Speakers: Tom Cargill, Federico Guerrero, Mark Pingle
- Tom Cargill (Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno),
- Federico Guerrero (Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno),
- Mark Pingle (Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Reno)
Thomas F. Cargill is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor Emeritus of Economics in the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University California, Davis, and he has been Visiting Lecturer at Cal State University, Sacramento; Assistant Professor at Purdue University; Visiting Scholar, Comptroller Currency, Washington, D.C,: and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution; and Visiting Economist at the Bank of Japan, Tokyo. He has written extensively on financial and monetary issues in Japan and the United States, especially monetary/financial economics and applied econometrics. He has also written on Korean issues, has been a visiting scholar at the Bank of Korea and is a member of the advisory council for the Korea Economic Institute in Washington, D.C. His books include Money, the Financial System, and Monetary Policy; The Transition of Finance in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Perspective; Postal Savings and Fiscal Investment and Loan Program in Japan: The PSS and the FILP; and Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan.
Federico Guerrero was born and raised in Argentina.
After earning an undergraduate degree in economics at University of Buenos Aires, he worked first as a macroeconomic consultant, then as an investment banker for Smith-Barney, and then as an adjunct professor at University of Buenos Aires.
He then came to America to study economics at University of Maryland, where he earned a PhD in economics. While in graduate school, he worked for the World Bank and InterAmerican Development Bank.
Professor Guerrero joined the University of Nevada, Reno economics department in 2002, where he has since served. His research has focused on behavioral finance, macroeconomics, and financial & monetary economics. His research has appeared in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Review of Behavioral Finance, Economics Letters, International Finance, Central Banking, among other outlets.
Federico Guerrero is now a U.S. Citizen, but he regularly returns to Argentina and follows the economic events in his native country.
Mark Pingle is a professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Reno Department of Economics, where he has served since 1990. Professor Pingle has published papers, books, and other writings in the areas of macroeconomics, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. Professor Pingle is Book Editor for Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and associate editor for the Review of Behavioral Economics. He is a past President of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics. Since Fall 2008, professor Pingle has focused on building an Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. This effort has included much community outreach in an effort to enhance economic development in Nevada, specifically by seeking to develop a culture of entrepreneurship. Progress includes more than $10 million in university endowment funds raised for entrepreneurship, rapidly expanding enrollments in entrepreneurship courses, and a community organization called Entrepreneurship Nevada that fosters collaboration among community groups that support entrepreneurship. Mark served as President of The Hayek Group from 2018 to 2025 and remains on the Hayek Group Board. Professor Pingle grew up in a cattle ranching family in Southern Oregon and played on a state championship baseball team in high school. He received his B.S. degree in economics from Southern Oregon State College in 1983. He received his M.A. in 1984 and Ph.D. in Economics in 1988, both from the University of Southern California. Mark and his wife Melissa have three girls—Rachel, Rebekah, and Leah — and seven grandchildren.
Samantha Stone is a journalist and commentator who’s covered politics, the courts, business, and digital crime. Sam swears she was first in the nation to crash a radio station server, by linking a weekend broadcast with an internet campaign. (It was 1999, in San Francisco.) She was among the first in mainstream media to develop a cybercrime beat, in 2009. She produced a podcast when nobody knew what a podcast was; worked as a reporter for CBS Radio in Las Vegas; a talk host on KOH in Reno; a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; and the editor of a publication covering Nevada winemakers. These days she’s on her own, offering communication services to business, trade associations, and – gasp – politicians. She loves dogs, movies, and pizza.
Topic
Where are the U.S. and Nevada economies now and where are the headed? Economists Tom Cargill, Jerry O’Driscoll, and Mark Pingle will provide insight in a round table format, with journalist Samantha Stone moderating. There will be substantial Q&A time interspersed between the comments of the economists, so YOU can express yourself and get feedback from the round table participants.
