Ronald MacDonald

University of Glasgow

Contact Information

Email Address: r.macdonald@socsci.gla.ac.uk

Telephone Number: +44 (0)141 330 1988

Homepage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/economics/ourstaff/professorronaldmacdonald/

Department Telephone Number: +44 (0)141 330 4618

Department Fax Number: +44 (0)141 330 4940

Ronald MacDonald is Professor of International Finance. Prior to taking up his present position he was a Midland Bank Fellow in Monetary Economics, Loughborough University (1982-1984), Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen (1984-1989), and Robert Fleming Professor of Finance and Investment, University of Dundee (1989-1992) and most recently Professor of International Finance at the University of Strathclyde (1992-2004). He has been a visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, Queen's University, Canada, European University Institute, Florence, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, ZEW, Mannheim, Centre for Economic Studies, Munich and a visiting scholar and consultant to the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and the European Central Bank and a Research Fellow of the CSSifo Research Network, Munich. He is the author of Floating Exchange Rates: Theories and Evidence, co-author of International Money and Finance [3rd Edition], co-editor of five books, and has written over 100 refereed journal articles and numerous book articles in the areas of International Finance, Macroeconomics and Financial Economics.

Current Research Interests

Empirical exchange rate economics, at 3 horizons - the long-run, in terms of modelling equilibrium exchange rates, the medium-run, in terms of the predictability of exchange rates in an out-of-sample forecasting context, and the short-run (or high frequency), in terms of analysing principles from the technical analysis literature using recently developed econometric methods.Since 1996 he has been involved in sucessful Research Grant applications totalling over £400,000.