The William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance

My broader research interests lay in the interdisciplinary fields of political economy and financialization studies. At a high level, I am interested in questions related to the changing roles and functions of financial institutions in the modern economy, their forms of power, control, and influence, as well as their long-term impacts on non-financial firms, households, and the broader world-system. My research traces the historical transformation of the U.S. financial sector from being a lender to Main Street institutions to becoming their largest permanent owner. In my current work, I further explore what this change in corporate ownership structures means for how the broader U.S. economy is organized, including its impacts on the surging levels of wealth and income inequality. I am also interested in understanding how global financial markets sustain and at times challenge U.S. hegemony, as well as how U.S. fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policies have strengthened the position of finance capital globally.