Dr. Pierre Fortin

Dr. Pierre Fortin is Professor of Economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), which he joined in 1988 after teaching at Universit‚ Laval and the Universit‚ de Montréal. He holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, a M.Sc. in mathematics from Universit‚ Laval and a B.A. in classical humanities from Jesuit College. His research interests include wage and price dynamics, economic fluctuations and growth, adolescent behaviour, taxation, fiscal and monetary policies, social policy and population economics. In 1995 he was recently selected by the Quebec Association of Business Economists as "the most influential Quebec economist of the last decade". He is a past President of the Canadian Economics Association.

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