch a video clip of Pat Boland interviewing David Rosenberg for BNN at our event, click here.
To read a short account of David Rosenberg's address from the Globe and Mail, please click here.
April 17-18th 2009:
Mothers, Workers, and Retirees:
The evolution of women's roles in the economy over the past 50 years
Research workshop Location: Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Campus.
The women entering retirement today represent the first cohort of women to have had full access to the birth control pill, introduced in Canada in 1960. The roles of women in the economy and society have changed dramatically over the past 50 years - the labour force participation rates of women have more than tripled; the male-female wage differential has been reduced substantially; and the fertility rates of young women have fallen.
The implications of these changes are widespread, and go well beyond affecting the well-being of women. For example, we know that men have been working more at older ages in response to their wives' labour force attachment. We have seen men become more likely to use parental leave, taking time away from their careers to raise children. We have seen increases in family earnings inequality that can be attributed to increased female labour force participation and assortative mating.
This workshop will offer an opportunity for Canadian and international researchers to present their work, with the objective of advancing research related to the role of women in the economy. While primarily focused on research within the academic community, the workshop will involve experts and researchers outside the academic community, as well as several policy and program analysts interested in this subject.
For more information please contact: T. Schirle: tschirle@wlu.ca
June 12-15, 2008
Small Open Economies in a Globalized World, 2nd International Conference
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario.
The SOEGW II conference was the second international meeting of a group of leading economists from around the world to present and discuss their research. The conference includes papers in all areas of economics, but focuses on international finance, international monetary and fiscal policies and international trade in goods and services. Plenary addresses at this year's conference were delivered by Phelim Boyle, Wilfrid Laurier University, Michael B. Devereux, University of British Columbia, David Laidler, University of Western Ontario/C.D. Howe Institute and David Longworth, Bank of Canada.
April 24-26, 2008
The Political Economy of Bargaining 2008
Featuring:
- David P. Baron, Stanford University
- John Duggan, University of Rochester
- Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania
- John E. Roemer, Yale University
- Norman Schofield, Washington University in St. Louis
Organizer: Dr. Maria Gallego
Laurier Workshop on Education Policy
April 5th, 2008 - 9:30 am - 5:00 pm (programme).
Organizer: Dr. Christine Neill
March 7-8, 2008
The Second Annual Laurier Conference on Empirical International Trade
Organizer: Azim Essaji
April 9, 2008
Economic Outlook (Toronto):
"Cananda's Presidential Election?"
Featuring Nouriel Roubini (Roubini Global Economics), Sherry Cooper (Bank of Montreal) and Steve Paikin (TVOntario).
Organizer: Dr. William Morrison