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Fanny S. Demers

Associate Professor

Degrees:B.A. (Bogaziçi), M.B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins)
Phone:613-520-2600 x 3775
Email:fanny.demers@carleton.ca
Office:B-854 Loeb

Languages spoken other than English: Turkish, French

Research fields: macroeconomics, business cycles, investment theory, asset pricing

Expertise:
• learning and cyclical fluctuations
• investment theory
• the risk-sharing and informational roles of financial markets
• the theory of risk and insurance

Refereed Publications in the Last 6 Years:

Most Significant Career Research Contributions:

“The Investment Tax Credit and Irreversible Investment” (with Sumru G. Altuğ and Michel Demers), Journal of Macroeconomics, in press; available online 14 January 2009.

“Political Risk and Irreversible Investment” (with Sumru G. Altuğ and Michel Demers), CESifo Economic Studies, Volume 53, Number 3, September 2007, Pages 430–465.

“Learning about Tax Policy” (with Sumru G. Altuğ and Michel Demers), Finance Letters, Volume 5, Number 1, February 2007, Pages 1–11.

“Investment Dynamics” (with Sumru G. Altuğ and Michel Demers), Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium, ed. Sumru G. Altuğ, Jagjit S. Chadha, and Charles Nolan, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Chapter 2, Pages 34–154.

“Increases in Risk and the Optimal Deductible” (with Michel Demers), Journal of Risk and Insurance, Volume 58, Number 4, December 1991, Pages 670–699.