Huntley Schaller

B.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (MIT)

Full Professor (Economics)

Office: D-888/9 Loeb, 613-520-2600 x 3751

E-mail: huntley_schaller [at] carleton [dot] ca

Languages spoken other than English: French, German

Research fields: macroeconomics, finance, econometrics, investment

Expertise:
• macroeconomics
• finance
• the investment behaviours of firms

Selected publications:

“The Irreversibility Premium” (with Robert S. Chirinko), Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 56, No. 3 (April 2009), pp. 390–408.

“Estimating the Long-Run User Cost Elasticity,” Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 53, No. 4 (May 2006), pp. 725–736.

“The Interest Rate, Learning, and Inventory Investment” (with Louis J. Maccini and Bartholomew J. Moore), American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 5 (December 2004), pp. 1303–1327.

“A Revealed Preference Approach to Understanding Corporate Governance Problems: Evidence from Canada” (with Robert S. Chirinko), Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 74, No. 1 (October 2004), pp. 181–206.

“Business Fixed Investment and ‘Bubbles’: The Japanese Case” (with Robert S. Chirinko), American Economic Review, Vol. 91, No. 3 (June 2001), pp. 663–680.

Short biography:

Huntley Schaller received his B.A. from McGill University and his Ph.D. from MIT. His research has focused primarily on the interaction between the real and financial sides of the economy, including work on investment, asset prices, the stock market, learning, financial market imperfections, monetary policy, the capital stock, corporate governance, inventories, acquisitions, bubbles, and the effect of taxes. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and the Canadian Journal of Economics, among others. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University (1994–1995, 2008–2009), MIT (2002–2003), and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. He has also served as Chair of the Department of Economics at Carleton University (2004–2007).