WORK IN PROGRESS
My main interests are in the international political economy of investment and finance. My research agenda speaks to developing nations' policy flexibility given economic globalization, and the ways in which international market actors understand and manage resulting political risks. I am currently pursuing several streams of work.
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Foreign Investors and Nation-States
IPE of Sustainability
Variation in Sovereignty and (International) Political Economy
- "Exiting Russia." (with Boliang Zhu). Supported by the NSF, "Multinational Corporation Behavior in Time of War" ($126,000 RAPID award #2234189).
- "The Consequences of Non-State Actors as Decision-Makers in Wartime: Crimea, Expropriation, and International Economic Law." (with Clint Peinhardt)
- "The Limits of Foreign Investors' Leverage over Home States: Evidence from Investor-State Dispute Settlement (Non-)compliance." Supported by the project on Compliance Politics and International Investment Disputes, funded by the Research Council of Norway (Total award: NOK 12 million)
IPE of Sustainability
- Waste Not, Want Not: The Global South's Leverage in the Waste Trade."
- Garbage in International Economic Relations. (Book manuscript, in progress)
Variation in Sovereignty and (International) Political Economy
- “The Promise of Economic Integration: Evidence from the First Bank in an American Indian Nation.” (with Donn Feir and Calvin Thrall*) Under Review. (Previous version: Working paper, Center for Indian Country Development (CICD) at the Federal Reserve of Minneapolis, 2019.)
- "When Should American Indian Tribes Share Financial Data?" (with Donn Feir)