| My
CV
| 2002-2004 |
Research Assistant,
Centre for European Constitutional Law, Athens, Greece. |
| 2004-present |
Research Assistant, Connecticut
Center for Economic Analysis, Storrs, CT. |
| Dec 2007- Jan 2008 |
Research Assistant, Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development: Research Assistant |
| June-July 2008 |
Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development: Research Assistant |
| 2005-present |
Teaching/Research Assistant,
Department of Economics, University of Connecticut. |
Completed Papers:
"Corruption and Growth Under Weak Identification,"
with Philip Shaw and Marius Jurgilas (Submitted at the Journal
of Applied Econometrics)
Abstract:
The goal of this paper is to revisit the influential work of Mauro
(1995) focusing on the strength of his results under weak identification.
He finds a negative impact of corruption on investment and economic
growth that appears to be robust to endogeneity when using two-stage
least squares (2SLS). Since the inception of Mauro (1995), much
literature has focused on 2SLS methods revealing the dangers of
estimation and thus inference under weak identification. We reproduce
the original results of Mauro (1995) with a high level of confidence
and show that the instrument used in the original work is in fact
"weak" as defined by Staiger and Stock (1997). Thus we
update the analysis using a test statistic robust to weak instruments.
Our results suggest that under Mauro's original model there is a
high probability that the parameters of interest are locally almost
unidentified in multivariate specifications. To address this problem,
we also investigate other instruments commonly used in the corruption
literature and obtain similar results.
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Working Papers:
"A Model of Choice: Food Consumption, Weight Preferences and Obesity Rates"
"The Macroeconomic Implications of the Health Care Cost of Obesity: Who is picking up the tab?"
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