Douglas Allen received his B.A.(hons) (1983) and M.A. (1984) from SFU, and his Ph.D. (1988) from the University of Washington where he studied under Professor Yoram Barzel. He was an assistant professor at Carleton University in Ottawa before moving to SFU in 1990.

His field of study is the economics of transaction costs and property rights, and he has applied this methodology to understanding institutions like marriage and divorce, welfare, the church, farm organization, homesteading, and the military. He is currently writing a book called "The Nature of the Farm'' with Professor Dean Lueck.  The bulk of professor Allen's teaching is in microeconomic theory and law and economics.

Recent publications: 

• "Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush", Journal of Economic History, December 2007
  
• "The Effect on Divorce of Legislated Net-Wealth Transfers: The Case of Canada's Child Support Guidelines", Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2007
  
• "The Duel of Honor:  Screening for Unobservable Social Capital" (with Clyde Reed), American Law and Economics Review 8, 2006
  
• "An Economic Assessment of Same-Sex Marriage". Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 29(3), 2006

David Andolfatto received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1994. He was associate professor at the University of Waterloo before moving to Simon Fraser University in 2000.

David's current research is focused on reconciling theories of money and banking. Past research has examined questions relating to the business cycle, contract design, bank-runs, unemployment insurance, monetary policy regimes, endogenous debt constraints, and technology diffusion.

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Bertille Antoine received a MSc. in Mathematical and Computational Finance (2002) from University of Montreal, a MSc in Statistics (2005) from UNC at Chapel Hill and a PhD in Economics (2007) from University of Montreal.

Bertille's teaching areas are econometrics, statistics and mathematical economics. She specializes in econometric theory with applications to financial economics. Current work looks at the issue of identification, especially in a GMM context. Recent applied work deals with estimation risk in a portfolio choice problem.

Recent publication: “On the Efficient Use of the Informational Content of Estimating Equations: Implied Probabilities and Euclidean Empirical Likelihood” (with H. Bonnal and É. Renault), Journal of Econometrics 138(2), 2007, 461-487.

Fernando Aragon recived a BSc in Economics (2001) from Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú, a MSc. in Economics (2005) from London School of Economics and a PhD Economics (2010) from London School of Economics.

Fernando's research interests are Development Economics, Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics. Current work focuses on studying the role of natural resources and extractive industries (like mining) on economic development.

Working papers:

• The Blessing of Natural Resources: Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine (joint with juan Pablo Rud)
• Party Primaries and Political Competition
• The Flypaper Effect and Costly Tax Collection

Jasmina Arifovic joined the Department in 1993. She received a B.A. in economics from University of Sarajevo (1981), and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago (1991). Her previous academic positions have included assistant professor at McGill University (1990-1993) and assistant professor at Simon Fraser University (1993-1997).

Prof. Arifovic's main teaching areas are macroeconomic theory, monetary theory and computational economics. Her research interests focus on adaptive behavior of economic agents and experimental economics. She is currently working on an evolutionary  model of currency crisis, laboratory experiments with the expectational Phillips curve, comparison of performance of adaptive and rational agents, and tacit coordination games.

Recent Publications:

• "The Behavior of the Exchange Rate in the Genetic Algorithm and Experimental Economies'', Journal of Political Economy 104:510-541, 1996. 
• "The Transition from Stagnation to Growth: An Adaptive Learning Approach'', (with J. Bullard and J. Duffy), Journal of Economic Growth 2:185-209, 1997. 
• "Stability of Equilibria under Genetic Algorithm Adaptation: an Analysis'', Macroeconomic Dynamics 2: 1-22, 1998. 
• "Evolution of Communication in a Sender/Receiver Game of Common Interest with Cheap Talk'' (with C. Eaton), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 22: 1187-1207.

David Cox, Instructor, received his BA (Honours) from the University of Western Ontario, his MA at The University of Alberta and his PhD at Queen's University.    During his Education Dave was awarded the University of Alberta Graduate Fellowship and the Queen's University Graduate Fellowship.

He came to SFU in 1997, prior to which he was Assistant Professor at the Universtiy of Waterloo(1990 - 93, 1995 - 96), Queens's University (1993 - 1995) and the University of Toronto (1987 - 1989).  Dave' areas of specialization are International Trade, Industrial Organization and Mathematical Economics. 

He has published many articles, conference papers, discussion papers and research papers, including "Assumed Versus Estimated Functional Form in Disaggregate Mode Choice Models" (with D.W. Gillen), Regional Science and Urban Economics, August 1979, "North American Free Trade and Its Implications for Canada: Results from a CGE Model of North American Trade" (with R. G. Harris), The World Economy, January 1992, and "An Applied General Equilibrium ANalysis of NAFTA's Impact on Canada", Modelling North American Economic Integration, 1995.

Greg Dow, Professor of Economics, joined the Department of Economics at SFU in 1995.  He received a B.A. in sociology from Amherst College (1975), an M.P.P. from the Institute of Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan (1977), and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan (1981).  His previous academic positions have included assistant professor at Yale University (1981-86); associate and full professor at the University of Alberta (1986-1995); and visiting postitions at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences; Erasmus University, and the University of New South Wales.

Prof. Dow's teaching areas are microeconomic theory, economic prehistory, comparative economics, and industrial organization.  His current research focuses on hunter-gatherer societies, the transition to agriculture, and the origins of inequality, hierarchy, and warfare.  His earlier research was largely on the organization of the firm.

Selected journal articles:

• "Why capital hires labor: A bargaining perspective," American Economic Review, 1993.
• "On the neutrality of asset ownership for work incentives," Journal of Comparative Economics, 2000.
• "Collective choice and control rights in firms," (with Gilbert Skillman), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007.
• "Partnership markets with adverse selection," Review of Economic Design, 2008.

Professor Dow is also the author of Governing the Firm: Workers' Control in Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Songzi Du received S.B.'s (2007) from MIT and a Ph.D. (2012) from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Recent Publications and Working papers:

• "Correlated Equilibrium and Higher Order Beliefs about Play." Games and Economic Behavior, 2012.
• "Ex Post Equilibria in Double Auctions of Divisible Assets." Working Paper. (with Haoxiang Zhu)
• "Are CDS Auctions Biased?" (with Haoxiang Zhu)
  
• "Rigidity of Transfers and Unraveling in Matching Markets." Working Paper (with Yair Livne)

Geoffrey Dunbar received a B.A.H. (1992) from Queen's University, a M.A. (1997) from the University of Victoria and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Queen's University. Prior to commencing his doctoral studies, Geoffrey was an economist in the International Department at the Bank of Canada (1997-1999). He joined the SFU Department of Economics in July 2005.

Geoffrey's research interests are primarily in macroeconomics and international macroeconomics. He is currently examining how international capital markets function when borrowers face domestic collateral constraints and the resulting implications for wealth inequality and capital account taxation. He is also working on optimal monetary policy when borrowers face collateral constraints and a model of foreign direct investment flows with segmented markets.

Recent working papers:

• "Banking on Collateral: Wealth Distribution, Welfare and the Risk-Free Rate with Collateralized Lending", Working Paper, 2004
  "On the Adoption of Collateralized Intermediation," Working Paper 2005
  "Rationalizing Irrational Beliefs," (with Juan Tu, Xiaoting Wang and Ruqu Wang) submitted to Economic Theory, 2005

Steve Easton joined the Department of Economics at SFU in 1975.  He received his A.B. (1970) from Oberlin College, and his M.A.(1972) and Ph. D.(1978) from the University of  Chicago.  He has had visiting appointments at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; the Department of Economics of the University of Rochester; and l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Professor Easton’s main teaching areas are international trade/finance and economic history.  Current research interests include the nature of international debt; the economics of education, and the economics of crime and punishment.

Recent publications include: 

• “Does IMF Conditionality Benefit Lenders?” (with Duane Rockerbie), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv Bd. 135, Heft 2, Juni 1999 ; 
• “What's in a Default? Lending to LDCs in the Face of Default Risk" (with Duane Rockerbie), Journal of Development Economics Vol. 78, No. 2 (April 1999) ; 
• “Is Tourism Just Another Commodity? Links between Commodity Trade and Tourism” Journal of Economic Integration Vol. 13, No. 3 (September, 1998): 522-43; 
• "Income, Growth, and Economic Freedom" (with M.A. Walker), The American Economic Review Volume 87 Number 2 (May 1997): 328-332

Jane Friesen, Associate Professor of Economics, joined the Department of Economics at SFU in 1989. A Vancouver native with a B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia, she completed her training with an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Friesen's main teaching areas are labour economics. Her research interests focus on studying the effects of Canadian labour market programs and laws on wages, employment, and hours of work. She has conducted empirical investigations of  the economic effects of various government polices, including minimum wages, overtime pay regulation, advance notice laws and Employment Insurance. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Employment Research Forum (CERF).

Some of Dr. Friesen's representative publications are:

• "The Effect of Employment Insurance on Hours of Work", Human Resource Development Canada, forthcoming.
• "The Dynamic Demand for Part-Time and Full-Time Labor", Economica, 1997.
• "Mandatory Notice and the Unemployment Durations of Displaced Workers", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1996.

Ramazan Gençay joined the department in 2004. He received a B.Sc. in Economics from Middle East Technical University (1986), an M.A. in Economics from the University of Guelph (1987) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Houston (1991). He taught at the University of Windsor from 1991 to 2003 and at Carleton University from 2003 to 2004. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bilkent University, Olsen & Associates, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University of Geneva and the University of Zurich. He is a senior fellow at the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis in Italy and a former director of the Canadian Econometric Study Group.

His broad specializations are time series econometrics, financial & nonparametric econometrics and chaotic dynamics. His scientific publications have appeared in finance, economics, engineering, statistics and physics journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Applied Econometrics, European Economic Review, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Physica A and Physica D.

He is a co-author of two books, An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance and Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics published by Academic Press. His book on High-Frequency Finance provides a framework to the analysis, modeling, and inference of high-frequency financial time series. His book on Wavelets contributes to the field of filtering by studying many filtering techniques including parametric recursive and nonrecursive filters, Kalman filters, Wiener filters, and wavelet filters. He is the founding editor of Finance Research Letters.

Richard G. Harris is the Telus Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, and Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute. He was an undergraduate at Queen's University and received his Ph from the University of British Columbia in 1976. From 1975 to 1990 he taught at Queen's University, Canada and has held visiting appointments at U.C. Berkeley, MIT, and the University of New South Wales. He is the former director of the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy at Queen's University.

His major area of specialization is international economics and in particular the economics of integration. During the 1980's he worked extensively on economic modeling of the impact of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and subsequently on NAFTA. He has served as consultant to a number of Canadian government departments, international organizations, and corporations in the area of international economics. In addition to a number of technical articles, he has published policy oriented books and articles on Canada-U.S. free trade, international macroeconomics, economic growth, the Asia-Pacific region and Canadian public policy. He is currently involved in research on North America monetary integration, the New Economy, and labour mobility in North America. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a former President of the Canadian Economics Association, and former Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies.

David Jacks received a B.A. (1997) in Economics and History from the University of Memphis, a M.A. (1998) in Economics from the University of Memphis, a M.Sc. (1999) in Economic History from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. (2004) in Economics from the University of California-Davis. In addition to his appointment at SFU, he is a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

David's research interests are in economic history and international economics. His current research includes work on the economic history of globalization; the determinants and evolution of trade costs; and commodity markets.

Recent publications and working papers include:

• Trade Costs, 1870-2000. American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings 98(2), 2008: 529-534. (With C.M. Meissner and D. Novy)
• Populists versus Theorists: Futures Markets and the Volatility of Prices. Explorations in Economic History 44(2), 2007: 342-362.

Robert Jones joined SFU in 1985.  He received his BSc and MA from the University of British Columbia, and PhD from Brown University.  Before joining SFU he was assistant professor at UCLA (economics) and associate professor at UBC (finance).  He served as consultant to Wells Fargo Bank on interest rate derivatives and risk management from 1983-2001, and as managing director, research, at Chubb Financial Solutions from 2001-03.

Professor Jones' primary teaching areas are monetary theory, applied option pricing, mathematical economics and macroeconomics. Current research interests are in the areas of financial intermediation, the default risk structure of interest rates and the economics of uncertainty.

Research papers include:

• The Origin and Development of Media Exchange. Journal of Political Economy, 1976.
• Flexibility and Uncertainty (with J. Ostroy). Review of Economic Studies, 1984.
• Adaptive Capital, Information Depreciation and Schumpeterian Growth (with G. Newman). Economic Journal, 1995.
• Exact Yield Curve Fitting of Markov Term Structure Models. 1999 (working paper).

Alexander Karaivanov received a B.A. (1997) in Economics from Sofia University, Bulgaria, a B.A. (1997) in Business Administration from Hogeschool van Utrecht, The Netherlands, an M.A. (1999) in Economics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. (2003) in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Alexander's main research interests are in the areas of development economics, contract theory, and applied microeconomics. He is currently working on solving, structurally estimating, and testing among competing theoretical models of financial market imperfections using data from Thailand. Other projects of his include optimal insurance and optimal taxation with lack of commitment, learning in principal-agent models, and the effect on inequality on public goods provisions.

Publications and working papers include:

• Distinguishing Limited Liability from Moral Hazard in a Model of Entrepreneurship (with A. Paulson and R. Townsend). Journal of Political Economy, 2006
  
• Wealth Inequality and Collective Action (with P. Bardhan and M. Ghatak). Journal of Public Economics, 2007.
  
• Can a Raise in Your Wage Make You Worse Off? A Public Goods Perspective (with S. Ghosh). Journal of Development Economics, 2007

Ken Kasa, Associate Professor, specializes in macroeconomics and international finance. He received his BS at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981, and moved on to the University of Chicago to get an MA in Economics in 1985 and his PhD in 1988.  Since then Ken has had extensive experience as an instructor, including Assistant professorships at the University of Pennsylvania (1990 - 93) and Cornell University (1988 - 91).  He also lectured at Berkeley (1994 - 98) before becoming Associate Professor at SFU in 2001.

Recent publications include:

• Robustness and Information Processing. Review of Economic Dynamics, 2006
• Learning, Large Deviations, and Recuurent Currency Crises. International Economic Review, 2004
• Model Uncertainty, Robust Policies and the Value of Commitment. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2002
• Forecasting the Forecasts of Others in the Frequency Domain. Review of Economic Dynamics, 2000

Anke Kessler received her M.SC. in economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and her Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, Germany. Before joining the department of Economics at SFU in 2003, she was an assistant professor at the University of Bonn. Prof. Kessler specializes in organizational design. Combining elements of public economics and political economics with contract theory, her current research is mainly on the design of public institutions such as transfer payments between different layers of government, and a federal vs. central organization of the state. She is also studying the provision of incentives in private institutions with emphasis on monitoring and contractually stipulated penalty clauses as incentive devices. In the past, she has worked on various issues related to federalism, including migration and tax competition, and on the economics of asymmetric information.

Some publications include:

• Interregional Redistribution and Mobility: A Positive Approach (with N. Hansen and C. Lessmann),  Review of Economic Studies 2011.
• Fiscal Competition, Redistribution, and the Politics of Economic Integration (with Christoph Lülfesmann and Gordon Myers). Review of Economic Studies 2002.
  
• The Political Geography of Tax H(e)avens and Tax Hells (with Nico Hansen). American Economic Review, 2001.
  
• The Value of Ignorance. RAND Journal of Economics, 1998.

Erik Kimbrough received an MS and a PhD in Computation Sciences and Informatics from George Mason University in May 2010.

Erik's research uses experimental and computational methods to understand the formation of economic institutions to support specialization and exchange to reduce the costs of conflict. Recent work explores how group formation dynamics effect levels of conflict and cooperation.

Recent publications include:

• "Measuring the Distribution of Spitefulness." with J. Philipp Reiss. Forthcoming. PLoS ONE.
• "Side Payments and the Costs of Conflict." with Roman M. Sheremeta. Forthcoming. International Journal of Industrial Organization.
• "The Primacy of Entrepreneurs in Exploiting Long-Distance Exchange." with Bart J. Wilson. Forthcoming. Managerial and Decision Economics.
• "Learning to Respect Property by Refashioning Theft into Trade." 2011. Experimental Economics, 14(1): 84-109.
  
• "Heuristic Learning and the Discovery of Specialization and Exchange." 2011. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 35(4): 491-511.
  
• "Geography and Social Networks in Nascent Distal Exchange." with Bart J. Wilson. 2011. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 167: 409-433.
  

Paul Klein received his BA from Oxford University in 1992, and his PhD from Stockholm University in 1997, where his thesis supervisor was Torsten Persson. He was an assistant and later associate professor at the University of Western Ontario from 2000 to 2009, and a professor at the University of Southampton from 2010 before moving to SFU in 2011. His main research interests concern tax policy, migration, consumption risk sharing, and computational methods. Professor Klein's teaching has been in the fields of macroeconomics and mathematics for economists.

Recent publications include:

• Second-order approximation of dynamic models without the use of tensors (with Paul Gomme), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 35(4),  2011, 604-615.
• Measuring Consumption Smoothing in CEX Data (with Martin Gervais), Journal of Monetary Economics 57(8), 2010 , 988-99.
• Consumption, Income, and Wealth Inequality in Canada (with Matthew Brzozowski, Martin Gervais, and Michio Suzuki), Review of Economic Dynamics 13(1) , 2010 , 52-75.
• Productivity Differences and the Dynamic Effects of Labour Movements (with Gustavo Ventura), Journal of Monetary Economics 56(8), 2009, 1059-1073.

Brian Krauth received a BA (1992) from Rice University and an MA (1995) and PhD (1999) from the University of Wisconsin. Brian's research interests lie in applied microeconomics, with particular interests in the econometric analysis of nonmarket interactions and youth behavior. His research has investigated job networking, youth smoking, and educational outcomes.

Recent publications include:

• Sorting and inequality in Canadian schools (with Jane Friesen), Journal of Public Economics, 91(11-12): 2185-2212, 2007.
  
• Peer effects and selection effects on youth smoking in California, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 25(3): 288-298, 2007
  
• Simulation-based estimation of peer effects, Journal of Econometrics 133 (1): 243-271, 2006
  
• Social interactions in small groups, Canadian Journal of Economics 39(2): 414-433, 2006
  
• A dynamic model of job networking and social influences on employment, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 28(6): 1185-1204, 2004

Shih En Lu received an AB (2006) an AM (2008) and a PhD (2011) in Economics from Harvard University.

Shih En's research interests are game theory and microeconomic theory. His current work studies strategic communication as well as bargaining theory.

Recent working papers include:

• Coordination-Free Equilibria in Cheap Talk Games
• A Continuous-Time Model of Mulitlateral Bargaining (with Attila Ambrus)

Christoph Lülfesmann (if your keyboard prefers, Luelfesmann or Lulfesmann) earned Master degrees in Tax Law from the NRW University of Public Finance, and in Economics from the University of Bonn where he also received his Ph.D. (1996). Before joining the Department of Economics at SFU in 2003, he has worked as an Assistant professor in Economics at the University of Bonn.

Christoph’s research interests are in several areas of applied microeconomic theory. He has written on topics in industrial organization and the theory of the firm, public economics and labour economics. Currently, he studies the political interaction of different layers of government in various institutional settings, and authority rights of agents in organizations.

Recent publications include:

• The Theory of Human Capital Revisited: On the Interaction of General and Specific Investments (with Anke Kessler). Economic Journal, forthcoming.
• Wealth Constraints and Option Contracts in Models with Sequential Investments. RAND Journal of Economics,  2005.
• Fiscal Competition, Redistribution, and the Politics of Economic Integration (with Anke Kessler and Gordon Myers). Review of Economic Studies, 2002.
• Central Governance or Subsidiarity: A Property-Rights Approach to Federalism. European Economic Review, 2002.

Fernando Martin received a BA (1996) and MA (1997) in Economics from Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina and and MA (2004) and PhD (2005) in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He also worked for the Central Bank of Argentina (1996-2000).

Fernando's research interests are macroeconomics, macropublic finance and monetary theory. His research aims an constructing theories of government behavior that are embedded in standard dynamic macroeconomic models. This involves emphasizing lack of commitment as a key in understanding government policy. His current work proposes a theory of the level of government debt. Fernando has also an active interest in models that provide microfoundations to the demand for money.

Recent working papers include:

• Optimal Taxation without Committment
• A Positive Theory of Government Debt
• Time-Consistent Debt (with Per Krusell and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull)

Andrew McGee received a B.S. in international economics from Georgetown University (1999) and an MA (2005) and PhD (2010) in economics from Ohio State University. Andrew’s research interests include labor economics, the economics of education, and behavioral economics. His current research involves exploring the relationships between personality traits and search behavior and examining educational outcomes among disabled students. Andrew is also a research affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn.

Publications include:

Skills, Standards, and Disabilities: How Youth with Learning Disabilities Fare in High School and Beyond, Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.

Steeve Mongrain received a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from Laval University, and a PH.D. in economics from Queen's University (1998). He then went to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Post-Doctoral fellow (1998-1999) before joining the Department of Economics at SFU in 1999. Steeve's main teaching areas are public economics, industrial organization, and microeconomics theory. His research interests focus on law and economics, specially on crime deterrence, and on public economics.

Some publications include:

• "Rehabilitated or not: an Informational Theory of Parole Decisions," Journal  Organizations of Law, Economics &, 28, 2010: 186-210. (with D. Bernhardt, and J. Roberts)
  
•  "Optimal Policiesand the Informal Sector," Journal of Public Economics 95, 2012: 1280-1291.(with K. Cuff, N. Marceau, and J. Roberts)
• "Competition in Law Enforcement and Capital Allocation," Journal of Urban Economics 69, 2011: 136-147. (with N. Marceau).
  
•  "Why Do Most Countries Set High Tax Rates on Capital?" Journal of International Economics 80, 2010: 249-259. (with N. Marceau, and J.D. Wilson)
  
•  "Gangs and Crime Deterrence," Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 22 2006: 315-339.(with A. Mansour, and N. Marceau)
•  "Experience Rating: Insurance Versus Efficiency," International Economic Review 46, 2005: 1303-1319. With J. Roberts).
  

Chris Muris received his B.Sc. (2005), M.Sc. (2006), and Ph.D. (2011) from Tilburg University. Before moving to SFU in September 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Goettingen. Chris's main teaching area is econometrics. His current research interests include missing data and nonlinear panel data methods.

Publications:

• Specification of variance matrices for panel data models. Econometric
  Theory 26, 2010: 301-310. (With J. Magnus.)
• Global warming and local dimming: the statistical evidence. Journal
  of the American Statistical Association 106, 2011: 452-464. (With J.
  Magnus and B. Melenberg.)
• Global warming and local dimming: the statistical evidence:
  Rejoinder. Journal of the American Statistical Association 106, 2011:
  467-468. (With J. Magnus and B. Melenberg.)
• Pareto utility. Theory and Decision, 2012. (With M. Ikefuji, R.
  Laeven and J. Magnus.)
  

Gordon Myers joined the Department of Economics at SFU in 1999. He received his B.A. from Queens University and his MA and Ph.D. from McMaster University (1990). Before joining SFU, he was an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario and an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. He has been an academic visitor at the University of Essex (England) and the University of Bonn (Germany).

Prof. Myers' main teaching areas are public economics and microeconomics. His research interests have mainly focused on issues in federalism including population migration, inter-regional transfers, capital tax competition, and the formation of federations. More recently his interests have broadened to include the transition from foraging to agriculture and self-esteem in labour markets.

Publications include:

• On the Mesolithic: From Foraging to Early Agriculture (with N. Marceau), forthcoming at Economic Journal.
• Redistribution, Fiscal Competition and the Politics of Economic Integration (with A. S. Kessler, C. Lulfesmann), Review of Economic Studies, 2002.
• A Coalition Formation Approach To Equilibrium Federations and Trading Blocs (with J. Burbidge, J. DePater. and A. Sengupta), American Economic Review, 1997.
• Rational Choice under an Imperfect Ability Choose (with A. DePalma and Y. Papageorgiou), American Economic Review, 1994.

Krishna Pendakur has been with the SFU Department of Economics since November 1994. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked in association with RIIM, Vancouver's Centre of Excellence for Immigration Studies, at SFU.

Dr. Pendakur's major teaching areas are labour economics and public finance. He does empirical research on the measurement of  poverty  and economic inequality, the estimation of consumer demand, and  semi-parametric and non-parametric econometrics.  His research primarily focuses on public policy and programmes, and their impact on the lives of poor people in Canada, with the goal of improving the situation.

Some recent publications:

• Tricks with Hicks: The EASI Implicit Marshallian Demand System for Unobserved Heterogeneity and Flexiblv Engel Curves (with A. Lewbel), American Economic Review, forthcoming.
• Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution, Review of Economics and Statistics (with D. Jacks), forthcoming.
• A Representation Index:  Measurin the Representation of Minorities in Income Distributions (with R. Pendakur and S. Woodcock), Berkeley Electronic Journal for Economic Analysis and Policy:  ADVANCES.
• Semiparametric Estimation of Demand Systems in Real Expenditure (with S. Sperlich), Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.
• Estimation of Collective Household Models with Engel Curves (with A. Lewbel), Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.
• Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors: Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms (with S. Woodcock), Journal of Busines and Economic Statistics, forthcoming.
• New Palgrave (2nd Edition) entry on Equivalence Scales (with A. Lewbel), 2007.
• Colour My World (with R. Pendakur), reprinted in Interrogating Race and Racism, Vijay Agnew (ed) University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
• Minority Earnings Disparity Across the Distribution (with R. Pendakur), forthcoming, Canadian Public Policy.

Luba Petersen received her B.A. (2006) from McMaster University, M.A. (2007) from the University of British Columbia, and Ph.D (2012) in Economics from the University of California Santa Cruz.

Luba's research interests are in experimental economics and macroeconomics. Her recent work focuses on designing and implementing general equilibrium economies in the lab to conduct controlled macroeconomic policy experiments on human subjects. She is currently studying the transmission and effectiveness of monetary policy within laboratory economies.

Working Papers:

• "The Role of Money Illusion in Nominal Price Adjustment" (with Abel Winn), Working Paper, 2012.
• "The Nonneutrality of Money in Laboratory New Keynesian Economies", Working Paper, 2012.
• "Money Matters: Experimental General Equilibrium Dynamics in Cash and Cashless Economies", Working Paper, 2011.
  
  

Marie Rekkas received a B.A. (1995) in Economics from York University, an M.Sc. in Statistics (1996) from the University of Toronto, an M.A. (1997) in Economics from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. (2002) in Economics from the University of Toronto. Marie's ongoing research areas are econometrics and public choice. Her current research interests involve examining several issues related to Canadian federal elections. These issues include estimating the impact of campaign spending during election campaigns and investigating the nature of incumbency in Canadian elections.

Arthur Robson received a B.Sc.(Hons) in mathematics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1968; and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1975. He was an assistant, associate and full professor at the University of Western Ontario before moving to SFU in 2003. In 2000-2001 he was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship from the Canada Council. Since 2000, he has held visiting positions at University College London, Princeton University, Stockholm School of Economics, New York University and the University of Chicago.

In his current research, Prof. Robson is planning to use data collected from contemporary hunter-gatherer societies as the inspiration for theoretical models of the evolution of economic characteristics. These characteristics include attitudes toward risk, time preference, social status, the quality and quantity of children, intelligence, and longevity, for example. He is also interested in the biological basis of strategic behavior.

Recent publications include:

• Status, the Distribution of Wealth, Private and Social Attitudes to Risk, Econometrica 60 (1992), 837-857.
• Why Would Nature Give Individuals Utility Functions? Journal of Political Economy 109 (2001), 900-914.
• The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Literature, 39 (2001), 11-33.
• The Evolution of Human Longevity and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies, (with Hillard Kaplan) American Economic Review 93 (2003), 150-169.

Nicolas Schmitt joined the Department of Economics at SFU in 1990. He received a B.A. (licence) from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), an M.A. from Carleton University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto (1986). He taught at Laval University (1985-87), the University of Western Ontario (1987-90) and at the University of Geneva (2002-05). He held visiting positions at CERGE-EI in Prague and at the University of Virginia.

Prof. Schmitt’s main teaching areas are industrial organization, international trade and microeconomics. His research interests have mainly focused on aspects of imperfect competition, market structure and product differentiation in closed and in open economies. His current research interests are on the role of intermediaries in international markets and on the international circulation of skilled individuals.

Recent publications include:

• Imports and the Structure of Retail Markets (with H. Raff), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
  
• Commodity Taxes and Parallel Imports (with P. Raimondos-Moeller), Journal of Public Economics 94, 1/2,153-62, 2010.
• Buyer Power in International Markets (with H. Raff), Journal of International Economics 72, 2, 222-29, 2009.
• Why Parallel Imports May Raise Producers’ Profits (with H. Raff), Journal of International Economics 71,434-47, 2007.

Hitoshi Shigeoka received a B.A. (2001) and an MA (2003) in chemical engineering from University of Tokyo, and master of international affairs (2006) and PhD in economics (2012) from Columbia University. Hitoshi’s research interests include health, labor and public economics. His current research involves estimating the demand elasticity of health care utilization, and examining the degree of supply-induced demand by physicians and hospitals.

Working Papers:

• "The Effect of Patient Cost-sharing on Utilization, Health and Risk Protection"
• "Supply-Induced Demand in Newborn Treatment: Evidence from Japan" (with Kiyohide Fushimi)
• "Effects of Universal Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization, and Supply-Side Responses: Evidence from Japan" (with Ayako Kondo)

Simon Woodcock received a B.A. (1996) in Economics from Simon Fraser University, an M.A. (1998) in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. (2003) in Economics from Cornell University. In addition to his appointment at SFU, he is affiliated with the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program at the U.S. Census Bureau.

Simon's research interests are in labour economics, panel data econometrics, and statistical disclosure limitation. His current research includes modeling equilibrium labour market dynamics when agents are heterogeneous and information is incomplete; applying linear mixed model theory to panel data problems; and developing inference-valid methods to protect confidentiality in longitudinal linked data. Recent publications and working papers include:

• Econometric Analyses of Linked Employer-Employee Data, in The Econometrics of Panel Data, L. Matyas and P. Syvestre (eds.), with John M. Abowd and Francis Kramarz (Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer, forthcoming).
  
• Disclosure Limitation in Longitudinal Linked Data, in Confidentiality, Disclosure and Data Access: Theory and Practical Applications for Statistical Agencies, P. Doyle, J. Lane, J. Theeuwes, and L. Zayatz (eds.), with John M. Abowd (Amsterdam: North Holland, 2001), 215-277.
  
• Heterogeneity and Learning in Labor Markets, Working paper, July 2003.