Victor A. Canto is Founder and Chairman of La Jolla Economics, an economic consulting firm located in La Jolla, California. He was Director, Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager of Calport Asset Management.

Dr. Canto taught finance and business economics at the University of Southern California (USC) from 1977 to 1985 and has served as Visiting Professor at both the Universidad Central del Este in the Dominican Republic and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He was a consultant to the Financial Council of Puerto Rico; an advisor to the Finance Minister as well as Dominican Republic’s Central Bank. Dominican Republic.

Victor Canto has authored, edited, or coedited a number of books, including Investment Strategy and State and Local Economic Policy, The Determinants and Consequences of Trade Restrictions in the U.S. Economy; and Currency Substitution: Theory and Evidence from Latin America, as well as Understanding Asset Allocation.

His work has appeared the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and National Review on line, and many leading economic journals, including Economic Inquiry, Journal of Macroeconomics, The International Trade Journal, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, The Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics, The CATO Journal, Public Finance, The Journal of International Money and Finance, The Journal of Wealth Management, The Financial Analysts Journal, and The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance.