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Economist King Banaian
Professor King
Banaian is a professor in the Department of Economics at St. Cloud State University and director of
the School of Public
Affairs Research Institute at SCSU.
He holds the Ph.D. in economics from the Claremont
Graduate School. He has consulted at the central banks of
Ukraine, Egypt and Macedonia and the ministries of finance of Indonesia, Macedonia
and Armenia.
He is author of two books and more than forty articles and book chapters
discussing monetary policy and political economy. A former state representative
from St. Cloud, he is co-author of the St. Cloud
Quarterly Business Report.