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.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Queen's University, he has published numerous texts in the field of public policy, particularly on intergovernmental financial relations, taxation and language policies.

He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2009. Since 2000, he has been the Fulbright Canadian Research Scholar in Kennesaw in 2007, visiting professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in Atlanta in 2007 and 2009, visiting professor at the FUCaM (Mons, Belgium, 2006) and visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Paris, 2006 and 2008). During the 1990s, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto (1991) and the Australian National University (1991), a Shastri lecturer in India (1993) and a visiting scholar at the Institute of European Studies (Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1994). He was also a research coordinator for the MacDonald Commission (1983-1986) and assistant director of the journal Canadian Public Policy-Policy Analysis (1986-1995). He has acted as a consultant for various national (including CIDA, House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, Séguin Commission, Law Reform Commission of Canada, Conseil de la Fédération, Conseil de la langue française du Québec, CSST, Finance Canada, Federal Expert Group on Equalization Reform, Office of the French Language, Statistics Canada and Auditor General of Canada) and international (AFD, World Bank, IMF, OECD, UNDP) organizations. He has worked in 31 countries on intergovernmental financial relations issues (taxation, transfers) and provided training in this area 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

Diploma(s)

CIRANO Publications by François Vaillancourt

As an author

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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

March 15, 2022

Le Québec économique 10 - Chapitre 8 - Le rendement d’un diplôme universitaire au Québec en 2015 : taux individuels et sociaux

Claude Montmarquette, Brigitte Milord and François Vaillancourt

Skills and Labour Market

March 15, 2022

Le Québec économique 10: Compétences et transformation du marché du travail

Genevieve Dufour, Benoit Dostie, Catherine Haeck, Jimmy Jean, Hélène Bégin, Joëlle Noreau, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, Ingrid Peignier, Jean-Claude Cloutier, Mia Homsy, Simon Savard, Ugo Ceppi, Yves Fortier, Fabian Lange, Robert Gagné, Jonathan Deslauriers, Jonathan Paré, Claude Montmarquette, François Vaillancourt, Brigitte Milord, Nicholas-James Clavet, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Julien Navaux, Marie Connolly, Lucie Raymond-Brousseau, Raquel Fonseca, Marie Mélanie Fontaine, Luc Bissonnette, Charles Roy, Mikhael Deutsch-Heng, Luc Godbout, Suzie St-Cerny, Michaël Robert-Angers, Sylvie St-Onge, Ali Béjaoui, Camille Sauvé-Plante, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Marie-Claire Ishimo, Régis Blais, Marjolaine Hamel, Carl-Ardy Dubois, William Arbour, Guy Lacroix, Steeve Marchand, Brahim Boudarbat and 40 other authors

May 31, 2021

Densification ou prolongement des réseaux de transport structurants ? Une recension des écrits sur les coûts et les bénéfices attendus

Jean-Philippe Meloche, Vincent Trotignon and François Vaillancourt

Municipal Affairs, Sustainable Development, Infrastructures and Transport

April 12, 2021

Le rendement privé et social de l’éducation universitaire au Québec en 2015

Claude Montmarquette, François Vaillancourt and Brigitte Milord

Human Capital, Skills, Inequality and Distribution of Income, Education, Labour Market and Human Resources

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

Le Québec économique 10 - Chapitre 8 - Le rendement d’un diplôme universitaire au Québec en 2015 : taux individuels et sociaux

Le Québec économique 10: Compétences et transformation du marché du travail

Densification ou prolongement des réseaux de transport structurants ? Une recension des écrits sur les coûts et les bénéfices attendus

Le rendement privé et social de l’éducation universitaire au Québec en 2015

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News

May 1, 2023

Marcelin Joanis and François Vaillancourt invited as experts to a session of the National Local Finance Committee of the Government of Cameroon

November 7, 2022

Luc Godbout, Jean-Philippe Meloche and François Vaillancourt at the Forum on Municipal Taxation

October 15, 2021