Economics - Research

Recent Publications of Faculty


Selected Publications


Forthcoming

  • Baksi, Soham. “Regional versus Multilateral Trade Liberalization, Environmental Taxation and Welfare”, Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

  • Cyrenne, Philippe. "Dual Distribution and the Penrose Effect" International Journal of the Economics of Business, forthcoming.

  • Dong, Xiao-yuan (with Fenglian Du). “Women’s Labor Force Participation and Childcare Choices in Urban China during the Economic Transition.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming.

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Nan Jia). “Economic Transition and the Motherhood Wage Penalty in Urban China: Investigation Using Panel Data." Cambridge Journal of Economics, forthcoming. [link]

  • Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita. "Cross-border mergers and market segmentation", Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming


2013


  •  Cai, Wenbiao and Manish Pandey. 2013. “Size-Dependent Labor Regulations and Structural Transformation in India.” Economics Letters, 119(3): 272-275 [link]

  • Dong, Xiao-yuan (with Yueping Song). 2013. “Gender and Occupational Mobility in Urban China during the Economic Transition.” Research in Labor Economics, 37: 93-122.

  • Grant, Hugh and James Townsend. 2013. "Mandatory Retirement and the Employment Rights of Elderly Canadian Immigrants.” Canadian Public Policy, 39(1): 135-152 [link]

2012


  • Cyrenne, Phil (with Alan Chan). 2012. “High School Grades and University Performance: A Case Study” Economics of Education Review, 31(5): 524-42 [link]

  • Dodds, Stefan. 2012. "Redistributive Taxation with Heterogeneous Relative Consumption Concerns." Canadian Journal of Economics, 45(1): 220-46 [link]

  • Dodds, Stefan (with Chetan Dave). 2012. "Nosy Preferences, Benevolence and Efficiency." Southern Economic Journal, 78 (3): 878-94 [link]

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan and Manish Pandey. 2012. "Gender and Labor Retrenchment in Chinese State Owned Enterprises: Investigation using firm level data" China Economic Review, Vol. 23(2), pp. 385–395. [link]

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Xinli An). 2012. “The Gender Patterns and Value of Unpaid Work: Findings from China’s First Time Use Survey.” UNRISD Research Paper 2012-6 [link]

  • Grant, Hugh. 2012. “The Remarkable Career of David A. Golden,” Manitoba History (Winter 2012) 67.

  • Grant, Hugh. 2012. “Rent Control,” Encyclopaedia of Housing (New York: Sage, 2012).

  • O'Gorman, Melanie. 2012. “Why the CCM Won’t Lose: The Roots of Single Party Dominance in Tanzania”, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 313-333.

  • Pandey, Manish (with Michael Benarroch). 2012. “The Relationship between Trade Openness and Government Size: Does disaggregating government expenditure matter?” Journal of Macroeconomics, 34(1): 239-52 [link]

  • Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita (with Hassan Benchekroun). 2012. “Welfare Effect of Mergers and Multilateral Trade Liberalization.” Review of International Economics, 20: 119-133 [link]

  • Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita (with Jan Boone, Maria Larrain-Aylwin and Wieland Mueller). 2012. "Bertrand competition with asymmetric costs: Experimental evidence." Economics Letters, 117: 134-7 [link]

2011

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Hongqin Chang and Fiona MacPhail). 2011. “Labor Migration and Time Use Patterns of the Left-behind Children and Elderly in Rural China.” World Development, in press

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Hongqin Chang and Fiona MacPhail). 2011. “The Feminization of Labor and the Gender Work-Time Gap in Rural China.” Feminist Economics, 17(4): 93-124

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Sarah Cook). 2011. “Harsh Choices: Chinese Women's Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform.” Development and Change, 42(4): 947-966

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Gale Summerfield, Nahid Aslanbeigui and Jie Hu). 2011. “Wage Differentials, Occupational Segregation, and Gendered Creativity Perceptions in the Chinese Science and Technology Sector: Beijing and Wuhan.” Eastern Economic Journal, 37: 178-196

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Liying Li). 2011. “Economic Transition and the Gender Earnings Gap in Chinese Industry: The Role of Firm Characteristics” Contemporary Economic Policy, 29(1): 67-87

  • Grant, Hugh. 2011. “An Analysis of Manitoba’s Rent Regulation Program and the Impact on the Rental Housing Market,” prepared for Manitoba Family Services and Consumer Affairs. [link]
  • Pandey, Manish and James Townsend. 2011 “Quantifying the Effects of the Provincial Nominee Programs.” Canadian Public Policy, 37(4): 495-512

  • Ray Chaudhuri, Amrita (with Hassan Benchekroun). 2011. "Environmental policy and stable collusion: The case of a dynamic polluting oligopoly." Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, 35: 479-490 [link]


2010

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Sarah Cook). eds. 2010. Gender Equality and China's Economic Transition: Informal Employment and Care Provision. Beijing: Economic Science Press

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Gunseli Berik and Gale Summerfield). eds. 2010. Gender, China and the World Trade Organization, London and New York: Routledge

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Lan Liu and Xiaoying Zheng). 2010. “Parental Care and Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from Urban China.” Feminist Economics, 16(3): 169-192

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Paul Bowles and Hongqin Chang). 2010. "Managing Liberalization and Globalization in Rural China: Trends in Rural Labour Allocation, Income and Inequality." Global Labour Journal: 1 (1): 32-55

  • Grant, Hugh (with James Townsend). 2010. “Poverty among Elderly Canadian Immigrants", in Immigrant Seniors, edited by D. Durst (Calgary: Detselig, 2010)
  • Manish Pandey and James Townsend (with Tom Carter). 2010. “The Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program: Attraction, Integration and Retention of Immigrants.” Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) Research Study No. 10

  • O'Gorman, Melanie and Manish Pandey. 2010. “Cross-Country Disparity in Agricultural Productivity: Quantifying the Role of Modern Seed Adoption.” Journal of Development Studies, 46(10): 1767-1785


  • O'Gorman, Melanie. 2010. “Racial Earnings Inequality in South Africa:  A Quantitative Assessment of the Policy Options”, Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 32, Issue 6, pages 703-718.

  • O'Gorman, Melanie. 2010. “Education Finance and the Persistence of Racial Earnings Inequality in the Post-Brown Era”, Economics of Education Review, Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 526-542.


2009

  • Abizadeh, Sohrab and Manish Pandey. 2009. “Trade Openness, Structural Change and Total Factor Productivity.” International Economic Journal, 23(4): 545-560

  • Baksi, Soham and Manish Pandey (with Pinaki Bose). 2009. “The Impact of Liberalization on Bureaucratic Corruption.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 72(1): 214-224

  • Baksi, Soham and Amrita Ray Chaudhuri. 2009. “On trade liberalization and transboundary pollution” Economics Bulletin, 29: 2605-12 [link]

  • Cyrenne, Phil. 2009. “Modelling Professional Sports Leagues: An Industrial Organization Approach.” Review of Industrial Organization, 34: 193-215 [link]

  • Cyrenne, Phil and Hugh Grant. 2009. “University Decision Making and Prestige: An Empirical Study”, Economics of Education Review, 28 (2): 237-248 [link]

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Gunseli Berik and Gale Summerfield). eds. 2009. China's Transformation and Feminist Economics. Beijing: Economic Science Press.

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan and Manish Pandey. 2009. “Comparison of Manufacturing Productivity between India and China: The Role of Institutional Change.” China Economic Review, 20(4): 754-766

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Lixin Xu). 2009. “Labor Restructuring in China: Toward A Functioning Labor Market.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 37(2): 287-305

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan, (with Ding Sai and Shi Li). 2009. “Employment and Earnings of Married Women and Family Income Inequality during China's Economic Transition.” Feminist Economics, 15(3): 163-190

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Fenglian Du). 2009. “Why Do Women Have Longer Durations of Unemployment than Men in Post-Restructuring Urban China?” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33(2): 233-252

  • Dong, Xiao-Yuan (with Liqin Zhang). 2009. “Economic Transition and Gender Differentials in Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Enterprises.” Journal of Development Economics, 88(1): 144-156

  • Pandey, Manish (with John Whalley). 2009. “Social Networks and Trade Liberalization.” Applied Economics Letters, 16: 1747-1749


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