I am an Associate Professor and Program Head 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 focuses on government finance and seeks to understand how state and local governments navigate organizational, economic and political environments to achieve longer-term fiscal sustainability while also maintaining service-level solvency and meeting community needs. I also study how fiscal institutions and governance arrangements affect public sector financial performance. This work includes papers on municipal financial condition, annexation, fiscal reserves, sustainability transitions, public sector retirement systems, education finance, and other topics. My past research on migration in post-Soviet economies has inspired more recent work on the fiscal implications of international 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.
