C. A. Curtis Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis

This prize was established by a group of colleagues, former students, and family of the late Professor C.A. Curtis in his memory, to be awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis.

Past Recipients

2020/2021	Saad Khan	Essays in High and Low Frequency Price Discovery
2019/2020	Stephen Snudden	Household Return Heterogeneity in the United State
2017/2018	Ke Xu	Essays on Financial Economics
2016/2017	Alex Chernoff	Essays on Firm Heterogeneity with Empirical Applications in Economic History and Agricultural Economics
2015/2016	Michael Kottelenberg	Six Essays Evaluating the Impact of Universal Child Care on Developmental Outcomes in Quebec
2014/2015	Alex Armstrong	Essays on the Economics of Language and Language Policy
2013/2014	Derek Stacey	Search and Information Frictions in Decentralized Markets
2012/2013	Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau	Essays on Political Parties, their Organization and Policy Choice
2011/2012	David Byrne	An Empirical Study of the Causes and Consequences of Mergers in the Canadian Cable Television Industry
2010/2011	Eric Stephens	Constraints and Policy in Education and Public Budget Limits
2009/2010	James R. Thompson	Credit Risk, Insurance and Banking: A Study of Moral Hazard and Asymmetric Information
2008/2009	Joel Rodrigue	International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity: An Empirical Investigation
2007/2008	Jean-Francois Houde	An Empirical Investigation of Spatial Differentiation and Price Floor Regulations in Retail Markets for Gasoline
2006/2007	Jeremy Lise	Contributions to the Theory and Measurement of Inequality
2005/2006	Andrew Leach	Three Papers on the Economics of Climate Change
2004/2005	Allister Stefan Dodds	Economic Aspects of Privacy, Confidentiality and Consent
2003/2004	Alok Kumar	Search, Market Power, and the Dispersion of Wages and Prices
2002/2003	Yukihiro Nishimura	Optimal Taxation and Envy
2001/2002	Katherine Cuff	Three Essays on Optimal Redistributive Policies
2000/2001	Chris D'Souza	Information and Learning in Foreign Exchange Markets
1993/1994	Huw Lloyd-Ellis	Enterprise, Inequality and Growth: Essays in the Theory of Income Distribution
1985/1986	Murray Z. Frank	Essays on Industrial Behaviour Under Uncertainty
1992/1993	Michel Normandin	Precautionary Saving Due to Labor Income Uncertainty: An Explanation for Excess Smoothness and Excess Sensitivity of Consumption
1984/1985	Thanasis Stengos	Non-linear Estimation in Models with Limited Dependent Variables and Sample Selectivity
1999/2000	Chris Auld	Three Essays on the Economics of Health-Related Behaviour
1991/1992	Chris Telmer	Intertemporal Asset Pricing Theory and Incomplete Markets
1998/1999	Motohiro Sato	Three Essays on Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Decentralization
1990/1991	Julian Betts	Technological Change and the Labour Market: Explorations in the Theory of Human Capital
1997/1998	Kelly Bedard	School Structure and the Distribution of Wages
1989/1990	W. Steven Clark	A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Tax Adjusted q-Dynamics of Investment with Applications to Future Phased-In Tax Policy Reform
1996/1997	Christine Parlour	Price Dynamics in Limit Order Markets
1988/1989	Merwan Engineer	Essays on the Structure of Financial Institutions
1995/1996	Pascal St.-Amour	State-Dependent Risk Aversion
1987/1988	Yaman Asikoglu	Macroeconomic Asymmetries and Policy Interdependence between Europe and the United States
1994/1995	Desiré Vencatachellum	Dynamic Research and Development Games: Applications to Endogenous Growth Theory
1986/1987	Michael Devereux	Inflation, Exchange Rates, and Economic Policy