Canadian Journal of Economics

Can corporate debt and managerial incentives help firms collude? Fiocco, @salvapicc and Spagnolo show that debt and managerial incentives can act as complementary tools to sustain collusion, particularly when financial distress imposes personal costs on managers. 1/2

How should a monopolist price a product when past purchases change future demand? Lemarie and Vergara show how satiation and habit shape optimal dynamic pricing, price discrimination between new and returning customers, and the ability to commit to future prices— 1/2

Do dads influence other dads’ paternity leave decisions? Using Quebec’s 2006 reform and administrative data, Diallo and @fabolange find that having a male co-worker take leave increases a new father’s likelihood of taking leave by 3–6 percentage points. 1/2

Mazur and Pendakur examine if changes in the genrosity of the Canadian Child Benefit altered household spending consumed by adult household members, and on preferences within the dual-parent households. They find that it did increase women’s resource shares among homeowners, 1/2

Does the money supply affect the price of art? New evidence from Canadian and Australian painting markets by Hodgson, weber and Coate suggests a modern “Cantillon effect”: prices of top-tier paintings move closely with the money supply, while lower-prestige paintings track 1/2

How mobile was Canada in the 19th century? Using linked Census records from 1871–1901, Antonie, @kris_inwood, Minns and Summerfield uncover striking regional differences in intergenerational mobility: Ontario had high relative and absolute mobility, Quebec low mobility on 1/2