Dr. Claude Montmarquette University of Montreal

Claude Montmarquette (University of Montreal, Economics, full professor, PhD, U of Chicago 1973): Scientific Director of the LUBC3E (Laboratoire Universitaire Bell en commerce électronique et économie expérimentale), Vice-President of the human resources and experimental methods group at CIRANO. Past Director of the Economics Department and of the Economic Research Centre of UdeM. Elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1998, he is a well known specialist in economics and econometrics as applied to education (dropout, choice of college majors), labour (satisfaction, mobility), and public choice (size of the public sector, international public goods, foreign aid). He is the author or editor of 8 books, more than 65 scientific publications and 45 public documents. His recent work has focused on laboratory experimental methods (LEM) applied to voluntary contributions to public goods, workplace training, workplace practices and human capital investment by the working poor. He is regularly invited to lecture at many universities and has presided over three policy committees for the Quebec Government, the latest related to drugs and health care.


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