education:

Ph.D., American University, 2004

professional experience

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004-present

research interests

Open economy macroeconomics, international trade, macroeconomics, and history of economic thought.

teaching

Open economy macroeconomics (graduate and undergradate)
International trade (graduate and undergradate)
Macroeconomics (undergraduate)

honors & awards

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences’ Small Instructional Grant
Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship
Hurst Scholar Award

grants

Political Economy Research Institute Research Grant

affiliations

American Economic Association
Eastern Economic s Association
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
Union of Radical Political Economists

presentations

Developing Country Exports of Manufactures, paper presented at a conference held in Geneva titled “Debt and Trade: Making Linkages for the Promotion of Development” sponsored by the UNCTAD and the South Centre in collaboration with the Center of Concern (CIDSE) and the Equitorial Guinea Investment Corporation, Sep. 13 2007.
Integration, Informalization, and Income, Inequality in Developing Countries, 2nd meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), Berlin, July 12-14 2007.
Analyzing Pakistan’s Economic Prospects in an Increasingly Integrated World: External Constraints on Sustainable Development. Inaugural Symposium on Pakistan organized by the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Singapore, May 24-25, 2007.
Pursuing Manufacturing-Based Export-Led Growth: Are Developing Countries Increasingly Crowding Each Other Out? Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, Chicago, January 2007.
Does the Fallacy of Composition Inhibit Export-Led Growth? Estimated Effects of Intra-Developing Competition on Output. Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, Boston, January 2006.

Selected publications

“Can the HOSS Framework Help Shed Light on the Simultaneous Growth of Inequality and Informalization in Developing Countries?” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (Review of World Economics), forthcoming.
“Does pleasing export-oriented foreign investors help your balance of payments? A general equilibrium analysis.” Oxford Economic Papers, forthcoming, 2008.
“The Fallacy of Composition and Contractionary Devaluations: Output Effects of Real Exchange Rate Shocks in Semi-Industrialised Countries,” (with Robert Blecker), Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32(1), January, 2008.
“Developing country exports of manufactures: moving up the ladder to escape the fallacy of composition?” (with Robert Blecker), Journal of Development Studies, 44(1), January, 2008.
“The Contractionary Short-Run Effects of Nominal Devaluation in Developing Countries: Some Neglected Nuances,” International Review of Applied Economics, forthcoming, 21(5), December, 2007.