I am an Associate Professor in the Public and Nonprofit Management program at the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. My research includes work on government finance and migration. Through the work on government finance, I seek to understand how state and local governments manage fiscal risk and navigate organizational, economic and political environments to achieve longer-term fiscal health while also maintaining service-level solvency. More broadly, I study how fiscal institutions and governance arrangements affect public sector financial performance. This work includes papers on public sector retirement systems, municipal financial condition, annexation, sustainability transitions, fiscal reserves, education finance and other topics. My past research on migration in post-Soviet economies has inspired more recent work on the fiscal implications of human migration in the U.S. At UT Dallas, I teach courses on fiscal and budgetary policy, public sector economics, statistics, research design, and public administration theory.
