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Position: 
Senior Lecturer
Office Hours: 
N/A, R13, R - Room on the ground floor of the three storey building

Qualifications & Degree-Granting Institutions

• Ph.D. Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton, May 2008 Fields of Specialization: Econometrics, Macroeconomics Dissertation Title: "Model Misspecification: Theory and Applications"

 • M.A. Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton, May 2008

 • M.Phil. Mathematics, The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, July 2003 Field of Specialization: Matrix Analysis Dissertation Title: "Schur Multipliers and the Fourier Interpolation Problem"

 • B.Sc. Mathematics, The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, July 1998

Selected Publications

• "Determining the Number of Effective Parameters in Kernel Density Estimation" (joint with Christopher Parmeter, University of Miami), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, forthcoming.

• "Does a stronger system of Law and Order constrain the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Government Size?" (Joint with Michael Delgado, Purdue University, and Chanita Holmes, State University of New York at Binghamton), European Journal of Political Economy, (2018), 55, pp. 258-283.

• "Heterogeneous Symbiosis and Commensalism between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: A Semiparametric System of Simultaneous Equations Analysis with Instrumental Variables" (joint with Michael Delgado, Purdue University, and Subal Kumbhakar, State University of New York at Binghamton), Journal of Econometric Methods, (2018), vol. 7(1), pages 1-31, January.

• "Foreign Direct Investment and the Domestic Capital Stock: The Good-Bad Role of Higher Institutional Quality," (joint with Michael Delgado, Purdue University), Empirical Economics, (2017), 53(4), pp. 1587-1637.

• "A Generalized Growth Model of Corruption, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth," (joint with Michael Delgado, Purdue University, and Subal Kumbhakar, State University of New York at Binghamton), Journal of Macroeconomics, (2014), Vol. 42, pp. 298-316.

• "Institutions, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: A Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis," (joint with Subal Kumbhakar, State University of New York at Binghamton), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, (2012), Vol. 175, pp. 83-105.

• "Testing the Structure of Conditional Correlations in Multivariate GARCH Models: A Generalized Cross-Spectrum Approach," (joint with Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University), International Economic Review, (2011), Vol. 52 (4), pp. 991-1037.

Papers in Submission

• "Domestic Interest Rates and Foreign Direct Investment under Institutional Uncertainty" (joint with Michael Delgado, Purdue University)

• "Calculating Degrees of Freedom in Multivariate Local Polynomial Regression" (joint with Christopher Parmeter, University of Miami)

Group and Societies

• Member of the Editorial Board for Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2019 - present

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