Marcel Boyer
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Marcel Boyer (Ph.D. economics, Carnegie-Mellon University) www.cirano.qc.ca/~boyerm is Bell Canada Professor of industrial economics at the Université de Montréal and Vice-president and Chief economist at the Montreal Economic Institute.
He was President of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA), President of the Société Canadienne de Science Économique (SCSE), CEO of CIRANO, Member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, USA), Member of the National Statistics Council of Canada, Member of the Management Committee of Bell-University Labs, Member of the Board of the Montreal Mathematical Finance Institute, Member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Chairman of the Board of the Network for Computing and Mathematical Modelling, Chairman of the Board of the Caisse Populaire de St-Jérôme, and Visiting Senior Research Advisor for industrial economics at Industry Canada.
He is presently Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute, CIRANO, CIREQ and the World Academy of Productivity Science, Academic Affiliate of The Analysis Group, Member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Law and Economics Association, Member of the Board of the Agency for Public-Private Partnerships of Québec, member of the Industry Canada Advisory committee on business strategies and innovation, member of the Governance committee of the « Sustainable Development and Socially Responsible Investment » Chair (École Polytechnique de Paris and Université de Toulouse), and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Marcel Boyer received numerous prizes for excellence in research: Alexander-Henderson Award (CMU 1971), Endowment-for–the–future Distinguished Scholar Award (University of Alberta 1988), Prix Marcel-Dagenais (SCSE 1985), Distinguished Guest Professor Award (Wuhan University of Technology, China 1995), Prix Marcel-Vincent (ACFAS 2002), Médaille Guillaume-Budé (Collège de France 2005). He is an elected member (1992) of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC - Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada).
Author or coauthor of over 220 scientific articles and papers and public and private reports, Professor Boyer currently conducts research in the areas of investment valuation (risk, flexibility and real options); efficient organizations, innovation and competition (competitive social democracy); incentives, incomplete information and uncertainty; and law and economics (environmental issues, copyrights, IPR). Marcel Boyer has acted as expert economist on behalf of several national and international corporations and government organisations, concerning such matters as copyright, competition policy, wage negotiations, evaluation of strategic investment choices, contractual litigation, development policies, municipal institutional reform, cost sharing and pricing of common infrastructures, public-private partnerships, risk management, regulation and deregulation, etc. In this capacity, he has acted as expert witness before various organizations and tribunals.
