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John Sawyer

Professor Emeritus of Economic Analysis and Policy at Rotman School of Management

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    John Sawyer is a Professor Emeritus of Economic Analysis and Policy at Rotman and at the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. He has taught Microeconomics, Macro-economics, Statistics and Econometrics. His current research projects are the use of Bayesian vector autoregressive models for forecasting Canadian macroeconomic variables; the effect of regime shifts in monetary policies in Canada and the U.S. on trends in real output and on business cycles; and the history of education in commerce and management on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto.

    Academic Positions

    1967-Present  Research Associate; Institute for Policy Analysis, University of Toronto

    1969-1990  Professor; Department of Economics, University of Toronto

    1965-1990  Professor; Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

    1985-1986  Acting Dean; Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

    1983-1985  Chairman; Commerce Programs, University of Toronto

    1975-1980  Director; Institute for Policy Analysis, University of Toronto

    1970-1972  Associate Dean (Social Sciences); School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto

    1961-1965  Associate Professor; Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

    1960-1961  Assistant Professor; Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

    1953-1960  Economist Dominion Bureau of Statistics

    1951-1953  Assistant Professor of Economics; Royal Military College of Canada

    1949-1950  Sessional Lecturer in Economics; University of Alberta

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    Books

    Commerce and Management at the University of Toronto: A Brief History; ASAC 1996 Proceedings, Vol.17, no. 24, Business History; 1996

    Consumption Functions and Government Deficits and Debt; in D.P. Dungan and T.A Wilson, Public Debt and the Economy (Discussion Paper 94-02, Government and Competitiveness, School of Policy Studies, Queen''s University); 1994

    Macroeconomic Theory: Keynesian and Neo-Walrasian Models; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf. Japanese translation (1992), Tokyo: Bunkashobo Hakbunsha, Inc.; 1989

    The Transmission of World Economic Expansion to an Open Economy: some Experiments for Canada; With D.P. Dungan and G.V. Jump in F.G. Adams and B. Hickman (Eds.), Global Econometrics: Essays in Honour of Lawrence R. Klein (Cambridge: The MIT Press); 1983

    Modelling the International Transmission Mechanism: Applications and Extensions of the Project LINK System; Editor (Amsterdam: North-Holland); 1979

    Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy in the Canadian Economy; Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; 1975

    The TRACE Econometric Model of the Canadian Economy with N.K. Choudry, Y. Kotowitz and J.W.L. Winder; Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1972

    Import Forecasts for Inputoutput Models; Review of Income and Wealth; Issue: 18; 1972

    The Impact of Foreign Trade on Canadian Industries, 1956; with T.I. Matuszewski and P.R. Pitts; Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science; Issue: 31; 1965

    The Measurement of Inter-industry Relationships in Canada; Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science; Issue: 21; 1955

    Papers

    • Commerce and Management at the University of Toronto: A Brief History; ASAC 1996 Proceedings, Vol.17, no. 24, Business History; 1996
    • Consumption Functions and Government Deficits and Debt; in D.P. Dungan and T.A Wilson, Public Debt and the Economy (Discussion Paper 94-02, Government and Competitiveness, School of Policy Studies, Queen''s University); 1994
    • Macroeconomic Theory: Keynesian and Neo-Walrasian Models; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf. Japanese translation (1992), Tokyo: Bunkashobo Hakbunsha, Inc.; 1989
    • The Transmission of World Economic Expansion to an Open Economy: some Experiments for Canada; With D.P. Dungan and G.V. Jump in F.G. Adams and B. Hickman (Eds.), Global Econometrics: Essays in Honour of Lawrence R. Klein (Cambridge: The MIT Press); 1983
    • Modelling the International Transmission Mechanism: Applications and Extensions of the Project LINK System; Editor (Amsterdam: North-Holland); 1979
    • Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy in the Canadian Economy; Toronto: Macmillan of Canada; 1975
    • The TRACE Econometric Model of the Canadian Economy with N.K. Choudry, Y. Kotowitz and J.W.L. Winder; Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1972
    • Import Forecasts for Inputoutput Models; Review of Income and Wealth; Issue: 18; 1972
    • The Impact of Foreign Trade on Canadian Industries, 1956; with T.I. Matuszewski and P.R. Pitts; Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science; Issue: 31; 1965
    • The Measurement of Inter-industry Relationships in Canada; Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science; Issue: 21; 1955

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