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2021-01: Economic Insecurity and Well-being

Lars Osberg

2020-07: Monetary policy and the term structure of Inflation expectations with information frictions

James McNeil

2020-06: The Effects of a Green Nudge on Municipal Solid Waste: Evidence from a Clear Bag Policy

Mevlude Akbulut Yuksel and and Catherine Boulatoff

2020-05: Estimation of Impulse response functions with term structure local projections

James McNeil

2020-04: Policy Regimes, Income Inequality and Growth in Canada since 1946

Lars Osberg

2020-03: Modeling interest rate setting at the European Central Bank with bargaining models and counterfactuals

James McNeil

2020-02: Information Flow and Price Discovery Dynamics

Lei Wu, Kuan Xu and Qingbin Meng

2020-01: Structural Change and Global Trade Flows: Does an Emerging Giant Matter?

Benjamin N. Dennis and Talan B. Iscan

2019-02: A Microstructure Study of Circuit Breakers in the Chinese Stock Markets

Steven Shuye Wang, Kuan Xu and Hao Zhang

2019-01: Could "Equality of Opportunity" among Commoners Suffice?

Lars Osberg

2018-02: Full Employment in Canada in the early 21st Century

Lars Osberg

2018-01: The Shattered “Iron Rice Bowl”— Intergenerational Effects of Economic Insecurity During Chinese State- Owned Enterprise Reform

Nancy Kong, Lars Osberg and Weina Zhou

2017-04: Resilience in Youth: Evidence from a Forced Migration in China

Weina Zhou

2017-03: Industrialization Led Growth in Tanzania: Running with Two Legs in the 21st Century?

Lars Osberg

2017-02: Unemployment Volatility and Networks

Steven Kivinen

2017-01: Polarization in Strategic Networks

Steven Kivinen

2016-05: Consensus in Social Networks: Revisited

Steven Kivinen and Norovsambuu Tumennasan

2016-04: Perceived Discrimination, Belonging and the Life Satisfaction of Canadian Adolescents with Disabilities

Nyla Branscombe, Angela Daley and Shelley Phipps

2016-03: Social values for equality and preferences for state intervention: Is the USA “Exceptional”?

Lars Osberg and Insa Bechert

2016-02: Market Power and the Aggregate Saving Rate

Andrea Giusto and Talan B. Işcan

2016-01: On the limitations of some current usages of the Gini Index

Lars Osberg

2015-01: Performance of Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Firms: An International Perspective

Catherine Boulatoff and Carol Marie Boyer

2014-04: “Slow-Burn” Spillover and “Fast and Furious” Contagion: A Study of International Stock Markets

Lei Wu, Qingbin Meng and Kuan Xu

2014-03: Brothers, Household Financial Markets and Savings Rate in China

Weina Zhou

2014-02: Learning to Agree: A New Perspective on Price Drift

Andrea Giusto

2014-01: What’s So Bad About More Inequality?

Lars Osberg

2013-02: Nowcasting U.S. Business Cycle Turning Points with Vector Quantization

Andrea Giusto and Jeremy Piger

2013-01: Canadian Retirement Security: A New Reality of Low Returns

Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald and Lars Osberg

2012-04: The Hunger of Old Women in Rural Tanzania: How subjective data could improve poverty measurement

Lars Osberg and Thadeus Mboghoina

2012-03: Theoretical Considerations and Implications of Low Income Threshold Choices to Low Income Dynamics: A Case Study for Canada from 1999 to 2007

Zhe Ren and Kuan Xu

2012-02: Allocative Inefficiency and Sectoral Allocation of Labor: Evidence From US Structural Transformation

Talan B. Işcan

2012-01: “Running With Two Legs” Why Poverty Remains High in Tanzania and What To Do About It

Lars Osberg and Amarakoon Bandara

2011-04: Brand-Name and Generic Drug Pricing in a Regulated Environment: Findings from Canada

Zhe Ren, Ingrid Sketris and Kuan Xu

2011-03: Why Did Unemployment Disappear from Official Macro-Economic Policy Discourse in Canada?

Lars Osberg

2011-02: The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Mutlu Yuksel

2011-01: Adapting Kernel Estimation to Uncertain Smoothness

Yulia Kotlyarova, Marcia Schafgans and Victoria Zinde-Walsh

2010-10: From a Young Teen‟s Perspective: Income and the Happiness of Canadian 12 to 15 Year-Olds

Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps

2010-09: The Well-Being of Immigrant Children and Parents in Canada

Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps

2010-08: Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada

Miles Corak, Lori Curtis and Shelley Phipps

2010-07: Families, Time and Well-Being in Canada

Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps

2010-06: Low Family Income and the Overweight Status of Canadian Adolescents

Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps

2010-05: Market Regimes, Sectorial Investments, and Time-Varying Risk Premiums

Peixin (Payton) Liu, Kuan Xu and Yonggan Zhao

2010-04: Measuring Economic Insecurity and Vulnerability as Part of Economic Well-Being: Concepts and Context

Lars Osberg

2010-03: Left Behind: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Belgi Turan

2010-02: Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large- Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel

2010-01: Influenza Immunization Campaigns: Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure?

Courtney Ward

2009-03: Engel and Baumol: How much can they explain the rise of service employment in the United States?

Talan B. Işcan

2009-02: Productivity Growth and the Future of the U.S. Saving Rate

Talan B. Işcan

2009-01: Canada’s Declining Social Safety Net: EI Reform and the 2009 Budget

Lars Osberg

2008-04: Learning Violence Young

Lihui Zhang

2008-03: The Prince and the Pauper: Movement of Children Up and Down the Canadian Income Distribution, 1994-2004

Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps

2008-02: Have Most North Americans Already Met Their Kyoto Obligations? Trends in the CO2 Content of Consumption and the Role of Income Inequality

Lars Osberg

2008-01: Tasks and Opportunities within Indian Families

Sripad Motiram and Lars Osberg

2007-09: The Growth of Poor Children in China 1991-2000: Why Food Subsidies May Matter

Lars Osberg, Jiaping Shao and Kuan Xu

2007-08: A Quarter Century of Economic Inequality in Canada: 1981-2006

Lars Osberg

2007-07: The Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on Stock Prices: Evidence from Canada and the United States

Yun Daisy Li, Talan B. Işcan and Kuan Xu

2007-06: U-Statistics and Their Asymptotic Results for Some Inequality and Poverty Measures

Kuan Xu

2007-05: The Kinked Demand Curve with a Conjectural Hitch – A Micro Extension with Macro Implications

Michael Bradfield

2007-04: Accounting for Structural Change: Evidence from Two Centuries of U.S. Data

Benjamin N. Dennis and Talan B. Işcan

2007-03: Agricultural Distortions, Structural Change, and Economics Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis

Benjamin N. Dennis and Talan B. Işcan

2007-02: Participation in Employer-sponsored Training in Canada: Role of Firm Characteristics and Worker Attributes

Kuan Xu and Zhengxi Lin

2007-01: How Should We Measure Poverty in a Changing World? Methodological Issues and Chinese Case Study

Lars Osberg and Kuan Xu