Paul Beaudry

Paul Beaudry, FRSC

Professor, Economics; Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)

April 30, 2015

Paul Beaudry is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics at the University of British Columbia. Professor Beaudry has held regular faculty positions at the Université de Montréal, Boston University, and the University of Oxford. He has also held visiting faculty positions at MIT, Sorbonne Paris I, and the University of Toulouse.

Professor Beaudry has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, labour economics, monetary policy, technical change, and growth. He is a frequent contributor at national and international conferences. He is a Fellow of the Bank of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Research Associate at the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research.

Most recently, Professor Beaudry has published in the area of income distribution and business cycle fluctuations, and is currently working on research in the area of job creation, debt-fueled expansion and financial crisis.

Professor Beaudry received a BA from Laval University (1983), an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia (1984), and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1989).


Role: Panel Member
Report: Some Assembly Required: STEM Skills and Canada's Economic Productivity (April 2015)