My original line of research is in International Finance and Open–Economy Macroeconomics, using time–series data. Most of my research is listed on RePEc and on Google Scholar.
Many of my publications are in the areas of exchange-market pressure, credit growth, commodity prices, and macroeconomic volatility. I have specialized knowledge of Central Europe and the Baltics, having studied the region's history, geography, politics, and environmental issues in Wisconsin and Latvia. I work closely with faculty from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), and have lectured at the University of Warsaw and Riga Technical University. I have a decent working knowledge of Russian, Latvian, Polish, and other regional languages, but probably speak better Spanish. I actively referee dozens of papers per year; serve as Co-Editor of Economic Change and Restructuring, a Springer Journal; and am on the Editorial Boards on a number of journals, including Poland's Journal of Economics and Management.
Having lived and worked in the cities of Buffalo, Chicago, and Milwaukee, I also examine urban and regional issues––particularly in the so–called “Rust Belt.” I completed graduate coursework in urban geography and Geographic Information Science (GIS) at UW–Milwaukee and NEIU, and conduct spatial and econometric analysis using R, QGIS, and ArcGIS.
My main areas of focus currently include mapping, analyzing, and visualizing “banking deserts” and urban poverty, and I have published in a number of urban- and regional-science-focused journals. While I am trained in all aspects of GIS, including cartographic principles, I specialize in quantitative geospatial analysis. I also have a diverse "toolkit" of standard and novel statistical methods in all areas of economics and other social sciences, which I am constantly expanding through frequent collaborations with coauthors worldwide.
Files for my tutorials on spatial statistics are available at github.com/hegerty/SpatialExamples, I have a few visualizations up on Tableau, and some of my conference papers are available on arXiv.org.
Some Preliminary Results and Conference Presentations:
"Are U.S. Cities As Segregated As Their Metros? An Application of Isolation Gradients" (2025)
“Energy Prices, Interest Rates, and Domestic Credit in the 11 Central European EU Member States” (2024)
"Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy: Evidence from Major U.S. Cities" (2023)
“The Spatial Distribution of Housing (Un)affordability: Evidence from U.S. Urban Areas” (2018)
“Childcare Availability and Employment: Evidence From Milwaukee County” (2016)
"Cross-Border State (and Provincial) Integration: A Comparison of Buffalo and Detroit" (2013)