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Phone: (909) 607-2654
Campus Address: Bauer Center 309
Curriculum Vitae
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Office Hours
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Tuesday | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Thursday | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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Current Course Schedule
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PPE 110A CM | TTh- 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM BrC 33 | PPE 110B CM | TTh- 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM BrC 33 |
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Educational Background
B.S., University of Tampa; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Teaching Interests
- Politics Philosophy & Economics
Research Interests
- Macroeconomics, Political Economy, International Economics
Selected Professional Activities
- Research Associate at CREATE at USC [CREATE - National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events - is the first university center of excellence funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security]
- Associate Editor Journal of Applied Economics
Selected Research and Publications
- “Perspective Paper on Transnational Terrorism Policies for the 2008 Copenhagen Consensus,” forthcoming in Bjorn Lomborg, Ed. Global Crises, Global Solutions, (Cambridge).
- “A Gravity Model of Globalization, Democracy and Transnational Terrorism” In Gregory Hess (ed) Guns and Butter forthcoming, with Peter Rosendorff.
- "International Terrorism: Causes, Consequences and Cures," World Economy, February 2008, 255-274.
- “The Lexus and the Olive Branch”. In Keefer and Loayza (ed) Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness, (Cambridge) 2008, with Gregory Hess.
- “From (no) butter to guns? Understanding the economic role in terrorism.” In Keefer and Loayza (ed) Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness, (Cambridge) 2008, with Gregory Hess.
- “The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form”, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2007 with Stephen Sheppard.
- “How Much Does Violence Tax Trade”, Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2006 with Gregory Hess, 88, 599–612
- “On the Poverty-Conflict Nexus”, Economics and Politics, with Gregory Hess and Sidharth Thacker, March 2006, vol. 18, issue 3, pages 237-267.
- “Latin American Exchange Rate Regimes: Duration and Sustainability”, Journal of Applied Economics, S. Brock Blomberg, Jeff Frieden and Ernesto Stein, November 2005, 203-225.
- "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism: Journal of Monetary Economics ,
July 2004, Pages 1007-1032
- "Is the Political Business Cycle for Real?," with Gregory Hess, Journal of Public Economics, July 2003, pp. 1091-1121.
- "A Theory of Flexible Moderates and Rigid Extremists with An Application to the U.S. Congress," with Joseph Harrington, American Economic Review, 90 (2000), 605-620.
- "Economic Conditions and Terrorism," with Gregory Hess and Akila Weerapana, European Journal of Political Economy , June 2004, 463-478.
- "The Impact of Voter Initiatives on Economic Activity," with Gregory Hess and Akila Weerapana, European Journal of Political Economy , March 2004, 207-226.
- "The Temporal Links Between Conflict and Economic Activity," with Gregory Hess, Journal of Conflict Resolution, February 2002, pp. 74-90
- "Dumb and Dumber Explanations for Exchange Rate Dynamics," Journal of Applied Economics, 4 (2001), 187-216.
- "Modeling Political Change with a Regime-Switching Model," European Journal of Political Economy, 12 (2000), 739-62.
- "Lending Cycles", with Patrick Asea, Journal of Econometrics, 83 (1998), 89-128.
- "Politics and Exchange Rate Forecasts," with Gregory Hess, Journal of International Economics 43(1997), 189-205.
- "Growth, Political Instability and the Defence Burden," Economica, 63 (1996), 649-672.
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