I am an economist at the University of Windsor, where I currently serve as Head of the Department of Economics.
My research uses quantitative macroeconomic models to study how materials, energy, technology, and environmental policy shape long-run growth, with implications for climate change. Recent papers examine the role of materials in production and technological change and the optimal taxation of recyclable goods in a circular economy, with attention to policy differences between Canada and the United States.
Macroeconomics, monetary economics, and quantitative methods are the main focus of my teaching. In upper-level macroeconomics, students learn to build and solve models in Python, simulating growth, business cycles, and policy experiments. In the classroom and in research projects, I engage students in using data and models to think carefully about real policy questions, from economic growth to the economics of recycling and climate.