Faculty Profiles

Journal articles
Aaron L Jackson. "Policy Futures Markets with Multiple Goals," Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. Forthcoming, 2009.

Jackson, Aaron L, Miles, William. "Quantitative Goals for Monetary Policy: A Quantile Regression Approach," Applied Economics, vol. 41, no. 16, 2065 - 71, 2009.

Jackson, Aaron L, Miles, William. "Fixed Exchange Rates and Disinflation in Emerging Markets: How Large is the Effect?," Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv [Review of World Economics], vol. 144, no. 3, 538-557, 2008.

Jackson, Aaron L, Sumner, Scott. "Velocity Futures Markets: Does the Fed Need a Structural Model?," Economic Inquiry, vol. 44, no. 4, 716-728, 2006.

Jackson, Aaron L. "Disinflationary Boom Reversion," Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 9, no. 4, 489 - 515, 2005.

Doctoral dissertation
Jackson, Aaron L. "Near-Rational Behavior in New Keynesian Models." University of Oregon, 2002.

Professional Memberships:
American Economic Association
Western Economic Association
Southern Economic Association

Honors and Awards:
2009, Won Innovation in Teaching Award, Bentley University, Fall 2009. Award from "Team Based Learning Format".

2008, Summer Research Grant, Bentley University, 2008

2007, Faculty Publication award 2006, presented September 2007.

2007, Summer Research Grant, Bentley College, 2007

2006, Faculty Publication Award 2005, received June 2006.

2006, Summer Research Grant, Bentley College, 2006.

2005, Summer research grant, Bentley College 2005

2004, Summer Research Grant, Bentley College 2004

2003, Summer Research Grant, Bentley College 2003

Scholarly Work in Progress:
Are Immigrants Really Attracted to the Welfare State? Evidence from OECD Countries.
Joint with Michael Quinn and David Ortmeyer, under review, Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Give us Your Tired and Hungry (as Long as They Can Read): Colonial Ties, Education and Immigration Flows.
Joint with Michael Quinn and David Ortmeyer, Under Review, German Economic Review

Policy Implications of Global Warming Markets.
Joint with Scott Sumner, revise and resubmit at Journal of Policy Modeling

Using Prediction Markets to Guide Global Warming Policy.
Joint with Scott Sumner, revise and resubmit, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Other Activities:
Advised Elsevier Academic Publishers on Handbooks in Economics series at ASSA convention, San Francisco, Jan 4, 2009. Focused on possibility of developing a Handbook related to prediction markets.

Attended Allied Social Sciences Association annual conference, San Francisco, CA January 3 - 5, 2009. Attended research seminars on macroeconomics and monetary policy related to my fields of research.

Attended focus group for Intermediate Macroeconomics content solutions (developing alternatives to traditional textbooks). January 3, 2009 at ASSA convention, San Francisco. Sponsored by Cengage Learning.

Attended focus group for new Intermediate Macroeconomics text by Hubbard, O'Brien, and Rafferty. January 3, 2009 at ASSA convention, San Francisco. Sponsored by Prentice Hall.

Chaired session at IAES annual conference March 14, 2009 Rome, Italy. Session: Regulation and Industrial Policy.

Co-advisor with David Gulley to Bentley University's FED challenge team, (undergraduate monetary policy debate team) ongoing from Spring 2009 through Fall 2009. Team competition for the Fed Challenge, November, 2009, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Team result: First Runner Up.

Invited Editorial Review Board Member- Intermediate Macroeconomics Text 1st edition by Fredric Mishkin (Pearson Publishing)

Paper Presentation at IAES annual conference, Rome, Italy. "Price and Quality in a New Product Oligopoly". March 14, 2009

Textbook review, intermediate macroeconomics first manuscript Hubbard, O'Brien, and rafferty. April, July 2009.

Textbook review, intermediate macroeconomics first manuscript Mishkin, August 2009.

Attended Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings, New Orleans, LA January 4 - 6, 2008. Attended research seminars on macroeconomics and monetary policy related to my fields of research.

Attended focus group for Principles of Macroeconomics course textbooks. January 4, 2008 at ASSA convention, New Orleans, LA. Discussed issues relating to course design, textbook features, and pedagogy of teaching macroeconomics courses. Sponsored by Pearson Addison Wesley.

Attended online conference on "The Liquidity Crisis, 2007" featuring Dr. Stephen Cecchetti, (Brandeis University), February 12, 2008. Sponsored by McGraw Hill.

Bentley College Summer Research poster session: Poster Title: "Are Immigrants Really Attracted to the Welfare State? Evidence from OECD countries," joint with Michael Quinn and David Ortmeyer, August 2008

Co-advisor with David Gulley to Bentley University's FED challenge team, (undergraduate monetary policy debate team) ongoing from Spring 2008 through Fall 2008. Team competition for the Fed Challenge, November 17, 2008, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Member of Editorial Review Board, Economics Section, Scientific Journals International from February 2008.

Paper Presentation at Southern Economic Association annual meeting in Washington, DC. Title: "The Evolution of Forward-Looking Agent Behavior in Inflation Dynamics", November 21, 2008;

Paper discussant, "Inflation Targeting in Canada: An Expected Loss Analysis by a DSGE Model with Trade Costs," by Hakan Yilmazkuday. Southern Economic Association annual conference, Washington DC, November 21, 2008.

Speaker on Panel Discussion: Recessions, Depressions and Business cycles. With David Gulley, Scott Sumner, and Marc Stern. Bentley University, Oct. 22, 2008

Test Bank Questions Development for Money, Banking and Financial Markets, by Lawrence Ball. April 2008

Test Bank Review for Case, Fair, and Oster, Principles of Macroeconomics, July 2008

Test Bank Review for Money, Banking and Financial Markets, by Lawrence Ball. September - November 2008

Attended Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings, Chicago, IL January 5 - 7, 2007. Attended research seminars on macroeconomics and monetary policy related to my fields of research.

Attended focus group for Principles of Macroeconomics textbook, by David Laibson. January 6, 2007 at ASSA convention, Chicago, IL. Discussed issues relating to course design, textbook features, and pedagogy of teaching macroeconomics courses.

Attended focus group for implementing economic experiments in the classroom. January 6, 2007 at ASSA convention, Chicago, IL. Sponsored by Pearson Addison Wesley Publishing.

Bentley College Summer Research poster session: Poster Title: "Using Prediction Markets to Guide Global Warming Policy", joint with Scott Sumner. August 28, 2007

Book Review: Chapter 3 - Supply and Demand in Microeconomics, 2/e by Hubbard and O'Brien, July 2007. Published by Pearson Addison Wesley

Book Review: Macroeconomics Test Bank to accompany Macroeconomics, 2/e by Hubbard and O'Brien. Published by Pearson Addison Wesley

Invited paper presentation, "The Evolution of Forward-Looking Agent Behavior in Inflation Dynamics" March 26, 2007; Bentley College Department of Economics.

Journal Referee for The Manchester School, October 2007. Article titled "Two-Pillar Monetary Policy and Bootstrap Expectations".

Paper Presentation at International Atlantic Economics Association annual meeting in Madrid, Spain. Title: "The Evolution of Forward-Looking Agent Behavior in Inflation Dynamics", March 18, 2007.

Paper Presentation at Western Economic Association International annual meeting in Seattle, WA. Title: "The Evolution of Forward-Looking Agent Behavior in Inflation Dynamics", June 30, 2007.

Attended Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings, Boston, MA, January 6 - 8, 2006. Attended research seminars on macroeconomics and monetary policy related to my fields of research.

Attended focus group for Barro's intermediate macroeconomics text. January 7, 2005 at ASSA convention, Boston, MA. Discussed issues relating to course design, textbook features, and pedagogy of teaching economics courses.

Attended focus group for fully online principles of microeconomics text, January 7, 2005 at ASSA convention, Boston, MA . Discussed issues relating to course design, textbook features, and pedagogy of teaching economics courses.

Bentley College Summer Research poster session: Poster Title: Monetary Policy Targets: Applications and Implications. Papers: The Greenspan Fed and Asset Prices: Could the Tech Bubble Have Been Moderated by Monetary Policy?" and "Quantitative Goals for Monetary Policy: A Quantile Regression Approach", joint with William Miles. August 29, 2006

Book Review: Ball 1/e, Money, Banking, and Financial Markets May 2006

Book Review: Cecchetti 2/e, Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, October 2006.

Book Review: Colander 6/e, Principles of Macroeconomics April 2006

Book Review: Colander 6/e, Principles of Microeconomics April 2006

Book Review: Frank and Bernanke 3/e, Principles of Macroeconomics April 2006

Book Review: Frank and Bernanke 3/e, Principles of Microeconomics April 2006

Invited paper presentation, "The Greenspan Fed and Asset Prices: Could the Tech Bubble Have Been Moderated by Monetary Policy?" April 26, 2006; Bentley College Department of Economics

Invited paper presentation, "Velocity Futures Markets: Does the Fed need a Structural Model?" April 19, 2006; Bentley College Department of Mathematics

Paper Discussant: Western Economic Association annual meeting, San Diego, CA. Paper title: "Targeting Rules with Intrinsic Persistence and Endogenous Policy Inertia" by Michael Hanson and Pavel Kapinos, July 2, 2006.

Paper Presentation at Southern Economic Association annual meeting in Charleston, SC. Title: "The Greenspan Fed and Asset Prices: Could the Tech Bubble Have Been Moderated by Monetary Policy?", November 20, 2006;

Paper Presented at Southern Economic Association annual meeting in Charleston, SC. Title: "Fixed Exchange Rates and Disinflation in Emerging Markets: How Large is the Effect?", November 19, 2006, joint with William Miles.

Paper discussant, "New Keynesian Versus Sticky Information Phillips Curves: A Comparison Based on Partisan Theory," by Frode Brevik and Manfred Gartner. Western Economic Association annual conference, San Diego CA, July 2, 2006.

Paper presentation, "The Greenspan Fed and Asset Prices: Could the Tech Bubble have Been Moderated by Monetary Policy?" Western Economic Association annual conference, San Diego CA, July 2, 2006.

Session Chair: Western Economic Association annual meeting in San Diego, CA. Session title: Monetary Policy, July 2, 2006

Session Chair: Western Economic Association annual meeting in San Diego, CA. Session title: The Phillips Curve, July 2, 2006.

Paper presentation at the Global Conference on Business and Economics annual meeting, June 2005. "Policy Futures Markets with Multiple Goals" Oxford University, UK

Poster presentation at the Bentley College Summer Research Poster Session, August 2005. "Policy Futures Markets with Multiple Goals" Bentley College, Waltham, MA

Session Chair: Economics and Finance. At Global Conference on Business and Economics annual meeting, Oxford University, UK June 2005

Session Discussant: Economics/Finance; Paper titled "Price Behaviour in the Building of the Spanish Electricity Wholesale Market" by Patricia Pereira da Silva. At Global Conference on Business and Economics, Oxford University, UK. June 28, 2005

Invited presentation to the Economics department, Cal State University - Sacramento. "Velocity Futures Targeting: Can it Eliminate the Need for Central Banks to Develop Structural Models?" September 20, 2004

Paper presentation at the Southern Economic Association annual meeting, November 23, 2004. "Velocity Futures Targeting: Can it Eliminate the Need for Central Banks to Develop Structural Models?" New Orleans, LA

Paper presentation at the Western Economic Association annual meeting, June 30, 2004. "Velocity Futures Targeting: Can it Eliminate the Need for Central Banks to Develop Structural Models?" Vancouver, BC, Canada

Session Chair: Effects and Effectiveness of Monetary Policy. At Southern Economic Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. November 21, 2004

Session Chair: Interest Rate Structure and GDP. At Western Economic Association annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada. July 1, 2004

Session Chair: Structural Models and Interest Rates. At Western Economic Association annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 30, 2004.

Session Discussant: Alternative Monetary Regimes; Paper titled "Regime Changes, Learning, and Monetary Policy" by George Waters. At Southern Economic Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. November 23, 2004

Session Discussant: Effects and Effectiveness of Monetary Policy; Paper titled "Monetary Policy Under Misspecified Expectations" by Mingjun Zhao. At Southern Economic Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. November 21, 2004

Session Discussant: Interest Rate Structure and GDP. At Western Economic Association annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada. July 1, 2004

Newspaper Article: "Dietro la Facciata" (Behind the Facade), an interview by Vera Fisogni, reporter for La Provincia Newspaper, Como, Italy on political and macroeconomic effects of war with Iraq. February 8, 2003.

Paper presentation at the Allied Social Sciences Association annual meeting, January 2003. "Forward Looking Phillips Curves and the Costs to Disinflation" Washington, D.C.

Paper presentation at the Southern Economic Association annual meeting, November 22, 2003. "Forward Looking Phillips Curves and the Costs to Disinflation" San Antonio, TX

Session Discussant: Monetary and Macro Models: New Findings. At Southern Economic Association annual Meeting, November 21, 2003. Discussed "The Signal Extraction Problem Revisited: Its Impact on a Model of Monetary Policy," by Benjamin Keen.

Invited presentation at Bentley College, department of Economics. "Disinflationary Boom Reversion." February 14, 2002.

Invited presentation, University of Oregon department of Economics. "Disinflationary Boom Reversion." February 2002

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