His responsibilities include teaching, research and outreach to Arkansas community bankers. Prior to joining the university in January 2006, Yaeger was an assistant vice president over the Supervisory Policy Analysis unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Recently, his articles have been published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Banking and Finance. He has been quoted in numerous state and national news outlets, and his work has been featured in national newspapers and select trade publications. Yeager received a doctorate in economics in 1993 from Washington University.