Curriculum Vitae

Education

• ​Ph.D. Economics, Kansas State University, 2013
  • ​​​​Dissertation Title: Essays in Optimal Monetary Policy and State-Space Econometrics 
  • ​Dissertation Committee: Dr. Steven P. Cassou (chair), Dr. William F. Blankenau, Dr. Lance Bachmeier, & Dr. Allen Featherstone
• B.S. Economics (cum laude), University of South Alabama, 2008

​Professional Experience 

• Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, Louisiana Tech University, Fall 2022 to present
• Director, Center for Economic Research, Louisiana Tech University, Fall 2018 to present
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Finance, Louisiana Tech University, Fall 2016 to Spring 2022
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Missouri State University, Fall 2013 to Spring 2016

Research Interests

• Monetary Economics
• Macroeconomics
• ​Time Series Econometrics
• Bayesian Methods

​Research Papers

• "On the diffusion of subscription-based services: The roles of price, advertising and customers’ defection," with Hani Mesak and Abdullahel Bari, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

• "The detection of marginally non-poor households in poverty alleviation evaluation: Evidence from a linear quantile mixed model," with Zhineng Hu, Jing Ma, Qiong Feng, and Hani Mesak, 2022, Review of Development Economics​. 

• "How much better is commitment policy than discretionary policy? Evidence from six developed economies," 2020, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics.

• "Optimal monetary policy revisited: Does considering real-time data change things?​," with Steven P. Cassou and Jesús Vázquez, 2018, Applied Economics.
• "Monetary policy deviations: A Bayesian state-space analysis," with Mahua Barari, 2017, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.
• "Asymmetric preferences and monetary policy deviations," 2016,  Journal of Macroeconomics.
• "Are central bank preferences asymmetric when policy targets vary over time?," 2016, Empirical Economics.
• "Optimal monetary policy with asymmetric preferences for output," with Steven P. Cassou and Jesús Vázquez, 2012, Economics Letters.​

​Working Papers

• "How much output gap targeting is too much? A counterfactual simulation of commitment versus discretionary monetary policy ," 2021, under review.
• "Commitment issue: Does the Fed have an inflation incentive to commit?," 2022, under review. 

Conference Presentations

• "Asymmetric Preferences and Monetary Policy Deviations," Western Economic Association International Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July 2016
• "Asymmetric Preferences and Monetary Policy Deviations," Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2015
• "Monetary Policy Deviations: A Bayesian State-Space Analysis," Missouri Valley Economics Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, October 2014 
• "Are Central Bank Preferences Asymmetric When Policy Targets Vary Over Time?," Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting, Evanston, IL, March 2014
• "Are Central Bank Preferences Asymmetric When Policy Targets Vary Over Time?," Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2012

Professional Affiliations

• American Economic Association
• Econometric Society
• Southern Economic Association 
• Western Economic Association International

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