Thomas F. Siems is senior economist and policy advisor at the

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. He holds a master's degree and

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from

Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a Private university, private research university in Dallas, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

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, where he also lectures.

Biography

Siems earned a B.S. (engineering) in industrial and operations engineering from the

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in 1982 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in operations research from Southern Methodist University in 1985 and 1991, respectively. In addition, Siems is a 1989 graduate of the Public Finance Institute at the University of Michigan and a 1991

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of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado. Siems began his career with the Federal Reserve in 1984. Siems currently conducts economic and financial research to develop a comprehensive understanding of

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, including how new ideas (technologies and policies) impact productivity and economic growth. He is also a senior lecturer in the Engineering Management, Information and Systems Department in the School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University and an advisory board member of the

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's Project on Social Security Choice. Siems is active in the Bank's economic education programs and has taught economics, statistics, finance, operations management and other engineering and business courses at SMU,

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and the University of Dallas.

Publications

Siems has published more than 50 articles, some of which have appeared in such journals as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Research in Finance'', ''

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'', ''Review of Financial Economics'', ''

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'', and various Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas publications. He is the only two-time winner of NABE's Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Paper Award, having won the award in 2006 for his co-authored paper, “Strengthening Globalization’s Invisible Hand: What Matters Most?” and in 2005 for his paper, “Who Supplied My Cheese? Supply Chain Management in the Global Economy”. Siems authored a paper published by Cato Institute in September 1997 entitled “10 Myths About Financial Derivatives”.10 Myths About Financial Derivatives
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* * * 1957 births Living people 21st-century American economists Southern Methodist University alumni University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Southern Methodist University faculty University of Dallas faculty LeTourneau University {{US-economist-stub