Peter Spiro's Home Page

This is the web page of Peter S. Spiro, an economist and photographer based in Toronto, Canada. (There is a different Peter Spiro, who is a well known poet, but unfortunately I am not related to him.)

I studied economics at the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago. My interests in economics are varied, and I have done research on many topics in both macroeconomics and microeconomics. My publications include the book Real Interest Rates and Investment and Borrowing Strategy (1989), which has a long-term focus and has been used as a reference by researchers interested in discount rates for investment evaluations. I have also published several articles on tax policy and the underground economy that have been widely cited. A complete list of my professional publications can be found here.

I am a dedicated cyclist, and have been commuting to work by bicycle, winter and summer, for nearly 20 years. I occasionally write articles that might be useful to other cyclists. When I travel, I always take a compact folding bike with me, and you can read about that here.

I am also interested in family history, and I have written an article about Spiro as a Jewish family name, and specifically as it relates to my ancestors in an obscure area of northeastern Hungary, where they settled in the late 1700s. You can read about that here.

My other major interest is photography, where I focus mainly on landscape and travel photography. Some of my photographs have been used in major publications and on magazine covers, etc. More information I have provided on various photography related topics can be found here here.