Robin Bade
Robin was an undergraduate at the University of Queensland, Australia, where she earned degrees in mathematics and economics. After a spell teaching high school math and physics, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the Australian National University, from which she graduated in 1970. She has held faculty appointments at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, at Bond University in Australia, and at the Universities of Manitoba, Toronto, and Western Ontario in Canada. Her research on international capital flows appears in the International Economic Review and the Economic Record.
Michael Parkin
Michael studied economics at the University of Leicester and has held faculty appointments at the Universities of Leicester, Essex, and Manchester in England and Western Ontario in Canada. He is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Monetary Economics. His research on macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics has resulted in more than 160 publications in journals and edited volumes, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
The Bade-Parkin Index of central bank independence spawned a vast amount of research on that topic. They don’t claim credit for the independence of the European Central Bank, but its constitution and the movement toward greater independence of central banks in England and around the world were aided by their pioneering work.
Robin and Michael are dedicated to the challenge of explaining economics ever more clearly to an ever-growing body of students.
Jeannie Shearer
A mathematics major during her undergraduate years, Jeannie completed her graduate training in economics under Michael Parkin at the University of Western Ontario. For the past 24 years, she has worked closely with Michael Parkin and Robin Bade studying pedagogical principles and developing materials to engage today’s students. During her career, she taught Principles of Economics, Econometrics, and Economics of Sports courses to over 20,000 students. These days, she continues to work with the Bade-Parkin team from her new home in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where she passionately pursues her hobbies of playing the piano, attending concerts and theater productions, hiking, reading, and studying primary source documents about the U.S. Civil War.
Evan Sauve
Evan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. Before beginning his doctoral training, he completed a Bachelor of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo with a major in mathematical economics and a Master of Arts in economics at Western. His research investigates the economic effects of altering the design of the Canada Student Financial Assistance Program. He works as a TA for Western’s first-year economics sequence, and he is a two-time winner of the department’s coveted Economic Principles Tutorial Leader of the Year award. In his personal life, Evan enjoys playing drums, writing questions for the Canadian inter-school trivia competition Reach for the Top, and drinking far too much coffee, a habit which he picked up from his parents.
Richard Parkin
Richard is the Econ Eye site administrator and has spent the last 20 plus years working as technical illustrator for the Bade-Parkin textbook team. He creates all the interactives, videos and technical graphics within this blog and contributes many ideas to help improve the clarity of the media across all platforms.