EDUCATION & FIELDS
- 1975 B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Urban Studies (Phi Beta Kappa)
- 1977 M.P.A., Maxwell School , Syracuse University, Public
Budgeting
- 1983 M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Economics
- 1987 Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst , Economics
- FIELDS: Money and Banking; Political Economy; Urban Economics; Macroeconomics
HONORS
- 2003 Certificate of Appreciation, For Sisters Only Student Association, UC Riverside
- 2002 Lifetime Honorary Membership, Golden Key Society, UC Riverside Chapter
- 2000 Professor of the Year, UC Riverside Honors Program
- 1990 Omicron Delta Epsilon Award for Excellence in Teaching, USC
- 1985 - 86 Leo Model Research Fellowship, The Brookings Institution
- 1983 - 84 University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 2003-08 Director, University of California Center in Sacramento
- 2003 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
- 2001-02 Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Humanities , Arts, and Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside
- 2001-05 Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside
- 2001, 2003 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
- 2000 Visiting Scholar, Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 1995 - 2000 Associate Professor of Economics, University of California , Riverside
- 1991 - 95 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California , Riverside
- 1992 Visiting Lecturer, Bangladesh Institute for Development Studies, Dhaka
NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
- 1979 - 81 Staff Director and Fiscal Advisor, Democratic Caucus, Indiana State Senate
- 1977 - 79 Economic Analyst, Legal Services Organization of Indiana , Indianapolis , Indiana
- 1975 - 77 Senior Research Analyst, Office of Institutional Research, Syracuse University
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
- Executive Committee, Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California, 1999-2003.
- Member, Steering Committee, California Policy Research Center, 2003-present.
- Editorial Board member: International Review of Applied Economics,1993-present; GeoForum, 1995-present; Econômica, Universidad Federal Fluminense, 2006-present; Journal of Economic Issues, 2001-2004.
- Board of Advisors, Problemas del Desarrollo, Revista Latinoamericana de Economía, Institute for Economics Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. 2000-present.
- Member, Engendering Macroeconomics working group, UNDP, 1997-2004.
- Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute, Washington DC, 1993-present.
RECENT GRANTS & CONTRACTS
- 2007 Principal Investigator, UC Mexus mini-grant in support of the workshop, “From Redlining and Discrimination to Ethnic Banks and Remittances? A Workshop on Financial Processes & Urban Inequality,” University of California Center Sacramento, July 9-13, 2007
- 2006-2007 Co-Principal Investigator, with Peter Cowhey, Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict, UC San Diego, “Governmental Official Training in California Homeland Security”
- 2006 Principal Investigator with the Center for California Native Nations, UCR, “Securing Sovereignty: Building A Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians: A Holistic Approach – Phase I. April 2006-October 2006.
- 2006 Principal Investigator and Organizer, “Brazil: The Promise and the Crisis -- A Rio-Riverside Dialogue and Conference,” Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside
- 2005-2006 Researcher, United Nations Development Program
- 2002-2003 Director, Planning Grant to establish the Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development, University of California, Riverside (Founding gift received, March 2003)
- 1998-2002 Lead researcher, HUBZones Program, Small Business Administration
- 1999-2003 Campus director, American Economic Association Minority Pipeline Project, MacArthur Fdn.
- 1996 - 2001 Grants from Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California , and the Center for Global Partnership, Japan Foundation, for a collaborative comparative study of housing finance, globalization, and the social contract in Japan, South Korea, and the US
BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES
Author, The Bank Merger Wave: The Economic Causes and Social Consequences of Financial Consolidation in the United States . M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk NY . June 1999. [Japanese translation coordinated by Shinya Imura and Akira Matsumoto, Nihon-Keizai-Hyoron-Sha Publishers, Tokyo, 2004.]
Co-Editor with Gerald Epstein and Robert Pollin of Transforming the U.S. Financial System: An Equitable and Efficient Structure for the 21st Century . M.E. Sharpe, Inc. October 1993. [Japanese edition published, 2001. Translated by Harada Yoshinara.]
Co‑Editor with Bob Pollin, New Directions in Monetary Macroeconomics: Essays in the Tradition of Hyman P. Minsky. University of Michigan Press. Published in April 1994. [Japanese translation published, April 2004, Koyo Shobo, Kyoto . Translation by Hirofumi Ueda, Hiroshi Fujii, and Sadayoshi Takaya.]
Co-Editor with Dorene Isenberg, Seeking Shelter on the Pacific Rim : Financial Globalization, Social Change, and the Housing Market . Armonk , NY : M.E. Sharpe, December 2001.
Co-Editor with Silvana De Paula, Reimagining Growth: Toward a Renewal of Development Theory. London : Zed Press, August 2005.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Financial Transformation and the Metropolis: Booms, Busts, and Banking in Los Angeles ,” with John Veitch, Environment and Planning A. 28(7), July 1996. Pp. 1233-1260.
“On Krugman’s Model of Economic Geography,” Geoforum 27(4), November 1996. Pp. 439-452.
“Business Strategy and Access to Capital in the Inner City,” Review of Black Political Economy 24(2-3): Winter 1996. Pp. 51-65.
“Disembodied Risk or the Social Construction of Creditworthiness?” in New Keynesian Economics/Post Keynesian Alternatives. Ed. by Roy Rotheim. Routledge, 1998. Pp. 241-261.
“Can Global Neoliberalism Survive Victory in Asia ? The Political Economy of the Korean Crisis,” with James Crotty. International Papers in Political Economy, 1998(2).
“Access to Capital and Inner-City Revitalization: Urban Policy after Proposition 209,” in Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America, edited by Ray Marshall. Armonk , NY : M.E. Sharpe, 2000. Pages 374-86.
“Credit and Banking Structure: Insights from Asian and African-American Experience in Los Angeles ,” with Lisa Mohanty, American Economic ReviewPapers and Proceedings, May 1999.
“Illegal-Seizure and Market-Disadvantage Approaches to Restitution: A Comparison of the Japanese American and African American Cases,” Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 27(3), Winter 2000, 47-78.
“Banking on Social Capital in the Era of Globalization: Chinese Ethnobanks in Los Angeles,” with Wei Li, Yu Zhou, and Maria Chee, Environment and Planning A. Vol. 33, 2001, pp. 1923-48.
“The Global Bank Merger Wave: Implications for Developing Countries,” The Developing Economies. Special Issue on “ M&A and Privatization in Developing Countries - Changing Ownership Structure and its Impact on Economic Performance,” 40(4), December 2002. Pp. 435-66.
“Financial Globalization and Cross-Border Co-Movements of Money and Population: Foreign Bank Offices in Los Angeles ,” with Wei Li, Environment and Planning A 2004, 36(2), February 2004, pp. 213-40.
“Using Remittances to Finance Development in Mexico: The Implications of Banking Transformation,” in Migración Internacional y Remesas en México, Ed. by Jerjes Aguirre Ochoa and Oscar Hugo Pedraza Rendón, Morelia, Michoacan, México: Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales, 2004. pp. 51-82.
“Financial Globalization, Social Exclusion, and Financial Crisis,” International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 19(4), October 2005.
“Discrimination in the Credit and Housing Markets: Findings and Challenges,” in Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination, Ed. by William Rodgers. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006. Pp. 215-259.
“Banking and Financial Crises,” in Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics, Ed. by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Edward Elgar, 2006), pp. 385-402.
“Exclusão e Eficiência: A Transformação Global do Core Banking, um Estudo de Caso sobre o Brasil,” Chapter 11 in Eficiência Do Sistema Financeiro: Avaliando A Funcionalidade Do Setor Bancário Brasileiro, edited by Luiz Fernando de Paula e José Luís Oreiro. Sao Paulo: Editora Campus/Elsevier.
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