Conference Program

Energy, Environment, and the Future of Public Policy in Atlantic Canada

The annual conference of the Atlantic Canada Economics Association (ACEA) was hosted by the StFX Economics Department on June 4-5, 2017. 

Sunday, June 4

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM, CEA/ACEA Joint Session
State of the Art Lecture: Challenges and Pitfalls in Competition Policy Implementation
Marcel Boyer, Université de Montréal

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Panel on Pricing Carbon: Advice for the Atlantic Provinces
Sponsored by: Atlantic Province Economic Council (APEC)
Moderator: Finn Poschmann, President and CEO, APEC

Panelists:

• Herb Emery, University of New Brunswick
• Andrew Leach, University of Alberta
• Christopher Ragan, McGill University
• Jennifer Winter, University of Calgary

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Coffee break

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM, Graham Lecture: The “Mainstreaming” of Canadian Carbon Pricing: Some Crucial Challenges
Chris Ragan, McGill University, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM, ACEA Paper Sessions, 1

Energy Prices

• Nyankomo Marwa, Segmentation in the Electric Utility Industrial Market Sector: Evidence from New Brunswick
• Viktor Getalo, Socio-economic determinants of electricity prices in New Brunswick: A hedonic price approach
• Jason Stevens, The impact of energy prices on unemployment in US states: a dynamic panel analysis           
   

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM, ACEA Banquet
Hon. Randy Delorey, Minister of Finance and Gaelic Affairs

Monday, June 5

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM, ACEA Concurrent Paper Sessions, 2

Economics of Migration

• Joseph Shupac, Go East Young Canuck
• Derek Mikola, Who Moves? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration Behaviour of Recent Canadian Immigrants
• Kalam Azad, Migration and Climate Change

Health & Labour Economics

• Andrew Davis, Labour Supply of Canadian Medical Marijuana Patients
• Angela Daley, A Breath of Fresh Air: The Effect of Smoking Bans on Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Youth in Canada
• Alexander Siebert, Efficiency and Equity Concerns in the Determination of Wages

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Coffee break

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, ACEA Annual General Meeting

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM, Lunch break

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM, ACEA Concurrent Paper Sessions, 3

Externalities

• Didier Tatoutchoup, A Model of Transportation Choice to Commute to the Center Business District
• Wimal Rankaduwa, N2O Emissions and Economic Growth in Canada: Is There an Environmental Kuznets Curve?

Economic Theory

• Matt Webb, Simultaneous Search and Dependence Neglect
• Jason Childs, Edgeworth Meets Kahneman and Tversky
• Steven Kivinen, Disagreement in Social Networks

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Coffee break

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, ACEA Concurrent Paper Sessions, 4

Natural Resources

• Johnson Kakeu, Long-Run Risks and Natural Resource Policy
• Octave Keutiben, Exhaustible resources flows and rents: a spatial analysis
• Stavroula Malla, Biotechnology, Sustainable Development and Public Policy

Regional Economics & Development

• Burc Kayahan, Economic Impact of Cruise Tourism in Atlantic Canada
• Nazanin Behzadan, Are Aid and Remittances Similar in Generating the Dutch Disease?
• Andrew Crawley, Recessionary effects on the reuse sector:  A spatial economic analysis