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.

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...

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

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

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

We derive a simplified version of the model of Fudenberg and Levine [2006, 2011] and show how this approximate model is useful in explaining choice under risk. We show that in the simple case of three outcomes, the model can generate indifference curves that “fan out” in the Marshack-Machina...

We present a general equilibrium analysis of biofuel subsidies in an open-economy context. In the small-country case, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on crude is not available as a policy option, however, a...