The Scarthingmoor Prize is awarded each year to the best MA essay.

Past Recipients

2023/2024
Matthew McGoey
 Fiscal Determinants of Default Premia on Canadian Provincial Bonds
2020/2021
Etienne Latulippe
 PARAMETER VARIABILITY, LEARNING AND INFLATION TARGETING
2019/2020
Katarina Wasielewski
 Quantifying Economic Interdependence between Canada and the United States: A GVAR Analysis
2019/2020
Stephanie Renaud
 Canadian Mortgage Contract Duration and Interest-Rate Risk
2017/2018
Alice Sun
 Assessing Canadian Housing Markets:Excess Valuation, Price-Rent Ratio and Home-Ownership Rate
2017/2018
Peter Shannon
The Effects of Minimum Wage Increases on Part-Time and Full-Time Workers in Canada.
2016/2017
Daniel Lam
 Monetary Fiscal Regimes and Canada's Multiplier Effect
2015/2016
Eric Richert
 Estimating an Effort Coordination Game between Parents and their Children
2015/2016
Thomas Stringham
Applicability of Control Function Separability as a Condition for Feasible Control Function Estimation of Simultaneous Equations Models
2014/2015
Jeffrey Hicks
Tobacco Taxes in Canada: An Analysis of Elasticities and Salience
2013/2014
Frederic Tremblay
Contingent Convertible Bonds: Hedging, Credit Default Swaps, and Sensitivity to Subjective Market Opinions
2013/2014
Erik Drysdale
Bayesian and Classical Forecasting of Canadian Macroeconomic Time Series: A Comparison Study
2011/2012
Scott Orr
Punishing Prejudice or Increasing Intolerance: The Effect of International Trade on Gender Wage Gaps
2010/2011
Berg Hannes Edinger
A Stochastic Population Projection for Canada's First Nations
2009/2010
Joshua Murphy
 Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements with Endogenous Uncertainty
2009/2010
Michael Haymes
 Google Search Engine Traffic in Economic Prediction: A Case Study Using U.S. Consumer Bankruptcies
2008/2009
Adam Cooper
Is Portfolio Home Bias Pathological or an Optimal Response?