Biographical Information -- J. E. Floyd


Born May 6, 1937
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

B.Comm. University of Saskatchewan, 1958.
Honours Economics, 1959.

M.A. University of Chicago, 1962.

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1964.
Dissertation: "The Distribution Effects of Farm Policy: A Comparison of the Experience of Canada and the United States in the Northern Great Plains."
Supervisors: T.W. Schultz, D. Gale Johnson, and Zvi Griliches


Employment

1962-66: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Washington, Seattle.
1966-70: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Washington, Seattle.
1970-71: Professor of Economics, University of Washington, Seattle.

1970 to present: Professor of Economics, University of Toronto.

Fields of Specialization

International Monetary Economics
Monetary History
Applied Microeconomics

Courses Taught

Microeconomics -- Introductory to PhD level
Macroeconomics -- Introductory to PhD level
International Monetary Theory -- Intermediate to PhD level
International Trade Theory -- Intermediate to PhD level
Statistics -- Introductory

PhD Students Supervised

Kit Pasula -- Economics Department, Okanogan University College, Kelowna, B.C. (1992).

John Johnston -- Deputy Chief Economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto (1993).

Bernd Kempa -- Economics Department, University of Essen, Essen, Germany (1995).

Halina Kwieczinska-Kalita -- Risk Management: Country Risk, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto (1996).

Kazem Yavari -- University of Toronto, (1996).


Side Interests

Professional traditional-jazz keyboard/piano player. Played clubs, festivals, etc. around Toronto since 1974, with a steady Saturday afternoon engagement from 1984 to 1997 with the Excelsior Jazz Band at the Delta Chelsea Inn, Yonge and Gerrard Streets. Currently playing with the same band most Sundays 12PM-3PM at the REX Jazz Bar, at the annual Oakville Jazz Festival, on occasion at the Lancaster Jazz Club in Kitchener, and on miscellaneous engagements in the Greater Toronto Area at such places as the Distillery District, King Henry's Arms in Aurora, the Rose and Thorne on Browns Line Road and the Queen's Head Tavern in Oakville.


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