Past Conferences

39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Macro Study Group (CMSG) will be held November 14-15, 2025, in London, Ontario. This year's meeting will be hosted by the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. Our sponsors are the Jarislowky Foundation, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Bank of Canada.

The local organizers are Sergio Ocampo and Baxter Robinson.

Registration is closed. 

The tentative program is available at this link.

The conference will take place in the Ronald D. Schmeichel Building for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI), Room 1110.

Please email CMSG2025@uwo.ca with any questions.

UM-MSU-UWO Labor Day Conference 2024
London Hall, Western University
May 15, 2024
Contact: Audra Bowlus


UM-MSU-UWO Labour Day Conference 2024

May 15, 2024
London Hall (Room 100), Western University
1140 Western Rd, London, ON N6G 0A3


Sponsored by

The Department of Economics &
Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) 


Conference Location

  • London Hall (First floor, Room 100), 1140 Western Rd, London, ON N6G 0A3
    Western University 

  • Parking
    • Huron Flats Lot - First come to London Hall lot - circled in green, to pick up parking pass. Then drive to Huron Flats lot (blue line), place parking pass in windshield, take footpath to London Hall (purple line). (See the map for details.)

Conference Dinner:

Toboggan Brewing Co.,
585 Richmond Street (519-433-2337)
(See detailed map.)


Accommodations:

For conference participants in need of accommodation, the following options are available:


Schedule

9:30 am Coffee and Donuts
10:00 am  Anastasiia Suvorova (University of Western Ontario)
"(Mis)Perceptions About Children
11:00 am  Ana Reynoso (University of Michigan)
"Families' Career Investments and Firms' Promotion Decisions" (with Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Bastina Schulz, and Rune Vejlin)
12:00 pm Lunch (Sponsored by CHCP Centre)
1:00 pm  James Reeves (University of Michigan)
"Performance Expectations and Police Officer Behavior"
2:00 pm  Emilie Jackson (Michigan State University)
"Effects of Unemployment Insurance for Self-Employed and Marginally-Attached Worker"
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm  Wenjia Cao (Michigan State University)
"Machine vs. Muscle, Bot vs. Brain: The Differential Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Heterogeneous Skill Groups"
4:30 pm  Nirav Mehta (University of Western Ontario)
"A Quantitative Theory of Teacher Quality: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model Estimated Using an Incentive Pay Experiment"
5:30 pm End of Conference - Dinner at Toboggan Brewing Co., 585 Richmond Street

*The conference is open to faculty, post-docs and graduate students at Western University, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.

Papers will be posted as they become available.

Conference on Social Insurance: Theory and Data 2023

Delta Hotels London Armouries - London, Ontario
April 22-23, 2023
Contact: Nirav Mehta or Rory McGee

Delta Hotels London Armouries
325 Dundas Street,
London, ON
N6B 1T9

April 22-23, 2023 (Program)

Full-day: Saturday, April 22, 2023
Half-day: Sunday, April 23, 2023

Confirmed Speakers include:
  • Naoki Aizawa (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Corina Mommaerts (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Hector Chade (Arizona State University)
  • George Levi-Gayle (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Maurizio Mazzocco (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Rory McGee (Western University)
  • Ana Reynoso (University of Michigan)
Contact: Nirav Mehta or Rory McGee

6th Annual Financial Econometrics and Risk Management Workshop and Conference


Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto
April 20-21, 2023
Contact: Lars Stentoft

Venue: Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

April 20 - 21, 2023

Fields Institute
222 College Street
2nd Floor - Room 230
Toronto, ON
M5T 3J1

Half-day Workshop
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Nonparametric Methods for Short-Dated Options with a lecture by: Viktor Todorov (Northwestern University)
For more information click here.

Full-day Workshop
Friday April 21, 2023
For the workshop program click here.

Confirmed Speakers include:

  • Ian Dew-Becker (Northwestern University)
  • Walter Distaso (Imperial College of London)
  • Anish Ghosh (McGill University)
  • Ilze Kalnina (North Carolina State University)
  • Piotr Orlowski (HEC Montreal)
  • Paola Pederzoli (University of Houston)
  • Mirela Sandulescu (University of Michigan)
  • Viktor Todorov (Northwestern University)

 

UM-MSU-UWO Labour Day Conference
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monday, May 9, 2022
Contact: Audra Bowlus

UM-MSU-UWO Labour Day Conference
Via Zoom
London, ON
Friday, October 15, 2021
Contact: Audra Bowlus

May 15, 2024
London Hall (Room 100), Western University
1140 Western Rd, London, ON N6G 0A3


Sponsored by

The Department of Economics &
Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) 


Conference Location

  • London Hall (First floor, Room 100), 1140 Western Rd, London, ON N6G 0A3
    Western University 

  • Parking
    • Huron Flats Lot - First come to London Hall lot - circled in green, to pick up parking pass. Then drive to Huron Flats lot (blue line), place parking pass in windshield, take footpath to London Hall (purple line). (See the map for details.)

Conference Dinner:

Toboggan Brewing Co.,
585 Richmond Street (519-433-2337)
(See detailed map.)


Accommodations:

For conference participants in need of accommodation, the following options are available:


Schedule

9:30 am Coffee and Donuts
10:00 am  Anastasiia Suvorova (University of Western Ontario)
"(Mis)Perceptions About Children
11:00 am  Ana Reynoso (University of Michigan)
"Families' Career Investments and Firms' Promotion Decisions" (with Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Bastina Schulz, and Rune Vejlin)
12:00 pm Lunch (Sponsored by CHCP Centre)
1:00 pm  James Reeves (University of Michigan)
"Performance Expectations and Police Officer Behavior"
2:00 pm  Emilie Jackson (Michigan State University)
"Effects of Unemployment Insurance for Self-Employed and Marginally-Attached Worker"
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm  Wenjia Cao (Michigan State University)
"Machine vs. Muscle, Bot vs. Brain: The Differential Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Heterogeneous Skill Groups"
4:30 pm  Nirav Mehta (University of Western Ontario)
"A Quantitative Theory of Teacher Quality: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model Estimated Using an Incentive Pay Experiment"
5:30 pm End of Conference - Dinner at Toboggan Brewing Co., 585 Richmond Street

*The conference is open to faculty, post-docs and graduate students at Western University, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.

Papers will be posted as they become available.