This paper examines and compares the recent business cycle experiences of the seven states that lie partly or wholly within the Eighth Federal Reserve District (Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee). For the period surrounding the 1990-91 NBER recession,...

Presentation to the School of Business & Management, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff - March 5, 2003

Presentation to the Midwest Economic Education Conference, St. Louis - April 11, 2002

Presentation at Lambuth University, Jackson, Tenn. - April 4, 2002

This paper develops a framework for inferring common Markov-switching components in a panel data set with large cross-section and time-series dimensions. We apply the framework to studying similarities and differences across U.S. states in the timing of business cycles. We hypothesize that there...

Presentation to the Midwest Economic Education Conference, St. Louis - April 11, 2002

Presentation to the School of Business & Management, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff - March 5, 2003

Presentation at Lambuth University, Jackson, Tenn. - April 4, 2002

Global Interdependence Center Central Bank Series, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, May 18, 2006

Delivered at the High Profile Speaker Series, New York Society of Security Analysts, New York City. November 8, 2010.