Department

• Economics and Finance

Position

• Assistant Professor

• Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• Money and the Financial System

• PhD Economics 2014- Suffolk University- Boston, MA. Dissertation: An Economic Analysis of Recovery from Civil Conflict
• MS Economics 2012- Suffolk University, Boston, MA.
• BA Economics 2009- Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI- Minors: Finance, Political Science

Articles

• Post-Genocide Justice: The Gacaca Courts, Development Policy Review, 2018
• Banking regulation regulatory capture and inequality, Public Choice, 2018
• Exogenous Resource Shocks and Economic Freedom , Comparative Economic Studies, 59(3), 243-260, 2017
• Do Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Conflicts?  , Contemporary Economic Policy, 35(3), 532-541, 2017
• Civil War and Economic Growth: The Case for a Closer Look at Forms of Monilization , Applied Economics Letters, 23 Issue 15, 1057-1061, 2016
• War and Growth of Government , European Journal of Political Economy, 40, 31-41, 2015
• Household Recovery from Internal Displacement in Northern Uganda, World Development, 76, 203-215, 2015
• Firm Investment Decisions in Post-Conflict Context, Economics of Transition, 23-4, 717-751, 2015
• Institutions and Investment in Post Civil War Recovery , Comparative Economic Studies, 56-1, 1-24, 2014
• (Working Paper) Post-Conflict Convergence with Productivity-Augmenting Institutions 
• Applying Panel Vector Autoregression to Institutions, Human Capital, and Output, Empirical Economics
• (Working Paper) Oil Rents and State Economic Policy 
• (Working Paper) Can War Foster Institutional Change?
• Private Capital Stocks in the Eastern Bloc, Econ Journal Watch

Presentations

• Christopher Newport University (April 2018)
  Presented: Top Down or Bottom Up? Which Institutions Matter for Economic Development?, 2018
• Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference (April 2018)
  Presented: Civil War and Institutional Change
  Presented: Assessing the Economic Way of Thinking, 2018
• Eastern Economic Association Conference (March 2018)
  Presented: Civil War and Institutional Change, 2018
• Southern Economic Association (November 2017)
  Presented: Oil Rents and State Economic Policy, 2017
• Emerson College (October 2017) 
  Presented: F.A. Hayek’s Modern Legacy, 2017

Research and Scholarship Interests

• Economic Development, Political Economy, Economic Growth, Post-Conflict Recovery