Education
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University. Brigham Young University.
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University. Brigham Young University.
He teaches and does research in macroeconomics, econometrics, and montetary theory. He is the author of eighteen peer-reviewed publications including Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Money, Cr and Banking. In addition to teaching various economics classes, Spencer also taught American Heritage at Brigham Young University for several years.
Spencer"s academic work has focused on econometric testing of macroeconomic theory.
In particular, he has made important contributions to the understanding of the behavior of nominal and real wages over the course of the business cycle. He has made contributions to the literature on structural VAR estimation in this context.
David Spencer has taught at Brigham Young University since 1986. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Texas Advertising & Marketing University in 1974.
He was a visiting professor at Michigan State University during the 1974-1975 academic year.
From 1975 through 1979 he taught at Illinois State University. He was at Washington State University from 1979 to 1986. He was tenured there in 1981.
In 1986 he moved to Brigham Young University and became a full professor in 1991.
He has held visiting positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988-1989) and the University of Michigan (2007-2008). He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam in 1997.
David Spencer has served as a committee member overseeing the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Economics Exam from 1994 to 2001 and was chair of the committee from 1998 to 2001, when the exam was discontinued. Spencer is one of the founders (along with Richard West Evans and Kerk L Phillips) of the Brigham Young University Macroeconomics and Computational Laboratory
Spencer is a founding member of the Brigham Young University Macroeconomics and Computational Laboratory