Please see below for information regarding the upcoming CEA Conference taking place virtually June 3-5, 2021 on the Hopin platform. Registration for viewing access to the program of over 200 sessions with access to all networking is still available. In an effort to encourage further student participation, there is a discounted "viewing" registration fee of $10.00 for students who have a current CEA student membership (available for $20).
CEA2021: Registration still openPhoto: Simon Fraser University. The CEA will be supported by SFU's Meeting and Conference Services for the online delivery of the conference in the Hopin platform
The 55th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association has a phenomenal lineup of State-of-the-Art Lectures, plenary lectures, and networking opportunities on an engaging conference platform. The program chair is Francisco Ruge-Murcia (McGill University) and Steeve Mongraine (SFU) is overseeing the online delivery.
The virtual conference platform delivers an interactive program, enables you to easily move in and out of conference rooms, view who is attending a session, and connect with other participants in the reception and networking areas.
The detailed programme with the complete lineup of Special Sessions, Panels, and Paper Sessions is available here. The following are some highlights to share with you:
CEA Presidential Address: M. Scott Taylor (University of Calgary) The Orca Conjecture
CWEC Lecture: Emi Nakamura (UC Berkeley) Is the Phillips Curve Getting Flatter?
Innis Lecture: Lance Lochner (Western University) Student Loan Repayment in Canada
Purvis Lecture: Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth) - International Trade, Firms, and Jobs: Perspectives from Emerging Economies
State of the Art Lectures:
Susan Athey (Stanford GSB) - Designing and Analyzing Experiments with Machine Learning
Chris Blattman (Chicago Harris) Why We Fight: The Roots of War and The Paths to Peace
Nick Bloom (Stanford University) Why Working from Home will Stick (with Jose Barrero and Steve Davis)
Olivier Deschenes (UC Santa Barbara) The Health Impacts of Climate Change: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
Silvia Goncalves (McGill University) Impulse Response Analysis for Structural Dynamic Models with Nonlinear Regressors (with Ana Herrera, Lutz Kilian and Elena Pesavento)
Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) Public Policy and Population Health
Fiona M. Scott Morton (Yale University) Digital Platform Policy: Are antitrust and regulation complements?
Panel on Diversity and Inclusion: Elizabeth Dhuey (UofT), Césaire Meh (Bank of Canada), Diego Restuccia (UofT), Erin Strumpf (McGill), Chair: Thomas Lemieux (UBC)
Analysis Group: Data Science and Economics
Bank of Canada Fellowship Lecture: Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto) From Micro to Macro: Land Institutions, Agricultural Productivity, and Structural Transformation
Canadian Public Policy Lecture: Kevin Milligan (UBC) How Progressive is the Canadian Personal Income Tax?
CLEF Keynote Address: Lisa B. Kahn (University of Rochester) Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market
Environment and Climate Change Canada Special Lecture: Maureen Cropper (University of Maryland) On Valuing Climate Damages and the Social Cost of Carbon
Galbraith Prize in Economics Special Lecture: Mario Seccareccia (University of Ottawa) When Will the ‘Conventional Wisdom’ of Establishment Macroeconomics Catch Up with Reality? The Desperate Need for a Paradigm Shift
CEA-Bank of Canada Undergraduate Research Poster Sessions