Currently Senior Vice President and Research Director, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (effective June 1, 2009) Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame (On leave). 2012, Fall Sam Cook Visiting Professor, Washington University-St. Louis. 2003-2011 Gilbert F. Schaefer Chair of Economics Research Fellow, Nanovic Institute of European Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies University of Notre Dame 2006 – 2007 Acting Department Chair, Dept. of Economics and Econometrics, University of Notre Dame. 2006, Summer Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 1998 – 2003 Professor and Carol Martin Gatton Chair of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, University of Kentucky. Research Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn. 1998 – 2004 Visiting Professor, EERC, National University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine. 1994 – 1995 Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Washington University. 1994, Summer Visiting Scholar, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. 1994, May Visiting Scholar, International Finance Division, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 1992 – 1994 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, Indiana University. 1992 – 1998 Associate Professor Economics, Indiana University. 1985 – 1992 Assistant Professor, Indiana University. 1981 – 1985 Teaching Assistant, Washington State University.