Stephen D. Williamson
Stephen D. Williamson
Steve received a BSc in mathematics and an MA in economics from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held full-time positions at the Bank of Canada, Queen’s University, the University of Western Ontario, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the University of Iowa. Currently, in addition to his faculty position at Washington University in St. Louis, Steve holds visiting positions at the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank and the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. His current research in New Monetarist Economics addresses the role of money, credit, and banking in the macroeconomy and the effects of monetary policy. Steve teaches graduate monetary economics, graduate macroeconomics, and undergraduate intermediate macroeconomics. His publications include articles in the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the International Economic Review, among others. As well, he has published an intermediate level undergraduate macroeconomics text book, Macroeconomics, now in its fourth edition in the U.S. and its third edition in Canada. Steve is a co-editor of Economic Theory, a senior associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics, and an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics.
