Mons Chan

Mons Chan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Queen’s University (Faculty of Arts and Science), with cross-appointments at the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy. Previously, he held positions as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto (2019–2020) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University (2018–2019). He earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota (2018), following MA degrees from the University of Minnesota (2016) and the University of Toronto (2012), and a BA (First Class Honours) in Economics from the University of Manitoba (2010).

His research focuses on **Industrial Organization**, **Trade & Outsourcing**, **Firm/Labour Productivity**, **Macroeconomics**, and **Applied Econometrics**, with a particular emphasis on topics like technological scalability, wage dynamics, R&D impacts, and global value chains. His work integrates structural econometric methods to analyze policy-relevant questions in trade, labor markets, and innovation.

Professional affiliations include membership in the **Econometric Society** (since 2016) and the **Canadian Economics Association** (since 2015). His research has been published in top economics journals, with recent contributions exploring wage–productivity linkages, R&D effects on quality, and trade-driven productivity changes.

Chan’s teaching expertise spans microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. He maintains active collaborations in Queen’s economics department and through interdisciplinary research networks focused on economic policy analysis.