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Working Papers

2007

1. How Should We Measure Poverty in a Changing World? Methodological Issues and Chinese Case Study
   Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article in Review of Development Economics (2008)
2. Micro Foundations of Price-Setting Behaviour: Evidence from Canadian Firms
   Working Papers, Bank of Canada
3. Participation in Employer-sponsored Training in Canada: Role of Firm Characteristics and Worker Attributes
   Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
4. The Growth of Poor Children in China 1991-2000: Why Food Subsidies May Matter
   Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article in Health Economics (2009)
5. The Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on Stock Prices: Evidence from Canada and the United States
   Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
6. U-Statistics and Their Asymptotic Results for Some Inequality and Poverty Measures
   Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article in Econometric Reviews (2007)

2006

7. How Should We Measure Global Poverty in a Changing World?
   Working Papers, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations
8. Multidimensional Decomposition of the Sen Index: Some Further Thoughts
   Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de la Faculte d'administration à l'Universite de Sherbrooke

2005

9. The Impact of Hedging on Stock Return and Firm Value: New Evidence from Canadian Oil and Gas Companies
   Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics View citations

2003

10. How Has the Literature on Gini's Index Evolved in the Past 80 Years?
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics View citations

2002

11. Converging at the Bottom of the Income Distribution? Assimilation of Immigrant Cohorts over Time
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
12. Crime, Punishment and Poverty in the United States
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
13. On Sen's Approach to Poverty Measures and Recent Developments
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics View citations

2000

14. The Social Welfare Implications, Decomposability, and Geometry of the Sen Family of Poverty Indices
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Canadian Journal of Economics (2002)

1999

15. An Anatomy of the Sen and Sen-Shorrocks-Thon Indices: Multiplicative Decomposability and its Subgroup Decompositions
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics

1998

16. Poverty Intensity - How Well Does Canada Compare?
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics View citations
    Also in Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics (1998)

1997

17. International Comparisons of Poverty Intensity: Index Decomposition and Bootstrap Inference
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics View citations

1995

18. A Distribution-Free Test for Deprivation Dominance
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Econometric Reviews (1998)
19. Asymptotically Distribution-Free Statistical Tests for Generalized Lorenz Curves: An ALternative Approach
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics
20. New Distribution Tests for Stochastic Dominance
    Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive, Dalhousie, Department of Economics View citations

Journal Articles

2009

1. The growth of poor children in China 1991-2000: why food subsidies may matter
   Health Economics, 2009, 18, (S1), S89-S108
   See also Working Paper (2007)

2008

2. How Should We Measure Poverty in a Changing World? Methodological Issues and Chinese Case Study
   Review of Development Economics, 2008, 12, (2), 419-441 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2007)

2007

3. U-Statistics and Their Asymptotic Results for Some Inequality and Poverty Measures
   Econometric Reviews, 2007, 26, (5), 567-577
   See also Working Paper (2007)

2006

4. Myopic loss aversion and margin of safety: the risk of value investing
   Quantitative Finance, 2006, 6, (6), 481-494

2002

5. The social welfare implications, decomposability, and geometry of the Sen family of poverty indices
   Canadian Journal of Economics, 2002, 35, (1), 138-152 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2000)

2000

6. Inference for Generalized Gini Indices Using the Iterated-Bootstrap Method
   Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2000, 18, (2), 223-27 View citations

1999

7. Poverty Intensity: How Well Do Canadian Provinces Compare?
   Canadian Public Policy, 1999, 25, (2), 179-195 View citations

1998

8. A distribution-free test for deprivation dominance
   Econometric Reviews, 1998, 17, (4), 415-429 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1995)
9. An empirical analysis of term premiums using significance tests for stochastic dominance
   Economics Letters, 1998, 60, (2), 195-203 View citations
10. Income uncertainty, substitution effect and relative yield spreads
    The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 1998, 38, (2), 217-225

1997

11. Long-term equilibria of yields on taxable and tax-exempt bonds
    International Review of Economics & Finance, 1997, 6, (2), 119-143

1996

12. Testing First- and Second-Order Stochastic Dominance
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996, 29, (s1), 562-64

1995

13. Determinants of the Decreasing Term Structure of Relative Yield Spreads for Taxable and Tax-Exempt Bonds
    Applied Economics, 1995, 27, (7), 583-90