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Academic Background

Bacc. (College Stanislas), BComm (McGill University), MA (University of Western Ontario), PhD (Carleton University)

Biography

Pierre Siklos received his PhD in 1981.  He specializes in macroeconomics with an emphasis on the study of inflation, central banks, and financial markets.  He also conducts research in applied time series analysis. His research has been published in a variety of international journals and he has been a consultant to a variety of institutions and central banks.  His work has been widely cited in several macro and econometrics textbooks.  His textbook, Money, Banking and Financial Institutions: Canada in the Global Environment was widely used across Canada throughout its five editions (http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=758&f_id=31&p=4464). He has also been a visiting lecturer at several universities around Europe and North America, Australia, and New Zealand. His research has been funded by domestic and international agencies. He is the Managing Editor of the North American Journal of Economics and Finance, and Scholar and member of the Scientific Committee of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis[http://www.rcfea.org/]. In 1999 he was Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was WLU's University Research Professor for the academic year 2000-2001, and became the Director of the Viessmann European Research in July 2005 [http://www.wlu.ca/viessmann]. On January 10th, 2008 he was named to the C.D. Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council (www.cdhowe.org/index.cfm). Since October 2008 he is chairholder of the Bundesbank Foundation of International Monetary Economics at the Freie Universitat, Berlin (http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/en/institute/bundesbank/professoren/index.html). In December 2008 he became a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Inniovation (CIGI). In September 2009 he was appointed to a three year term as a member of the Czech National Bank's Research Advisory Committee. During the 2008-2009 academic year he will be a Visting Professor at Princeton University as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Japan.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Impact of monetary and fiscal policies; time series modelling; forecasting