Professor
Education
B.S. (Cornell), Ph.D. (Minnesota)
Organization
Queen's University
Office
Dunning Hall 234
Email
heada@queensu.ca
Phone Number
(613) 533-6308
Research Interests
Macroeconomics
Monetary Economics
Housing, Urban and Real Estate Economics
Allen Head is a Professor at the Queen’s University Department of Economics. His research focuses on macroeconomics and monetary economics, with an emphasis on applications of search theory to issues in housing and imperfect competition. His current research has looked at imperfect competition associated with search frictions in retail and banking, as well as housing and housing affordability. He is currently affiliated as a secretariat with the Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group. Professor Head earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota before joining QED in 1991.
Selected Publications
- ``Markups, Pass-through, and Firm Heterogeneity with Sequentially Mixed Search'' (with Alex Chernoff and Beverly Lapham) European Economic Review, forthcoming 2026.
- ``Money and Imperfectly Competitive Credit'' (with Timothy Kam, Sam Ng, and Guangqian Pan) Journal of Economic Theory, 228 (September 2025) 106050
- ``Heterogeneity, Frictional Assignment, and Home-Ownership'' (with Huw Lloyd-Ellis and Derek Stacey) International Economic Review 64(3) (August 2023) 1265-1308.
- ``Indebted Sellers, Liquidity and Mortgage Standards'' (with Hongfei Sun and Chenggang Zhou) European Economic Review 151 (January 2023) Article No. 104321 (31pp)
- ``Has Canadian House Price Growth Been Excessive?'', (with Huw Lloyd-Ellis) Canadian Journal of Economics 49(4) (November 2016) 1367-1400.
- ``Search and the Dynamics of House Prices and Construction'', (with Huw Lloyd-Ellis and Hongfei Sun) American Economic Review 104(4) (April 2014) 1172-1210.
- ``Housing Liquidity, Mobility and the Labour Market'', (with Huw Lloyd-Ellis) Review of Economic Studies 79(4) (October 2012) 1559-89.
- ``Sticky Prices: A New Monetarist Approach'', (with Lucy Qian Liu, Guido Menzio and Randall Wright) Journal of the European Economic Association 10(5) (October 2012) 939-73.