Scholarly Articles in Refereed Journals

2007. (with Mayuresh Kshetramade, Pryanka Murthy, and Sofia Ayala.) Does It Matter Where IT Workers are Located?  Environment and Planning C. Forthcoming.

2006. (with Sofia Ayala.) High-technology agglomerations and gender inequality. Submitted to Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Association.

2006. (with Sofia Ayala.) High-tech agglomerations and the new urban inequality. Submitted to Papers in Regional Sciences.

2006. (with Sofia Ayala.) Do high-tech industries offer better opportunities for women in management? Submitted to Management Revue.

2005.    "The Effects of NAFTA on Global Sourcing." Journal of International Business Education 1(2): 1-20.

2001. (With Alejandro Somuano.) Do innovations lead to exports? A case study of high-technology firms in Texas. Southwestern Journal of Economics 4: 192-216.

Keynote speaker

"Una Visión desde el Norte Sobre La Enseñanza de la Planificación Urbana en Latinoamérica," [A Vision from the North on Teaching Urban Planning in Latin America]. Symposium organized by the Red Iberoamerica de Investigadores sobre Globalización y Territorio (RII) [Iberoamerican Network of Researchers of Globalization and Territory], Universidad Autónoma Del Estado de México, Toluca. September 19-21, 2005.

Bringing home the economic benefits of CAFTA. Invited keynote speaker at Free Trade with Central America and the : Business Opportunities for Houston and South Texas, a conference organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Houston Partnership, Houston,Texas, August 9, 2004.


Books Edited and Reviewed

Review of Innovative Cities (J. Simmie, ed., London: Spon Press, 2001. Regional Studies 36, 9: 1100-1101.

Chapters in Books

2006. Mujeres Decididas--Women entrepreneurs in the Americas. Global Economics: New Research.  Nova Science Publishers.  Forthcoming.

2006. (with Daniela Brandazza and Cecilia Giusti.) Free Trade and Women in Business: Women Organizations Can Make a Difference. Trends in International Trade Issues.  New York : Nova Science Publishers.

Other Research Publications

2005. "Labor Pains--Low Wage Competition from China and the Rise of Leftist Populism Cast a Pall Over Mexico's Economic Future." Worth Magazine. 14(10): 34-36.

2004. (With Sofia G. Ayala.) Economic growth and linkage with Silicon Valley--the cases of Austin and Boston. Texas Business Review (December). Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin.

Work in Progress

Developing Knowledge-Based Industries in Moncton: A project funded by the City of Moncton to identify high-tech-growth opportunities in this metropolitan area. 

Income Inequalities Across Metropolitan Areas: A project funded by the National Science Foundation to study wage inequalities by class, gender, and race across metropolitan areas.

Female Entrepreneurs in the and Five Major Countries in Latin America: A comparative study of factors that lead Hispanic women to emerge as entrepreneurs in the and in the five most populous countries in Latin America.

Austin Index: A series of social, environmental, and economic indicators that compare Austin to Silicon Valley, Boston/Route 128, Research Triangle, and the four largest metropolitan areas in Texas.