Douglas Curtis is a specialist in macroeconomics. He is the author of twenty research papers on fiscal policy, monetary policy, and economic growth and structural change. He has also prepared research reports for Canadian industry and government agencies and authored numerous working papers. He completed his PhD at McGill University, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and the University of York in the United Kingdom, and Queen’s University in Canada. His current research interests are fiscal policy rules, and the relationship between economic growth and structural change. He is Professor of Economics at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

Ian Irvine is a specialist in microeconomics and public economics. He is the author of almost thirty research papers in the fields of taxation, health economics, microeconomics, and economic inequality. He completed his PhD at the University of Western Ontario, has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the University of Sydney, the University of Colorado, University College Dublin, and the Economic and Social Research Institute. His current research interests are in tobacco use and taxation, Canada’s Employment Insurance and Welfare systems, and crime. He has done numerous studies for the Government of Canada, and is currently a Professor of Economics at Concordia University in Montreal .

David Begg is Principal of the Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London. He has been a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (a network of leading European economists) since its inception in 1984. David is committed to management education. He has provided in-house training for the government of Czechoslovakia, the National Bank of Hungary, the Bank of England, and HM Treasury. He has also been Senior Tutor of the Oxford University Business Summer School. David’s research focusses mainly on monetary policy, exchange rates, monetary union, and economic transition. He co-authored several of the CEPR annual reports in the series he helped found: Monitoring the European Central Bank and Monitoring European Integration. David was involved in changing the policy that the European Union adopted to launch the euro in 1999. He was also founding Managing Editor of Economic Policy, now an official journal of the European Economic Association.