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Publications:          

I. Monetary Policy, Macroeconomics and International Macroeconomics.

  Stationary Properties of the Real Interest Rate and the per-capita Consumption
  Growth Rate: Empirical Evidence for Theoretical Arguments
with Claude Lopez.
 Applied Economics, 41(3), pp. 1643 - 1651,  
  2009.

International Reserve Holdings: Interest Rates Matter! 
with Chris Ball (Quinnipiac University).
Applied Economics Letters, 16(4), pp. 343 – 348, 2009.

Inflation Targeting or Fear of Floating in Disguise? A Broader Perspective
with Chris Ball (Quinnipiac University). Journal of Macroeconomics, 30(1), pp. 308 - 326, 2008 (accepted August 2006 available online March 28th 2007)

Exchange Rate Pass-through Effect and Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies: What is the Relationship?
            Review of International Economics, 15(3) pp. 538 - 559, 2007.

Inflation Targeting or Fear of Floating in Disguise? Mexico’s Post-Tequila Monetary Policy
            
with Chris Ball (Quinnipiac University).
International Journal of Finance and Economics,9(1), pp. 49 – 69, 2004.

Inflation Targeting in Emerging Countries: Modeling the Exchange Rate Issues?
Journal of Business and Economics Research, 2004, Vol. 1, Number 4, pp. 61 – 74.

 

II. International Economic Integration

“The World-Trade Web: Topological Properties, Dynamics and Evolution” with Giorgio Fagiolo and Stefano Schiavo. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E. (accepted 2009).

“International Trade and Financial Integration: A Weighted Network Analysis” with Giorgio Fagiolo and Stefano Schiavo. Accepted for publication in Quantitative Finance. (accepted 2009).

 “Using Complex Networks Analysis to Assess the Evolution of International Economic Integration: the Cases of East Asia and Latin America” with Giorgio Fagiolo and Stefano Schiavo. Accepted for publication in the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (accepted October 2008).

Financial Contagion on the International Trade Network with Raja Kali. Accepted for publication in Economic Inquiry (accepted August 2008)

The International Economic Order and Trade Architecture with Martina Garcia and Ralph Lattimore. Spatial Economic Analysis  4(1), pp. 73 - 102, 2009.

 Assessing the Evolution of International Economic Integration using Random Walk Betweenness
 Centrality: The Cases of East Asia and Latin America”
with Giorgio Fagiolo and Stefano Schiavo. Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 685-702, 2008.

          On the Topological Properties of the World Trade Web: A Weighted Network Analysis
         
with Giorgio Fagiolo and Stefano Schiavo. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 387, Issue 15, pp. 3868-
          3873, 2008.

          Trade Structure & Economic Growth
         
with Raja Kali and Fabio Mendez.  Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 16 (2) pp. 245 - 269, 2007.

          The Architecture of Globalization: A Network Approach to International Economic Integration
         
with Raja Kali.  Journal of International Business Studies, 38 pp. 595 - 620, 2007.

 

III. Experimental Economics and Risk

           Risk Attitudes in Large Stake Gambles: Evidence from a Game Show
           
with Cary Deck and Jungmin Lee.  Applied Economics, 40(1), pp. 41 -52, 2008. 

           An Experimental Investigation of Moral Hazard in Costly Investments

           with Cary Deck.  Southern Economic Journal, 74(3) pp. 725 - 746, 2008.

 

  Non-Refereed and Invited Publications:

“Inflation Targeting and Trade Deficits: Thoughts for the Visegrad Four” with Christopher P. Ball. Nova Science Publishers. USA. Forthcoming in Inflation: Roles, Targeting, and Dynamics [Chapter 2:] Edited by: Bentley, D. T., Nelson, E. P. (Invited to submit manuscript) 

“The BRIICS and Changes in the Global Trade Architecture” with Ralph Lattimore and Martina Garcia. Forthcoming in a special volume edited by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for the 2008 OECD Global Forum of Trade.

Dynamics and Evolution of the International Trade Network, with Giorgio Fagiol and Stefano Schiavo, in: Fortunato, S., Mangioni, G., Mezenes, R. and Nicosia, V. (Eds.), Complex Networks, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Vol. 207, pp. 1-14, 2009.

 

    Working Papers: 

“Announcement Effects in Emerging Market Inflation Targeting Regimes” with Christopher P. Ball. (under review)

“Remittances, Inflation and Exchange Rate Regimes in Small Open Economies” with Christopher P. Ball, Martha Cruz-Zuniga, and Claude Lopez. (under review)

“Measuring Risk Attitudes Controlling for Personality Traits” with Cary Deck, Christopher Rosen and Jungmin Lee. (under review) (related materials

“Preferential Trade Agreements and the Pattern of Trade: A Networks Approach” with Rossitza Wooster and Stuart Shirrell. (under review)

“Stock Market Synchronicity and the Global Trade Network: A Random-Walk Approach” with Raja Kali and Amat Adarov.

“Growth Networks” with Raja Kali, Josh McGee, and Stuart Shirrell.

 

    Work in Progress      

         “Real Business Cycles and Remittances to Emerging Markets” with Christopher P. Ball.

         “Preferences of Monetary Policy Makers in Emerging Economies using a DSGE Model: de Jure and de Facto” with Christopher P. Ball.

   

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