Steve Ambler

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Ph.D. (Economics), Stanford University

M.Sc. (Economics), London School of Economics and Political Science

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Professor Steve Ambler taught at l’École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM) from 1985-2020, and chaired the Department from 2012-2015.

In 2023, he won the Doug Purvis Memorial Prize alongside Jeremy Kronick and Thor Koeppl for C.D. Howe Institute Commentary “The Consequences of the Bank of Canada’s Ballooned Balance Sheet.”

His paper “Putting Money Back in Monetary Policy” was published in the special 50th anniversary issue of Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques in 2024.

Ambler has held visiting positions at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), the European University Institute, the Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna, and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian central bank).

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.

Latest Publications by Author

The Way Forward for Interest Rate Cuts

Steve Ambler, Jeremy Kronick

Bank of Canada Made the Right Call to Cut Rates. But Where to From Here?

Steve Ambler, Jeremy Kronick

Why Is an Increase in the Inflation Target off the Table?

Steve Ambler, Thorsten Koeppl, Jeremy Kronick

Blurred Vision: How Mortgage Interest Costs Impact Inflation

Steve Ambler, Jeremy Kronick

Think of the Bank’s Latest Rate Cut as Uncertainty Insurance

Steve Ambler, Jeremy Kronick

With Tariff Threats and Prorogued Parliament, the Bank of Canada Was Right To Cut Rates Again

Steve Ambler, Jeremy Kronick
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