Professor David B. Smith

of Derby University and Beacon Economic Forecasting

22nd May 2007

Does Britain Have Regional Justice, or Injustice, in its Government Spending and Taxation?

- see powerpoint presentation here

Author of the ERC's "Cracks in the Foundations?" paper on the Bank of England, Professor David B Smith studied Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of Essex in the 1960s. He has since been employed at the Bank of England, Royal Bank of Scotland, National Westminster Bank, Cambridge Econometrics, and the London Business School. He was the Chief Economist at London stockbrokers Williams de Broë plc from 1982 until his retirement in July 2006. David is currently a Visiting Professor in Business and Economic
Forecasting at the University of Derby, Acting Chairman of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee run by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), and a visiting lecturer at the Cardiff University Business School. He was also a member of the Economics Board of the Council for National Academic Awards in the late 1970s and early 1980s. David has written articles on economic forecasting, economics websites, monetary economics, and European Monetary Union, as well as on public spending and economic performance. He is perhaps best known for his quarterly macroeconomic forecasting model of the international and UK economies, which he developed from the early 1980s onwards, and is now maintained by Beacon Economic Forecasting.

This talk was covered in Britain & Overseas in B&O 37.1 pdf.