Mick Silver
Last Updated: February 9, 2011
Mick Silver is a Senior Economist in the IMF’s Statistics Department specializing in price statistics. Previously Professor of Economic Statistics and Head of the Quantitative Analysis Group at Cardiff University, ASA/NSF Senior Research Fellow at US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and lecturer at Bath University. Research interests are mainly on index numbers. Publications include the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Economic Journal, and chapters in NBER books. Aside from academic papers and books he contributed several chapters to the ILO Consumer Price Index Manual and IMF Producer Price Index Manual, the 2008 SNA, the World Bank’s ICP Handbook, and is editor of, and contributor to, the IMF Export and Import Price Index Manual. He has acted as a long-time consultant to the U.K. Office for National Statistics (ONS) as well as many international organisations. Has been a long-serving member of the UN Ottawa Group and member (and chair) of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Price Statistics. Serves on the World Bank’s ICP Technical Expert Group and Statistics Canada’s Price Measurement Advisory Committee.
Education:
1973 to 1976 University of Leeds PhD Economic Statistics. 1969 to 1973 University of Leeds B.A. Economics.
Previous Experience:
February 2005 to present: Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund October 1988 to January 2005: Professor of Economic Statistics, Cardiff University, U.K. August 2001 to January 2002: Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund January 2001 to August 2001: National Science Foundation/American Statistical Association Senior Research Fellow, US Bureau of Labor Statistics October 1982 to June 1988: Lecturer in Industrial Economics and Statistics, Bath University July 1986 to January 1987: Consultant to the International Monetary Fund October 1976 to September 1982: Lecturer in Applied Statistics, University of Aston
Referee Activities:
American Economic Review Applied Economics Bulletin of Economic Research Canadian Journal of Economics Economic Journal International Statistical Review Journal of Applied Statistics Journal of Industrial Economics Journal of International Development Studies Journal of Macroeconomics Journal of Modern African Studies Journal of Money Credit and Banking Journal of Official Statistics Journal of Political Economy Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D Journal of Transport Studies and Policy OMEGA – International Journal for Research in Management Science Review of Economics and Statistics Review of Income and Wealth Review of Official Statistics Review of World Economics Studies in Comparative International Development
