If Toronto’s loyal hockey fans are looking for a winning team, they should start following the city’s economists. PhD candidate Guangbin Jeremy Hong, for example, may not do his best work on the ice, but he has now scored a hat trick with his job market paper.

The Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) awarded Hong its Best Paper Award during a special session held at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economic Association in Toronto on Friday, May 31. The paper, Two-Sided Sorting of Workers and Firms: Implications for Spatial Inequality and Welfare, also won both the Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award, and the European Economic Association & UniCredit Foundation Best Job Market Paper Award. [Read more…]