boma chattanooga membership meeting

Wednesday, August 27th

11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Mac Ave Event Space - 1304 McCallie Ave Suite A

Speaker:

Dr. Howard wall

utc dean of business

Howard Wall is the director and chief economist of the Center for Regional Economic Research and a professor of practice in the Department of Finance and Economics. He joined UTC and the Rollins College of Business in January 2024.

Before joining UTC, Dr Wall was professor of economics and director of the Center for Applied Economics at Lindenwood University in Charles, Missouri. Prior to that, he spent 12 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where he was a vice president and regional economics advisor. At the St. Louis Fed, he was responsible for briefing the bank president and other on local economic conditions, coordinating the St. Louis Fed’s Beige Book and Burgundy Books, drafting speeches for the bank president, and managing the regional economics group.

Dr. Wall’s main research interests are applied econometrics and the intersection of macroeconomics and regional economics. His research has been published in scholarly journals such at the Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of Regional Science.

Dr. Wall is a native of upstate New York and received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1984) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1986, 1989).