Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

Angela Redish

ADDRESS: DATE: Aug 15, 2011 Department of Economics The University of British Columbia #997-1873 East Mall Vancouver, B. C., Canada V6T 1Z1

PHONE: 604-822-2748

E-MAIL: [email protected]

EDUCATION: 1974 -- B.A. (Honours), Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University 1975 -- M.A., University of Western Ontario 1982 -- Ph.D., University of Western Ontario

EMPLOYMENT: Nov. 1978 – Dec. 1979 Agricultural Economist, Papua New Guinea Development Bank Summer 1979, 1980 Instructor, University of Western Ontario July-Dec. 1981 Lecturer, University of Western Ontario 1982-1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia 1988-1993 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia 1993 – present Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

1995 – 1996 Visiting Professor, Institute for Policy Analysis, University of Toronto 2000 – 2001 Special Advisor, Bank of Canada 2001- 2006 Head, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia 2006 – 2008 Senior Advisor to the President, University of British Columbia 2009 (Mar.) John Weatherall Distinguished Fellow, Queens University 2010 (Jan-April) Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.

RESEARCH FIELDS: Monetary History Canadian Economic History Monetary Economics

GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISION: Leo (Chen) Li PhD., 2002-2008 Principal Supervisor Min Lu PhD., 2002-2007, Supervisory Committee Kang Shi PhD., 2003-2007, Supervisory Committee Jake Wong Ph.D., 2002-2007, Supervisory Committee Genevieve Verdier Ph.D., 1998-2003, Supervisory Committee Ian E. Keay Ph.D., 1995-1999, Supervisory Committee Cherie M. Metcalf Ph.D., 1994-1998, Supervisory Committee Katherine S. Neiss Ph.D., 1994-1998, Supervisory Committee Patrick J.Coe Ph.D., 1994-1998, Principal Supervisor Caroline M. Betts Ph.D., 1990-1994, Supervisory Committee J.C. Herbert Emery Ph.D., 1989-1993, Principal Supervisor Anthony Ward Ph.D., 1986-1990, Principal Supervisor Vincent Law Honours Program, 1992-1992, Co-Supervisor Craig Burnside Honours Program, 1985-1985, Co-Supervisor Alex Bettencourt Honours program, 1998-1999, Co-Supervisor Sam Baldwin Honours program, 1998-1999, Co-Supervisor

RESEARCH GRANTS: SSHRC A search theoretic approach to monetary history, 2009-12 SSHRC Lessons from 19th Century Financial Markets, 2004-2007 SSHRC Canadian Monetary & Fiscal Development, 1998-2001 SSHRC Topics in the History of Financial Intermediation in Canada, 1995-1998 SSHRC The Evolution of the Gold Standard in England and France, 1992-95 SSHRC The Evolution of the International Gold Standard, 1990-92 SSHRC The Evolution of the Gold Standard in England, 1770-1830, 1988-89 SSHRC A New Look at the Price Revolution in England, 1985-87 SSHRC Financial Markets in Upper Canada: An Analysis of Mortgage Records, 1984-85

INVITED LECTURE: Innis Lecture: Keynote Speaker at the meetings of Canadian Economic Association, May 1993. Keynote Address, Irish Economics Association, April 2010

MEMBERSHIPS ON SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES: Board of Trustees, Economic History Association, 2008- Board of Trustees, Cliometric Society, 1997-2000 Member, Membership Committee, Economic History Association, 1990-1992 Member, Nomination Committee, Economic History Association, 2006-7 Member, Executive Council of Canadian Economics Association, 1988-1992

EDITORSHIPS: Editorial Board Member, Journal of Economic History, Economics History Association, 1992- 1996 Editorial Board Member, Financial History Review, 2004- Editorial Board Member, European Review of Economic History, 2010 - Editor, Studies in Macroeconomic History Series, Cambridge University Press, 2003 –

OTHER SERVICE:

Member, C.D. Howe Monetary Policy Council, 2006- 2010. Member, Bank of Canada Fellowship Program Nominating Committee, 2006 – 2011. Member, Global Investment Flows Council, Global Agenda Council for World Economic Forum Global Redesign Initiative, 2008-11

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Redish, A., Bimetallism: An economic and historical analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Cecchetti, S. and A. Redish, Money Banking and Financial Markets1st Canadian edn Toronto: McGraw Hill Ryerson, 2010.

Refereed Journal Publications:

Redish, A., "The Economic Crisis of 1837-1839: Case Study of a Temporary Suspension of Specie Payments", Explorations in Economic History, 20 (1983): 403-417.

Redish, A., "The Optimal Supply of Bank Money: Upper Canada's Experience On and Off the Specie Standard", Journal of Economic History, XLIV (June 1984): 610-612.

Redish, A., 'Why Was Specie Scarce in Colonial Economies? An Analysis of the Canadian Currency 1796-1830", Journal of Economic History, XLIV (September 1984): 713-728. Reprinted in Canadian Economic History, eds. Mel Watkins and H.M. Grant, Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1993

Glassman, D. and A. Redish, "New Estimates of the Money Stock in France, 1493-1680", Journal of Economic History, XLV (March 1985): 31-46.

Bordo, M. and A. Redish, "Why did the Bank of Canada Emerge in 1935?", Journal of

Economic History, XLVII (June 1987): 405-418. Reprinted in M. Huberman and D. McCalla, Perspectives on Canadian Economic History, 2nd edition, Toronto: Copp Clark

Glassman, D. and A. Redish, "Currency Depreciation in Early Modem England and France ", Explorations in Economic History, 25 (1988): 75-97. Reprinted in VoL 8.1 of International Library of Macroeconomics & Financial History: Commodity Monies, ed. by A. Schwarz, Edward Elgar: 1992.

Bordo, M. and A. Redish, "The Costs and Benefits of Exchange Rate Stability: Canada's Interwar Experience", Contemporary Policy Issues, 6 (1988): 115-130.

Redish, A., "The Evolution of the Gold Standard in England", Journal of Economic History, L (December 1990): 789-806.

Bordo, M. and A. Redish, "Maximizing Seignorage Revenue During Temporary Suspensions of Convertibility: A Note", Oxford Economic Papers, 45 (1993): 157-168.

Redish, A., "Monetary Lessons from Canada: A Review Essay", Journal of Monetary Economics, 26 (December 1990): 489-499

Redish, A., "Anchors Aweigh: The Transition from Commodity Money to Fiat Money in Western Economies", Canadian Journal of Economics, (November 1993): 773-795.

Bordo, M., Rockoff, H., and A. Redish, "The U.S. Banking System from a Northern Exposure: Stability versus Efficiency", Journal of Economic History, (June 1994):325-41

Redish, A., "The persistence of bimetallism in nineteenth century France ", Economic History Review, (November 1995):717-736

Bordo, M., Redish, A, and H. Rockoff, "Two Long Roads to Stability: Canadian and American Banking 1870-1925", Financial History Review, Vol. 1, (1996) 40pp.

Betts, C., Bordo, M. and A Redish, "A Small Open Economy in Depression:Lessons from Canada in the 1930s” Canadian Journal of Economics, (1996): 1-36

Metcalf, C., Redish, A, and R. Shearer, "New Estimates of the Canadian Money Stock, 1871- 1967", Canadian Journal of Economics, (February 1998):104-125

Comments on "Redemption Costs and Interests Rates under the US National Banking System", Journal of Money Credit and Banking August 1999, pp 593-5.

Keay, I and A. Redish, “The Microeffects of Financial Market Structure: Evidence from 20th Century North American Steel Firms", Explorations in Economic History 2004, v.41, p 377-403.

Redish, A. “Recent Contributions to the History of Monetary and International Financial Systems: A Review Essay”, European Review of Economic History, August 2006, v. 10, iss. 2, pp. 231-48

Redish, Angela and Warren Weber, “'Coin Sizes and Payments in Commodity Money Systems” Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010.

Book chapters and Conference Proceedings: (since 2000)

Bordo, M. and A. Redish “The Legacy of French and English Fiscal and Monetary Institutions for Canada” in M. Bordo and R. Cortes Conde. eds., Transferring wealth and power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and fiscal institutions in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, 2001, pp. 259-83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wrap up comments" for Bank of Canada conference, "The Evolving Financial System and Public Policy", Ottawa, December 2003,

Redish, A., Review of:T. Sargent, and F. Velde, The big problem of small change, in- Journal of Economic Literature, December 2003, v. 41, iss. 4, pp. 1318-19.

Bordo, M. and A. Redish, “Is Deflation Depressing? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard” in R. Burdekin and P. Siklos eds., Deflation: Current and historical perspectives Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Bordo, M., C. Meissner, and A. Redish, “How Original Sin Was Overcome: The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions, 1800-2000” in B. Eichengreen and R. Hausman eds., Other people's money: Debt denomination and financial instability in emerging market economies, pp. 122-53 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Bordo, Michael, John Landon Lane and Angela Redish. 'Good versus Bad Deflation'. The Economics of Low Inflation. Ed. David Altig. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009

Redish, Angela “The Lender of Last Resort: Lessons from Canadian History” in R. Leeson ed., David Laidler’s Contributions to Economics New York: Palgrave, forthcoming.

Working papers:

Bordo, M., A. Redish and H. Rockoff “Why didn’t Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or 1893, or ...)?” NBER Working Paper, 2011.

Redish, A. and W. Weber, “A Model of Commodity Money with Minting and Melting” Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Staff Report, 460.

Recent presentations:

“International responses to monetary crises in the early 20th century” Presented to conference on Money in the Western Legal Tradition, University of Cambridge, Aug. 2011

“By weight or by tale: a theoretical and empirical exploration of medieval European monetary systems” Presented to Retheorizing Liquidity, Conference at Harvard University Law School, June, 2011.

“The evolution of financial intermediation: evidence from 19th century Ontario microdata” (joint with Livio Di Matteo) Presented to Canadian Network for Economic History, Ottawa, June 2011.

“A Model of Commodity Money with Minting and Melting” (joint with Warren Weber) seminar presentation, Yale University Department of Economics, April 2011.