PURVIS LUNCHEON LECTURE
This keynote lecture is given each year during the Purvis Luncheon held on the Saturday each year in honour of the late noted Canadian economist Douglas D. Purvis of Queen's University. Participants must register separately to attend the luncheon. The winner of the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize for a work of excellence in Canadian economic policy is announced at the lecture.
Past Purvis Lecturers
| 2024 | Sylvain Leduc (Federal Reserve Bank of San Franscisco) |
| 2023 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (The University of Chicago) |
| 2022 | Rob Gillezeau (University of Victoria) |
| 2021 | Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth) [link to page with recording] |
| 2020 | Anne Case (Princeton University) |
| 2019 | Catherine Wolfram (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 2018 | Petra E. Todd (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 2017 | Rafael Di Tella (Harvard University) |
| 2016 | Stephen Poloz (Bank of Canada) [Link to recording on Bank of Canada site] |
| 2015 | Robin Boadway (Queen's University) |
| 2014 | Paul Romer (New York University) |
| 2013 | Roland Fryer (Harvard University) |
| 2012 | John Campbell (Harvard University) |
| 2011 | Ernst Fehr (Zurich) |
| 2010 | John Taylor (Stanford University) |
| 2009 | David Dodge (formerly Bank of Canada) |
| 2008 | Caroline Hoxby (Harvard University) |
| 2007 | David Levine (Washington, St. Louis) |
| 2006 | William Easterly (New York University) |
| 2005 | Robert Frank (Cornell) |
| 2004 | David Laidler (Western University) |
| 2003 | Guy Laroque (INSEE) |
Recordings of Past Purvis Lectures:
Video care of the Bank of Canada:
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/multimedia/cea-purvis-lecture-speech-press-conference-video-4-june-2016/
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