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Prof Simon Price

Emeritus Professor
Essex Business School
Prof Simon Price
  • Email

  • Telephone

    +44 (0) 1206 873843

  • Location

    EBS.3.14, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    I am not teaching in the Autumn Term and therefore have no academic support hours.

Biography

I am an Emeritus Professor in Finance. I have had a long relationship with Essex, first joining the Economics Department in 1981. I joined EBS in January 2016. Immediately prior to that, I was a Senior Technical Advisor with special responsibility for coordinating research activities in Monetary Analysis at the Bank of England and an honorary Professor at City University, London. I am a trustee of the Money Macro and Finance Research Group and a Research Associate at the Centre for Macroeconomics (London) and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Research (ANU). Before I joined the Bank in 2001, I had a full time chair at City. I have worked mainly in universities, including posts at Essex (Economics) where I gained my PhD and Bristol, but spent two years at HMT. I have worked as a consultant on a range of issues, for example for Oxford Economic Forecasting and NERA. Much of my work has had some form of policy focus. This became more oriented towards macroeconomics at HMT in the late 1980s, where I was first the inflation forecaster and then a model developer. Subsequently I was a regular presenter at the annual Warwick Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau Seminar, the meeting place of the UK macroeconometric modelling community, and had a long-running relationship with Oxford Economic Forecasting. In the 1990s I began working with political scientists. I have published in a variety of policy-related, finance and macroeconomic areas, and also in political science. Examples include papers on aggregate and firm level investment behaviour, elections and voting behaviour, price setting, predictability of asset returns, and point and density forecasting. My research at the BoE was predominantly on forecasting, especially in the presence of structural change and forecast density combination. Currently I am working on political perceptions of inflation with Shaun Bowler at UC Riverside. As an Emeritus Professor, I am not taking on PhD students.

Qualifications

  • BSc Economics Bristol

  • MSc Economics LSE

  • PhD Economics Essex

Appointments

Other academic

  • Professor, Economics, City University, London (1995 - 2001)