Text Box: Faculty of Arts Text Box: Department of Economics

 

Laura Brown

 

 

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

 

Brown, Laura K., and Elizabeth Troutt.  2017. A re-analysis of the trade and welfare effects of export subsidies. Applied Economics Letters. (published online 26 May 2017). Abingdon, U.K.: Taylor-Francis.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.1329925

Brown, Laura K., and Elizabeth Troutt.  2017.  Sex and salaries at a Canadian university:  the song remains the same or the times they are a changin’?  Canadian Public Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 43(3): 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2016-047

Brown, Laura K., Susan Prentice, and Elizabeth Troutt. 2011.  Ten years after: Sex and Salaries at a Canadian University. Canadian Public Policy.  37 (2): 239-255.

              Brown, Laura, Elizabeth Troutt, Cynthia Edwards, Brian Gray and Wanjing Hu. 2011. A uniform price auction for conservation easements in the Canadian prairies. Environmental and Resource Economics. 50:49-60. DOI 10.1007/s10640-011-9461-2

Brown, Laura and Elizabeth Troutt.  2007. Reporting does not Equal Accountability  International Journal of Public Administration. 30(January):209-225.

Moshiri, Saeed and Laura Brown. 2004. “Measuring Asymmetric Unemployment over the Business Cycle,” Journal of Forecasting.  23: 479 – 511. 

Brown, Laura and Elizabeth Troutt. 2004. Funding relations between nonprofits and government:  A positive example.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 33(1, March):5 – 27.

Brown, Laura and Elizabeth Troutt.  2004.  “A Cooperative Approach To Accountability: Manitoba’s Family Violence Prevention Program  International Journal of Public Administration.  Vol 27, Issue 5, pp. 309 – 330, May 2004.

Brown, Laura and Chris Ferrall. 2003. “Unemployment Insurance and the Business Cycle  International Economic Review.  44(3, August) 863 - 893.[1]

 

Peer reviewed book chapters and reports:

Numerous authors.  2017.  Chapter 4:  Direct and indirect drivers of change in biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people.  International Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Regional Assessment for the Americas.  Second Order Draft.  Under global external review (http://www.ipbes.net/registration-first-external-review-global-assessment).

Brown, Laura and Elizabeth Troutt. 2003. “Stability and Stress in the Relationship between Government and the Nonprofit Sector: The Case of Manitoba.”  in  Interesting Times and the Voluntary Sector: Evolving Relationships, Regulations and Fiscal Realities. McGill-Queen’s University Press,  177- 217.

 Ducks Unlimited Canada. 2001. A Technical Proposal for the Conservation Easement Price Discovery Pilot Project. (authored by Laura Brown,  Elizabeth Troutt and staff from Ducks Unlimited Canada.  (document reviewed by five economists who are international experts in environmental economics and auction theory).

Stephan Barg, Laura Brown, Aaron Cosbey, Elizabeth Troutt, Allen Tyrchniewicz and Sarah Van Exan. 2001.  Environmental Protection and Business Competitiveness, Public Policy Forum, No. 56.

Brown, Laura and Elizabeth Troutt. 2000. “The NonProfit Sector in Manitoba:  A Baseline Study  in  The NonProfit Sector in Canada: Roles and Relationships, Keith G. Banting, ed. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 191 - 228.

Steve Barg, Laura Brown, Chantal Guertin and Elizabeth Troutt. 2000. Ecological Fiscal Reform Project:  A Context Paper, National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy refereed report.

Stephan Barg, Laura Brown, Attah Boame, Linda Deriviere, Elizabeth Troutt, Dominique Wranik-Lohrenz, with Marlene Roy. 2000. Analysis of Ecological Fiscal Reform Activity in Canada, National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy refereed report

Brown, Laura. 1997. “Canada, Globalization and Free Trade:  The Past is New!”  Canada:  Horizons 2000.  Presses Universitaires de Saint Boniface, 107-123.

              

Other publications

Brown, Laura. 2015. A course in Microeconomic Theory. Video course and online media prepared for University of Manitoba.[2]

Brown, Laura, and Elizabeth Troutt. 2007.  Manitoba’s nonprofit sector.  The Encyclopedia of Manitoba.  Great Plains Publications:  Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  p. 500.

Brown, Laura and Elizabeth Troutt. 2003.  Results from the conservation easements/ agreements survey. Statistical and policy recommendations report prepared for Ducks Unlimited Canada.

Brown, Laura and Elizabeth Troutt with staff from Ducks Unlimited Canada.  2002. Easement Information, auction description and bid materials for the conservation easements/agreements project.           

Brown, Laura. 1996. Unemployment Insurance and the Business Cycle:  A Partial Equilibrium Model of the Canadian Labour Market.  Queen’s University.

 

Government of Kenya. 1990. The 1988‑89 Rural Labour Force Survey. (Final report of Rural Labour Force Survey conducted by myself with the aid of staff from the Kenya Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Finance, published as an official document of the Government of Kenya.)

 

Brown, Laura. 1990.  The 1988‑89 Rural Labour Force Survey:  Description and Structure of Database.  Kenya Long Range Planning Project Technical Paper 90‑02.

 

Brown, Laura and Narendra Budhia.  1988. Data Compendium for the Version 3.0 of the Computer General Equilibrium Model for Kenya.  Kenya Long Range Planning Project Technical Paper No. 88‑05.

 

Barber, Gerald and Laura Brown. 1988.  Rural Labour Force Survey 1988:  Survey Instrument and Enumerator's Reference Manual.  Kenya Long Range Planning Project Technical Paper 88‑04.

 

Creative Works

 

circa 1997 Expert: “Women and Work” series for the W Channel  (The Women’s Network) in the late 1990s. My responsibility was to provide on screen, expert advice for each segment of the season-long series.

 

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[1] In 2003, this was the most highly ranked journal publication by a member of our department since 1978.

[2] The course incorporates materials from Pindyck, R. and Rubinfeld, D. (2013) Microeconomics. Pearson.