Yazid Dissou - University of Ottawa

Yazid Dissou
Personal information
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Faculty of Social Science Building
9th Floor, Room 9038
120, University, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1N 6N5
Tel: +1 613-327-8319
Email: [email protected]
Education
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Post-doctoral studies, Cornell University, USA (1995-96)
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Ph.D. in economics, Laval University, Canada (1996)
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Doctor degree in economics, University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast (1991)
Employment History
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Supervisor of MA Program, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Canada, from July 2009 to June 2012
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Canada, from May 2007 to present.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,
Canada, from July 2005 to April 2007.
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Assistant Chief (Research Economist), Economic Studies and Policy Analysis
Division (ESPAD), Department of Finance (Canadian Ministry of Finance),
Ottawa, from May 2002 to June 2005.
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Senior Research Economist, Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division
(ESPAD), Department of Finance (Canadian Ministry of Finance), Ottawa,
from May 2001 to May 2002
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Research Economist, Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division
(ESPAD), Department of Finance (Canadian Ministry of Finance), Ottawa,
from May 2000 to May 2001
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Research Economist, Strategic Investment Analysis, MEPA, Industry Canada
(Canadian Ministry of Industry), Ottawa, from May 1999 to May 2000.
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Research Associate and Co-ordinator of the research program on the
Microeconomic Impact of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies
(MIMAP) in some West-African Countries, Department of Economics, Laval
University, from July 1996 to April 1999. Implanted and coordinated the
work of the first African MIMAP teams (Benin and Burkina Faso)
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Expert in providing technical support in CGE Modelling for the Cornell
University-USAID Madagascar Participation and Poverty Project, from
October1997 to July 1999.
Professional Activities
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2012-2013 Member of the search committee for an assistant professor in the
Department of economics of the University of Ottawa.
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2013 Member of the program committee of the 20th Annual Conference of
the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, to be
held in Toulouse, France, from June 26th to 29th, 2013.
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2012 2013 Member of the program committee of the 19th Annual Conference
of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, held
19th in Prague, Czech Republic, June 27-30, 2012.
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2010 Member of the program committee of the 4th annual World Conference
of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE), Montreal 2010
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2010 Member of the Advisory Committee on the Study on the Economic
Impact of the Aerospace Industry in Canada (AIAC)
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2009-2010 Member of the evaluation committee of the Ph.D. Program in
Development Economics at Sherbrooke University (CREPUQ)
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2009-June 2012 Director of the Master Program in Economics, Department of
Economics, University of Ottawa
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(2009-2010) Member of the search committee for CRC – Tier 1 – in
environmental economics, University of Ottawa
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2009-June 2012 Member of the graduate studies committee of the Faculty of
Social Sciences, University of Ottawa
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2009 (November, 26) Testimony before the Standing Committee on
Environment and Sustainable Development of the Canadian parliament
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2008-2009 Co-organizer of the annual "International Conference on Policy
Modeling (EcoMod2009), Ottawa, 24 -26 June 2009
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2008-2009 Coordinator of the Committee of the comprehensive examination
of the field "Development economics", Joint PhD Program in Economics,
University of Ottawa and Carleton University
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2008-2009 Member of Selection Committee for Director of Department of
Economics, University of Ottawa
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2008-2009 Member of the search committee for an assistant professor in the
Department of economics of the University of Ottawa.
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2008- June 2012 Member of the Faculty Teaching Personnel Committee
(FTPC), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa
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2007-2008 present Member of the program committee of MDG, University of
Ottawa
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2007 Member of the Scientific Council of the 47th Congress of the Canadian
Society of Economics May 16 to 17 (Quebec)
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2007-2008 Member of Scientific Committee of the 17th annual conference of
the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group (Ottawa,
12-14 October 2007)
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2007-2008 Member of the comprehensive examination of the field
"development economics", PhD Program in Economics, University of Ottawa
2005-2008 Member of program committee of DVM University of Ottawa
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2005-present Director of publication of the journal multidisciplinary
(economics, sociology, political science and law) “Perspective Afrique”
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2001-present Member of Editorial Board of the scholarly journal “The
Journal of African Development”
Research Interests
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General equilibrium modeling
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Development economics (macro and international aspects)
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Economic growth
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International trade
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Environmental policies
Research Activities
Work underway
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Government spending on education, human capital accumulation, taxes and
growth in Benin: a multisector dynamic general equilibrium analysis
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Emissions allowances and induced technological change: efficiency and
equity issues.
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GHG mitigation policies: regional, national, international and competitiveness
issues.
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Child care policy, human capital accumulation and growth.
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Oil price shocks in a multi-sector DSGE
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Dutch Disease and Immigration
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Articles under review
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Public Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Benin: A Dynamic General
Equilibrium Analysis with Heterogeneous Agents (with Selma Didic)
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Can Carbon Taxes Be Progressive? (with Muhammad Shahid Siddiqui)
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Emissions Cap or Emissions Tax? A Multi-sector Business Cycle Analysis
Corresponding (with Lilia Karnizova)
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Industry-level Econometric Estimates of Energy-capital-labour Substitution
with a Nested CES Production Function (with Lilia Karnizova and Qian sun)
Published articles
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GHG Mitigation Policies and Employment, forthcoming, Canadian Public
Policy (with Qian Sun)
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"US Foreign Affiliates, Technology Diffusion and Host Country Human
Development: Human Development Index versus Human Capital", Industry
and Innovation, forthcoming, with Elmawazini, K., G. Atallah, and N. Sonny
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“Regional trade agreement, emissions bubble, and carbon tariff
harmonization”, forthcoming Energy Journal (with Muhammad Shahid
Siddiqui)
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“Corruption, Growth and Taxation” Theoretical Economic Letters, 2, pp. 6265, with Tatsiana Yakautsava (2012)
“Household Incidence of Pollution Control Policies: a Robust Welfare
Analysis Using General Equilibrium Effects”, Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management (JEEM), 61, 2, pp. 227-243, with A. Araar and
J-Y. Duclos. (2011)
“Carbon Control Policies, Competitiveness, and Border Tax”, Energy
Economics, 33, 3, 556–564 (2011), with T. Eyland.
“Oil Price Shocks: Sectoral and Dynamic Adjustments in a Small-Open
Developed and Oil-Exporting Economy Energy Policy” Energy Policy, 28, 1,
pp.562-572 (2010).
“Energy Substitutability in Canadian Manufacturing: Econometric Estimation
with Bootstrap Confidence Intervals”, The Energy Journal, 31, 1, pp. 121-148
(2009), with Reza Ghazal.
“Efficiency and Sectoral Distributional Impacts of Output-Based Emissions
Allowances”, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy: 2006, Vol. 5:
No. 1, Article 26.
http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol5/iss1/art26.
“Cost-effectiveness of the Performance Standard System to Reduce CO2
Emissions in Canada: A General Equilibrium Analysis”, Resource and Energy
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Economics, vol. 27, 3, 2005, pp. 187-207.
“Regionalism and Labour Market Adjustment in UEMOA Countries”,
Journal of African Economies, 2004, vol. 13, no 2, 302-332, with B.
Decaluwé and V. Robichaud (2004).
“Compliance Cost to the Kyoto Protocol and Market Structure in Canada: A
Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis”, Journal of Policy Modeling,
November 2002, vol. 24, pp. 751-779, with C. MacLeod and M. Souissi.
“Dynamic Effects in Senegal of Regional Trading Agreement among
UEMOA Countries”, The Review of International Economics, vol. 10, 1,
February 2002, pp.179-199.
Union Douanière au sein de l'UEMOA: Une Analyse Quantitative, Revue
Economique, juillet 2001, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 811-30, with B. Decaluwé and A.
Patry
“Health Insurance, Liquidity and Growth”, The Scandinavian Journal of
Economics 2000, vol. 102 no. 2, pp. 269-284, with B. Carmichael
Real Exchange Rates and Regional Economic Linkages in West Africa: A
CGE Analysis of Nigeria and Niger, Revue d'Economie du Développement,
1998, 3-4, pp.47-77, P. Dorosh
Model Specification and Economies of Size in the Canadian Brewing
Industry, The Review of Agricultural Economics, 18, 655-667, 1996, with B.
Larue and G. E. West (1996).
Book chapters
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“When poor economic diversification is an impediment to poverty alleviation:
recent experience in Benin”, Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa,
Aryeetey, E., S.Devarajan, R.Kanbur and L. Kasekende, pp. 441-443, Oxford
University Press, 2012
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“ L’Intégration Régionale en Afrique de l’Ouest: Faut-il Toucher à mon
Salaire?" with Véronique Robichaud, in B. Decaluwé, A. Martens and L.
Savard eds. La Politique Économique du Développement et les Modèles
d’Equilibre Général Calculable, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal,
Montréal 2001, pp. 379-388.
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“Le Temps et la Libéralisation des Importations Ivoiriennes”, in B. Decaluwé,
A. Martens and L. Savard eds. La Politique Économique du Développement et
les Modèles d’Equilibre Général Calculable, Les Presses de l’Université de
Montréal, Montréal 2001, pp. 421-436.
Other publications in collective volumes and working papers
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“Pollution Control, Competitiveness, and Border Tax Adjustment ”
Department of Economics, University of Ottawa Working Paper #0908E with
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T. Eyland (2009)
“Energy Substitutability in Canadian Manufacturing Econometric Estimation
with Bootstrap Confidence Intervals”. Department of Economics, University
of Ottawa Working Paper #0810E, with R. Ghazal (2008)
“Household Incidence of Pollution Control Policies: a Robust Welfare
Analysis Using General Equilibrium Effects” Department of Economics,
University of Ottawa Working Paper #0805E. with Araar, A., and J.Y Duclos
(2008)
“Energy Prices and Real Economic Activity in Canada: A Multi-Sector
Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis”, University of Ottawa Working
Paper, #0707E, 2007.
“Output-Based Emissions Allowances and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-off”,
Department of Economics, University of Ottawa Working Paper, #0505E,
2005.
“Curbing GHG Emissions Using an Output-Based Permit Trading System A
Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis”, Department of Finance Working
Paper, October 2003, with Veronique Robichaud.
“Welfare and Dynamic Effects of Compliance to Kyoto Protocol in Canada in
the Presence of Imperfect Competition”, Industry Canada working paper no
35, 2002, with Carolyn McLeod and Mokhtar Souissi.
“Modelling the Economic Impacts of Climate Change Policies: A
Comparative Review”, Analytical Note, Economic and Fiscal Policy Branch,
Economic Studies and Policy Analysis Division, Department of Finance,
Ottawa, Canada, September 2002, with Veronique Robichaud.
“A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Greenhouse-Gas Reduction
Paths and Scenarios”, Research Report, ESPAD, Department of Finance,
October 2000, with Ab Iorwerth et al.
“Pauvreté à Madagascar: Défi Public et Stratégies des Ménages”, Research
Report CFNPP-INSTAT, Cornell University, June 2000, with Benoît Dostie
et al.
“Regionalisation and Labour Market Adjustment in UEMOA Countries »,
Cahier de recherches 9917, Département d'Économique Université Laval,
with Bernard Decaluwé and Veronique Robichaud, October 1999.
“Union Douanière au Sein de l'UEMOA: Une Analyse Quantitative”, Cahier
de Recherches 9811, 1998, with Bernard Decaluwé and André Patry.
“Intégration Régionale au sein de l'UEMOA : Une Analyse en Équilibre
Général Calculable”, Research Report, Caisse Française de Développement,
Octobre 1997, with Bernard Decaluwé and André Patry.
“Dynamisation des Modèles d'Équilibre Général Calculables: Un Exemple”,
in École PARADI de Modélisation Économique du Développement, vol. 1
Les Fondements Méthodologiques de la Modélisation, Université Laval,
Québec, 1996.
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“External Shocks and Adjustment in Côte d'Ivoire: A Dynamic General
Equilibrium Analysis”, Cahier de recherches 9520, Département
d'Économique, Université Laval, 1995.
“Cadre d’analyse des effets attendus de la dévaluation du Franc CFA”,
Document de travail No 9, Projet CEDRES/LAVAL, Ouagadougou et
Québec, 1993, with, M. Gauthier, S. Larivière and Frédéric Martin.
“La régionalisation de la recherche agricole en zone soudano-sahélienne:
perspectives et limites”, Proceedings, Annual Meetings of the Canadian
Association of African Studies, Montreal, 1992, with P. Calkins, P. Bosc, J.
M. Yung.
Selected Invited Professional Talks
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GTAP Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, June 27-29, 2012
EcoMod International Conference, Sevilla, Spain, July 05-07, 2012
Canadian Economic Association Conference, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, June 3-5, 2011
GTAP Conference, Venice, Italy, June 16-18, 2011
EcoMod International Conference, Ponta del Gata, Portugal, June 28-July
01, 2011
Seminar, Department of Economics, Laval University, January 2011.
ECoMod International Conference on economic modeling, Istanbul,
Turkey (July 2010)
World confeence of environmental and resource economist conference
(WCERE), Montréal, Canada, (June 2010)
PEP Conference on poverty and economic policy, Dakar, Senegal, (July
2010)
Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada (2009)
9th EcoMod International Conference on Economic Modeling, Ottawa,
June 2009.
Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Vancouver, Canada (2008)
Société Canadienne de Science Économique (SCSE), Québec, Canada,
Mai 2008
Seminar Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, April
2008
Ocean Management and Research Network (OMRN) National
Conference 2007, Ottawa, 25 October 2007
EcoMod International Conference on Economic Modelling Sao Paulo,
Brazil, July 2007
Société Canadienne de Science Économique (SCSE), Quebec City,
Canada, May 2007
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Seminar at the Bank of Canada, December 2006
Seminar, Department of Economics, McGill University 2006
Seminar, Department of Economics, Université du Québec en Outaouais,
2006
Department of Economics Seminar Series, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,
Canada, 2005
Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada (2004)
Federal Analysis and Modelling Group Seminar, Ottawa, Canada (2003)
Department of Finance Seminar Series (Ministry of Finance of Canada)
Ottawa, Canada, (2003)
Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Vancouver, Canada (2001)
Industry Canada Seminar Series, Ottawa, Canada (2000)
International Atlantic Economic Conference, Montreal, Canada 1999
Société Canadienne de Science Économique, Québec, Canada (1998)
International Conference on CGE Modeling, organized by DIAL, Paris,
September 1997.
3rd International Conference on African Economic Issues, Cotonou,
Benin, 1997 (organized by The World Bank and the AERC)
2nd École de Printemps en Économie Internationale'', GREQAM,
Université de la Méditerranée, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 1995.
5th International Conference on CGE Modeling, October 1994, University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
2nd International Conference on African Economic Issues, Arusha,
Tanzania, October 1994 (organized by The World Bank and the AERC).
Selected Consulting Activities
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Training in CGE Modeling for Researchers of the Ministry of Finance of
Senegal
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Evaluation of the Ph.D. Program in Development Economics of the
Sherbrooke University for CREPUQ (Conférence des Recteurs Et
Principaux des Universités du Québec)
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CGE Modelling for Environment Canada (Federal Ministry of
Environment of Canada), Ottawa, Canada
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Evaluation of the Global Research Program in Economics for the
International Development Research Center, Ottawa, Canada
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CGE Modeling for Department of Finance (Federal Ministry of Finance of
Canada), Ottawa, Canada
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CGE Modeling for Industry Canada (Federal Ministry of Industry of
Canada), Ottawa, Canada
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CGE Modeling for The World Bank, Washington
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CGE Modeling for Cornell University-USAID, Madagascar Participation
and Poverty Project
Refereeing
Journal of Economic Growth, Empirical Economics, Environmental Modelling &
Software, Economics Research International, Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of
Economic Inequality, Energy Economics, Région et Développement, The B.E.
Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, International Journal of
Microsimulation, Environmental Resource and Economics, Energy Studies
Review, Journal of African Economies, Canadian Journal of Development
Studies, L'Actualité Économique, Canadian Journal Agricultural Economics,
Journal of African Business, CD-Howe Institute, PEP network, Review of
Agricultural Economics.
Graduate Student Supervision
Ph.D. students
Completed
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Catherine Milot (2012) “Three Essays on Low-skilled Migration,
Sustainability and Trade in Services” (Main supervisor) April 2012
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Rizwana Alamgir (2012) “Three Essays on Human Capital Formation
Childcare Financing and Growth; Childcare Exposure; and Human Capital
Mobility” (co-supervision with Jean-François Tremblay) February 2012
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Faisal Deen Arif (2012) “Three Essays on the Economics of Climate
Change” (Main supervisor) January 2012
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Muhammad Shahid Siddiqui (2011) “Essays on environmental policies and on
debt-financing under asymmetric information”, (Main supervisor) September
2011
Wichayayuth Boonchit (2007) “Three essays on general equilibrium analysis
of economic policy in Thailand” (co-supervision with Marcel Mérette)
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M.A. students
Completed
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Qian Sun (2012) "Technological change for a two-level CES production function An
empirical study for Canada" April 2012
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Liu Yu (2011) “Public Infrastructure, Investment and Economic Growth in China: An
Empirical Analysis Using VAR” December 2011
Tatsiana Yakautsava (2011) “Corruption, Growth, and Taxation” August 2011
Selma Didic “Public infrastructure and growth: a multisector dynamic general
equilibrium analysis”.
Harriett Hans-Smith Fabyan (2009): “Foreign Direct Investment: Trends,
Historical Development and Determinants in Member Countries of West
African Monetary Zone (WAMZ)”
Sean Martineau (2009) “Household incidence of pollution control policies”
Trevor Sabean (2008) “Real exchange volatility and value added in Canadian
manufacturing industries”
Zacharie Liman Tingri (2008) “The resource curse in perspective”
Terry Eyland (2008) “Welfare impact of carbon tariffs”
Meghan Baker (2008) “Growth implication of foreign aid volatility in the
presence of endogenous labour supply and capital installation cost”
Jenifer Vieno (2008) “Sensitivity analysis on behavioural parameters in CGE
models: Application to Turkish economy”
Eugène Murenzi (2008) “La désagrégation du secteur de l’électricité dans les
MCS: Une application à l’économie canadienne’’
Daouda Sylla (2007) « Formes fonctionnelles flexibles et modèles d’équilibre
général calculable: le cas de la ‘Symmetric Generalized McFadden Function »
Pooja Sharma, (2007) “Economic Growth and Child Mortality”
Yulia Minaeva, (2007) “Poverty and foreign aid: Policy trade-off”
Li Xiujun (2006) “General equilibrium assessment of the economic impacts
of service FDI liberalization: The role of technology parameters”
Ph.D. Thesis Committee
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Chahreddine Abbes (2011) “Analyzing the Twin Effects of Trade and
Population Ageing on the Environment”
Guohan Zhu (2009) “Three Essays on Population Ageing and Globalization” :
Member of the Jury, Université d’Ottawa
Deming Luo (2009) “Optimal Simple Money rules in a Small Open Economy
with Information Uncertainty and Measurement Error
Ting Zhang (2008) “International Outsourcing : An Open-economy Model
with Intermediate Goods and Economies of Scale”, Member of the Jury,
Carleton University
Xiaonan Li “The Impact of Exchange rate Volatility on ASEAN-5 Exports”,
July 2011, Carleton University
Yang Zhang “Imperfect Asset Substitution in a Small Open Economy
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Model”, February 2011, Carleton University
Qi Zhang “A Population Aging Analysis for Canada Using the National
Transfer Accounts Approach”, December 2010, University of Ottawa
Radu Anghel “Technological Improvement, the Real Exchange Rate and the
Skill Premium: A Unifying Approach” May 2009, Carleton University
Xue Zhao ‘Physical Investment and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Sudden
Stop’ 2010 , Carleton University
External Examiner for Ph.D. Defence
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External reviewer for the Ph.D. dissertation of Jules-Eric Tchapchet of Rouen
University (France) on « Contrainte d’émission de GES et modélisation économique
: Perspectives alternatives, Enseignements et Contributions au regard des approches
appliquées et théorique de l’équilibre général » (November 2012)
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External reviewer for the Ph.D. dissertation of Pamela Mambwe NakambaKabaso “Reforming The Value Added Tax in Zambia” de University of
Witwatersand, South Africa, January 2010
MA major paper reader
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Yue Liu “Commodity Prices and Currency Exchange rates between North
America and Greater China Region”(April 2012)
Yajie Leng “Indirect Tax Reform and Redistribution in Tlemcen” (2009)
Nan Na Zhang “Cost Benefit Analysis: Replacing Ontario’s Coal-Fired
Electricity Generation Revisited” (2009)
Xiao Xia Zhao “The Impact of Exchange Rate upon Canadian Manufacturing
Industries” (2008)
Sonja Djukic “Competition in Infrastructure Investment among Canadian
Provinces” 2007
Dilani Inigahawela “The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Economic
Growth in Sri Lanka”( 2007)
Colin Busby “Selling the Family silver: Alberta’s Fiscal Management in the
Era of Oil” (2007)
Afaf Elshibly “Fiscal Decentralization : Theoretical and Practical Issues with
Emphasis on Developing Countries” (2006)
Zhen An “China-US bilateral trade deficit and implications” (2006)
Courses Taught:
Graduate courses
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ECO 6110, 6904A-B: Introduction to Applied General Equilibrium Modelling
with Application to International Trade and Environmental Policies
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ECO 6120: Macroeconomic Theory
ECO 6520: Théorie Macroeconomique
ECO 6172 : Economic Development: International Aspects
ECO 6904 A : Thèmes choisis: Les modèles calculables d’équilibre général
avec des applications au commerce international et à l’environnement
Undergraduate courses
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ECO 3152: Macroeconomic Theory III
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ECO 3552: Théorie macroéconomique III
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ECO 3111: International Trade
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ECO 3511: Commerce international
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