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Dr. Lloyd B. Thomas, Jr.

Dr. Lloyd B. Thomas, Jr.

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1970
Monetary Economics, Macroeconomic Policy

Homepage, E-mail: lbt@ksu.edu 

 

Thomas is Professor of Economics and Department Head. He has published in numerous economics journals and has written several textbooks, including Money, Banking, and Economic Activity (Prentice-Hall: 1979, 1982, 1986) and Principles of Economics (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich: 1990, 1993, co-authored with James Ragan). His most recent textbook, entitled Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, was published by McGraw-Hill in 1997. Thomas has served as a visting professor at the University of California-Berkeley, University of Delaware, and Indiana University-Bloomington.

Thomas's research interests include empirical analysis of interest rates determination and various issues in macroeconomic policy. Recently he has been examining various aspects of inflation expectations and his work has appeared in Economic Letters, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Business Economics, and Quarterley Review of Economics and Finance.