Allan Gregory

Allan Gregory

Professor

Department of Economics
Queen's University
Kingston ON K7L 3N6

Telephone: (613) 533-2299

Fax: (613) 533-6668

E-mail: awg@econ.queensu.ca

Education

Honours B.A. Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, May 1977
M.A. Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, July 1978
Ph.D. Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, October, 1981


Recent Papers (in pdf format)

Canadian City Housing Prices and Urban Market Segmentation (with Jason Allen, Bob Amano and David P. Byrne), Bank of Canada Working Paper, No. 2006-49, January 2007 (Statistical Appendix)

Mixed Signals Among Tests for Cointegration (with Alfred Haug and Nicoletta Lumuto), Journal of Applied Econometrics The Evolution of Consensus in Macroeconomic Forecasting, James Yetman, invited for revision Journal of International Forecasting, October 2002.

Estimation and Inference in ARCH Models in the Presence of Outliers (with Jonathan Reeves), December 2001.


Refereed Publications

Econometric Theory

Information-Theoretic Estimation of Preference Parameters: Macroeconomic Applications and Simulation Evidence (with Jean-Francois Lamarche and Gregor Smith), Journal of Econometrics, 107, 2002,213-233.

Testing for Consensus (with Gregor Smith and James Yetman), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 9, 2000, 34-50

Testing for Cointegration in Models with Regime and Trend Shifts (with Bruce E. Hansen), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 58, 1996,555-560.

Testing for Structural Breaks in Cointegrated Relationships (with James M. Nason and David Watt), Journal of Econometrics, 711, 1996, 321-342.

Book Review (with I. Morgan) of Time Series Models, in Econometrics, Finance and other Fields, editors: D.R. Cox, D.V. Hinkley, and O.E. Barndorff-Neilsen in Short Book Reviews, 16, 1996, 28-29.

Residual-Based Tests for Cointegration in Models with Regime Shifts (with Bruce Hansen), Journal of Econometrics, 70, 1996, 99-126.

Statistical Aspects of Calibration in Macroeconomics (with Gregor W. Smith), Handbook of Statistics Volume 11 (editors G.S. Maddala, C.R. Rao and H.D. Vinod), North Holland, 1993, 703-719.

Estimating Linear Quadratic Models with Integrated Processes (with Adrian Pagan and Gregor W. Smith), Models, Methods and Applications: Essays in Honour of R.A. Bergstrom, edited by P.C.B. Phillips, Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1993, 220-239.

The Effect of Sampling Error on the Time Series Behaviour of Consumption Data: A Comment (with with Tony Wirjanto), Journal of Econometrics, 55, 1992, 267-273.

Sampling Variability in Hansen-Jagannathan Bounds (with Gregor W. Smith), Economics Letters, 38, 1992, 263-267.

Calibration as Testing: Inference in Simulated Macroeconomic Models (with Gregor W. Smith), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 9, 1991, 297-303.

Testing Long-Run Properties of Stationary Time Series (with Michael Sampson) Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 1991, 9, 287-295.

Calibration as Estimation (with Gregor W. Smith), Econometric Reviews, 9, 1990, 57-89.

A Nonparametric Test for Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH): A Markov Chain Approach, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 7, 1989 107-115.

Markov Chain Tests of the Unbiasedness Hypothesis in the Forward Foreign Exchange Market (with Michael J. Sampson), Journal of Quantitative Economics, 1989, 143-154.

Formulation Wald Tests of the Restrictions Implied by the Rational Expectations Hypothesis (with Michael R. Veall), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2, 1987, 61-68.

Wald Tests of Common Factor Restrictions (with Michael R. Veall), Economics Letters, 22, 1986, 203-208.

Testing Nested Functional Forms of Money Demand for Canada, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 1985, 211-230.

Formulating Wald Tests of Nonlinear Restriction (with Michael R. Veall), Econometrica, 53, 1985, 1465-1468.

A Lagrange Multiplier Test of the Restrictions for a Simple Rational Expectations Model (with Michael R. Veall), Canadian Journal of Economics, 18, 1985, 85-94.

An Invariance Property of Generalized Classical Linear Estimators (with Gordon R. Fisher), Economics Letters, 7, 1981, 151-157.

Finance and International Finance

Sources of Variation in International Real Interest Rates (with David Watt), for special issue "Essays in International Economics in Honour of Douglas D. Purvis", Canadian Journal of Economics, 28, 1995, S120-40.

Accounting for Forward Rates in Markets for Foreign Currency (with David K. Backus and Chris I. Telmer), Journal of Finance, 48, 1993, 1887-1908.

Theoretical Relations Between Risk Premiums and Conditional Variances (with David K. Backus), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 11, 1993, 177-185.

Synthesis of Money-Demand and Indicator Models, (with Gregor W. Smith and Tony Wirjanto), Monetary Seminar 90, Bank of Canada, edited by D. Longworth, 1992, 465-506.

Realistic Cross-Country Consumption Correlations in a Two Country General Equilibrium Business Cycle Model (with Mick Devereux and Gregor W. Smith), Journal of International Money and Finance, 11, 1992, 3-16.

The Term Structure of Interest Rates: Departures from Time-Separable Expected Utility (with Graham M. Voss), Canadian Journal of Economics, 24, 1991, 923-939.

Risk Premiums in the Term Structure: Evidence from Artificial Economies (with David K. Backus and Stanley E. Zin), Journal of Monetary Economics, 24, 1989, 371-399.

Risk Premiums in Asset Prices and Returns (with David K. Backus), comment in Economic Reviews, 8, 1989, 187-195.

Testing Interest Rate Parity and Rational Expectations for Canada and the United States, Canadian Journal of Economics 2, 1987, 289-305.

Testing the Independence of Forecast Errors in the Forward Foreign Exchange Market Using Markov Chains: A Cross-Country Comparison (with Michael Sampson), International Journal of Forecasting, 3, 1987, 97-113.

The Unbiasedness Hypothesis in the Forward Exchange Market: A Specification Analysis with Application to France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and West Germany (with Thomas H. McCurdy), European Economic Review, 30, 1986, 365-381.

Testing the Unbiasedness Hypothesis in the Forward Foreign Exchange Market: A Specification Analysis (with Thomas H. McCurdy), Journal of International Money and Finance, 3, 1984, 357-368.

A Systems Approach to Simultaneity and the Demand for Money in Canada, Southern Economic Journal, 51, 1984, 401-418.

Testing Non-Nested Specifications of Money Demand for Canada (with Michael McAleer), Canadian Journal of Economics, 16, 1983, 593-602.

Simultaneity and the Demand for Money in Canada: Comments and Extensions (with Michael McAleer), Canadian Journal of Economics, 14, 1981, 470-478.

Where's My Cheque? A Note of Postal Strikes and the Demand for Money in Canada (with James G. MacKinnon), Canadian Journal of Economics, 13, 1980, 683-687.

Macroeconomics

Common and Country-Specific Fluctuations in Productivity, Investment and the Current Account (with Allen Head), Journal of Monetary Economics, 44(3), 1999, 423-451.

Measuring World Business Cycles (with Allen Head and Jacques Raynauld), International Economic Review, 38, 1997, 677-701.

Measuring Business Cycles with Business-Cycles Models, (with Gregor Smith), Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, 20, 1996, 1007-1025.

Business-Cycle Theory and Econometrics (with Gregor W. Smith), Economic Journal, 105, 1995, 1597-1608.

Introduction to Essays in International Economics in Honour of Douglas D. Purvis (with Mick Devereux, coeditor), Canadian Journal of Economics, 28, 1995, Sii-xi.

Testing for Cointegration in Linear Quadratic Models, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 12, 1994, 347-360.

Summary of Discussion of Endogenous Growth Theory: Taming the Winds of Change, or Tweaking Neoclassical Economics? Stabilization, Growth and Distributions: Linkages in the Knowledge Era, The Bell Papers on Economic and Public Policy, edited by Thomas Courchene, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, 1994, 169-171.

An Econometric Model of Canadian Monetary Policy Over the 1970's (with Jacques Raynauld), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, February, 1985, 43-58.

Health

Needs-Based Capitation Funding Models (with Kelly Bedard, John Dorland, and Joanne Roberts), Canadian Journal of Economics, 33, 2000, 981-1008.

Practice Setting and Labour Supply of Physicians in Canada, (with Chris Ferrall and William Tholl) Canadian Journal of Economics, 31, 1998, 1-27.

Standardized Mortality Ratios in Capitation Funding Models: Empirical Issues from Canadian Data, (with Kelly Bedard, John Dorland and Mark Rosenberg) Canadian Public Policy, 25 (1), 1999, 47-64. Runner up for the John Vanderkamp prize for best paper in Canadian Public Policy (1999).


Papers under Revision and Work in Progress

Conflicts Among Tests for Cointegration (with Alfred Haug and Nicoletta Lumuto), invited for resubmission to the Journal of Applied Econometrics, October 2002.

Estimation and Inference in the Presence of Outliers (with Jonathan Reeves), December 2001.

Testing Evolution to Consensus, James Yetman, invited for revision Journal of International Forecasting, October 2002.

Interpreting Value at Risk Calculations (Todd Mattina and Jonathan Reeves), March 2002


Administration and Professional Responsibilities

Associate Head (1992-2001)
Acting Head
Acting Graduate Chairman
Chair of Appointments Committee
Graduate Students Placement Officer
Chair of Department Research Cost Recovery Committee
Director of the Quantitative Workshop
Member of the Graduate Student Council
Director of the Summer Research Institute
Member of the Departmental Computing Committee
Member of the Graduate Student Committee
Assistant Undergraduate Director (University of Western Ontario)
Publications Chair of the Business and Economic Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association


Editorial Boards

The Stata Journal (2002)
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (1992-2000 Associate Editor)
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Canadian Journal of Economics 1990-1994


Appointments and University Positions

Professor, Department of Economics, Queen's University (July 1993 - present).

Associate Head, Department of Economics, Queen's University (July 1991 - 2001).

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Queen's University (July 1988 - June 1993).

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia (January 1991 - May 1991).

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California Berkeley (August 1990 - December 1990).

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario (1981 - 1988).

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Queen's University (July 1985 - June 1987).

Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, Queen's University (July 1982 - September 1983).

Visiting Fellow, Department of Statistics, The Australian National University, (January 1983 - March 1983).


Research Grants

Information-Theoretic Estimation in Economics(SSHRCC: $61,180)

Social Capital and Community Health Status (SSHRCC: $93,950)

Monitoring Elective Waiting Times in Ontario (MOHLTC: $37,525)

Markov Chain Tests of Long-Run Relationships (SSHRCC: $31,439)

Distribution Free Tests of Dependent Processes (ARC: $3,575)

Numerical Models of the International Macroeconomy (SSHRCC: $93,300)

Coincident and Leading Economic Indicator Models (SSHRCC: $36,854)

Standardized Mortality Ratios in Canada (ARC: $3,279)

Dynamic Factor Models in Economics (SSHRCC: $48,000)

Standardized Mortality Ratios in Canada (NHRDP: $53, 095)

Consensus Forecasting (SSHRCC: $39,000)


Supervision

Ph.D. Graduates (Current University)

Reeves, Jonathan (University of New South Wales) -2002

Lamarche, Jean-Francois (Brock University), Asymptotic and Bootstrap Evaluations of the Size and Power of Test Statistics, 2002.

Chan, Irene (Canadian Power and Electric), Three Essays on the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy, 1999.

Yetman, James (University of Hong Kong), Three Essays on Forecasting, 1999.

Tambanis, Denise (Charles River), The Timing of Equity Issues, 1999.

Otto, Glenn (University of New South Wales), Empirical Essays in Time Series Macroeconomics, 1993. Wirjanto, Tony (University of Waterloo), Investigation of Aggregate Consumption Behaviour, 1993.

Voss, Graham (University of Victoria), Monetary Integration and the Role of Money Finance, 1993.

Telmer, Christopher I. (Carnegie Mellon University), Intertemporal Asset Pricing Theory and Incomplete Markets, 1992.

Spencer, Michael (International Monetary Fund), Exchange Rates and Expectations in the European Monetary System, 1992.

Nathan, Alli (University of Calgary) Cost Efficiency and Competitiveness of Canadian Banks and Trust Companies, 1991.

Sadorsky, Perry (York University) Three Essays on the Exploration for Non-Renewable Resources, 1990.

Maynes, Elizabeth (York University), An Analysis of Restricted Shares in Canada, 1970-1984, 1989.

Power, Simon (Carleton University) Single-Equation Errors-in-Variable Estimation of R.E. Models, 1985.


M.A. Graduates (since 1993)

Francis Vitek (M.A,) in progress

Courtney Ward (M.A.) in progress

Lee, Mary Ellen (M.A.), Inflation Uncertainty and its Effects on Inflation and Output Growth:A Study of the G7 Countries, 2000.

Allen, Jason (M.A.) Generalized Method of Moments and Testing Overidentification

Lumoto, Nicolette (M.A.) Conflict Among Tests for Cointegration in Applied Econometrics, 1999.

Arcand, Alan (M.A.) Obtaining a Meaningful and Stationary Trade Balance, 1999.

Kennedy, Suzanne (M.A.) Time Series Implications of Intertemporal Optimizing Models of the Current Account and the Solow Residual in the G7 Countries, 1997.

Rosenbloom, Samuel (M.A.) Alternative Methods of Hedging Interest Rate Risk with ME BAX Futures, 1997.

Heinrichs, Kari (M.A.) Price Level and Purchasing Power Parity Across Nine Major Urban Centres in Canada, 1996.

Benning, Darrin (M.A.) Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Cointegrating Vectorand Common Factors in Exchange Rate Systems, 1996.

Chausse, Pierre (M.A.) Measuring Core-Inflation Using the Kalman Filter, 1995.

Southam, Brian (M.A.) The Long Term Relationships between Nominal Interest Rates, 1995.

Misina, Miroslav (M.A.) Regime Shifts as an Explanation of the Forward Premium Anomaly, 1995.

Van de Sande, Jill (M.A.) The Current Account and World Business Cycles, 1995.

Rogers, Keith (M.A.) Structural Change Consistent Residual-Based Tests for Cointegration, 1994

Maheu, John (M.A.), Endogenous Regressors and Error Correction Tests for Cointegration, 1994.

Chan, Irene (M.A), The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy: Liquidity Effect vs Anticipated Inflation Effect, 1993.

Alexander-Cook, K. (M.A.), Evaluating Hospital Performance Index Based Funding: An Economic Analysis of a New Health Policy in Alberta., 1993.