Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1976
• B.A., Economics, Amherst College, Magna Cum Laude, 1968

Teaching Interests:

• Macroeconomics
• Comparative Economic Systems
• Economics of Transition

Activities and Honors:

• Editor, Comparative Economic Studies, 2001 -
• Board, Council of Euro-Asian and Eastern European Research, 2000-
• Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Economics, 1996-1999.
• Honor Society Membership, Phi Beta Kappa
• Grants: National Research Council, National Science Foundation, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. - Israeli Bi-national Science Foundation, William Davidson Foundation

Recent Publications:

• "On the Role of Government in Transition: The Experience of China and Russia Compared," (with Stoyan Tenev), Comparative Economic Systems, Vol. 49, pp. 543-571, 2007.
• "Comment on Gur Ofer and Justin Yifu Lin," pp. 84-88 in  Francois Bourguignon, Yehuda Elkana, and Boris Pleskovic (eds.) Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research, World Bank, 2007.
• “Contract Enforcement in the Early Transition of an Unstable Economy” (with Kenneth Koford), Economic Systems ,March, 2006.
• “State and Ownership Reforms in Transition Economies: China vs. the Orthodoxy.” (with Stoyan Tenev) in Wojciech Bienkowski, Mariusz-Jan Radlo and Josef Brada (eds), Reagan Goes Global, Palgrave (2006).
• "Inflation and the Bulgarian Currency Board," (with Stacie Beck and Mohsen Saad), International Journal of Development Issues, December, 2005.
• "Macroeconomic Policy and Collective Action" (with Kenneth Koford and David Colander), in Collective Choice:  Essays in honor of Mancur Olson, edited by Jac Heckelman and Dennis Coates, Springer, 2003.
• "The Bulgarian Banking System," (with G. Caporale, K. Hristov, N. Nenovsky and B. Petrov)  in Z. Sevic, ed., Bank Reform in South-East Europe, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2003.
• "The Economy (of Bulgaria)" in Central and South-Eastern Europe 2003 3rd edition, Europa Publications London, 2002.
•  "The Bulgarian Currency Board," Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. XLIII No.1 Spring  2001 p. 53-74.