MA Theses and Research Papers List
A compilation of research papers and theses accepted by the Department between 2019 and 2023.
The MA thesis provide an opportunity for the in-depth study of a topic in Economics, to go well beyond the scope of any specific topic covered by a lecture course. The MA thesis requires substantial effort in order to be accepted by the Department.
Thesis and paper titles
- A Game Theoretical Analysis of the Tainted Milk Scandal in China (Szilvia Pápai)
- A Critical Analysis of a Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest (Effrosyni Diamantoudi)
- Factors affecting Housing Affordability Index: Evidence from eight Canadian cities (Christian Sigouin)
- How Does Major Adjustment Affect Chinese College Admissions? (Szilvia Pápai)
- The Impact of Racial and Educational Composition of the Labour Force on the Gender Wage Gap (Damba Lkhagvasuren)
- Impact of Rental Controls on the Housing Quality Across the Canadian Provinces (Christian Sigouin)
- Income, Inequality, and Households's Emissions: An Assessment of the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Canada (Xintong Han)
- The Labor Market Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada
(Christian Sigouin) - Military Expenditure and External Debt in North Africa (Christian Sigouin)
- US Fiscal Policy and External Positions (Paul Gomme)
- Advertising and Market Concentration: the Relationship in Canada-US Context (Ming Li)
- Comparative Efficiency: A One-Step Stochastic Model Approach (Prosper Dovonon)
- Comparing Contemporary Estimation Methods of Gravity Model of Trade (Paul Gomme)
- Comparison Between the TTC and DA Mechanisms and the Case of New Orleans School Choice (Szilvia Pápai)
- Cooperation in International Environmental Agreements and the Role of Trade Sanctions and Transfers - A Game Theoretical Approach (zilvia Pápai)
- COVID 19: Impact of business restrictions and vaccinations on labour market outcomes in Canada (Jorgen Hansen)
- COVID-19 Vaccination in Ontario: An Economic Design Perspective (Szilvia Pápai)
- Does Financial Market Volatility Impact the Economics Growth?: Case of the United States Jan (Victor Dee)
- Education and Crime: An Empirical Study From the United States (Xintong Han)
- The Effects of Current and Past Health Status on Wages (Damba Lkhagvasuren)
- Efficient Blood Exchange: Multiple-Way Exchange of Pet Blood Transfusion (Szilvia Pápai)
- Evaluating the Decentralized Admission System in Canadian Universities (Szilvia Pápai)
- The Housing Affordability Problem of Tenant Households in Canada (Christian Sigouin)
- Minimum Wage Increase and Employment of Older Workers: Evidence From Canada (Jan Victor Dee)
- Regional Differences in Price Levels Across Canadian Provinces and Their Implication (Christian Sigouin)
- The Relationship Between Remittances, Economics Growth, and Development: Evidence from a Cross-Section of African Countries (Christian Sigouin)
- Ukraine’s crisis in 2022 through the lens of game theory (Szilvia Pápai)
- Analysis and Comparison of Solid Waste Generation Characteristics in Ontario and British Columbia (Effrosyni Diamantoudi)
- The Wage gap amongst Immigrants in Canada: Quebec and Rest of Canada (Jorgen Hansen)
- A Game Theoretic Study of Soccer (Szilvia Pápai)
- Canada ZEV Subsidy Policy Effect on ZEV Sales (Jan Victor Dee)
- Covid-19 and Labour Market Outcomes of Native and Immigrant Workers of Canada (Jorgen Hansen)
- Declining Indian Female Labour Force Participation: Is Health Responsible? (Panos Margaris)
- Measuring Systemic Stress in Jamaica (Paul Gomme)
- The Inner Mongolia College Admissions Mechanism: Procedures and Shortcomings (Szilvia Pápai)
- Limitations of the NRMP Algorithm and Possible Solutions (Szilvia Pápai)
- Economic Design for Matching Amateur Football Players to Clubs (Szilvia Pápai
- Economic Analysis of Selling Through Influencers (Szilvia Pápai)
- Environmental Policy Game: A game among federal, Quebec's and Ontario's governments (Effrosyni Diamantoudi)
- Governance and Environmental Performance: An International Analysis (Effrosyni Diamantoudi)
- Educational Progression of Two Generations of American Youths: A Probabilistic and Data-Driven Inference (Prosper Dovonon)
- The Effect of Institutional Ownership on Firm Performance (Prosper Dovonon
- A multi-factor model for the Canadian stock market (Prosper Dovonon)
- An Empirical Analysis of the Sheepskin Effect in Education Returns in China (Paul Gomme)
- Inducing Stationarity in Small Open Economy Models (Paul Gomme)
- Re-Opening Small Open Economics (Paul Gomme)
- Replication in Monetary Policy, Gali & Monacelli (Paul Gomme)
- Air Pollution and the Canadian Real Estate Market: Addressing Regressor Endogeneity using Meteorological Data (Xintong Han)
- Analysis of the Urban Rural Income Gap in Canada (Jorgen Hansen)
The Effect of the Working Income Tax Benefit on Lone Mothers' Labor Supply (Jorgen Hansen - Income Inequality Between Canadian Born and Immigrant Workers (Jorgen Hansen)
- Distributional Impact of Canada's Tax-Free Savings Account (Tatyana Koreshkova)
- Investigating the effects of nursing homes quality on covid- 19 outcomes (Tatyana Koreshkova)
- Staffing Quality in Long Term Care Facilities and Covid-19 Infections in Residents (Tatyana Koreshkova)
- The Effects of Land Transfer on Credit Constraint of Rural Households in China (Ming Li)
- A Study of the Ride-Hailing Industry in China (Ming Li)
- Urbanization and Environmental Pollution: A Case of Guangzhou (Ming Li)
- The Impact of Retirement Age on Youth Employment: Evidence from Chinese Labour Market Data (Damba Lkhagvasuren)
- Auctions versus Negotiation in eCommerce (Dipjyoti Majumdar)
- Crowdsourcing provision of a public good (Dipjyoti Majumdar)
- On Black-White Differences in Quebec Educational Attainments and Earnings (James McIntosh)
- ATM pricing and location games in the retail banking industry (Szilvia Pápai)
- The Airplane Manufacturing Duopoly: A Game-Theoretic Perspective (Szilvia Pápai)
- Coalition Formation Games in the Italian Republic (Szilvia Pápai)
- Challenges of Free Trade: The Role of Hegemony and the Prisoner's Dilemma (Szilvia Pápai)
- Combinatorial round table problem under dichotomous preferences (Szilvia Pápai)
- A Game Theoretic Analysis of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Szilvia Pápai)
- The Social Credit System in China, A Game Theory Analysis (Szilvia Pápai)
- Canadian Water Governance: From Fragmentation to Harmonization (Effrosyni Diamantoudi)
- The Environment in the MENA Region (Effrosyni Diamantoudi)
- Income Inequality in Canada: A Descriptive Analysis of Changes to the Middle Class (J. Hansen and D. Lkhagvasuren)
- Structural Estimates of Schooling Decisions: School and Labour Market Utility (Jorgen Hansen)
- Why Don't People Vote: Explanations Using Econometeric Models (Jorgen Hansen)
- Determinants of Nursing Home Prices: A California Case Study (Tatyana Koreshkova)
- The World Environmental Kuznets Curve (Tatyana Koreshkova)
- Protect the Innocent: Individual and Group Behaviour in a Jury (Ming Li)
- Public Policy Design and the Dilemma of Corruption; A Theoretical Approach (Ming Li)
- Immigrants and the Gender Gap in the USA (Damba Lkhagvasuren)
- The Impact of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration in the USA from 2016 to 2018 (Damba Lkhagvasuren)
- A Study on Institutional Racism in Canada J(ames McIntosh)
- An Application of Game Theory to the "Wedding in the Mountains" Military Operation (Szilvia Pápai)
- Co-op Matching System at Concordia University (Compass) (Szilvia Pápai)
