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George Waters

Professor
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STV Stevenson Hall 427
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Biography

George Waters is an Professor of Economics whose primary research interests are in Macro/Monetary Economics, Game Theory, Time Series and Models of Learning. One area of his work uses an Evolutionary Game Theory approach to show how changes in forecasting strategies among traders in asset markets can explain many features of stock market bubbles. Another stand of research focuses on modeling credit markets and their relationship to the macroeconomy. Professor Waters' work appears in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Mathematical Economics and Macroeconomic Dynamics. He has a wide range of teaching experience from elementary to graduate level including courses in mathematical economics, money and banking, graduate macroeconomics, and game theory at Washington and Lee University and Illinois State Univerity.

Current Courses

ECO 441.001 Advanced Macroeconomic Theory I

ECO 241.001 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

ECO 439.001 Applied Time Series Econometrics And Forecasting

ECO 241.001 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

ECO 215.001 Money And Banking

Teaching Interests & Areas

Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Game Theory

Research Interests & Areas

Macro/Monetary Economics, Game Theory, Models of Learning, Asset Pricing

Ph D Economics

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

MS Mathematics

California State University - Easy Bay
Hayward, CA

BA Mathematics

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

Book, Chapter

Careful Price Level Targeting
George Waters
(2015), doi:10.1108/S1571-038620150000024014, Book Series: International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Emerald Insights

Working Paper

Quantity Rationing of Credit
George Waters
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers, 2012 (3), 24, (2012)

Presentations

Endogenous Rational Bubbles
George Waters
conference of Midwest Economics Association, Evanston, IL, , 2012
Endogenous Rational Bubbles
George Waters
conference of the Illinois Economics Association, Chicago, , 2012
Endogenous Rational Bubbles
George Waters
conference of the Society for Computing in Economics and Finance, Prague, CZ, , 2012
Careful Price Level Targeting
George Waters
ISU Department of Economics Brown Bag lunch, Online, , 2012
Quantity Rationing of Credit and the Phillips Curve
George Waters
Midwest Macro Meetings, South Bend, IN, , 2012
Endogenous Rational Bubbles
George Waters
Northern Illinois University Department of Economics seminar series, Illinois, , 2012
Endogenous Rational Bubbles
George Waters
University of Wisconsin – Whitewater seminar series, Online, October, 2011
Endogenous Rational Bubbles
George Waters
ISU Department of Economics Brown Bag lunch, Illinois, September, 2011
On the Evolutionary Stability of Rational Expectations
George Waters
conference of the Society for Computing in Economics and Finance, San Francisco, July, 2011
Quantity Rationing of Credit and the Phillips Curve
George Waters
CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic, March, 2011
On the Evolutionary Stability of Rational Expectations
George Waters
Research Group on Theoretical and Applied Economics, Pessac, France, March, 2011
Quantity Rationing of Credit
George Waters
Institute for Economic Research, Zagreb, Croatia, February, 2011