Fields of Specialization:

International Economics; Political Economy; Macroeconomics; Development Economics; Financial Economics; Economics of Transition; Urban Economics; Applied Econometrics 

Education:

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, Economics

M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, Economics

Master, Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Venezuela, Economics

Specialist, Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, Venezuela, Economic Policy

B.S., Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela, Mathematics 

Recent Research:

[For complete list, please see CV [2]] 

The OPEC Cartel and the Macroeconomics of Oil: Can Oil fuel the Engine of Economic Development? International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, 187-199 (with Rowena Pecchenino).

Barter, Credit and Welfare: A Theoretical Inqury into the Barter Phenomenon in Russia, Economics of Transition 14, 2006 (with Susan Linz).

Multiple Markets and Spatial Agglomeration in a One Shopping Trip Model, Papers in Regional Science 84, 2005.

Financial Fragility in Eastern Europe, Chapter 5 in Convergence in the Enlarged European Union, Serena Giusti and Lucia Tajoli, eds., Egea, 2003.