Convocation Speaker Stephen Williamson Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Professor Williamson conducts research on problems in monetary economics, banking and monetary policy. He has studied the causes and consequences of financial crises, the role of financial factors in aggregate fluctuations, unconventional monetary policies, and the efficacy of central bank digital currency, among other topics.
Stephen Williamson is the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking at Western University. He received his BSc (Honours, Mathematics, 1977), and MA (Economics, 1979) from Queen’s University, and his PhD (Economics, 1984) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held non-academic positions at the Bank of Canada, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and academic positions at Queen’s University, the University of Iowa, Western University and Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Williamson has published extensively in peer-review journals, including the American Economic Review , the Quarterly Journal of Economics , the Review of Economic Studies , the Journal of Political Economy and the Journal of Monetary Economics . He has been a visitor at Australian National University, Seoul National University, Fudan University, the London School of Economics, the Bank of Canada, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Atlanta, Richmond and Kansas City, among other research institutions.
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