Professor

Balsillie School, Department of Economics, WLU

Contact Information

Office Location: Viessmann European Resarch Centre K100
Phone Number: 519.884.0710 x2491
Email: psiklos @ wlu.ca
Personal web site: www.wlu.ca/sbe/psiklos

Education

Ph.D. 1981, Carleton University
M.A. 1977, University of Western Ontario
B. Comm., McGill University

Areas of Specialization

Central Banking
Monetary Economics
Applied Econometrics

Short Bio

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. 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 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). 

Most recent scholarly publications

 "Not Quite as Advertized: Canada's Managed Float During the 1950s and bank of Canada Intervention" European Review of Economic History (forthcoming)

"Identifying the Shocks Driving Inflation in China" (with Yang Zhang, former MABE student, Ph.D. student at the University of Ottawa, and now at the Bank of Canada), Pacific Economic Review (forthcoming 2009).

"Inflation Targeting Around the World", Emerging Market Finance and Trade 44 (December 2008): 17-37.

"Asset Prices as Indicators of Euro Area Monetary Policy: An Empirical Assessment of Their Role in a Taylor Rule" (with Martin Bohl), Open Economies Review 20 (February 2009): 39-59.

"No Single Definition of Central Bank Independence is Right for All Countries", European Journal of Political Economy 24 (December 2008): 802-16.

Recent academic / professional awards

 William Evans Fellow, October-November 2009
Bundesbank Professor, October 2008-March 2009

Courses Taught

MIPP 641 Macroeconomic Policy in an Interdependent World