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'Joseph or Joe Haslag [1] (born March 28, 1961)[ citation needed ] is the Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics[ citation needed ] for the department of economics at University of Missouri [2] in Columbia, Missouri. In addition, he is the executive vice president of the Show-Me Institute, a free market research institute based in St. Louis, Missouri. He also is executive director of the Economic & Policy Analysis Research Center in Missouri, which prepares forecasts and analyses used by the Missouri General Assembly and administrative units of state government. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University.
Haslag has taught at Southern Methodist University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Michigan State University. He has published his research in the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the International Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Review of Economic Dynamics and other leading academic journal. His research has been cited in more than 1700 academic papers according to Google Scholar.[ citation needed ]
Between 2000 and 2025, Haslag taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the Department of Economics. He started there as an Associate Professor, ending his time there as Professor and Kenneth Lay Chair. In 2025, Haslag accepted a position as department head in the Economics Department at Auburn University.
He grew up in Springfield, Missouri.
