Professor
Education
B.S. (Colorado State), Ph.D. (Minnesota)
Office
Dunning Hall 232
Email
laphamb@queensu.ca
Phone Number
(613) 533-2297
Personal URL
Research Interests
International Price Differences
Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Retail and Service Industries
International Trade Policy
Beverly Lapham is a Professor in the Queen’s University Department of Economics. Her research mainly focuses on international economics, macroeconomics, and industrial organization. Her recent work has examined firm-level pricing and productivity as well as measuring trade frictions using structural gravity approaches. She has been a member of the Institute for Research on Public Policy Trade Advisory Committee and the Statistics Canada International Trade Advisory Committee. Professor Lapham was awarded the QED Undergraduate Teaching Prize in 2016 and 2022 and recently received a Distinguished Service Award from Queen’s University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota before joining the QED in 1989.
Selected Publications
- "Markups, Pass-Through, and Firm Heterogeneity with Sequentially Mixed Search," with Alex Chernoff and Allen Head, European Economic Review, forthcoming, 2026.
- "A Competitive Search Approach to Exchange Rate Pass-Through," with Ayman Mnasri, Economic Theory, 76, July 2023, 153-201.
- "An Empirical Examination of the Effect of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions on Canadian's Cross Border Travel and Canadian Retailers," with Jen Baggs and Loretta Fung, Canadian Public Policy, 48(1), March 2022, 162-185.
- "Exchange Rates, Cross-Border Travel, and Retailers: Theory and Empirics," with Jen Baggs and Loretta Fung, Journal of International Economics, 115, November 2018, 59-79.
- "The Canadian Border and the US Dollar: The Impact of Exchange Rate Changes on US Retailers," with Zhe Chen and Michael B. Devereux, Canadian Journal of Economics, 50(5), December 2017, 1525-1555.
- "International Trade with Firm Heterogeneity: Theoretical Developments and Policy Implications," in Redesigning Canadian Trade Policies for New Global Realities, The Art of the State Series, Vol. VI, Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2017, 39-76.
- "Firm Dynamics in Retail Trade: The Response of Canadian Retailers to Exchange Rate Shocks," with Jen Baggs, Eugene Beaulieu, and Loretta Fung, Review of International Economics, 24(3), August 2016, 635-66.
- "Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence," with Hiroyuki Kasahara, Journal of International Economics, 89(2), March 2013, 297-316.