This is a photo of what remains of Raleigh, ND, the closest town to where I grew up. I attended a school in the countryside that closed long ago and doesn’t appear to have a presence on the internet.
August 2026: My website was affected by the polyfill supply attack. It should be clean now. From what I can tell, it isn’t harmful on a site like this, but I’m an economist, not an internet security expert.
This is a good time to clean up my website. There haven’t been many changes since 2017, due to editing and running grad programs and dealing with a pandemic. A bunch of links are (intentionally) broken as I review the content to determine what’s worth keeping. I put up my first professional website in 2002, when a student asked me to post links to something. 24 years later, and four years after the public release of ChatGPT, I have to decide what to keep and how this site should be organized.
May 2026: My most recent professional update can be found here.
About
I’m a professor in the economics department at Kansas State University and data editor for the journal Energy Economics.
My research areas are macroeconomics and energy economics. My early research involved empirical analysis of time series data, which can be traced back to my grad school days, when I wrote a dissertation under the direction of Norman Swanson. These days, while I still work with and read empirical time series papers, I’m more likely to be reading/working with DSGE models.
Energy price shocks (in particular large movements in gasoline and oil prices) provide good data to learn about inflation and the business cycle. My involvement with Energy Economics has sometimes caused others (mostly grad students) to ask me to join them as a coauthor on papers related to topics like DEA analysis, global warming, energy policy, and so on. While these are important topics, they are outside my expertise and interests, so I politely decline all such invitations.
I teach two undergraduate courses, though not every year:
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Economic Forecasting
I teach three graduate courses, at least once in a while:
- PhD core econometrics II (2004-2013, 2015, 2018, 2026)
- Energy Market Forecasting (MA/PhD)
- Macroeconometrics (PhD field course)
These are the courses I used to teach, but the department no longer offers them or no longer needs me to teach them:
- International Trade (last taught in 2003 at East Carolina)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (last taught in 2008)
- Graduate International Finance (last taught in 2010)
- Graduate Monetary Economics (last taught in 2005)
- PhD core econometrics I (last taught in 2018)
- PhD Time Series Econometrics (last taught in 2023, that course has been replaced with Energy Market Forecasting)
I finished my PhD in Economics at Texas A&M University in 2002. My first job was as an assistant professor in the economics department at East Carolina University from 2002 to 2004. I was a visiting professor in the economics department at 서강대학교 in 2012.