Gregor W. Smith

Contact

Electronic mail: smithgw at econ dot queensu dot ca         Phone: (613) 533-6659          Fax: (613) 533-6668

Mail: Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada        Office: Room A520, Mackintosh-Corry Hall

Biographical Information

Douglas D. Purvis Professor of Economics         B.A. (Queen's); M.A. Hons. (St. Andrews); M.Phil, D.Phil (Nuffield College, Oxon)

Biographical Note        Bank of Canada Research Fellow        Research Associate, Centers for International Price Research

Past Projects and Doctoral Students

My research is in open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconometrics, and economic history.
Here are lists of publications (with links to co-authors) and of past and current doctoral students. CV and IDEAS page.
Here are some historical sterling/dollar exchange rates for 1860-1878, the 1920s, and the 1950s, that we have used in some published work.
My old M.A. macroeconomics lecture notes also are available here. Also, a disclosure of outside activities.

Current Research

  • Estimating Dynamic Euler Equations with Multivariate Professional Forecasts. (with James Yetman, revised November 2010)
  • How Wide Was the Ocean? US and Swedish Commodity Price Dispersion from 1732 to 1860. (with Mario Crucini, September 2010)
  • Identifying Fiscal Policy (In)effectiveness from the Differential Adoption of Keynesianism in the Interwar Period. (with Nicolas-Guillaume Martineau, February 2012)

    Recent Presentations and Discussions

  • How Wide was the Ocean?, CIPR Vanderbilt University, September 2010
  • Discussion of Amano, Engle-Warnick, Héroux, and Shukayev's Experiments and Price-Level Targeting, C.D. Howe Institute, October 2010
  • Panelist Commentary at the Bank of Canada conference on Canada's monetary policy framework, Ottawa, November 2010
  • Discussion of Andrade and Le Bihan's Inattentive Professional Forecasters, at T2M at HEC Montréal, May 2011
  • Discussion of Aizenman and Pasricha's Determinants of Financial Stress and Recovery during the Great Recession, Canadian Economics Association Meetings, Ottawa, June 2011