BOYER, Marcel

Professor
Bell Canada Chair in Industrial Economy

Contact


	Office :	C-6034
	Pavilion :	Lionel-Groulx
	Phone :	(514) 343-7979
	E-mail :	marcel.boyer [at] umontreal.ca
	Web site :	Page personnelle au CIRANO

Presentation

Marcel Boyer (Ph.D. economics, Carnegie-Mellon University) is Bell Canada Professor of industrial economics at the Université de Montréal and Vice-president and Chief economist at the Montreal Economic Institute. He was President of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA), President of the Société Canadienne de Science Économique (SCSE), CEO of CIRANO, Member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, USA), Member of the National Statistics Council of Canada, Member of the Management Committee of Bell-University Labs, Member of the Board of the Montreal Mathematical Finance Institute, Member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Chairman of the Board of the Network for Computing and Mathematical Modelling, and Chairman of the Board of the Caisse Populaire de St-Jérôme. He is presently C.D. Howe Scholar in Economic Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute, Fellow of CIRANO, CIREQ and the World Academy of Productivity Science, University affiliate of The Analysis Group, Member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Law and Economics Association, Member of the Board of the Agency for Public-Private Partnerships of Québec, and Visiting Senior Research Advisor for industrial economics at Industry Canada.

Marcel Boyer received numerous prizes for excellence in research: Alexander-Henderson Award (CMU 1971), Endowment-for–the–future Distinguished Scholar Award (University of Alberta 1988), Prix Marcel-Dagenais (SCSE 1985), Distinguished Guest Professor Award (Wuhan University of Technology, China 1995), Prix Marcel-Vincent (ACFAS 2002), Médaille Guillaume-Budé (Collège de France 2005). He is an elected member (1992) of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC - The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada).

Author or coauthor of over 200 scientific articles, public reports and scientific papers, Professor Boyer currently conducts research in the areas of investment valuation (risk, flexibility and real options); efficient organizations, innovation and competition (competitive social democracy); incentives, incomplete information and uncertainty; and law and economics (environmental issues, copyrights, IPR). Marcel Boyer has acted as expert economist on behalf of several national and international corporations and government organisations, concerning such matters as copyright, competition policy, wage negotiations, evaluation of strategic investment choices, contractual litigation, development policies, municipal institutional reform, cost sharing and pricing of common infrastructures, public-private partnerships, risk management, regulation and deregulation, etc. In this capacity, he has acted as expert witness before various organizations and tribunals.

Areas of Specialization

• Industrial Economics

• Economics of Uncertainty

• Organizations

Selective Bibliography

• « The Value of Real and Financial Risk Management », mimeo, 2007 (avec M.M. Boyer et R. Garcia).

• « Real Options, Preemption, and the Dynamics of Industry Investments », mimeo, 2007 (avec P. Lasserre et M. Moreaux).

• Partage des coûts et tarification des infrastructures, Monographie CIRANO, 2006, 340 pages (avec M. Moreaux et M. Truchon).

• « Environmental Protection, Consumer Awareness, Product Characteristics, and Market Power », dans Frontiers in the Economics of Environmental Regulation and Liability, sous la direction de M. Boyer, Y. Hiriart and D. Martimort, Ashgate Pub., chap. 5, 2006, 121-151 (avec P. Mahenc et M. Moreaux).

• « Competition and the Reform of Incentive Schemes in the Regulated Sector », Journal of Public Economics 87(9-10), 2003, 2369-2396 (avec J.-J. Laffont).

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Department of Economics - FAS / Université de Montréal