Dr. Ricciardi has taught in the economics department, the Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua, and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Venezuela. His research interests include monetary economics, the history of economic thought, and Latin American economic development. He has worked as a research economist in Peru, Central America, and Venezuela, and he served as an adviser to the Central Bank of Nicaragua. During 1990-1991, Dr. Ricciardi conducted research as a William R. Dill International Faculty Fellow and Fulbright Scholar to Venezuela on the financial determinations of the emerging crisis in Venezuelan petroleum-led growth.
