John Sawyer
Professor Emeritus of Economic Analysis and Policy at Rotman School of Management
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- Rotman School of Management
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Biography
Rotman School of Management
Bio
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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