Interest rates and inflation: IU experts available to comment

R. Andrew Butters is an assistant professor in the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy at the IU Kelley School of Business. Before joining Kelley, he was an associate economist in the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Sara Coers is a lecturer in real estate and the associate director of the IU Center for Real Estate Studies, leading the IU real estate program’s efforts on the IU Indianapolis campus. She has 15 years of experience in commercial real estate appraisal.

Joseph “Joe” Fitter directs the MBA Strategic Finance Academy and is faculty leader of the Globase-China program in the IU Kelley School of Business, where he also is a lecturer in finance. He has more than 25 years of corporate finance experience, having served as finance manager, finance director, operations finance controller and head of finance in high-tech industry positions with Fortune 50 corporations across the United States, southeast Asia and China.

Doug McCoy is the director of the Center for Real Estate Studies, the Al and Shary Oak Director of Real Estate and a teaching professor of finance at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Before joining the Kelley faculty in 2006, McCoy was involved in real estate development, investment and property management through his firm, Grant Properties in Bloomington, Indiana.

Phil Powell is a clinical associate professor of business economics and public policy and a Daniel C. Smith Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business in Bloomington. He is also the academic director of the Indiana Business Research Center and an associate editor for Business Horizons, the Kelley School’s academic journal for managers and practitioners.