ACEA 2016 Program
Conference Theme: "Economic Conditions for Regional Development and for First Nations"
Friday, October 21 to Sunday, October 23, 2016
Friday October 21
12:00 Noon Registration Opens – Tweedie Hall Foyer, Wallace McCain Student Centre
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Panel on Economic Prospects in Atlantic Canada
Sponsored by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (APEC)
Tweedie Hall, Wallace McCain Student Centre
Chair: Frank Strain (Mount Allison University)
Wade Locke (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Jim Sentance (University of Prince Edward Island)
David Chaundy (Atlantic Provinces Economic Council)
David Campbell (Chief Economist, New Brunswick Provincial Government)
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Panel on Indigenous Issues: Truth (Data) and Reconciliation (Policy)
Tweedie Hall, Wallace McCain Student Centre
Chair: Craig Brett (Mount Allison University)
Lars Osberg (Dalhousie University)
Roger Augustine (First Nations Regional Chief for NB/PEI)
Angela Daley (University of Maine)
David Macdonald (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM: "Recruiting Students for St. Mary's University (SMU) Graduate Program in Economics" Maryam Dilmaghani, Avard-Dixon, Room 120
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Reception: Hammond House, 82 York Street, Sackville
Saturday October 22
Concurrent Paper SessionsSaturday 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Labour Markets,
Avard Dixon,
Room 111 / Casey Warman
David Albouy, ChandlerLutz, Casey Warman
Local Labor Markets in Canada and the United States
Wenbo Zhu
Skill-Replacing Technological Change and Skill Premium: Empirical Evidence from European Countries
Edith Samuel
Volunteer Engagement, Indirect Compensation and Youth Experience
Natural Resources
Avard Dixon,
Room 112 / Jonathan Rosborough
Jonathan Rosborough, Christopher Hajzler
The Effects of Expropriation Risk on Foreign Investment and Exploration in Natural Resources
Didier Tatoutchoup
Didier Tatoutchoup, Paul Samuel Njiki Njiki
Optimal Forestry Contract with Interdependent Costs
Obed Owusu
Obed Owusu, Dr. Ishmael Wireko, Albert Kobina Mensah
The Performance of the Mining Sector in Ghana: A Decomposition Analysis of the Relative Contributions of Price and Output to Revenue Growth
Health and its Determinants
Avard Dixon,
Room 116 / Herb Emery
Herb Emery, Xiaoli Zheng, Jennifer Zwicker
How is funding medical research better for patients? The population health impacts of funding for medical research
Barry Watson
Barry Watson, Lars Osberg
Healing or Breaking? The Mental Health Implications of Repeated Economic Insecurity
Rinatuya Zhuo
Rinatuya Zhuo, Sylvain Charlebois, Brian Ferguson, Minjuan Zhao
Income Elasticity of Nutrition Between Rural and Urban: A View of Rural-Urban Gap in China.
10:30AM – Noon, Graham Lecture: "Top End Inequality in Canada: The Regional Dimension," Mike Veall (McMaster) Avard Dixon, Room 118
Noon - 1:30 PM Lunch (Local Sackville establishment of your choice)
Noon, “Nelson presents – An exploration of digital learning in the classroom: peer-to-peer discussion with lunch provided” Jeff Kadoguchi, Nelson Education Ltd. Location TBA
Saturday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmTrade
Agreements
Avard Dixon,
Room 111 / Dmitry Lysenko
Dan Ciuriak and Dmitry Lysenko
The Effect of Binding Commitments on Services Trade
Teresa L. Cyrus
Why Do Countries Form Free Trade Agreements
Sara Rohany Tabatabai
Trade Agreements and the Endogenous Structure
of Multinational Firms
Environment
Avard Dixon,
Room 116 / Lori J Curtis
Lori J Curtis, Terry Mitchell
Valuing First Nations' Contributions to Resource Extraction Partnerships under UNDRIP
Edward Olale
Jafar El Armali, Edward Olale, Van Lantz, Thomas Ochuodho
Environmental Kuznets Curve for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canadian Provinces
Amar Anwar
Amar Anwar, Mazhar Mughal
Natural Disasters and Terrorist Activities
Saturday 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Teaching of Economics
Avard Dixon,
Room 111 / James Sawler
Curtailing Economics-101ism for Students of Economics 101
Jeff Kadoguchi
"Level-setting Economics education for students from various populations through digital learning."
Fiscal Decentralization
Avard Dixon,
Room 112 / William McCarten
A Networked System of Independent Provincial Fiscal Agencies: An Overdue Institution Reform?
Keutiben Njopmouo Octave
Growth Effects of Fiscal Decentralization: Canadian Evidence
Wages and Earnings
Avard Dixon,
Room 116 / Maryam Dilmaghani
Maryam Dilmaghani, Jason Dean
Labour Market Attainment of Canadian Jews in the Early 20th Century
Amar Anwar
Amar Anwar, Murtaza Haider
Skill Mismatch and the Immigrant Wage Gap in Canada
5:30PM - 6:30 PM ACEA Director's Meeting
Avard Dixon Room 117
6:30 PM Reception and Conference Banquet
The Painted Pony Bar and Grill, 98 Main Street, Sackville
Sunday October 23
Concurrent Paper SessionsSunday 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Game Theory
Avard Dixon,
Room 111 / Patrick de Lamirande
Patrick de Lamirande, Jean-Daniel Guigou
Equilibrium concept for Multi-stage supergames
Jason Childs
Subject Choice and Behaviour in Ultimatum and Prisoners’ Dilemma Games
Steven Kivinen
Steven Kivinen, Norovsambuu Tumennasan
Consensus in Social Networks
Economic Inequality
Avard Dixon,
Room 112 / Nazanin Behzadan
Nazanin Behzadan, Richard Chisik, Harun Onder, Bill Battaile
Does Inequality Drive the Dutch Disease? Theory and Evidence
Weiyang Kong
Weiyang Kong, Shelley Phipps,
Parental economic insecurity and children's non-cognitive skills. A panel study of 2 to 5 year-olds in Canada.
Louis Corriveau
Employment Targets and Equity
Education
Avard Dixon,
Room 116 / Matthew D. Webb
James G. MacKinnon, Matthew D. Webb
The Subcluster Wild Bootstrap for Few (Treated) Clusters
Maggie E. C. Jones,
Student Aid and the Distribution of Educational Attainment: Evidence from a Post-Secondary Funding Program for Indigenous
Students in Canada
Michael Barber
Michael Barber, Maggie E.C. Jonesz
Exploring the Canadian Test Gap Along Racial Lines
Sunday 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Assets and Investments
Avard Dixon,
Room 111 / Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis, Jiseob Kim
Household Portfolio Allocation in the EU
Xiaoting Wang
Jian Wang, Xiaoting Wang, Jun Yang
Delegated Portfolio Management with Investors’ Irrational Bias
Christos Ntantamis
Measuring the Synchronization of Bull and Bear
Markets in Canadian Housing Prices
Atlantic Canada
Avard Dixon,
Room 112 / Joanne Pyke
Sarah Pyke, Joanne Pyke, Richard Watuwa
The Benefits of Social Tourism for First Nations Community Residents
Pyare Arya
Did Conspiracy Cause Gasoline Outage in Nova Scotia
Gabriel Teno
Teno G., Mayer H., Boccanfuso D., Dykens T., Duynisveld J.
Extending of the grazing season in beef cattle production in Atlantic Canada and the economic contribution for the regional development
Growth and Development
Avard Dixon,
Room 116 / George Jia
Small Business Dynamics in US and Canada
and the Financial-crisis
Dozie Okoye
Colonial Railways and Development in Nigeria
Wimal Rankaduwa
Wimal Rankaduwa and Azad Haider,
Education Expenditure and Growth in Atlantic Provinces
12:30 PM ACEA AGM / LUNCH University Club in the President's Cottage, Building #23 on the campus map, https://www.mta.ca/map/