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Letendre Marc-Andre, Associate Professor | Chair of the Department of Economics

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Marc-Andre Letendre

Associate Professor | Chair of the Department of Economics

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Faculty
Department of Economics

Area(s) of Interest:

Biography

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics

Education

Ph.D. Economics, Queen's University 1999

M.A. Economics, Queen's University 1995

B.A.A. HEC-Montreal 1994

Research

Publications

C. Gunn, A. Johri and M-A Letendre, "Charge-offs, Defaults and the Financial Accelerator", Forthcoming in B.E Journal of Macroeconomics. 

M-A Letendre and S. Obaid, "Emerging Economy Business Cycles: Interest Rate Shocks vs Trend Shocks", Economic Modelling, December 2020.  

M-A Letendre and J. Wagner, "Agency Costs, Risk Shocks, and International Cycles," Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018.

A. Johri,  M-A Letendre and D. Luo, "Organizational Capital and the International Co-movement of Investment," Journal of Macroeconomics, 2011

M. Boileau and M-A Letendre, "Inventories, Sticky Prices, and the Persistence of Output and Inflation," Applied Economics,2010.

A. Johri and M.-A. Letendre, "What do "Residuals" from First Order Conditions Reveal About DGE Models?" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007.

M.-A. Letendre and D. Luo, "Investment-Specific Shocks and External Balances in a Small-Open Economy," Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007

M.-A. Letendre, "The Effect of Restricting Asset Trade in Dynamic Equilibrium Models," Pacific Economic Review, 2004.

M.-A. Letendre, "Semi-Parametric Predictions of the Intertemporal Approach to the Current Account," Journal of International Economics, 2004. 

M.-A. Letendre, "Capital Utilization and Habit Formation in a Small Open-Economy Model," Canadian Journal of Economics, 2004.

M. Boileau and M.-A. Letendre, "How Much Persistence Should Sticky-Price Models Generate to Match US data?" Economics Letters, 2003.

M.-A. Letendre and G.W. Smith, "Precautionary Saving and Portfolio Allocation: DP by GMM," Journal of Monetary Economics, 2001.

 

Working Papers and Work in Progress

 Letendre, M-A, “Trade Balance Cyclicality “