The contemporary institute of economical research (IRÉC) is offering 25 000 $ in prize to reward the best thesis registered in its directory.

IRÉC, in collaboration with the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal (SSJB-M) and its "Prêt d'honneur" foundation, will award a total of 25 000 $ distributed like this :

Any doctoral and master's thesis or the equivalent that has been presented as a requirement for a Quebec university degree between January 1^st 1995 and December 31^st 1999 is eligible.

The winning papers will be on subjects of interest of the IRÉC in the following areas: general economy, social economy, political economy or all other related areas (for example, management, sociology, political sciences and land use management).

The papers on the effects on globalization, economical development, balance between the private and public sector, local and national decision centers and workforce economical conditions will get special attention. These subjects can be studied from an economical approach (micro or macro), from a multidisciplinary approach or from an approach specific to any other area.

To be eligible, all registrations must be done using the electronic form provided by the Institute.

The papers must be submitted electronically (disk or Internet) in Microsoft Word format (version 6.0 or higher) or Word Perfect (version 7.0 or higher). The documents received will be converted into Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) and published on this site.

All the authors of the papers presented for this contest will have to surrender complete publication and dissemination rights to the IRÉC in all possible forms. The copyrights or other restrictions imposed by the universities will have to be waved.

Once the electronic form is completed and validated, the document to be entered in the contest and in the publication directory will be transferred :

by email to depot@irec.net

or by default, on a disk, ZIP or CD-ROM at the following address,

Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine
1 , Westmount Square , bureau 820
Westmount (Québec) H3Z 2P9

All documents have to be received by IRÉC no later than Friday, September 15 2000 at 5 o'clock.