This program provides outstanding scholars with an opportunity to work at the Bank of Canada.
Background and purpose
This program aims to:
- enable our researchers to work closely with external experts to address innovative policy-related research questions connected to the Bank’s core functions.
- strengthen the Bank’s research agenda and output with the contribution of distinguished scholars;
- further deepen the Bank’s understanding of domestic and international economic and financial issues.
Participants are accomplished academic researchers with an established reputation in a field relevant to the Bank of Canada.
The program accommodates various visiting schedules, depending on the preferences of participants and the needs of the Bank. At any time, the Bank may host a number of scholars.
For more information on the program, contact us .
Current scholars
Martin (Marty) Eichenbaum
Since 2023
Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and co-editor of the American Economic Review
Research areas: aggregate economic fluctuations, the causes and consequences of exchange rate fluctuations, and the effect of monetary policy on post-war United States business cycles
Zhiguo He
Since 2023
Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance and Jeuck Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago
Research areas: financial institutions, financial market, macroeconomics, financial theory and Chinese economy
Robert Townsend
Since 2023
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research areas: analyze the role and impact of financial systems on developing economies by studying applied general equilibrium models and contract theory
Stephen Williamson
Since 2023
Professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking, University of Western Ontario
Research areas: monetary economics, macroeconomics and financial economics
Philipp Schnabl
Since 2022
Martin J. Gruber Professor in Asset Management and Sidney Homer Director of the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, New York University; co-editor, Journal of Financial Economics and associate editor, Journal of Financial Intermediation
Research areas: financial intermediation, monetary policy and corporate finance
Fabio Ghironi
Since 2021
Professor at the University of Washington
Research areas: international macroeconomics, macroeconomics and monetary economics
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Since 2021
Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics and Director of Penn Institute for Economic Research at the University of Pennsylvania
Research areas: international macroeconomics and macroeconomics
Michael Ehrmann
Since 2019
Head of Monetary Policy Research in the Research Department at the European Central Bank
Research areas: monetary policy, central bank communication, committee decision-making, international finance and applied econometrics
Greg Kaplan
Since 2019
Professor of Economics, University of Chicago and editor, Journal of Political Economy
Research areas: macroeconomics, labor economics, inequality, consumption, risk-sharing, unemployment, monetary policy, fiscal policy, household formation and migration
Evi Pappa
Since 2019
Professor of Macroeconomics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)
Research areas: macroeconomics, fiscal policy, monetary economics and open economy macroeconomics
Christine Parlour
Since 2019
Professor of Finance and Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting, Berkeley Haas
Research areas: fintech, digital payments, credit markets, finance, microstructure and banking
Julia Thomas
Since 2019
Professor of Economics, Ohio State University
Research areas: quantitative macroeconomics, specifically heterogeneous agent general equilibrium business cycle models
Gianluca Violante
Since 2019
Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Research areas: macroeconomics, labor economics and public finance
Itay Goldstein
Since 2016
Professor of Finance, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Research areas: corporate finance, feedback effects between financial markets and the real economy, financial fragility and crises, financial institutions and financial markets
Charles M. Kahn
Since 2016
Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois
Research interests: economic theory, payments economics and banking
Past scholars
Rodney J. Garratt
2020-2022
Dean Corbae
2017–2019
Victor Aguirregabiria
2015–2017
Andrew Levin
2015–2017
Ricardo Lagos
2016
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
2015–2016