“Marcel is one of Canada’s most incisive thinkers on a wide range of topics, including competition policy, intellectual property, and the appropriate boundaries between private and government activity,” remarked Robson.
February 6, 2017 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Marcel Boyer, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics, Université de Montréal, Fellow of CIRANO, and Associate Member of the Toulouse School of Economics, as a Research Fellow.
“Marcel is one of Canada’s most incisive thinkers on a wide range of topics, including competition policy, intellectual property, and the appropriate boundaries between private and government activity,” remarked Robson. “We are delighted to be working with him to apply his insights to Canada’s policy challenges.”
His two most recent Institute reports are entitled “The Value of Copyrights in Recorded Music: Terrestrial Radio and Beyond” and “The Valuation of Public Projects: Risks, Cost of Financing and Cost of Capital.”
Author or coauthor of over 275 scientific articles and papers and public and private reports, Professor Boyer currently conducts research in the areas of investment valuation (risk, flexibility and real options); efficient organizations, innovation and competition (competitive social-democracy); public policy; and law and economics (cartels, environmental issues, intellectual property rights). Marcel Boyer has acted as expert economist on behalf of several national and international corporations and government organisations, and has testified as expert witness before various organizations, courts, and tribunals.
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Honorary Fellow of the Canadian Economics Association, Marcel Boyer held the Bell Canada Chair in Industrial Economics at the Université de Montréal and the Jarislowsky-SSHRC-NSERC Chair in Technology and International Competition of École Polytechnique de Montréal. He was CEO of CIRANO, Vice-President and Chief Economist of the Montreal Economic Institute, and President of the Canadian Economics Association.
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