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J. Stephen Ferris B.Com., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (California at Los Angeles) Full Professor (Economics) Office: A-801 Loeb, 613-520-2600 x 3755 E-mail: stephen_ferris [at] carleton [dot] ca Web site: http://www.carleton.ca/~sferris/ |
Research fields: coordination problems in macroeconomic and microeconomic theory
Expertise:
• monetary theory
• interaction of economic policy with politics
• monetary and fiscal policy
Selected publications:
“School Size and Youth Violence” (with Ambrose Leung), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 65, No. 2 (February 2008), pp. 318-333.
“Just How Much Bigger Is Government in Canada? A Comparative Analysis of the Size and Structure of the Public Sectors in Canada and the United States, 1929–2004” (with Stanley L. Winer), Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 33, No. 2 (June 2007), pp. 173–206.
“Studying the Role of Political Competition in the Evolution of Government Size Over Long Horizons” (with Soo-Bin Park and Stanley L. Winer), Public Choice, Vol. 137, No. 1/2 (October 2008), pp. 369–401; also published as CESifo Working Paper No. 1646.
“Searching for Keynesianism” (with Stanley L. Winer), European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 2008), pp. 294–316.
“Electoral Politics and Monetary Policy: Does the Bank of Canada Contribute to a Political Business Cycle?” Public Choice, Vol. 135, No. 3/4 (June 2008), pp. 449–468.
Short biography:
Stephen Ferris received his B.Com. and M.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from UCLA. He has undertaken research in a wide range of areas including education, industrial organization, and public finance, as well as monetary theory and financial economics. The common thread is coordination problems. His work has been published in a variety of journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, the Canadian Journal of Economics, Public Choice, the European Journal of Political Economy, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the International Review of Law and Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and others. He has held faculty positions at Simon Fraser University and York University and has had visiting positions in Australia at Flinders University and the University of South Australia as well as in the U.S. at the University of New Mexico and UCLA.