Alexander Whalley is a Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary, an Invited Researcher at JPAL and a Lab Economist at the Creative Destruction Lab. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland – College Park and has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics, Stanford University, the University of California - Berkeley, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (USA), National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) , Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) and the Alberta Major Innovation Fund (Canada).
Professor Whalley's research interests are in the economics of innovation, urban economics, macroeconomics, and labor economics. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, among other outlets.
Professor Whalley has taught Ph.D., MBA, and Undergraduate courses in Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Real Estate. He received a campus-wide teaching award at the University of Calgary in 2020.
Mailing Address:
Department of Economics
The University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. N.W. Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4
Email: awhalley@gmail.com
Phone: (403) 220-7143 (office)