Claude Montmarquette, well known to several generations of students, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal and President and CEO of CIRANO. He introduced experimental economics in Quebec. He was named a Great Montrealer in 2010 and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998.

His research concerns investment in human capital, public finances, and tax fraud.

Read the interview with him in L'Éconolien, No. 6.

His fields of research are language policies and intergovernmental financial relations in Canada and around the world (New Zealand and Europe; twelve countries from Bhutan to Tunisia, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco and Pakistan).

In public economics, he is interested in federalism (distribution of powers, funding mechanisms) and taxation (costs of collection, harmonization, local taxation, state-owned corporations). In language economics, he deals with income gaps and the impact of language policies, while in human resources, he is interested in social policies from a federal point of view and in the return on investment of education.