Bio

Graham Voss is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria. He has a BA (Honours) from the University of Victoria, an MA from McMaster University and a PhD from Queen’s University. He began his academic career in 1991 at the University of New South Wales, Australia where he taught until 1998. He then joined the Research Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia as a senior economist where he worked until joining the University of Victoria in 2001.

Graham's principal area of research is applied macroeconomics with a focus on monetary and fiscal policies and exchange rates. Much of his work involves either assessments of macroeconomic policies or empirical modelling of macroeconomic behaviour. This work has generated numerous grants both here and in Australia and has been published in international journals. He has also worked directly with private sector and government organizations both here and in Australia on policy related matters such as public infrastructure spending, public accounts, and the interdependence of the Canadian and US economies. Recent research interests have focused on inflation targeting and the trade-offs pursued by central banks between inflation and economic activity.

Publications

Selected Publications (for complete list, go to Dr. Voss' Website):

• "The Response of Australian Consumption to Housing Wealth, with L. Fisher and G. Otto, forthcoming, Journal of Macroeconomics, in press (DOI:10.1016/j.jmacro.2009.06.004).
• "Quality of Life as an Explanation for the Divergence between Ranchers" WTA and WTP for Public Forage," with L. Sun and G.C. van Kooten, Forest Policy and Economics, in press (DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2009.04.005)
• "Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate: Evidence from a Two Country Model," with L. Willard, Journal of Macroeconomics, in press (DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2008.09.002).
• "Exchange Rate Regimes, Specialization and Trade Volume," with M. Devereux, Topics in Macroeconomics 6(2), Article 12, 2006.
• "Demand for Wildlife Hunting in British Columbia," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 53, 25{46, 2005, with L. Sun and G.C. van Kooten.
• "Consumption, Wealth and Expected Stock Returns in Australia," The Economic Record, 80(251), 359{372, 2004, with L. Fisher
• "Consumption and Wealth in Australia," The Economic Record, 79(244), 39-56, 2003, with A. Tan
• "Public Investment and Economic Growth," Applied Economics, 35, 527-40, 2003, with R. Milbourne and G. Otto
• "Public and Private Investment in the United States and Canada," Economic Modelling 19(4), 641-64, 2002

Courses

ECON 104, Principles of Macroeconomics

ECON 401, Advanced Macroeconomic Theory

ECON 405B, International Monetary Theory and Policy

ECON 422, Issues in European Economic Integration

ECON 501, Macroeconomic Analysis

ECON 552, Macroeconomic Issues

Research Projects