Francois Vaillancourt
Distinguished Visiting Professor
September 2007-December
2007
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Dr. Francois Vaillancourt, a distinguished visiting research professor, is with the International Studies Program from September to December, 2007. Dr. Vaillancourt is a full professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Montreal, Canada. In 1978 he earned his Ph.D. from Queen's University of Ontario , Canada.
Dr Vaillancourt's major research interests are in the area of public economics, language economics and public policy, economics of human resources in Canada and throughout the world (New Zealand and Europe; twelve countries of Bhutan in Tunisia while passing by Congo DRC, Morocco and Pakistan). He is interested in public economy, with the federalism (distribution of the capacities, mechanisms of financing) and with the taxation (costs for collection, harmonization, local taxation, companies of State). In economy of the language, he treats variations of incomes and impact of the linguistic policies, whereas in human resources, he is more focused on the distribution of income and the social policies. He has been involved in numerous publications on these topics and has co-authored a number of publications and reports.
His research topics include the Canadian Internal Market (why it does not exist), Rates of Return to University Schooling in Canada , Tax Compliance Costs in Canada , Municipal Expenditures and Financing in Canada , The Use of Property Taxation for Funding School Boards in Canada etc. He is currently working on the differences in aging between US States and Canadian Provinces and is keen to collaborate with students and professors at the Andrew Young School to further this research. In the past, he has also been invited, as a visiting scholar to the University of Toronto, Australia National University and as an affiliate scholar to the Institute for Research on Public Policy and to the C.D. Howe Institute.
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
He is generally available in Room 551 on the 5th floor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
ISP Brown Bag Seminar Links:
"Internal human capital flow in Canada, 1996 -2001" - (The link to this topic is forthcoming)
Will be held in Seminar Room 749 of AYSPS on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 12pm
"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
