Economics

Talks on the Economy, Market, Politics and Organizations (TEMPO) is an interdisciplinary workshop of faculty and graduate students devoted to the development of empirical work exploring the global and/or comparative dimension of “the economic” in social life.

This project looks at the evolution of economic discourse in post-WWII Italy, with a specific focus on the annual reports authored and delivered to the public by the Italian Central Bank.

My dissertation focuses on cultural production in the aftermath of the global 2008 social and financial crisis in Spain.

The series provides a venue for faculty and students to interact and discuss cutting-edge empirical work in global development.

The air pollution in Nepal and specifically in the capital, Kathmandu, has been described as one of the worst in the world.

The MESALC Spring Symposium Envisioning 21st Century Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies( April 6 & 7, 2018) looks to define the contours of possibility for revitalized Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies.

An invited lecture series in the Spring of 2018, "Expulsion-Extraction-Extinction," will host speakers who work on intersectional issues of global economic, racial, and environmental justice today.

I estimate the contribution of vertical linkage (the linkage between input suppliers and output producers) in the spatial agglomeration of industries by studying the location patterns of Information Technology (IT) firms and Technical Colleges that supply workers to these firms.

By how much could countries raise their income per capita by adopting regulations that enhance competition between firms?

Housing is a central economic ($33 trillion in US housing wealth) and social (how do I make my mortgage?) issue, yet the politics of housing are understudied.