Economic Update Breakfast Featuring Dr. Patrick Scott

Join the Chamber for Louisiana Economic Outlook for 2025 Breakfast featuring Dr. Patrick Scott

This will be an information rich presentation hosted at Louisiana Delta Community College, Advanced Technology Center.

Patrick Scott is an associate professor in the department of economics & finance and director of the Center for Economic Research at Louisiana Tech University. His research has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Macroeconomics, Applied Economics, Economics Letters, Review of Development Economics, BE Journal of Macroeconomics, and Empirical Economics, among others. Currently his research examines optimal monetary policy models, the asymmetric response of monetary policy, and the time inconsistency of optimal policy. Additionally he studies Bayesian econometrics, multivariate time series analysis, forecasting, and state-space filtering algorithms.  Patrick teaches macroeconomics, monetary theory, research methods , and regional economic analysis at Tech. 

Patrick came to the Louisiana Tech family in the fall quarter of 2016. He graduated with his Ph.D. in economics from Kansas State University in 2013 with primary fields in monetary economics and econometrics. He studied at the undergraduate level at the University of South Alabama, graduating in 2008.