Published Research

 “Le relazioni tra infrastrutture dei trasporti e produttività economica: una prospettiva dagli Stati Uniti” [Making Connections at the State and Regional Level between Infrastructure and Economic Productivity: A Perspective from the United States] with Mosi London and Sue McNeil in Le Politiche di Coesione Territoriale: un Confronto Tra Italia e Stati Uniti D’America, Conference proceedings (2016), Editor Matteo Mariani, Rubbettino, Naples, 2017.

"Systemic Failure in US Capital Markets: Lessons Not Learned," Athens Journal of Business and Economics 2(1), pp. 47-62 (2016).

“Using the Transportation Performance Index to Understand the Impact of Regional Plans,” Proceedings of the ASCE TD&I Congress, Orlando, June 2014, with Sue McNeil, Farzana Atique, and Ryan Burke (University of Delaware, Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation).

“Measuring the Immeasurable: Transportation Infrastructure Performance,” in Performance Measurement of Transportation Systems, Summary of Fourth International Conference, Conference Proceeding 49, Transportation Research Board of The National Academies, Washington, D.C. 2013, pp. 62-66.

“Capturing Transportation Infrastructure Performance: Data Availability, Needs and Challenges,” with Qiang Li, Sue McNeil, Taggart K. Foulke, Jonathan Calhoun, Michelle Oswald, Erik Kreh, and Michael Gallis, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2256, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2011, pp. 191–201.

“Measuring Infrastructure Performance: Development of a National Infrastructure Index” with Oswald, M., Li, Q., and McNeil, S., Public Works Management and Policy, 16(4), October 2011, pp. 373-394.

“Trade Settlement Failures in U.S. Bond Markets,” IUP Journal of Financial Economics 9(1), pp. 53-78 (2011).

“No Accounting for Corporate Governance,” Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, 5 (3), p. 417-424 (2009). 

“Financial innovation: Wall Street's false utopia” Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 5 (1), p. 108-111 (2009).

“Capital Markets: Challenges and Opportunities for the New World,” ICFAI Journal of Financial Economics (2004).

“Progress Report – Promoting Global Financial Development: Vive La Différence!” Progress in Development Studies 4(1), p. 65-76 (2004).

Capital Access Index: Governance and Growth: The European Challenge, (2003), with J. Barth, D. McCarthy, T. Phumiwasana and G. Yago, Policy Briefs (35), Milken Institute: Santa Monica, CA.

“Before the Enron Collapse : What Corporate CFOs Around the World Said About the Status of Accounting and Disclosure Practices," with J. Barth and G. Yago, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies 6(4), (2003).

“Institute View: Markets at the Frontier,” (Fourth Quarter 2003), with G. Yago, Milken Institute Review, Milken Institute; Santa Monica, CA.

"Financial Buyers in Takeovers: Focus on Cost Efficiency," with Halina Frydman and Roman Frydman, Managerial Finance, 28(12), p. 1-13, 2002.

Housing Affordability in Three Dimensions: Price, Income and Interest Rates, with Juan Montoya, Milken Institute Policy Brief, September 2002. 

A New Kind of Gold? Investment in Housing in Times of Economic Uncertainty, with Juan Montoya, Milken Institute Policy Brief, June 2002.

“Institute View: Global Financial Development,” (Second Quarter 2002), with J. Barth, and G. Yago, Milken Institute Review, Milken Institute; Santa Monica, CA.

“A Primer on Finance, Growth and Regulation,” with J. Barth, Proceedings of An International Conference on Regulation of Financial Intermediaries in Emerging Markets, hosted by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and ICICI Research Center (Mumbai, India, March 21, 2002).

Capital Access Index: Missing Markets – Global Barriers to Financing the Future, (2002), with Capital Studies staff, Policy Briefs, Milken Institute: Santa Monica, CA.

“Banking and Finance in Latin America,” International Encyclopedia of Business and Management Online, with J. Barth, C. Lee and G. Yago, (October 2001).

“Institute View: Changes across Time in Merger Activity,” (First Quarter 2001), Milken Institute Review, Milken Institute; Santa Monica, CA.

“Cost Inefficiency, Size of Firms and Takeovers,” (2001), with Halina Frydman and Roman Frydman, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 17(4), p. 397-420.

"Capital Access Index: Financial Repression and Capital Access," (2001), with G. Yago, T. Hall, and Juan Montoya, Policy Briefs (26), Milken Institute: Santa Monica, CA.

"High Yield Financing and Efficiency-Enhancing Takeovers," (2000), Policy Briefs (22), Milken Institute: Santa Monica, CA.

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