My academic interests are particularly directed at the analysis of regional economic development, international trade, economic integration and economic geography, and also the distribution of wines and alcohols in Quebec/Canada.
Courses
My courses are available on the platform Moodle (access restricted to students). Here are the syllabus (in French)
- MBA6001– Managerial economics/Industrial organization
- ECN6006 – Economics of SMEs
- DIO6001 – The organization of the firm (short graduate program in Diagnostic and intervention in organization)
- ECA1010 – Macroeconomic analysis
Education
- 2001-2007 – Ph.D. in Economics, Université catholique de Louvain, Centre for Operations research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- 2003-2004 – Graduate econometric courses, École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique (ENSAE). Advanced courses (3) in panel data and in discrete data. Paris, France.
- 1997-2000 – M.Sc. in Administration – Applied Economics, École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Institut d’économie appliquée, Montreal, Canada.
- 1996-1997 – Certificate in European Studies (graduate program), with specialization in European Law, Institut des Hautes Études Européennes, Strasbourg, France.
- 1993-1996 – B.A. degree in Arts – Economic Sciences & Political Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Articles, papers and research
Published papers
- Laurin, . (2012). Trade and Regional Growth in Spain: Panel Cointegration in a Small Sample, Applied Economics, 2012, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 435-447.
- D’Argensio, J.-J. & F. Laurin (2009). The Real Estate Risk Premium: A Developed/Emerging Country Panel Data Analysis, Journal of Portfolio Management, 2009, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 118–132.
- Laurin, F. (2012). Géographie économique, éloignement et développement régional au Québec (Economic Geography, Remoteness and Regional development in Quebec), Panorama des régions du Québec, 2012 Edition, Institut de la Statistique du Québec, June 2012.
- Gauthier, B.; Lapointe, A. & F. Laurin (2003). Les économies d’agglomération et la croissance des régions dans l’Union européenne (Agglomeration Economies and Growth in the EU Regions), Revue d’Économie Régionale et Urbaine, no. 2, 2003, pp. 210-234.
Book
- Laurin, F. (2009). Où sont les vins? Le problème de la distribution des vins au Québec (Where are the wines? The problem of the distribution of wines in Quebec), Éditions Hurtubise, Montréal, 2009.
Working papers and studies
- Laurin, F.; Pronovost, S. & M. Carrier (2015). SME capacities and performance: rural versus urban regions in Quebec. 10th OECD Rural Development Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, Mai 2015.
- Laurin, F. & D. Rigamonti (2014). The Effect of Wine Culture on the Relationship between Price, Consumption and Alcohol-Related Problems, XX1 Enometrics conference, Lyon (France), juin 2014.
- Laurin, F. & P.-A. Julien (2014). The Determinants of Entrepreneurship in sub-regional units, Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, Nov. 2014, London (UK).
- Julien, P.-A.; St-Pierre, J.; Laurin, F. & M. Morin (2013). Les déterminants de l’entrepreneuriat dans les MRC du Québec : Une analyse des variables explicatives (The Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Quebec’s Regions: Analysis of the explanatory variables), Institut de recherche sur les PME (INRPME), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, juin 2013.
- Laurin, F. (2012). Sovereign risk premiums in CEEC countries: a non-parametric matching method, Conference on International Finance at Trinity College Dublin (INFINITI), June 2012, Dublin (Ireland).
- Julien, P.-A.; St-Pierre, J.; Laurin, F. & M. Morin (2012). La mesure de l’entrepreneuriat en région – Identification et analyse des données entrepreneuriales discriminantes dans les régions du Québec (Measuring Entrepreneurship in Regions), Institut de recherche sur les PME (INRPME), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, March 2012.
- Laurin, F. (2012). Impact d’une libéralisation partielle de la distribution des vins et alcools au Québec sur les finances du Gouvernement du Québec (Impact of a partial liberalization of wines and alcohols on Quebec’s public finances), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, March 2012.
- St-Pierre, J. ; Raymond, L. ; Laurin, F. & S. Uwizeyemungu (2011). Mondialisation et internationalisation des PME : Le comportement des PME manufacturières québécoises (Globalization and Internationalization : the Behavior of manufacturing SMEs in Quebec), CIRANO Research Institute Report, Montréal, December 2011.
- Laurin, F. & J. St-Pierre (2011).The Internationalization of SMES and the Relationship between Imports and Exports, Institut de recherche sur les PME (INRPME), Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, October 2011.
- Alexeev, M. & F. Laurin (2010). Credit Access and Economic Development in Georgia, International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET), Tbilissi (Georgia), June 2010.
- Laurin, F. & J.-J. D’Argensio (2010).The Real Estate Conundrum in the CEE Office Markets: Thinking Too Big?, ISET Working Paper, Tbilissi (Georgia), June 2010.
- Laurin, F. (2007). Trade, Growth and Structural Change in Spain’s Autonomous Communities, Université catholique de Louvain, Centre for Operations research and Econometrics (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), June 2007.
- Laurin, F. (2007). Mapping Specialization into Exports in Spain’s Regions,Université catholique de Louvain, Centre for Operations research and Econometrics (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), June 2007.
- Laurin, F. (2000). La localisation des industries et la spécialisation des régions de l’Union européenne (The Location of Industries and Specialization in the EU’s Regions). European commission, July 2000, Brussels (Belgium).
Doctoral and MA dissertations
- Laurin, F. (2007). Trade, Specialization and Economic Growth in Spain’s Autonomous Communities, Doctoral dissertation, Université catholique de Louvain, Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques, Département des sciences économiques, juin 2007, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique).
- Laurin, F. (2000). L’importance des économies d’échelle locales dans la croissance économique des régions de l’Union européenne dans un contexte d’intégration économique (The importance of Local Scale Economies for Economic Growth in the EU’s Regions in the Process of Economic Integration), Masters Thesis, École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), October 2000, Montréal (Canada).
Other
- «Arguments anti-fusion: gare au simplisme – Montréal a besoin d’un leadership économique fort», (City Mergers: Montreal needs a Strong Economic Leadership), op. ed. published in Le Devoir, June 16, 2004.
- «Les fusions municipales sur l’île de Montréal: causes et processus», (City Mergers in Montreal: Causes and Process), Matinée d’études sur les communautés urbaines, January 2002, Brussels (Belgium).