Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1987
• B.S., Economics, Boston College, MA, 1979

Teaching Interests:

• Monetary Theory and Macroeconomics
• International Economics
• Financial Economics

Recent Publications:

• "Tax Effects on the Real Exchange Rate," (with Cagay Coskuner), Review of International Economics, Vol. 15(5),pp. 854-768, 2007.
• "The Cost of Financial Capital- Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Matter? Evidence from Selected Caribbean Countries,"( with Joseph Carlton Augustine), International Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 83-100, 2005.
• "Money as Real Options in a Cash-in-Advance Economy,"  (with David R. Stockman) Economics Letters, Vol. 87, pp. 337-345, 2005.
“Inflation and the Bulgarian Currency Board,” (with Jeffrey Miller and Mohsen Saad), International Journal of Development Issues, December 2005.
• Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Commodities Prices," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16:15-132, 2001.