Thomas Hogan is a Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He was formerly the Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs. His primary research interests include banking regulation and monetary policy. Dr. Hogan has held a variety of positions in the academic and private sectors. He was previously a Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Assistant Professor of Finance at Troy University, and Assistant Professor of Economics at West Texas A&M University. He has worked for Merrill Lynch’s commodity trading group and for investment firms in the U.S. and Europe. He was a consultant to the World Bank and a research fellow at the Cato Institute. His work has been published in academic journals such as Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit & Banking.