Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
founded in the year	1982
acronym	CIFAR
City	Toronto, ON
Country	Canada
Website	http://www.cifar.ca/
address	MaRS Centre, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, Suite 505, Toronto, Ontario
number of employees	404
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Behavioural economics in public governance
Last revision	15.08.2017

The following coordinate was not recognized: 43.659346;-79.389422.The following coordinate was not recognized: 43.659346;-79.389422. The CIFAR is an internationally leading, multidisciplinary institute of advanced research. Issues of behavioural economics and the their application in public governance are treated under the program 'Social Interactions, Identity & Well Being' (one of 14). Associate director of the program is Philip Oreopoulos one of the major behavioural economists in Canada/North-America.

Number of employees refers to the count of researchers.

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

MaRS Centre, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, Suite 505, Toronto, Ontario

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.