Nicolas Vincent wins the Marcel Dagenais Award

He received the award jointly with Professor Lars Ehlers of the Université de Montréal.

The award recognizes the remarkable contribution of researchers to economic scientific life in French in Quebec or Canada as a whole, and comes with a cash prize of $6,000 and an SCSE medal. It is awarded every 3 years by a jury, which studies the candidates’ scientific output over the previous 6 years.

“We researchers often invest years in our research projects, so this is an important sign of recognition for my work. I am particularly pleased to receive this award since it is given by the Francophone economic community, with which I maintain close bonds, including my involvement on the Board of the SCSE,” says Professor Vincent.

In his research, Nicolas Vincent uses microeconomic data to explain macroeconomic phenomena. In recent years his work has focused on 2 phenomena:

• Inflation dynamics. He analyzes the mechanisms governing price behaviour, according to both theoretical and empirical approaches. He has published 2 articles on this topic in Econometrica and The Review of Economic Studies, highly prestigious journals in the field of economics.
• Revenue distribution. He is seeking to better understand the decline observed over the past 30 years in the share of total revenue that goes to labour. He also wrote an article on this subject that was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics earlier this year.

These articles were co-written with scholars from other Canadian or American universities or institutions, collaborations that contributed to the international reputation of his work and certainly played a role in his receiving the Marcel Dagenais Award.

Note that Professor Vincent is the 3rd HEC Montréal professor to be accorded this honour, after Pierre-Carl Michaud in 2018 and Georges Dionne in 2012.