This prize was established by a group of colleagues, former students, and family of the late Professor C.A. Curtis in his memory, to be awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis.

Past Recipients

2020/2021 Essays in High and Low Frequency Price Discovery
2019/2020 Household Return Heterogeneity in the United State
2017/2018 Essays on Financial Economics
2016/2017
Alex Chernoff
Essays on Firm Heterogeneity with Empirical Applications in Economic History and Agricultural Economics
2015/2016
Michael Kottelenberg
Six Essays Evaluating the Impact of Universal Child Care on Developmental Outcomes in Quebec
2014/2015
Alex Armstrong
Essays on the Economics of Language and Language Policy
2013/2014
Derek Stacey
Search and Information Frictions in Decentralized Markets
2012/2013
Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau
Essays on Political Parties, their Organization and Policy Choice
2011/2012
David Byrne
An Empirical Study of the Causes and Consequences of Mergers in the Canadian Cable Television Industry
2010/2011
Eric Stephens
Constraints and Policy in Education and Public Budget Limits
2009/2010
James R. Thompson
Credit Risk, Insurance and Banking: A Study of Moral Hazard and Asymmetric Information
2008/2009
Joel Rodrigue
International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity: An Empirical Investigation
2007/2008
Jean-Francois Houde
An Empirical Investigation of Spatial Differentiation and Price Floor Regulations in Retail Markets for Gasoline
2006/2007
Jeremy Lise
Contributions to the Theory and Measurement of Inequality
2005/2006
Andrew Leach
Three Papers on the Economics of Climate Change
2004/2005
Allister Stefan Dodds
Economic Aspects of Privacy, Confidentiality and Consent
2003/2004
Alok Kumar
Search, Market Power, and the Dispersion of Wages and Prices
2002/2003
Yukihiro Nishimura
Optimal Taxation and Envy
2001/2002
Katherine Cuff
Three Essays on Optimal Redistributive Policies
2000/2001
Chris D'Souza
Information and Learning in Foreign Exchange Markets
1989/1990
W. Steven Clark
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Tax Adjusted q-Dynamics of Investment with Applications to Future Phased-In Tax Policy Reform
1984/1985
Thanasis Stengos
Non-linear Estimation in Models with Limited Dependent Variables and Sample Selectivity
1985/1986
Murray Z. Frank
Essays on Industrial Behaviour Under Uncertainty
1986/1987
Michael Devereux
Inflation, Exchange Rates, and Economic Policy
1987/1988
Yaman Asikoglu
Macroeconomic Asymmetries and Policy Interdependence between Europe and the United States
1988/1989
Merwan Engineer
Essays on the Structure of Financial Institutions
1999/2000
Chris Auld
Three Essays on the Economics of Health-Related Behaviour
1990/1991
Julian Betts
Technological Change and the Labour Market: Explorations in the Theory of Human Capital
1991/1992
Chris Telmer
Intertemporal Asset Pricing Theory and Incomplete Markets
1992/1993
Michel Normandin
Precautionary Saving Due to Labor Income Uncertainty: An Explanation for Excess Smoothness and Excess Sensitivity of Consumption
1993/1994 Enterprise, Inequality and Growth: Essays in the Theory of Income Distribution
1994/1995
Desiré Vencatachellum
Dynamic Research and Development Games: Applications to Endogenous Growth Theory
1995/1996
Pascal St.-Amour
State-Dependent Risk Aversion
1996/1997
Christine Parlour
Price Dynamics in Limit Order Markets
1997/1998
Kelly Bedard
School Structure and the Distribution of Wages
1998/1999
Motohiro Sato
Three Essays on Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Decentralization