John Chown

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John Chown is a monetary economist in the United Kingdom and an international tax specialist with special reference to currency and financial markets. In 2016 he is retired from Chown Dewhurst LLP. He is a tax policy advisor Adviser to Gabelle LLP. Chown writes and speaks about the implications of the financial crisis with special reference to the future of the Eurozone, the EU proposal for a Financial Transactions Tax and the development of capital markets in transitional and emerging economies.

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Early life and education

Chown was educated at Gordonstoun and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he won the Adam Smith Prize for a dissertation on fixed versus floating exchange rates, and is an Honorary Fellow of the College.

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Career

In 1962, Chown founded the tax advice company Chown Dewhurst LLP. Chown has been a public policy adviser to Conservative Chancellors and Shadow Chancellors, commenting on European tax harmonisation proposals and visiting Canada, Australia, New Zealand as an international adviser on their respective tax reforms. He was a member of the Know How Fund, which provided market and taxation advice to transitional countries after the collapse of Communism. He has done advisory work in Russia, including a World Bank project of the development of capital markets and has worked with Jackie Newbury on projects in Mongolia and Thailand.

Chown is a co-founder of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In 2013 he was secretary to the International Tax Specialist Group, and a member of the Political Economy Club, The European Government Business Relations Council (the "Ad Hoc Council"), the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, and the Russo British Chamber of Commerce. He is on the advisory council of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum.

Chown is Honorary Financial Adviser to the Royal Society of Musicians, and on the committees of the London Handel Society and the Cambridge Handel Opera Group.

Writings

Chown was a member of the Association of Monetary Union in Europe. He is the author of "A History of Monetary Unions" (Routledge 2003), and has contributed a chapter, "Lessons of Monetary History", to the new IEA study, "The Euro - the Beginning, the Middle ... and the End?" (April 2013) and reviewed for Central Banking, Harold James "Making the European Monetary Union" (February 2013).

Two articles and several other reviews in Central Banking deal more generally with the financial crisis. His article "Conflicts of Interest and Systemic Risk" Central Banking, November 2010, discusses improper (and therefore unsustainable) profits made by banks, and their potential threat to financial stability, and is a follow-up to an earlier article in November 2009, "Towards a New Banking System". He has contributed chapters to more that fifteen books on the topics of tax reform and monetary policy.

Chown published "End to Underwriting: How the Coalition can avoid being Ripped Off", Centre for Policy Studies, August 2011. Chown was invited to give evidence to the House of Lords Committee in late 2011 and followed this with a publication "Time To Bin The Tobin Tax" Centre for Policy Studies, April 2012.

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Books

• A history of monetary unions. London [u.a.]: Routledge. 2003, ISBN 9780415277372.
• The Taxation of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives - John Chown & Kim Desai, Financial Times Financial Publishing, Pearson Professional Limited, ISBN 1 85334 714 0, 1997.
• A History of Money - from AD 800 - John Chown, Routledge, London and New York, 1994, ISBN 0-415-10279-0, paperback 1996.
• "Tax Efficient Foreign Exchange Management" - John F Chown. Woodhead Faulkner, Cambridge, 1990. ISBN 0 85941 595 3.
• "Tax Efficient Forex Management" - Professional Publishing. 1986.
• "Taxation and Social Security Europe" - The Economist Publications in conjunction with J F Chown and Company Limited. Editor: John F Chown, 1985.
• "Taxation and Social Security Europe" - Mica International in conjunction with J F Chown and Company Limited. Editor: John F Chown, 1984.
• "Foreign Exchange Risk: A Tax and Financial Analysis" - (Oyez Longman 1983.)
• "Offshore Financial Centres" - J F Chown (4th ed revised by Mary Cook) Banker Research Unit, 1981 (1st ed, 1975 as Offshore Investment Centres).
• The taxation of direct investment in the United States. London: Butterworths. 1980, ISBN 978-0-406-53958-8.
• "Corporate Finance under Floating Exchange Rates" - J F Chown. Cityforum Ltd, 1979.
• "Foreign Currency Debt Management" - J F Chown and M J Finney. J F Chown and Company Limited, 1977.
• "Investing in the Eastern Mediterranean" - J F Chown and G N Stathopoulos. J F Chown and Company Limited, 1977.
• "Taxation and Multinational Enterprise" - J F Chown. Longman, 1974.
• "Acquisition of Assets, Companies and Real Estate in Europe" - J F Chown and M Edwardes Ker. Financial Times, 1974, published by The Financial Times.
• "Corporation Tax under the Imputation System" - John Chown and Richard Norman. Financial Times 1973.
• "VAT Explained" - J F Chown. Kogan Page, 1972 and 1973.
• "International Fund Year Book" - John Chown Editorial consultant, Investors Chronicle publication, July 1970, published Throgmorton Publications Limited, 1970.
• "International Bond Market in the 1960's" - J F Chown and R Valentine. Frederick A Praeger, 1968.

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References

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External links

• Chown Dewhurst LLP
• Google Scholar report

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