Research

"Assignment and Affordability" with Allen Head and Derek Stacey

"The FOLIO Model" with Baiyou Chen 

"Measuring Jobs Impacts: A Decision Framework and Available Methods," with Brett Crowley and Bahman Kashi. Jobs Guide; Issue 8, December 2023. © Washington, DC: World Bank. 

“Heterogeneity, Frictional Assignment and Homeownership,” with Allen Head and Derek Stacey. International Economic Review, vol. 64 (3), August 2023, pp. 1265-1308. https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12624 

“Heterogeneous effects of oil price fluctuations: Evidence from a non-parametric panel data model in  Canada,” with Mohsen Bakhshi Moghaddam. Energy Economics, vol. 110, June 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106012 

“Quantifying the Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Policy Responses on Canada’s Provinces in (Almost) Real Time,” with Christopher Cotton, Brett Crowley, Bahman Kashi and Frederic Tremblay, Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 55 Issue S1: Special Issue on COVID Economics, February 2022, pp. 406-445.  https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12567

“Has Canadian House Price Growth been Excessive?” with Allen Head, Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 49 (4), November 2016, pp. 1367-1400. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24915782

“Search and the dynamics of house prices and construction,” with Allen Head and Hongfei Sun, American Economic Review, vol. 104 (4), April 2014, pp. 1172-1210. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.104.4.1172

“Implementation Cycles, Growth and the Labor Market,” with Patrick Francois, B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, vol. 13, (1), July 2013, pp. 287–329. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2012-0137 

“Housing Liquidity, Mobility and the Labour Market,” with Allen Head, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 79(4), October 2012, pp. 1559-1589. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23355081.pdf

“Schumpeterian Cycles with Pro-Cyclical R&D” with Patrick Francois, Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 12(4), October 2009, pp. 567-591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2009.02.004 

“Implementation Cycles, Investment and Growth,” with Patrick Francois, International Economic Review, vol. 49 (3), August 2008, pp. 901-942.  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00501.x 

“Using Financial Market Information to Enhance Canadian Fiscal Policy” with Xiaodong Zhu, Public Finance and Management, vol. 6 (2), August 2006. https://doi.org/10.1177/152397210600600201 

“Tax Smoothing with Stochastic Interest Rates: A Re-assessment of Clinton’s Fiscal Legacy,” with Shiqiang Zhan and Xiaodong Zhu, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 37 (4), August 2005, pp. 699-724.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/3839059 

“Endogenous Insecurity and Economic Development,” with Nicolas Marceau, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 72 (1), October 2003, pp. 1-29.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3878(03)00066-X 

“Animal Spirits through Creative Destruction,” with Patrick Francois, American Economic Review, vol. 93 (3), June 2003, pp. 530-550. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/000282803322156972

“On the Impacts of Inequality on Growth in the Short and Long Run: A Synthesis,” Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 29, supplement 1, March 2003.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/3552277 

“Twin Engines of Growth: Technology and Skills as Equal Partners in Balanced Growth,” with Joanne Roberts, Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 7 (2), June 2002, pp. 87-115.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/40216057 

“Fiscal Shocks and Fiscal Risk Management,” with Xiaodong Zhu, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 48 (2), October 2001, pp. 309-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3932(01)00081-2 

“Enterprise, Inequality and Economic Development,” with Dan Bernhardt, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 67, January 2000, pp. 147-168.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-937X.00125 

“Public Education, Occupational Choice and the Growth-Inequality Relationship,” International Economic Review, Vol. 41 (1), February 2000, pp. 171-201.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/2648828

“Endogenous Technological Change and Wage-Inequality,” American Economic Review, Vol. 89 (1), March 1999, pp. 47-77.  https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.89.1.47

“Inequality, Growth and the Role of the Government,” with David R. F. Love, in Equality and Prosperity: Finding Common Ground, C.D. Howe Institute, June 1997.

“Predicting the quantity of LDC debt rescheduling,” with George McKenzie and Steve Thomas, Economic Letters, Vol. 32 (1), 1990, pp. 67-73.  https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1765(90)90051-2

“Using country balance sheet data to predict debt rescheduling,” with George McKenzie and Steve Thomas, Economic Letters, Vol. 31 (2), 1989, pp. 173-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1765(89)90194-8