I have been employed by the University of Regina since July 2000. I have taught classes in introductory economics, all levels of macroeconomics and of econometrics. I have also developed general interest courses focused on money, and population economics.

I earned my PhD in Economics at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, in 2000. My dissertation was titled, Demographic and Institutional Influences on Canadian Savings Behaviour. My research focuses on the determinants of and influences on savings and investment. I have a particular interest in the Canadian economy during the 1870-1929 period, and on the effects of demographic change and social policy on the Canadian savings rate. My primary methodological tools are the overlapping generations lifecycle model and the Johansen cointegration time-series model.

Refereed Publications

Why did Americans reject compulsory health insurance after WWI? An application of the lifecycle model. Joint with JCH Emery. Economics Research International, Volume 2012, Article ID 231473, doi:10.1155/2012/231473. Available at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/econ/2012/231473/

Public pension sustainability options: the relative merits of increasing contribution rates or switching to a fully-funded pension. In Mechanisms & Policies in Economics. Edited by J Roufagalas. Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2007 (ISBN 9789606672231), pp.145-171.

Factor accumulation in Canada before the Great Depression: investment and immigration dynamics. Empirical Economics, Volume 31, Number 1, pp. 261-275 (March 2006).

Immigration and capital accumulation in Canada: a long-run perspective, in Canadian Immigration Policy for the 21st Century. Edited by Charles Beach, Alan Green and Jeffrey Reitz. John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003 (ISBN 0889119546), pp. 125-158.

A dynamic general equilibrium analysis of migration and capital formation: the case of Canada Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 455-481 (April 2003). 

The savings rate debate: Does the dependency hypothesis hold for Australia and Canada?
The Australian Economic History Review, 40(2):199-218 (July 2000).