Teaching Experience

I teach macroeconomics with one goal in mind: students should leave my courses able to use economic models, not just recognize them. In upper-level macroeconomics, students work in Python throughout the term, with short assignments on household utility maximization, firm profit maximization, and growth accounting. The course culminates in a final project in which students collect data, solve the neoclassical growth model analytically, calibrate it, and run their own simulations. I also bring students into research. Through the Outstanding Scholars Program, Mitacs Globalink, and MA major papers, I have mentored students on projects ranging from climate change and taxation to economic news and computational economics. I recently designed and launched a new course in quantitative methods, and my teaching has been recognized with six consecutive Teaching Score Awards for the highest weighted mean teaching score in Economics.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

ECON 2310 - Intermediate Macroeconomics I
- Builds a general equilibrium model of the macroeconomy from the optimizing decisions of households and firms, then turns to the long run with the Malthusian, Solow, and endogenous growth models.
ECON 2320 - Intermediate Macroeconomics II
- Extends the static model of ECON 2310 to an intertemporal setting, covering consumption–savings decisions, credit markets, investment, and money, and uses these tools to study business cycles, inflation, and monetary policy.
ECON 3350 - Money and Banking
- Examines money, interest rates, banks, and financial markets, and how central bank policy shapes the economy, using economic models to make sense of real-world events such as banking crises, recessions, and inflation.
ECON 4330 - Advanced Macroeconomics I (Monetary Economics)
- Develops formal models of money and macroeconomic decision-making, from overlapping generations models of money and the cost of inflation to infinitely lived agent and recursive models of labour supply, consumption, saving, and capital accumulation.
ECON 4340 - Advanced Macroeconomics II (with Python)
- Students learn Python while working through growth, business cycles, and asset pricing, from the Solow model and growth accounting to the neoclassical growth model, completing a final project in which they collect data, solve, calibrate, and simulate the model themselves.
ECON 4990 - Bank of Canada Governor's Challenge
- A capstone course in which a team of senior students analyzes current Canadian economic conditions and develops monetary policy recommendations to present to Bank of Canada economists in a national competition.

Graduate (MA)

ECON 8020 - Macroeconomic Theory I
- An introduction to real business cycle models that takes students from the Solow model through recursive deterministic and stochastic models to building and numerically solving dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models for policy analysis.
ECON 8040 - Macroeconomic Theory II (with Python)
- Continues ECON 8020 with real business cycle and optimal growth models, including Hansen's RBC model, the Cass–Koopmans model, and the stochastic optimal growth model, with students writing their own Python code to solve them using log-linearization, dynamic programming, and other numerical methods.

Graduate (MAEP)

ECON 8220 - Applied Macroeconomics (with Python)
- Uses Python to build and simulate models of growth, business cycles, and household saving, from the Solow model to the neoclassical growth model. In group projects, students apply these models to policy questions such as the minimum wage, misallocation, unemployment, and optimal taxation.

Teaching Evaluations

Student evaluations (scale 1–7, 7 = excellent)

Undergraduate

ECON 2320, Intermediate Macroeconomics II (Winter 2026): overall quality of instruction 6.8
ECON 4340, Advanced Macroeconomics II with Python (Winter 2023): overall instructor rating 6.4; 100% would recommend the course
ECON 4330, Advanced Macroeconomics I (Fall 2019): overall instructor rating 6.8, the highest in the department that term; 94% would recommend the course

Graduate

ECON 8220, Applied Macroeconomics with Python (Fall 2025): overall quality of instruction 7.0; overall quality of course 7.0
ECON 8220, Applied Macroeconomics with Python (Fall 2024): overall quality of instruction 6.9; overall quality of course 6.9

What students say

- "It is refreshing to have a professor who actually cares about the students." (ECON 2320)
- "The lectures had a very warm atmosphere where students were free to ask questions and discuss difficult topics." (ECON 2320)
- "He explains the material extremely well and makes sure that each concept is understood before he moves on." (ECON 2320)
- "Course was very well prepared and very well taught, this course should be a model for other courses." (ECON 8220)

Awards and Recognition

Teaching Score Award Recipient: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 (award discontinued after 2013). In recognition of teaching over 100 students and achieving the highest weighted mean teaching score over all courses taught in Economics in the Summer, Fall and Winter terms. Faculty of Science, University of Windsor.
Performance Award: 2015. In recognition of outstanding overall performance in the areas of research and service. Faculty of Science, University of Windsor.
Outreach & Community Engagement Award. 2025. In recognition of outstanding contribution to the Faculty of Science, University of Windsor.

Undergraduate Research Mentoring

The Outstanding Scholars Program is the University of Windsor's selective undergraduate research program, in which high-achieving students complete paid research placements with faculty mentors from their second through fourth years. I have supervised the following students on research projects through the program:

Understanding Economic News (Iva Havyarimana, Abdel-Raheem Mohammad; F26)
Evidence on Distributional Effects and Economic Impacts of Climate Change (Favour Anto; F26)
Evidence on Distributional Effects and Economic Impacts of Climate Change (Evan Mejia, Undergraduate student; F18-W20)
Computational Economics with Python (Martha Tedla; Undergraduate student; F19-W20)
History of Economic Thought Back in Economic Courses (Katherine Vrantsidis; Undergraduate student; F14-W15)
Taxing to Control Economic and Social Costs of Obesity (Zeiad Hassoun; Undergraduate student; F14-W15)
Income, Labor Supply and Obesity in Canada (Zachary Hudson; Undergraduate student; F12-W14)

Major Paper - M.A. Economics

Tax Preferences: A Numerical Exercise (Isaac Babatunde Olatunji, 2024)
The Tax Effects of Intergenerational Transfers: A Quantitative Exercise (Belinda Boateng, 2023)
Temperature Anomalies in a Simple Overlapping Generations Model (Chizua Mesigo, 2020)
A Warmer Green Golden Rule (Kyle Stuart, 2020)
Sales Tax Rebate and Cross-Border Shopping (Xijie Hou; 2015)
Does it pay to win the Stanley Cup? (Derek Lanoue; 2015)
Welfare Implications of Capital Tax Evasion and Information Sharing for Canada (Doriane Intungane; 2012)

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Courses Taught

Undergraduate

ECON 2310 - Intermediate Macroeconomics I

ECON 2320 - Intermediate Macroeconomics II

ECON 3350 - Money and Banking

ECON 4330 - Advanced Macroeconomics I (Monetary Economics)

ECON 4340 - Advanced Macroeconomics II (with Python)

ECON 4990 - Bank of Canada Governor's Challenge

Graduate (MA)

ECON 8020 - Macroeconomic Theory I

ECON 8040 - Macroeconomic Theory II (with Python)

Graduate (MAEP)

ECON 8220 - Applied Macroeconomics (with Python)

Teaching Evaluations

Undergraduate

Graduate

Awards and Recognition

Undergraduate Research Mentoring

Major Paper - M.A. Economics