Simon Price

Simon Price is a Senior Advisor at the Bank of England and an Honorary Professor at City University, London. He has duties at the Bank spanning research and policy areas. He manages a team involved in statistical forecasting methods. Before he joined the Bank in 2000, he had a chair at City. His previous career was primarily academic, included posts at Essex University (where he gained his PhD) and Bristol University, but also a spell at the UK Treasury (HMT). Professor Price has published in a variety of policy-related and macroeconometric areas. Examples of his work include papers on aggregate and firm-level investment behaviour, price setting and predictability of asset returns. He has also published work on elections and voting behaviour. More recently, his research focus has been on forecasting.

Macroeconomics; macroeconometrics; forecasting; political economics; investment behaviour.