October 4, 2012. Presentation. "Price Level Targeting: The Fed Has It About Right." Presented at Economic Club of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.

November 8, 2012. Presentation. "Shadow Interest Rates and the Stance of U.S. Monetary Policy." Presented at the Center for Finance and Accounting Research Annual Corporate Finance Conference, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

December 3, 2012. Presentation. "Making Sense of Thresholds, Triggers, Twists, and Timelines." Presented at the 147th Annual Meeting of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, Little Rock, Arkansas

May 23, 2013. Presentation. "Monetary Policy in a Low Policy Rate Environment." OMFIF Golden Series Lecture, London.

February 21, 2013. Presentation. "Perspectives on the Current Stance of Monetary Policy." NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business, New York, N.Y.

February 14, 2013. Presentation. "U.S. Monetary Policy: Easier Than You Think It Is." Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi

September 20, 2012. Presentation. "A Singular Achievement of Recent Monetary Policy." Presented at Theodore and Rita Combs Distinguished Lecture Series in Economics, University of Notre Dame.

October 4, 2012. Presentation. "Price Level Targeting: The Fed Has It About Right." Presented at Economic Club of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.

We formulate the central bank’s problem of selecting an optimal long-run inflation rate as the choice of a distorting tax by a planner who wishes to maximize discounted stationary utility for a heterogeneous population of infinitely-lived households in an economy with constant aggregate income...

2008 Annual Economic Outlook Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Sept. 26, 2008