Howard Wall directs the Hammond Institute's Center for Applied Economics and is a professor of economics in the Plaster College of Business & Entrepreneurship. He served as the founding director of the Hammond Institute from 2013 until 2022.

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Prior to joining Lindenwood in 2011, Wall was a vice president and regional economics adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He began his career in the economics departments of West Virginia University and Birkbeck College, University of London.

In addition, Wall had two stints as a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan, taught in Uruguay as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Instituto de Economía de Montevideo, and in the UK for the Bank of England, HM Treasury, and the Royal College for Defense Studies. 

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Dr. Wall's main research interests are international economics, applied macroeconomics, and urban/regional economics. He has published more than 60 papers in scholarly journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of Regional Science.

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His teaching at Lindenwood includes Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Current Economic and Social Issues, Public Economics, and Econometrics. He was named Professor of the Year by the Men’s Basketball Team for 2018- 19 and received the President’s Scholar-Teacher Award for 2016-17 and 2022-23.

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Dr. Wall received his B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1984) and his M.A and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1986, 1989).

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