Christos Shiamptanis

CV

Publications

Tax Austerity: Does it avert solvency crises? Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2024, 56 (6), 1515-1543.

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.

Other Publications

Bumps in the Road: Ever-Evolving Monetary Policy in Canada (with Ke Pang) C.D. Howe Institute e-Brief, 363, October 2024

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.

Industrial Transformation: The Case of North Carolina, Special Research Report, TD Economics, June 2011.

U.S. State Economic Outlook: Northeast to Leap ahead of South-Atlantic in 2011 (with Beata Caranci and Alistair Bentley),  Special Research Report, TD Economics, January 2011.

Putting the U.S. Fiscal House in Order (with James Marple), Special Research Report, TD Economics, December 2010.

The nifty-fifty no more: An In-depth look at State Fiscal Finances (with Craig Alexander and Beata Caranci), Special Research Report, TD Economics, October 2010. Executive summary

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

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)