March 30, 2015 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Steve Ambler as a Fellow-in-Residence and the Institute’s David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy.
“Steve is one of Canada’s leading monetary economists,” stated Bill. “He has been a crucial contributor to the Institute’s research, and we look forward to continuing a highly fruitful collaboration.”
Professor Ambler holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He is the author of the recent Institute report entitled “Price-Level Targeting: A Post-Mortem?,” wherein he makes the case for the Bank of Canada to move to price-level targeting as a basis for its monetary policy.
He has taught at l’École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM) since 1985, and has chaired the Department since 2012.
Dr. Ambler has held visiting positions at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the European University Institute and the Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna.
He is the author of numerous articles in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
He is a past president of the Société canadienne de science économique (1998-1999). He has been an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics (1992-1995) and of Canadian Public Policy (1998-2003). He was on secondment to the Bank of Canada as Special Adviser from September 2006 to July 2007.
He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association from 2007 to 2012. He is also a senior fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, and a member of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council.
For more information please contact: James Fleming of the C.D. Howe Institute at 416-865-1904; email:jfleming@cdhowe.org.
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