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Session 6: Recent Research in Regional Economics at the Federal Reserve Banks
Regions face different challenges from the nation. Find out how the federal reserve banks track and evaluate the changing conditions.
Presentations
Andrew Haughwout slides (PDF 70 K)
Howard Wall slides (PDF, 114 K)
Mine Yucel slides (PDF, 107 K)
Links of Interest
FRB of St. Louis Economic Research
FRB of New York Economic Research
FRB of Dallas Economic Research
Speakers
Howard J. Wall
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Howard J. Wall is an assistant vice president and regional economics advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His responsiblities include serving as the director of the St. Louis Fed’s Center for Regional Economics (CRE8). He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1984 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1986 and 1989, respectively. His principal research interests are in regional and international economics.
Mr. Wall joined the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in 1998 from the Department of Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He went to Birkbeck in 1994 after beginning his academic career in 1988 in the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University.
In addition, Mr. Wall was a senior Fulbright scholar at the Instituto de Economía de Montevideo, Uruguay, and spent the Spring of 2001 as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan. While in London, he taught courses for the Bank of England, HM Treasury, and the Royal College of Defence Studies.
Andrew F. Haughwout
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Andy Haughwout is a Research Officer in the Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function. He is Editor of the Journal of Regional Science. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Mr. Haughwout served as Assistant Professor at Princeton University. He holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
His fields of interest include Urban economics, Public finance, and Infrastructure, Microeconomics
Mine K. Yucel
Senior Economist/Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Mine K. Yücel is a senior economist and vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. As an energy economist and head of the Bank's regional group, she analyzes the regional economy and energy markets on an ongoing basis and has published numerous articles on energy and regional growth. Yücel is president of the United States Association of Energy Economics (USAEE) and the Dallas chapter of the National Association for Business Economics. She has served on the executive boards of the USAEE and the Dallas Chapter of Women in Technology International, Inc.
Before joining the Bank she was an assistant professor of economics at Louisiana State University. She has a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey and a Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in Houston, Texas.
