Newish (under review):
• “Capital Diversity: Gross FDI flows and tangible gains from financial integration when domestic and foreign capital are not perfect substitutes” (with Jacek Rothert and Alex McQuoid).
• “Fear and Loathing In the Classroom: Why Does Teacher Quality Matter?”. (with Alexander McQuoid, Ahmed Rahman, and Mike Insler).
Publications:
• "Why Do Peers Influence College Major Choice?". (with Mike Insler and Ahmed Rahman) Forthcoming Economic Inquiry.
• “Minding the gap: academic outcomes from pre-college programs” (with Phoebe Kotlikoff and Ahmed Rahman) Education Economics, Vol.30, Issue 1, 2021.
• “What can Islamic financing tell us about macroprudential policies?” Applied Economic Letters, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2019.
• “Does Nation Building Spur Economic Growth?” (with Ellyn Creasey and Ahmed Rahman) Economic Inquiry, Vol. 53, Issue 1, pages 660 − 680, January 2015.
• “Financial Globalization, Financial Crisis, and the External Capital Structure of Emerging Markets.” (with Enrique Mendoza) Scandinavian Journal of Economics., Volume 116, Issue 1, January 2014.
• “Product Differentiation and Consumer Surplus in the Microfinance Industry.” (with D. W. Chan, D. J. Glaser and Ahmed Rahman) B.E. Journal of Econ. Pol. & Anal., Volume 13, Issue 2, August 2013.
• “Nation Building and Economic Growth” (with Ellyn Creasey and Ahmed Rahman), American Economic Review P&P, volume 102(3), pp 278-82, May 2012.
• “Can Financing Constraints Explain Asset Pricing Puzzles in Production Economies?” International Economic Review, volume 52(3), pp.739-765, August 2011.
• “The Composition of Capital Flows When Emerging Market Firms Face Financing Constraints”, (with Diego Valderrama), Journal of Development Economics, volume 89(2), pp(223-234), July 2009.
• “Quantitative Implications of A Debt-Deflation Theory of Sudden Stops and Asset Prices”, (with Enrique Mendoza),Journal of International Economics, volume 70, pp. 82-114, September 2006.
• “Margins Calls, Trading Costs, and Asset Prices in Emerging Markets: The Financial mechanics of the Sudden Stop Phenomenon”,(with Enrique Mendoza) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper 9286.
• Smith, K. and George Sofianos (1997). “The Impact of NYSE Listing on the Global Trading of Non-U.S. Stocks”, (with George Sofianos) New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Working Paper 97-02.