International Studies Program's
Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series

The International Studies Program is hosting a series of three brown-bag lectures by Distinguished Visiting Professor Francois Vaillancourt during the Fall Semester 2007.

The next lecture will be on the "Choosing Municipal Autonomy or Not; Quebec's 2004 Demergers", which entails recent work that uses 2001 Census data to show provinces that gain or not from migration. The lecture is scheduled for Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 11:30 am in seminar room 749, located at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Dr. Vaillancourt is a professor within the Department of Economics at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is currently working on the differences in aging between US States and Canadian Provinces. He has served in various prestigious research positions, including:

Research Coordinator for the Macdonald Commission
Associate Director of the review of Canadian Public
Policy - Analyse de Politiques
Assistant Director at the Centre de recherche et développement en économique, Université de Montréal
Research Coordinator, Income Distribution and Economic Security, Economic Research,
Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, Ottawa
Member of the Pulpit of economic surveys political and American of the University of Montreal
Member of the editorial board, Canadian Tax Newspaper

Click the links below to view previous Brown Bag Lectures:

"Canadian Fiscal Federalism: the Reforms of 2007"
Held in Seminar Room 749 of AYSPS on Tuesday October 16, 2007


"The Economics of Language"
Held in Seminar Room 749 of AYSPS on Tuesday September 25, 2007