June 12, 2014 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of renowned professor Peter Howitt as Fellow-In-Residence.
“Peter Howitt has made major contributions to our understanding of issues ranging from monetary policy to the economics of knowledge creation,” said Robson. “His expertise is vitally important to the Institute’s efforts to promote economic growth and rising living standards in Canada.”
Peter Howitt is Professor of Economics at Brown University. He received a BA from McGill University, an MA from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
He taught at the University of Western Ontario from 1972 to 1996 and at the Ohio State University from 1996 to 2000.
He has written extensively on the foundations of macroeconomics and monetary theory, on Canadian monetary policy and on the theory of economic growth.
His work on economic growth, which has been published in many journal articles and two books, stresses the importance of innovation, technological change, competition and productivity.
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For more information please contact: James Fleming of the C.D. Howe Institute at 416-865-1904; email: jfleming@cdhowe.org