Expertise

Empirical finance, derivatives, governance, political risk

Biography

A CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow since 1999, Marie-Claude Beaulieu is Full Professor in the Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate at Université Laval. She also holds the RBC Chair in Financial Innovations and is Assistant to the Vice-President of Human Resources at Université Laval.

Holding a Ph.D. in Management (Finance/Economics) from Queen's University, her research interests are empirical finance, derivatives, governance and political risk.

She was Director of the Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate at Université Laval from 2011 to 2019. It is under her direction that the Department created the MBA in Urban and Real Estate Management and the Master's degree in Real Estate Decision-Making, and that FSA ULaval obtained the accreditations of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA), a first in Canada, of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA), and entered into an exclusive partnership in French with the Appraisal Institute of Canada (AIC).

Over the course of her career, she has received numerous awards for her research as well as her teaching. She has also published major scientific articles in several journals including the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of International Business Studies.

In 2008, the year of Quebec City's 400th anniversary, Marie-Claude Beaulieu was included on the Hommage aux 400 femmes du 400e list highlighting the important contribution of women to the development of Quebec society since 1608.

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CIRANO Publications by Marie-Claude Beaulieu

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Arbitrage Pricing, Weak Beta, Strong Beta: Identification-Robust and Simultaneous Inference

Marie-Claude Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Dufour and Lynda Khalaf

Econometrics, Behavioral Finance, Public Finance, Risk Management and Economic and Fiscal Policy
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Exact confidence sets and goodness-of-fit methods for stable distributions

Marie-Claude Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Dufour and Lynda Khalaf

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Identification-robust estimation and testing of the zero-beta CAPM

Marie-Claude Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Dufour and Lynda Khalaf

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An Identification-Robust Test for Time-Varying Parameters in the Dynamics of Energy Prices

Marie-Claude Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Dufour, Lynda Khalaf and Maral Kichian

Energy and Natural Resources
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Exact Multivariate Tests of Asset Pricing Models with Stable Asymmetric Distributions

Marie-Claude Beaulieu, Jean-Marie Dufour and Lynda Khalaf

Simulation