Christos Shiamptanis

Contact information

Associate Professor 

Department of Economics

Wilfrid Laurier University

75 University Avenue, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3C5

T: 548-889-4613

cshiamptanis@wlu.ca

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Publications

Tax Austerity: Does it avert solvency crises? Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming  

Is the Bank of Canada concerned about inflation or the state of the economy? (with Ke Pang) Journal of International Money and Finance, 2024, 140, 102977, 1-20.

Identifying Countries at Risk of Fiscal Crises: High-Debt Developed Countries  (with Betty C. Daniel), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (2), 828-867.

Risk assessment under a nonlinear fiscal policy rule, Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (3), 1539-1555.

Pushing the limit? Fiscal policy in the European Monetary Union (with Betty C. Daniel), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (11), 2307-2321.

Fiscal risk in a monetary union (with Betty C. Daniel), European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 1289-1309.

Did the euro give us a break in inflation? Empirical Economics, 2010, 39 (2), 395-411.

Working Papers

Fiscal implications of the pandemic (with Ke Pang) under review

Work in Progress

Tax increases or Spending cuts: A historical perspective using disaggregate data. 

Fiscal fatigue: Does it really exist? (with Salman Hasham

Productive Government spending and fiscal limits (with Constantine Angyridis). 

Non-linear effects of government debt on output 

Other Publications

Bank Runs Can Occur in Uncertain Times, Including during a Pandemic, But They Are Not Likely—Especially in Canada, School of Public Policy Paper Series, University of Calgary, April 2020

Teaching

Wilfrid Laurier University

EC681: Research Paper and Seminar (Graduate)

EC640: Macroeconomics (Graduate)

EC481:  Research Paper and Seminar (Undergraduate)

EC410: Governor's Challenge (Undergraduate)

EC390: Intermediate Macroeconomics II (Undergraduate)

EC310: Macro Forecasting (Undergraduate)

EC140: Intro to Macroeconomics (Undergraduate)