Presentation to the National Association For Business Economics 43rd Annual Meeting, New York City - Sept. 10, 2001

An important component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA’s) $796 billion proposed stimulus budget was $318 billion in fiscal assistance to state and local governments, yet the authors have no precise estimates of the impact of such assistance on the macroeconomy. In...

Presented at the 19th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, the Institute for International Economic Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington D.C.

February 13, 2013. Presentation. "The Recent Reduction in Global Macroeconomic Uncertainty." Arkansas State University Agribusiness Conference, Jonesboro, Arkansas.

Delivered at the 119th Annual Arkansas Bankers Association & Tradeshow, Day with the Commissioner, Hot Springs, AR. May 1, 2009.

Discussed at International Research Forum on Monetary Policy. Sponsored by the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, and the Center for Financial Studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University.

Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 2, 2008

We provide a quantitative evaluation of the aggregate and distributional impact of microfinance or credit programs targeted toward small businesses. We find that the redistributive impact of microfinance is stronger in general equilibrium than in partial equilibrium, but the impact on aggregate...

Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 2, 2008

Regional Economic Summit, Evansville, Ind., Nov. 20, 2008