Teaching

I have taught various courses at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Trinity College, Bowdoin College, and the American University.

Courses I have taught:
Undergraduate Classes: Advanced Macroeconomics, Introductory Macroeconomics, Contemporary Macroeconomic Issues, Macroeconomic Theory, International Trade, Theories of Economic Growth, and Money and Financial Institutions,

Graduate Classes: Applied Macroeconomics, and International Political Economy

Senior Honors Thesis Supervision (at Trinity):
Yuan Mei (supervision jointly with Mark Setterfield), August 2011- May 2012 -Winner of Ferguson Prize in Economics for the best senior honors thesis.
Thesis Title: U.S. Consumption Function for the Unite States- An Empirical Test of the Life-Cycle Hypothesis.

Senior Honors Thesis Supervision (at UMB):
Anthony Castaldi, August-December 2019
Thesis Title: The Federal Reserve’s Limited Options: An Analysis of Monetary Policy in the 2008 Recession

Master Thesis and Capston Supervision (at UMB):                                                                      Ethan Schein, September 2015- May 2016 Thesis Title:  Supply Side Reform and Growth in the US.                                                                                                                                                              Nicholas Avola, September 2018- May 2019 Thesis Title: Income and Happiness: The Role of Financial Development as a Factor of Aggregate Average Happiness                                             Steven Clayton, September 2021-May 2022, Thesis Title: Household Debt and the Business Cycle

Visiting PhD Students:                                                                                                                            Martius Bettina, University of Szeged, Hungary, May 2015                                                       Giacomo Rella, University of Siena, Italy, February-September 2020                                               Mohib Ali, University of Siena, Italy, March-July 2022

PH.D. Dissertation:                                                                                                                                     Committee member, Michael Cauvel, American University, Washington, DC, 2016-2018                  Thesis Title: Three Essays on the Empirical Estimation of Wage-led and Profit-led Demand Regimes