Director, School of Business
Contact Information
Office: GCS 348
Office Hours: Virtual, please contact Dr. Lew directly to book a virtual meeting time.
Phone: 705.748.1011 ext. 7897
Email: blew@trentu.ca
Research Interests
Economic History of Canada/North America
International Economics
Diffusion of Agricultural Technology
Trade and Technology
Demonstrations Illustrating
Effect of Tariffs on Welfare
Changes in Size of Tariff
Changes in Size of Importing Country (Elasticity of Export Supply)
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Recent Publications
Bruce Cater and Byron Lew. 2018. The Impact of Climate on the Law of One Price: A Test Using North American Food Prices from the 1920s. Canadian Journal of Economics 51(4) November: 1191–1220.
Byron Lew and Bruce Cater. 2016. "Farm Mechanization on an Otherwise 'Featureless' Plain: Tractor Adoption on the Northern Great Plains and Immigration Policy of the 1920s." Cliometrica.early view.
Bruce Cater, Byron Lew, and Marcus Pivato. 2016. The Efficiency of Tenure Contracts in Academic Employment. Journal of Public Economic Theory. early view.
B. Mak Arvin and Byron Lew. Eds. 2015. Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Saud Choudhry and Byron Lew. 2015. Is the Boom in East Asian Tourism Happening at the Expense of Other Destinations? A Cross-Country Analysis. The Journal of Developing Areas. 49 (3, Summer): 335-51.
B. Mak Arvin and Byron Lew. 2014. Does Income Matter in the Happiness-Corruption Relationship? Journal of Economic Studies41(3): 469-90.
Bruce Cater, Sohee Kang, Byron Lew and Marco Pollanen. 2013. Permanent Injury and the Disability-Mitigating Effects of Education. Economics Bulletin 33(3): 2064-79.
Bruce Cater, Byron Lew and Barry Smith. 2008. A Theory of Tenure-track Contracts. Education Economics 16(2): 203-18.
Byron Lew and Bruce Cater. 2006. The Telegraph, Co-ordination of Tramp Shipping, and Growth in World Trade, 1870-1910. European Review of Economic History 10(2): 147-73.
Byron Lew. 2000. The Diffusion of Tractors on the Canadian Prairies: the Threshold Model and the Problem of Uncertainty. Explorations in Economic History vol. 37 (April), 189-216.
Work in Progress
Byron Lew and Bruce Cater. "The Language of Opportunity: Canadian Inter-regional and International Migration, 1900-1930" February 2013.
Byron Lew and Bruce Cater. "Interprovincial Migration in Canada, 1911-1951, and Beyond." May 2011.
Byron Lew and Marvin McInnis, "World War I and the Expansion of Canadian Wheat Supply."
Byron Lew and Marvin McInnis, "Guns and Butter: World War I and the Canadian Economy."
