As Director of the Credit Research Center since 1990, Prof. Staten has designed and conducted projects on a wide range of policy-oriented issues involving consumer credit markets.  Since its founding at Purdue University in 1974, the Center has built a national reputation for its analysis of the economics of consumer credit markets.  The Center’s research product is used by the U.S. Congress, regulatory agencies, legislatures, the credit industry, consumer groups and the court system.   The Center moved to the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in 1997.   

Prof. Staten has presented expert testimony on credit and insurance issues before committees of the U.S. House and Senate and various state legislatures.  He has published articles in various professional journals including The American Economic Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Economics and Business,  and Psychology and Marketing.  In 1997 his book Consumer Attitudes Toward Credit Insurance (with John M. Barron) won the American Risk and Insurance Association’s Elizur Wright Award for its contribution to the risk management and insurance literature.  Prof. Staten is a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Foundation for Consumer Credit and is Board member for the Education Foundation of the American Financial Services Association.  He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union from 1995-1997.