François Vaillancourt

CIRANO Researcher and Fellow

francois.vaillancourt@cirano.qc.ca

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Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Montréal

Area(s) of interest: Public economics;
language issues economics;
human resources

François Vaillancourt

CIRANO Researcher and Fellow

Expertise

Public economics, language issues economics, human resources

Biography

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2004, François Vaillancourt is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal.

Holder of a PhD in economics from Queen's University (1978), he published over 300 texts, particularly on intergovernmental financial relations, the complexity and impact of Canadian taxation, the cost-effectiveness of linguistic studies and attributes, and the economics of language policies.

Named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva in 2021 for his work on the economics of language issues. Over his career, he has been a Fulbright Canadian Research Scholar in Kennesaw (2007) and a Shastri Lecturer in India (1993). He has been a visiting professor/researcher at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in Atlanta (2007 and 2009), FUCaM (Mons, Belgium, 2006), École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Paris, 2006 and 2008), the University of Toronto (1991) and the Australian National University (1991). He was also research coordinator for the MacDonald Commission (1983-1986) and associate editor of Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques (1986-1995). He has acted as a consultant for various national (including CIDA, House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, Commission Séguin, Law Reform Commission of Canada, Conseil de la Fédération, Conseil de la langue française du Québec, CSST, Finance Canada, Forum of Federations, Federal Expert Panel on Equalization Reform, Institut Fraser, Office de la langue française, Statistics Canada and the Auditor General of Canada and Quebec) and international organizations (AFD, World Bank, IMF, OECD, UNDP). He has worked in 35 countries/entities on issues of regional and local financial resources (taxation, transfers) and provided training in this field for the African Tax Institute, the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the Hague Academy for Local Governance.

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University

Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Montréal

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CIRANO Publications by François Vaillancourt

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November 1, 2024

Le rendement privé et social de la scolarité postsecondaire professionnelle, collégiale et universitaire au Québec : résultats pour 2020

François Vaillancourt, Brahim Boudarbat and Feriel Grine

June 27, 2024

Gains en compétence et coûts financiers du rehaussement des différentes formations infirmières au Québec

Jolianne Bolduc, Roxane Borgès Da Silva and François Vaillancourt

Health

May 3, 2024

Obstacles et incitatifs à l’adoption des technologies innovantes dans le secteur minier québécois

Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, François Vaillancourt, Ingrid Peignier, Molivann Panot, Thomas Gleize, Simon Losier and 1 other authors

October 18, 2023

Étude sur la mise en œuvre d’outils d’écofiscalité au service de la conservation et de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques dans les basses-terres du Saint-Laurent

Jean-Philippe Meloche, Cedric Bourbonnais, Arnaud Dragicevic, Jérôme Dupras, Andrew Gonzalez, Tejasvi Hora, Noémie Lacroix, Julie Lebert, Justin Leroux, Kyle Martins, Fanny Maure, Brigitte Milord, François Vaillancourt, Françoise Vanoverbeke, Sylvia Wood and 10 other authors

Environment and Taxation and Fiscal Policy

August 19, 2022

Le partage du financement des services de l’agglomération de Montréal en 2020: État des lieux, analyse et éléments de comparaison

Jean-Philippe Meloche and François Vaillancourt

Public Finance

Le rendement privé et social de la scolarité postsecondaire professionnelle, collégiale et universitaire au Québec : résultats pour 2020

Gains en compétence et coûts financiers du rehaussement des différentes formations infirmières au Québec

Obstacles et incitatifs à l’adoption des technologies innovantes dans le secteur minier québécois

Étude sur la mise en œuvre d’outils d’écofiscalité au service de la conservation et de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques dans les basses-terres du Saint-Laurent

Le partage du financement des services de l’agglomération de Montréal en 2020: État des lieux, analyse et éléments de comparaison

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March 1, 2024