Louis N. Christofides received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1973. Between 1972 and 2002 he was on faculty at the University of Guelph, Canada, serving as Chair of the Department of Economics between 1987 and 1997.
Between 2002 and 2006 he served as Chair of the Department of Economics, University of Cyprus and has been Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus, since 2006.

He is a Research Associate of CESifo and a Research Fellow of IZA. He has served as a referee to numerous academic journals, universities and granting agencies in Canada(SSHRC), the US (NSF), and the EU (ESF) and as a consultant to the Governments of Canada and the European Union.

He is currently serving as a Member of the Scientific Council of Cyprus and of the Governing Board of the Central Bank of Cyprus.

He is Editor of the refereed journal Ekonomia, published by the Cyprus Economic Society and the Department of Economics, University of Cyprus.

Labour Economics, Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics.

"Supply Variables in Term Structure Equations," The Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (1975), pp. 276-281.

and F. Tapon. "Discretionary Expenditures and Profit Risk Management: The Galbraith-Caves Hypothesis," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, No. 2 (1979), pp. 303-319.

with R. Swidinsky and D.A. Wilton. "A Microeconometric Analysis of Spillovers Within the Canadian Wage Determination Process," The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXII, No. 2 (1980), pp. 213-221.

and D.A. Wilton. "The Empirical Determinants of Contract Length," Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 12 (1983), pp. 309-319.

"The Impact of Controls on Wage Contract Duration," The Economic Journal, Vol. 95, No. 377, (1985), pp. 161-168.

"Wage Adjustment in Contracts Containing Cost-Of-Living Allowance Clauses," The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXIX, No. 3 (August), (1987), pp. 531-536.

and A. Oswald. "Real Wage Determination and Rent Sharing in Collective Bargaining Agreements," Quarterly Journal of Economics, (August), (1992), pp. 985-1002.

and C.J. McKenna. "Unemployment Insurance and Job Duration in Canada," Journal of Labor Economics, 14 (1996), No. 2, pp. 286-312.

"Social Assistance and Labour Supply", Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 33, No. 3, (2000), 715-741.

with Q. Li, Z. Liu, and I. Min "Recent Two-Stage Sample Selection Procedures with an Application to the Gender Wage Gap", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 21, No. 3, (July), (2003), pp. 396-405.

and Amy Chen Peng "Contract Duration and Indexation in a Period of Real and Nominal Uncertainty", Labour Economics, Vol. 13, Issue 1(February), 2006, pp. 61-86.

and P. Nearchou "Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities in Collective Bargaining Agreements", Labour Economics, 14, 2007, pp. 695-715.

and P. Nearchou "Patterns of Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity", Research in Labor Economics, 30, (2010), pp. 301-337.

with M. Hoy and L. Yang "Participation in Canadian Universitites: The Gender Imbalance (1977-2005)", Economics of Education Review, 29 (2010), pp. 400-410.

and Amy Chen Peng "Labour Contract Duration, Indexation and Wage Adjustment: Interdependence and Inflation Propagation Mechanisms", Industrial Relations, Vol. 49, No. 2, (April 2010), pp. 226-247.

and R. Swidinsky "The Economic Returns to the Knowledge and Use of a Second Official Language: English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada", Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, XXXVI, No. 2 (2010), pp. 137-158. Awarded the John Vanderkamp prize for the best published article in CPP/AP during 2010.

Personal Website: http://homepages.econ.ucy.ac.cy/~eclouis/