Associate Adjunct Professor of International Economics
Expertise Geographic Areas
Philippines Issues
economics | global financial crises | globalization | international finance | international financial markets | international monetary economics | World Bank and International Monetary Fund Background and Education
Has taught international monetary theory and international monetary systems at SAIS since 1996 and received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2003; previously was assistant professor of economics at the University of Florida; consulted for private-sector financial corporations, notably FTSE, Standard & Poor's and Ruesch International, Inc.; areas of interest include exchange rates, international monetary economics, international financial markets, particularly stock market indices, and applications of value-at-risk principles to firm and household financial behavior; Ph.D., economics, Rice University Publications
"Dynamic Models of Fertility Choice: A Survey," co-author, in Journal of Population Economics (1997); "Testing a Production-Based Asset Pricing Model" in Economic Inquiry (1996); "On the Robustness of Forward Market Efficiency in Consumption-Based Models of Exchange Rates" in International Economic Journal (1994) | 
