'Joseph or Joe Haslag[1] (born March 28, 1961)[citation needed] is the Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics[citation needed] for the department of economics at University of Missouri[2] in Columbia, Missouri. In addition, he is the executive vice president of the Show-Me Institute, a free market research institute based in St. Louis, Missouri. He also is executive director of the Economic & Policy Analysis Research Center in Missouri, which prepares forecasts and analyses used by the Missouri General Assembly and administrative units of state government. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University.
Haslag has taught at Southern Methodist University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Michigan State University. He has published his research in the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the International Economic Review. His research has been cited in more than 1400 academic papers according to Google Scholar.[citation needed]
He grew up in Springfield, Missouri.