Education: 

   Ph.D., Economics, Arizona State University, 2007

   M.S., Economics, Arizona State University, 2004

   B.S., Business Administration and Economics, University of South Dakota, 2001

Courses Taught:    

    ECO 120 Global Macroeconomics

    ECO 301 Money and Banking

    ECO 305 Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis

Current Research:

    Macroeconomics, Employment Fluctuations Over the Business Cycle, Government Debt

    “On the Needed Quantity of Government Debt,” with Edward C. Prescott, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Working Paper #648.  

    "Topics in the Cyclical Properties of Labor Market Outcomes," Ph.D. Dissertation, Arizona State University.

Publications:

    “On the Needed Quantity of Government Debt” (Joint with Edward C. Prescott)  Federal Reserve Bank of

            Minneapolis Quarterly Report, November 2007, 31(1), pp. 2-15.

    “Organizational Dynamics Over the Business Cycle: A View on Jobless Recoveries” (Joint with Richard Rogerson)

            Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, July/August 2005, 87(4), pp. 555-79.

Presentations:

    “Long Expansions and Slow Recoveries:  A Closer Look at Employment Fluctuations” 2005 Western Economic

            Association International, Annual Conference.

Current CV: 

    Curriculum Vita

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