Degrees

• Ph.D., Auburn University, Economics, 1994
• B.A., Saint Mary’s College, Economics and Biology, 1990

Academic Experience

• Professor of Practice, Tulane University, 2016-
• Visiting Professor, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June-July 2017
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tulane University, 2014-2016
• Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, California State University Sacramento, 2013-2014
• Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Humboldt State University, 2012-2013

Languages

• Spanish
• Portuguese

Overseas Experience

• Bolivia

Related Experience

• Director, Masters Program at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, 2001-2002
• Consultant, World Bank IDB UN DFID USAID, 1996-
• Visiting Fellow, Hamburg Institute of International Economics, 2003

Selected Publications

• 2018. “The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Growth, Inflation, and Inequality in the Americas.” Cepal Review.
• 2015. “Crowding Out Private Investment in Bolivia: Evidence for the 1988-2010 Period,” Latin American Research Review, 50(3): 225-244.
• 2015. "An Analysis of Abortion Patterns for White and Non-White Women in the United States, 1973 to 2008,” Journal of Policy Practice, 14(1):58-75.
• 2014. “The Effect of Coca and the FDI on the Level of Corruption in Bolivia” in Latin American Economic Review. 23:11. DOI 10.1007/s40503-014-0011-5
• 2013. Evolution of the Bolivian Economy: A Time-Series Approach, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
• 2013. “The Composition of Public Expenditures and Economic Growth in Bolivia” in Latin American Journal of Economics. 50:1, pp. 83-105
• 2013. “Testing the Validity of Wagner's Law in Bolivia: A Cointegration and Causality Analysis” in Economic Analysis Review (Revista de Análisis Económico). 28:1, pp. 25-45
• 2013. “Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in Bolivia” in El Trimestre Económico, Vol. LXXX (2). Number 318, pp. 401-426.
• 2012. “The Impact of Financial Development and Trade on the Economic Growth of Bolivia” in Journal of Applied Economics.Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 51-70

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: 

• ECON 3100: Economics of Money and Banking