Research

• RCJ Marcano Rivera. Towards Networked Varieties of Capitalism: Embracing Supply-side Complexity As a Post-pandemic Research Agenda. The New School Economic Review, vol. 13, pp. 45–67, 2025.

• RCJ Marcano Rivera. (2026). “Variedades enredadas de capitalismo: Acercamientos transdisciplinarios del temprano siglo XXI.” In Maribel Aponte García and Libia M. González López (Coords.), Antología de las ciencias sociales hoy: Puerto Rico, el Caribe y el mundo (pp. 581–627). Buenos Aires: CLACSO; San Juan: CIS.

• RCJ Marcano Rivera. The Question of Status in Puerto Rico Revisited: Rational Choice, Spatial Analysis, and Heresthetics. Journal of Political Inquiry at New York University, Spring 2014.

Draft articles available by request.

• RCJ Marcano Rivera. (In progress). Networked Varieties of Capitalism: Inferential Network Analysis of Regulatory Impacts on FIRE-to-Industrial Corporate Networks. Presented at INSNA Sunbelt 2025, Paris, France.
• RCJ Marcano Rivera, W.K. Winecoff & S. Bauerle Danzman. (In progress). Estimating the Value of Political-Business Connections. Presented at ISA 2022, Nashville, TN; ISA 2025 & MPSA 2025, Chicago, IL; CBS–Princeton Money in Politics Conference 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• RCJ Marcano Rivera & R. Santiago Bartolomei. (In progress). Housing Financialisation in Puerto Rico: Corporate Investors, LLC Networks, and Tax Incentives in San Juan's Housing Market. Presented at the 41.ª Asamblea Anual, Asociación de Economistas de Puerto Rico, October 2025; INSNA Sunbelt 2026, Daytona Beach, FL; SASE 2026, Bordeaux, France.
• RCJ Marcano Rivera & MS Parrales López. (In progress). From Caste to Capital: Colonial Legacies and the Formation of Contemporary Business Groups in Ecuador.
• RCJ Marcano Rivera. (Under review). Slave Trade and Political Development: Long-term causal effects on government effectiveness and stability. Presented at MPSA 2021, Chicago, IL.
• RCJ Marcano Rivera. (Under review). Racial Heterogeneity as a Determinant of Income Inequality in Latin America. Presented at MPSA 2016, Chicago, IL, and SPSA 2016, San Juan, PR.
• RCJ Marcano Rivera. (In progress). Regulatory Shifts and Financial Networks. Presented at PSA Early Career Researchers’ Workshop, King’s College London, UK (2023); MPSA 2024, Chicago, IL; INSNA Sunbelt 2024, Edinburgh, UK; SASE 2024, Limerick, Ireland.
• RCJ Marcano Rivera. (In progress). The Political Economy of Control. Presented at INSNA Sunbelt 2023, Portland, OR, and SASE 2023, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• RCJ Marcano Rivera. (In progress). The Japanese Keiretsu Network: Policy and Macroeconomic Responses in the 1990s. Presented at MPSA 2017, Chicago, IL.