Simon Power

2022 TLS Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant

The Determinants of Academic Dishonesty

This grant provides funding for 杏吧原创’s instructors to engage in systematic, evidence-based, scholarly investigations of all aspects of teaching an learning in a post-secondary context.

Professor Power received this grant to fund an initial investigation into the factors that appear to influence academic dishonesty. This is the first part of a longer-term project on the economic modelling of academic dishonesty.

2019 FPA Teaching Fellowship Award

This award provides full-time FPA faculty and instructors an opportunity to innovate and demonstrate leadership in teaching, as well as to reward teaching excellence. The Fellowship is awarded on the basis of a candidate鈥檚 teaching record and on a project proposal focused on teaching innovation.

Professor Power received the fellowship for his proposal to use popular culture in the teaching of introductory Economics.

鈥淭he committee particularly noted Simon鈥檚 impressive commitment to teaching and, as one member noted, his [evident] gift for conveying complex ideas,鈥� said Professor Mendeloff.

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Maya Papineau

2023 NSERC Alliance Grant

Development of a Solar-Driven Adsorption Thermal Energy Storage System Concept for Space Heating Applications in Northern Remote Indigenous Communities

Professor Papineau will be working with a PhD and Master鈥檚 student to quantify the social benefits of a carbon-neutral alternative to diesel heating systems in a Northern community without access to grid-scale electricity. The expected social benefits will arise from reduced CO₂ emissions, improved air quality, lower respiratory illness. To measure these changes, we will use quantitative approaches that combine data from indoor and outdoor air pollution measurement instruments, surveys, and health data obtained from partner organizations in the community.

2023 New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration Grant

Creating Equitable, Resilient and Low Carbon Canadian Community Housing that Enhances Social Welfare

Professor Papineau received the NFRF 鈥� Exploration grant as a co-Primary Investigator with Professor Cynthia Cruickshank from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at 杏吧原创 University, and co-applicant Professor Daniel Chung from the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.

2023 New Frontiers in Research Fund – Transformation Grant

CANSTOREnergy: Seasonal Storage of Renewable Energy

Professor Papineau received the NFRF 鈥� Transformation grant as a co-applicant for a research project titled 鈥淐ANSTOREnergy: Seasonal Storage of Renewable Energy.鈥� The Principal Investigator for this project is Professor David Sinton from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, and as a co-applicant Professor Papineau will be able to support 8-9 Economics graduate students over the next 6 years while they conduct research together.

2023 New Frontiers in Research Fund Grant

Occupant-Centric Housing Design and Retrofit Pathways for Sustainable, Equitable, and Resilient Pandemic Recovery

Professor Papineau received a NFRF grant as a co-applicant for a research project titled 鈥淥ccupant-centric Housing Design and Retrofit Pathways for Sustainable, Equitable, and Resilient Pandemic Recovery.鈥� The Principal Investigator for this project is Professor Burak Gunay from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at 杏吧原创 University, and as a co-applicant Professor Papineau will be able to support 1 Economics PhD student while they conduct research together.

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Minjoon Lee

2022 FGPA Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award

These awards recognize faculty who render exceptional service to graduate students as supervisors and research mentors. Sponsored by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) at 杏吧原创 University, these awards reflect the impact excellent mentoring can have on graduate students.

2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Winners and Losers from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act:
A Quantitative Evaluation with an Open-Economy Heterogeneous Household Model

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), passed by the U.S. Congress in 2017, introduced an unprecedented reduction in the American corporate tax rate: from 35% to 21%, a difference of 14 percentage points. Controversy about the short- and long-term benefits of the Act followed, with proponents claiming all taxpayers would profit, regardless of income level or source.

Meanwhile, north of the border, there has been little analysis of the effects of the legislation on the Canadian economy, despite close integration between the two economies. That鈥檚 about to change.

With the support of a $55,290 grant, Professor Lee, along with Professor Khan, and Professor Razo-Garcia, will develop comprehensive models that can look at, among several aspects, how the TCJA would affect income distribution among Canadian households.

2019 A National Pension Hub Grant

Forced Retirement Risk and Portfolio Choice

Professor Lee has received a National Pension Hub grant ($24,000 CAD) from the Global Risk Institute, for a project titled 鈥淔orced Retirement Risk and Portfolio Choice.鈥� Professor Lee is the principal investigator and his collaborators are Guodong Chen (NYU-Shanghai) and Tong-yob Nam (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, US Department of Treasury).

2019 US Social Security Administration Grant

Nursing Homes in Equilibrium: Implications for Long-term Care Policies

Professor Lee received a US Social Security Administration grant ($50,000 USD), administered by the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC). The is 鈥淣ursing Homes in Equilibrium: Implications for Long-term Care Policies鈥�. Professor Lee is the principal investigator and the co-principal investigator is Tatyana Koreshkova (Concordia).

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Hashmat U. Khan

2023 SSHRC Insight Development Grant

2020 Research Achievement Award

Macroeconomic Stability: Assessing the Roles of Monetary Policy Actions and the Inflation Environment

A conventional view is that when a central bank adjusts the policy interest rate more than one-for-one for each percent change in inflation, both inflation and unemployment remain low and stable. An alternative view is that the level of a country鈥檚 average inflation over a decade or so (the inflation environment) is the major determinant of stability. The proposal will develop a framework to assess these two views, while overcoming conceptual and computational challenges.

Khan says he is happy and honoured to receive the award, and he sees it as having a positive effect on his work:

2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Winners and Losers from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act:
A Quantitative Evaluation with an Open-Economy Heterogeneous Household Model

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), passed by the U.S. Congress in 2017, introduced an unprecedented reduction in the American corporate tax rate: from 35% to 21%, a difference of 14 percentage points. Controversy about the short- and long-term benefits of the Act followed, with proponents claiming all taxpayers would profit, regardless of income level or source.

Meanwhile, north of the border, there has been little analysis of the effects of the legislation on the Canadian economy, despite close integration between the two economies. That鈥檚 about to change.

With the support of a $55,290 grant, Professor Khan along with Professor Lee, and Professor Razo-Garcia, will develop comprehensive models that can look at, among several aspects, how the TCJA would affect income distribution among Canadian households.

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