Ongoing Research in Economics, Financial Systems & Expert Systems
My research spans three interconnected domains: economic systems analysis, quantitative financial modeling, and symbolic reasoning frameworks. Each study combines theoretical rigor with practical implementation, drawing from decades of experience in systems architecture and data analysis.
Click on any research area below to explore detailed methodologies, current findings, and practical applications. Each study represents months of investigation with real-world implications for policy, technology, and decision-making systems.
Comprehensive analysis of expert systems for legal and regulatory text interpretation combining deterministic reasoning with domain expertise. This research evaluates hierarchical document parsing, formal rule engines, and knowledge representation for precise rule following in legal applications.
Bridges the gap between academic research and production implementation for legal AI. Provides actionable framework selection criteria and architectural patterns for building reliable, auditable expert systems that handle complex regulatory text with mathematical precision.
Beyond Basic Rule Writing: While frameworks like New Zealand's Better Rules provide valuable entry-level methodologies for writing new legislation with Q-COE models (Questions, Considerations, Outcomes, Exceptions), the critical challenge lies in interpreting the vast corpus of existing legal and regulatory texts with hierarchical complexity.
Production Reality: Legal documents represent some of the most structurally complex text in human language. A single regulatory framework can span hundreds of pages with nested hierarchies that determine the precise scope and application of each rule. Traditional NLP approaches that flatten this structure lose critical contextual information.
Constitutional articles → Statutory chapters → Regulatory sections → Subsection rules. Each level fundamentally changes interpretation scope and legal weight.
Legal AI systems must provide mathematically reproducible decisions with complete audit trails, unlike probabilistic machine learning models.
Production systems handle millions of pages across jurisdictions, requiring enterprise-grade parsing with sub-second response times.
Rule consistency checking using mathematical tools like Alloy and Z3 prevents contradictory requirements in production deployment.
Comprehensive scientific analysis revealing fundamental flaws in multi-currency basket stablecoins and proposing evidence-based commodity frameworks for true purchasing power preservation. Mathematical modeling demonstrates how proposed SDR-like baskets create "average inflation coins" rather than stable value storage.
The proposed multi-currency basket would create 4.62% annual purchasing power erosion. Scientific analysis of global inflation hedging performance demonstrates that commodities provide 7% real return gains per 1% inflation surprise, while currency baskets converge toward collective debasement during hyperinflationary scenarios.
Mathematical Proof: Weighted Inflation Rate = Σ(Currency Weight × Inflation Rate) = (43.38% × 6.0%) + (29.31% × 4.0%) + (12.28% × 2.0%) + (7.59% × 3.0%) + (7.44% × 5.0%) = 4.62% annual purchasing power loss
Alternative Framework: Evidence-based analysis demonstrates true stability requires 70% commodity allocation targeting assets with empirically proven inflation hedging capabilities: industrial metals (25%), energy complex (20%), precious metals (15%), agriculture (10%), with limited fiat exposure (20%) and real assets (10%).
$254B stablecoin market facilitating $32T annually. USDT/USDC duopoly controls 88.5% through network effects, creating barriers for innovation.
Goldman Sachs analysis of five major inflationary episodes shows commodities gained 7% per 1% inflation surprise while stocks/bonds declined.
Proven oracle infrastructure through Chainlink and Truflation enables real-time inflation data and commodity pricing with cryptographic verification.
MiCA requirements and US fragmented approach create compliance complexity requiring $29M capital for viable enterprise-grade launch.
Developing comprehensive frameworks for building ontology-driven expert systems that can encode complex rule sets from games, legal standards, and regulatory compliance. This research focuses on creating deterministic, explainable AI systems that bridge symbolic reasoning with natural language interfaces.
Expert systems represent the future of trustworthy AI—deterministic, explainable, and auditable. Unlike black box models, these systems provide transparent reasoning chains essential for legal, medical, and regulatory applications.
Comprehensive economic analysis examining global sovereign debt patterns, sustainability metrics, and potential restructuring scenarios. This study combines macroeconomic theory with quantitative modeling to assess systemic risks and policy implications across major economies.
With global debt reaching unprecedented levels, understanding restructuring mechanisms and systemic risks is critical for policymakers, investors, and economists. This research provides data-driven insights into one of the most pressing challenges of our time.
Large-scale quantitative analysis of financial market data across multiple asset classes, exchanges, and timeframes. This research applies advanced statistical methods and machine learning techniques to identify patterns, inefficiencies, and algorithmic trading opportunities in complex financial systems.
Processing massive datasets reveals market microstructure patterns invisible to traditional analysis. This research combines decades of trading experience with cutting-edge data science to understand market behavior at scale.
All research is grounded in empirical data analysis, using statistical methods to validate hypotheses and ensure reproducible results.
Research includes working code implementations, allowing for verification, extension, and practical application of theoretical findings.
Combines insights from computer science, economics, mathematics, and domain expertise to address complex real-world problems.
Each study targets actionable insights that can inform policy decisions, system design, or investment strategies.
These research areas represent ongoing investigations with significant practical implications. I'm open to collaboration with academic institutions, policy organizations, and technology companies working on similar challenges.
Each study includes comprehensive documentation, reproducible methodologies, and open-source implementations where applicable. Contact me to discuss findings, methodologies, or potential collaboration opportunities.