Waterloo Economics PhD Conference

Welcome to the Waterloo Economics PhD Conference!

The purpose of the conference is to encourage networking among current students and future UW alumni and to provide them with an opportunity to present their research and to share advice and information on navigating a PhD in Economics. This is also an opportunity for our faculty to catch up with their former students on their progress in their PhD program. The conference will take place on Friday May 25th from 9:45am to 6:00pm in DC 1301 and DC 1304.

For any questions, please contact Professor Kate Rybczynski at krybczynski@uwaterloo.ca or any members of the alumni relations committee organizing the event.

The alumni relations committee:
Stéphanie Lluis
Kate Rybczynski
Corey Van de Waal
Mary Ann Vaughan

Friday May 25th, 2018
Schedule:

Time	Room	Event	Presenters	Topic
9:45am	DC 1302	Opening Remarks	Margaret Insley
10:00 - 12:00	DC 1302	Paper Session 1	Annie Pan (UW) Khuong Truong (McMaster) Matthew Carew (Western) Shaun Shaikh (McMaster) Chair: Chris Riddell	Family Patrimony Rules and Women's Labor Supply in Quebec. The Impacts of Age at Arrival and Basics Skills on Earnings: Do Immigration Categories Matter? CEO tenure and index inclusion Trends in successful resuscitation after cardiac arrest under trending misclassification error: estimating bounds for partially verified data
12:00-12:15pm		Break
12:15-12:45pm	DC 1304	Keynote	Max Tabord-Meehan (NorthWestern) Chair: J-G Forand	Stratification Trees for Adaptive Randomization in Randomized Controlled Trials
12:45-1:30pm	DC 1301	Lunch & networking (Meal is provided)
1:30-3:00pm	DC 1304	Paper Session 2	Tongtong Hao (UT) Renfang Tian (UW) Andres Arcila Vasquez (UW) Chair: Anindya Sen	Intra-China migration and structural transofrmation Distributions of GDP Across Versions of the Penn World Tables: A Functional Data Analysis Approach The Effect of a Consumption Tax on the Total Emissions in China
3:00-3:15pm	DC 1304	Break
3:15-4:15pm	DC 1304	Panel Discussion	Matthew Carew Allison Devlin Bradley Minaker Annie Pan Max Tabord-Meehan Chair: Phil Curry	Panel on PhD experience
4:15-5:45pm	DC 1304	Paper Session 3	Johnny Cotoc (McMaster) Fred Liu (Western) Bradley Minaker (McMaster-Guelph) Chair: Corey Van de Waal	Debts, defaults and dogma: the impact of politics on the dynamics of sovereign debt markets Realized Tail risk and equity returns The Effectiveness of Tutorials in Large Classes – Do They Matter?
5:45pm	DC 1304	Closing remarks	Kate Rybczynski