[3] She has been identified as a prolific scholar in terms of number of publications in the top 45 high-impact business journals in 2010 and 2005–2015.

[8][9] Her best known book is Taxing Multinationals: Transfer Pricing and Corporate Income Taxation in North America,[10] published in 1998 by the University of Toronto Press.

She was a student of and wrote her PhD dissertation - titled, "A Microeconomic Theory of Multinational Behavior Under Trade Barriers" - under noted economist, Carl Shoup when he arrived at Dalhousie University's Economics department in the capacity of a Senior Killam Fellow in 1974 after retiring from Columbia University.

[13] Her 1991 edited book, Retrospectives on Public Finance,[14] was a collection of essays, which were presented at a conference in Ottawa in I989 in honor of Dr. Carl Shoup.

[20] In 2001, she helped the US Bureau of Labor Statistics in redesigning the US import and export price indexes; this was done to more precisely represent the intra-firm transactions of multinational enterprises.

She is a member of SODRAC[42] and holds the copyrights to her father Garnet (Gary) Boyd's sheet music and song lyrics.