Departmental Research Report Series

Departmental Research Reports can be downloaded from Scholarship@Western, the University's open-access repository.

2026-1 Lucas's "Keynesian Education" and the New Classical Aggregate Supply Curve by Peter Galbacs and David Laidler

2025-1 Hayek-Myrdal Interactions in the Early 1930s: New Facts Change an Old Story by Lars Jonung and David Laidler 
2025-2 Beyond Ranks: Inequality in the Measurment of Mobility by Rory McGee and Sergio Ocampo 
2025-3 Sufficient Statistics for Economic Mobility by Rory McGee 
2024-1 Locally Greedy Characterizations of Interim Allocations by Charles Z. Zheng
2023-1 The Macroeconomic Consequences of Subsistence Self-Employment by Juan Herreno; Sergio Ocampo

2023-2 Dynamic and Stochastic Rational Behavior by Naihua Kaashe; Charles Gauthier; Victor H. Aguiar

2023-3 Dynamic Programming for Pure-Strategy Subgame Perfection in an Arbitrary Game by Peter Streufert

2023-4 Macro’s Missing Link: The Unbridged Gap between Monetarism and the Wicksell Connection by David Laidler

2023-5 History of Economic Thought's Place in Macroeconomics Revisited by David Laidler

2022-1 A Partial Identification Approach to Identifying the Determinants of Human Capital Accumulation: An Application to Teachers by Nirav Mehta

2022-2 Robust Contracts in Common Agency by Keler Marku, Sergio Ocampo, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji

2022-3 A Random Attention and Utility Model by Nail Kashaev and Victor H. Aguiar

2022-4 Identification and Estimation of Multinomial Choice Models with Latent Special Covariates by Nail Kashaev

2022-5 Estimation of Parametric Binary Outcome Models with Degenerate Pure Choice-Based Data with Application to COVID-19-Positive Tests from British Columbia by Nail Kashaev

2022-6 Prices, Profits, Proxies, and Production by Victor H. Aguiar, Nail Kashaev, and Roy Allen

2022-7 Market Power, Taxation and Product Variety in the Brazilian Automobile Industry by Daniel Chaves

2022-8 Slutsky Matrix Symmetry: A New Behavioral Condition by Victor H. Aguiar and Roberto Serrano

2022-9 A Rationalization of the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference by Victor H. Aguiar, Per Hjertstrand, and Roberto Serrano

2022-10 Computing Longitudinal Moments for Heterogeneous Agent Models by Sergio Ocampo and Baxter Robinson

2022-11 Peter Howitt – a Keynesian Still in Recovery by David Laidler

2022-12 The Big Expansion of Rural Secondary Schooling during the Cultural Revolution and The Returns to Education in Rural China by Mengbing Zhu; Terry Sicular

2022-13 Savings After Retirement by Eric French; John Bailey Jones; Rory McGee

2022-14 Use It or Lose It: Efficiency and Redistributional Effects of Wealth Taxation by Fatih Guvenen; Gueorgui Kambourov; Burhan Kuruscu; Sergio Ocampo, and Daphne Chen

2021-1 Personal Gini Coefficients by James B. Davies

2021-2 A Category for Extensive-Form Games by Peter A. Streufert

2021-3 Specifying A Game-Theoretic Extensive Form As An Abstract 5-Ary Relation by Peter A. Streufert

2021-4 Old Age Savings and House Price Shocks by Rory McGee

2021-5 Lucas (1972), A Personal View from the Wrong Side of the Subsequent Fifty Years by David Laidler

2021-6 The Inner Workings of a Hub-and-Spoke Cartel in the Automotive Fuel Industry by Daniel Chaves and Marco Duarte

2020-1 Distributional Effects of Flooding, with an Application to a Major Urban Area by James B. Davies and Samantha L. Black

2020-2 Botswana's Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, and Exchange Rate Policy: Three Instruments and Three Targets? by J. Clark Leith

2020-3 Reforming Canada's Disaster Assistance Programs by James B. Davies

2020-4 The Category of Node-and-Choice Extensive-Form Games by Peter A. Streufert

2020-5 European Puts, Credit Protection, and Endogenous Default by Jorge Cruz Lopez and Alfredo Ibanez

2019-1 Trading Motives in Asset Markets by Zijian Wang

2019-2 Immigrants and Exports: Firm-level Evidence from Canada by Miguel Cardoso and Ananth Ramanarayanan

2019-3 Discerning Solution Concepts by Nail Kashaev and Bruno Salcedo

2019-4 Assessing Misspecification and Aggregation for Structured Preferences by Roy Allen and John Rehbeck

2019-5 Revealed Statistical Consumer Theory by Roy Allen, Pawel Dziewulski, and John Rehbeck

2018-1 Filling the Gap: Long Run Canadian Wealth Inequality in International Context by James B. Davies and Livio Di Matteo

2018-2 Demographics and Sectoral Reallocations: A Search Theory with Immobile Workers by Simona E. Cociuba and James C. MacGee (Updated August 2018)

2018-3 Equivalences Among Five Game Specifications, Including a New Specification Whose Nodes are Sets of Past Choices by Peter A. Streufert

2018-4 Why the Fuss? - Friedman (1968) After Fifty Years by David Laidler

2018-5 The Collapse and Recovery of the Capital Share in East Germany After 1989 by Simona E. Cociuba

2018-6 The Category of Node-and-Choice Forms, with Subcategories for Choice-Sequence Forms and Choice-Set Forms by Peter A. Streufert

2017-1 International Risk Sharing with Endogenously Segmented Asset Markets by Simona E. Cociuba and Ananth Ramanarayanan (Updated September 2018)

2017-2 A Non-Parametric Approach to Testing the Axioms of the Shapely Value with Limited Data by Victor Aguiar, Roland Pongou and Jean-Baptiste Tondji

2016-1 The Gini Coefficient and Personal Inequality Measurement by James B. Davies

2016-2 The Category of Node-and-Choice Preforms for Extensive-Form Games by Peter A. Streufert. (September 2016 Addendum)

2016-3 Random Categorization and Bounded Rationality by Victor H. Aguiar

2016-4 Economic Ideas, the Monetary Order and the Uneasy Case for Policy Rules by David Laidler

2016-5 The Category of Node-And-Choice Forms for Extensive-Form Games by Peter A. Streufert

2016-6 Managing Risk Taking with Interest Rate Policy and Macroprudential Regulations by Simona E. Cociuba, Malik Shukayev and Alexander Ueberfeldt (Updated September 2017; November 2018)