Overview
Paul Lanoie is a professor at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC Montréal) and a fellow of CIRANO. He is a specialist in WC incentive effects, workplace safety regulation, and the intersection of environmental and labor economics in Canada.
Key Contributions / Features
- Occupational safety and double moral hazard (Lanoie 1991, Journal of Risk and Insurance): Formal model distinguishing single vs. double moral hazard in WC, precursor to the Bolduc et al. empirical test.
- WC-UI substitution (Fortin and Lanoie 1992, Journal of Public Economics): Industry-level evidence of Quebec WC being used as a substitute for UI; basis for WC-UI interaction specification in Bolduc et al. (2002).
- WC effects survey (Fortin and Lanoie 2000): Comprehensive handbook chapter on WC incentive effects.
- Is WC a substitute for UI? (Fortin, Lanoie, and Laporte 1999): Individual-level WC-UI substitution evidence.
- Workers' compensation moral hazard and injury composition (Bolduc et al. 2002): Key co-author establishing the composition test for ex post moral hazard using panel data on Quebec construction workers.
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