We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard discussed factors that are weighing on the decision to begin normalizing U.S. monetary policy and the recent removal of the word “patient” from the FOMC statement, during the 24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, in Washington, D.C. He said that now...

Discussed at the Workshop on Monetary and Macroeconomics. Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Penn Institute of Economic Research, and the International Economic Review.

November 1, 2013. Presentation. "The Tapering Debate: Data and Tools." Financial Forum, St. Louis Regional Chamber.

February 6, 2012. Speech. "Inflation Targeting in the USA." Delivered at the Union League Club of Chicago, Breakfast@65West, Chicago, Ill.

Presented at the 10th EABCN Workshop on Uncertainty over the Business Cycle, European Central Bank, Frankfurt.

Presented at the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce. February 24, 2011.

Presented at Indiana University.