Scarthingmoor MA Essay Prize

The Scarthingmoor Prize is awarded each year to the best MA essay.

Past Recipients

2020/2021	Etienne Latulippe	PARAMETER VARIABILITY, LEARNING AND INFLATION TARGETING
2019/2020	Stephanie Renaud	Canadian Mortgage Contract Duration and Interest-Rate Risk
2019/2020	Katarina Wasielewski	Quantifying Economic Interdependence between Canada and the United States: A GVAR Analysis
2017/2018	Peter Shannon	The Effects of Minimum Wage Increases on Part-Time and Full-Time Workers in Canada.
2017/2018	Alice Sun	Assessing Canadian Housing Markets:Excess Valuation, Price-Rent Ratio and Home-Ownership Rate
2016/2017	Daniel Lam	Monetary Fiscal Regimes and Canada's Multiplier Effect
2015/2016	Eric Richert	Estimating an Effort Coordination Game between Parents and their Children
2015/2016	Thomas Stringham	Applicability of Control Function Separability as a Condition for Feasible Control Function Estimation of Simultaneous Equations Models
2014/2015	Jeffrey Hicks	Tobacco Taxes in Canada: An Analysis of Elasticities and Salience
2013/2014	Erik Drysdale	Bayesian and Classical Forecasting of Canadian Macroeconomic Time Series: A Comparison Study
2013/2014	Frederic Tremblay	Contingent Convertible Bonds: Hedging, Credit Default Swaps, and Sensitivity to Subjective Market Opinions
2011/2012	Scott Orr	Punishing Prejudice or Increasing Intolerance: The Effect of International Trade on Gender Wage Gaps
2010/2011	Berg Hannes Edinger	A Stochastic Population Projection for Canada's First Nations
2009/2010	Joshua Murphy	Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements with Endogenous Uncertainty
2009/2010	Michael Haymes	Google Search Engine Traffic in Economic Prediction: A Case Study Using U.S. Consumer Bankruptcies
2008/2009	Adam Cooper	Is Portfolio Home Bias Pathological or an Optimal Response?