The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Macro Study Group (CMSG) will be held in-person in Vancouver, BC, on November 5-6, 2021, hosted by the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia. The CMSG solicits papers in all areas of macroeconomics.
Updated information about the meeting will be made available here. If you have any questions, please contact 2021cmsg@gmail.com.
Program
Friday, Nov 5, Hilton Vancouver Downtown, 433 Robson Street
12:00-1:30pm lunch and registration
Session 1: Sovereign Risk
- 1:30-3:00pm
- Chair: Michael Devereux
- Sovereign Spreads and the Poverty Head-Count Ratio, Farzana Alamgir (McMaster) and Alok Johri (McMaster)
- Discussant: Victoria Hnatkovska (UBC)
- Sovereign Risk and Intangible Investment, Minjie Deng (SFU) and Chang Liu (Rochester)
- Discussant: Marco Brianti (U Alberta)
- Sovereign Spreads and the Poverty Head-Count Ratio, Farzana Alamgir (McMaster) and Alok Johri (McMaster)
3:00-3:30pm Break
Session 2: Cycles in Climate and Production
- 3:30-5:00pm
- Chair: Angela Redish
- Energy Efficiency and Fluctuations in CO2 Emissions, Soojin Jo (Bank of Canada) and Lilia Karnizova (Ottawa)
- Discussant: Huw Lloyd Ellis (Queens)
- Medium-term Cycles and Labor Market Search, Pavel Sevcik (UQAM) and Jean-Paul K. Tsasa (UQAM)
- Discussant: Allen Head (Queens)
- Energy Efficiency and Fluctuations in CO2 Emissions, Soojin Jo (Bank of Canada) and Lilia Karnizova (Ottawa)
Saturday, Nov 6, Room 301, Iona Building, UBC, 6000 Iona Drive
8:00am Bus from Hilton downtown to Iona building
8:15-9:00am Breakfast, 3rd floor Iona building
Session 3: Productivity and Skills
- 9:00am-10:30am
- Chair: Tomasz Święcki
- Productivity Gains from Labor Outsourcing: The Role of Trade Secrets, Gorkem Bostanci (UBC)
- Discussant: Margaride Duarte (Toronto)
- Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-based Time and Goods Investments, Elizabeth Caucutt (Western), Lance Lochner (Western), Joseph Mullins (Minnesota), and Youngmin Park (Bank of Canada)
- Discussant: John Knowles (SFU)
- Productivity Gains from Labor Outsourcing: The Role of Trade Secrets, Gorkem Bostanci (UBC)
10:30-11:00am Break
Session 4: Market Structure in Macroeconomics
- 11:00am-12:30pm
- Chair: Jesse Perla
- Style Over Substance? Advertising, Innovation, and Endogenous Market Structure, Laurent Cavenaile (Toronto), Murat Alp Celik (Toronto), Pau Roldan-Blanco (Bank of Spain), Xu Tian (UGA)
- Discussant: Peifan Wu (UBC)
- Spillovers and Redistribution through Multi-market Firms: The Product Replacement Channel, Jay Hyun (HEC Montreal) and Ryan Kim (JHU)
- Discussant: Joao Galindo da Fonseca (UdeM)
- Style Over Substance? Advertising, Innovation, and Endogenous Market Structure, Laurent Cavenaile (Toronto), Murat Alp Celik (Toronto), Pau Roldan-Blanco (Bank of Spain), Xu Tian (UGA)
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
Session 5: New Perspectives on Taxation
- 1:30-3:00pm
- Chair: Henry Siu
- How to Tax Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century? Sebastian Dyrda (Toronto) and Benjamin Pugsley (Notre Dame)
- Discussant: Fernando Martin (St. Louis Fed)
- Taxing Wealth and Capital Income with Heterogeneous Returns, Fatih Güvenen (Minnesota), Gueorgui Kambourov (Toronto), Burhan Kuruscu (Toronto), Sergio Ocampo (Western)
- Discussant: Paul Klein (Stockholm)
- How to Tax Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century? Sebastian Dyrda (Toronto) and Benjamin Pugsley (Notre Dame)
3:00-3:30pm Break
Session 6: Bank of Canada Session Wage Inequality and Asset Characteristics
- 3:30-5:00pm
- Chair: Michal Szkup
- Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality, Matias Cortes (York), Adrian Lerche (IAB), Uta Schoenberg (UCL), Jeanne Tschopp (Bern)
- Discussant: Derek Stacey (Waterloo)
- Asset Safety vs Asset Liquidity, Athanasios Geromichalos (UC Davis), Lucas Herrenbrueck (SFU), and Sukjoon Lee (UC Davis)
- Discussant: David Andolfatto (St. Louis Fed)
- Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality, Matias Cortes (York), Adrian Lerche (IAB), Uta Schoenberg (UCL), Jeanne Tschopp (Bern)
5:00pm Adjourn
5:30pm Bus from Iona Building to Hilton Downtown
7:30pm Conference Dinner @ Glowbal, TELUS Garden, 590 West Georgia St
Information
Conference registration will be capped at 60 people, all fully vaccinated. Government-issued proof of vaccination is required for indoor activities.
Registration
Registration opens Wednesday, Oct 13, 9:00am PDT, on a first come first serve basis. The early bird registration fee expires on Wednesday, Oct 20, 9:00am PDT.
Registration is now closed.
General Admission: CAD $200 (early bird), CAD $250 (regular)
Students: CAD $75 (early bird), CAD $125 (regular)
Accommodation
We have a block of suites booked at the Hilton Vancouver Downtown. Conference attendees will enjoy a CMSG discounted rate, with access to either 1) a suite with separate queen bedroom at $159 CAD per night, or 2) a deluxe suite with separate king bedroom at $169 CAD per night.
Organizers
Michael Devereux, Angela Redish, Henry Siu, Peifan Wu
Sponsors
Bank of Canada
Canadian Economics Association
Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
History of the CMSG
CMSG Permanent link: https://dge.repec.org/cmsg.html
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