Sicong

Sicong Ma, Ph.D., is a Research Economist at the Consumer Price Division of Statistics Canada, where they specialize in price measurement and inflation analysis, particularly regarding Owned Accommodation and multilateral price indices. They earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Ottawa, focusing on Open-Economy Macroeconomics and employing methods such as Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium and Structural Vector Autoregression models. Sicong also has experience as a Part-time Professor and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Ottawa, and has participated in summer studies at the Barcelona School of Economics. Their research combines theoretical and empirical approaches to provide insights into fiscal policy dynamics, real exchange rate behavior, and economic growth.