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

This survey paper discusses the policy implications that can be expected from the recent research on nonlinearity and chaos in economic models. Expected policy implications are interpreted as a driving force behind the recent proliferation of research in this area. In general, it appears that no...

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

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

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 study macroeconomic systems with forward-looking private sector agents and a monetary authority that is trying to control the economy through the use of a linear policy feedback rule. A typical finding in the burgeoning literature in this area is that policymakers should be relatively...

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