Dr. Joseph Palardy

Professor
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Dr. Joseph Palardy

Professor

Lariccia School of Accounting & Finance

Williamson Hall 3369

phone: (330) 941-3430

jpalardy@ysu.edu

Research Interests

Inflation Expectations, Economics of Education, AI in Business, and Applied Machine Learning in Economics and Finance.

Teaching Interests

Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Predictive Modelling, AI in Business, and Money and Banking.

  • Education
    • 2002

      Ph D, Economics

      West Virginia University

    • 1997

      BS, Mathematics and Economics

      Frostburg State University

  • Awards and Honors
    • 2016

      Youngstown State University

      Smith-Murphy Award

    • 2015

      Youngstown State University

      Distinguished Professorship Award

  • Professional Positions
    • 2016 -

      Youngstown State University

      Professor

    • 2012 - 2022

      Youngstown State University

      General Education Coordinator

    • 2008 - 2016

      Youngstown State University

      Associate Professor

    • 2003 - 2008

      Youngstown State University

      Assistant Professor

    • 2002 - 2003

      West Virginia University

      Instructor

  • Administrative Assignments
    • 2012 - 2022

      Director

  • Intellectual Contributions
    • 2025

      "Assessing the Impact of Goods and Services Inflation on Consumer and Professional Forecaster Expectations: A Bayesian Shrinkage Approach"

      J. Palardy, T. Ovaska

      Applied Economics, Informa UK Limited, volume 57, issue 6, p. 678-689

    • 2024

      "Has ChatGPT Made Economics Homework Questions Obsolete?"

      R. Faerber‐Ovaska, T. Ovaska, J. Palardy, Y. Uppal

      Bulletin of Economic Research, Wiley

    • 2024

      "The Nuances of Large-Language-Model-Agent Performance in Simple English Auctions"

      J. Palardy, B. Lamichhane, A. Singh

      Empirical Economics Letters

    • 2016

      "Adapting the VALUE Rubrics to Build a ROAD to Curriculum Mapping"

      J. Palardy, T. Porter, A. Messenger, H. Fuhrman

    • 2015

      "Decomposing household, professional and market forecasts on inflation: a dynamic factor model analysis"

      J. Palardy, T. Ovaska

      Applied Economics, volume 47, issue 20, p. 2092-2101

    • 2014

      "Business Cycle Volatility: Does the European-Style Safety Net Help"

      J. Palardy, T. Ovaska

      Journal of Private Enterprise, volume 29, issue 2

    • 2012

      "Charter versus Traditional Public Schools: A Stochastic Frontier Panel Study of the Technical Efficiency."

      J. Palardy, T. Nesbitt, K. Adzima

      Education Economics

    • 2007

      "Traditional Public Schools versus Charter Schools: A Comparison of Technical Efficiency"

      J. Palardy, T. Nesbitt

      Economics Bulletin, volume 9, issue 9, p. 1-10

  • Professional Service
    • 2007 - 2021

      Other
      The Economics Journal

  • Public Service
    • 2023 - present

      Guest Speaker
      Student-Practitioner Day

    • 2023 - 2023

      Guest Speaker
      Mahoning and Shenago Valley Estate Planning

    • 2023 - 2023

      Guest Speaker