ALEX MAYNARD

Associate Professor of Economics

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Alex Maynard joined the Department of Economics at the University of
Guelph in 2007, following positions at Wilfrid Laurier University and the
University of Toronto. He has also spent a year visiting Cowles Foundation
at Yale University and a year working as an economist at the Federal
Reserve Board. He received his BA from Cornell University, and PhD from
Yale University.

His research has been published or accepted for publication in journals
including Econometric Theory, The Review of Economics and Statistics,
the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Canadian Journal of
Economics, the Journal of Empirical Finance, and Studies in Nonlinear
Dynamics & Econometrics.

Selected Research

"Public insurance and private savings: who is affected and by how much?"
(with Jiaping Qiu), forthcoming, Journal of Applied Econometrics.

"Covariance-based orthogonality tests for regressors with unknown
persistence" (with Katsumi Shimotsu), forthcoming, Econometric Theory.

"Rethinking an old empirical puzzle: Econometric evidence on the forward discount anomaly" (with Peter C.B. Phillips), Journal of Applied Econometrics 16(6) (2001), 671-708.

"Testing for forward rate unbiasedness: on regression in levels and in returns," The Review of Economics and Statistics 85(2) (2003), 313-327.

"The forward premium anomaly: statistical artifact or economic puzzle? New evidence from robust tests", Canadian Journal of Economics 39 (4) (November, 2006), 1244-1281.