Readings

Background and Theoretical Orientation

Basic Economics of Trade Slides (PDF)

Frankel, Jeffrey. "Globalization of the Economy." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 45–71. ISBN: 9780815764076. [Preview with Google Books]

Frieden, Jeffry, and Lisa Martin. "International Political Economy: The State of the Sub–Discipline." In Political Science: The State of the Discipline, Centennial Edition. Edited by Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. ISBN: 9780393051421.

Garrett, Geoffrey. "The Causes of Globalization." Comparative Political Studies 33, no. 6-7 (2000): 941–92.

Milner, Helen. "The Political Economy of International Trade." Annual Review of Political Science 2, no. 1 (1999): 91–114.

Frieden, Jeffry A. Prologue and chapters 1–5 in Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. ISBN: 9780393058086.

Rogowski, Ronald. "Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade." The American Political Science Review 81, no. 4 (1987): 1121–37. (PDF - 2.1MB)

Magee, Stephen P., William A. Brock, and Leslie Young. "Three Simple Tests of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem." In Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Policy Theory: Political Economy in General Equilibrium. Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 101–10. ISBN: 9780521377003.

Hiscox, Michael J. "Commerce, Coalitions, and Factor Mobility: Evidence from Congressional Votes on Trade Legislation." The American Political Science Review 96, no. 3 (2002): 593–608.

Hays, Jude, Sean Ehrlich, and Clint Peinhardt. "Government Spending and Public Support for Trade in the OECD: An Empirical Test of the Embedded Liberalism Thesis." International Organization 59, no. 2 (2005): 473–94.

Scheve, Kenneth F., and Matthew J. Slaughter. "What Determines Individual Trade–Policy Preferences?" Journal of International Economics 54, no. 2 (2001): 267–92.

Mansfield, Edward, and Diana Mutz. "Support for Free Trade: Self–Interest, Sociotropic Politics, and Out–Group Anxiety." International Organization 63, no. 3 (2009): 425–57.

Broz, J. Lawrence. "Political System Transparency and Monetary Commitment Regimes." International Organization 56, no. 4 (2002): 861–87.

Bearce, David. "Societal Principals, Partisan Agents, and Monetary Policy Outcomes." International Organization 57, no. 2 (2003): 373–410.

Bernhard, William, and David Leblang. "Democratic Institutions and Exchange–Rate Commitments." International Organization 53, no. 1 (1999): 71–97.

Singer, David Andrew. "Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes in the Developing World." The American Political Science Review 104, no. 2 (2010): 307–23.

Broz, J. Lawrence, Jeffry Frieden, et al. "Exchange Rate Policy Attitudes: Direct Evidence from Survey Data." IMF Staff Papers 55, no. 3 (2008): 417–44.

Chang, Roberto. "Understanding Recent Crises in Emerging Markets." Economic Review 84, no. 2 (1999): 6–16.

Frieden, Jeffry A. "International Investment and Colonial Control: A New Interpretation." International Organization 48, no. 4 (1994): 559–93.

Jensen, Nathan. "Democratic Governance and Multinational Corporations: Political Regimes and Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment." International Organization 57, no. 3 (2003): 587–616.

Li, Quan, and A. Resnick. "Reversal of Fortunes: Democratic Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Developing Countries." International Organization 57, no. 1 (2003): 175–211.

Scheve, Kenneth, and Matthew J. Slaughter. "Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production." American Journal of Political Science 48, no. 4 (2004): 662–74.

Kobrin, Stephen J. "Testing the Bargaining Hypothesis in the Manufacturing Sector in Developing Countries." International Organization 41, no. 4 (1987): 609–38.

Additional Readings on International Monetary and Financial Relations

Helleiner, Eric. States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s (Cornell Studies in Political Economy). Cornell University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780801428593.

Frankel, Jeffrey A. No Single Currency Regime Is Right for All Countries or at All Times (Essays in International Economics). Princeton University, 1999, pp. 1–45. ISBN: 9780881651225.

Simmons, Beth. Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years. Princeton University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780691017105. [Preview with Google Books]

Eichengreen, Barry. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Second Edition). Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691139371 [Preview with Google Books]

Katzenstein, Peter. Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe (Cornell Studies in Political Economy). Cornell University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780801493263. [Preview with Google Books]

Bordo, Michael. "The Gold Standard, Bretton Woods, and Other Monetary Regimes: An Historical Appraisal." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 75, no. 2 (1993): 123–99.

Goodman, John, and Louis Pauly. "The Obsolescence of Capital Controls? Economic Management in an Age of Global Markets." World Politics 46, no. 1 (1993): 50–82.

Frankel, Jeffrey, and Andrew Rose. "An Estimate of the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade and Income." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117, no. 2 (2002): 437–66.

Obstfeld, Maurice. "The Global Capital Markets: Benefactor or Menace?." NBER Working Paper W6559, May 1998. (PDF)

Frieden, Jeffry. "Economic Integration and the Politics of Monetary Policy in the United States." In Internationalization and Domestic Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). Edited by Robert O. Keohane and Helen V. Milner. Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521565875. [Preview with Google Books]

Henisz, Witold. "The Institutional Environment for Multinational Investment." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 16, no. 2 (2000): 334–64.

Markusen, James R. "The Boundaries of Multinational Enterprises and the Theory of International Trade." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, no. 2 (1995): 169–89.

Hanson, Gordon H., Kenneth Scheve, and Matthew Slaughter. "Individual Preferences Over High–Skilled Immigration in the United States." In Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems, and Policies. Edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon Hanson. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780195382433.

Hainmueller, Jens, and Michael J. Hiscox. "Attitudes Towards Highly Skilled and Low–Skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment." The American Political Science Review 104, no. 1 (2010): 61–84.

Leblang, David. "Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment." The American Political Science Review 104, no. 3 (2010): 584–600.

———. Harnessing the Diaspora: The Political Economy of Dual Citizenship. Working Paper, University of Virginia, 2010. (PDF)

Money, Jeanette. "No Vacancy: The Political Geography of Immigration Control in Advanced Industrial Countries." International Organization 51, no. 4 (1997): 685–720.

Mattli, Walter, and Tim Buthe. "Setting International Standards: Technological Rationality or Primacy of Power?" World Politics 56, no. 1 (2003): 1–42.

Putnam, Tonya. "Courts Without Borders: Domestic Sources of U.S. Extraterritoriality in the Regulatory Sphere." International Organization 63, no. 3 (2009): 459–90.

Hafner–Burton, Emilie. "Trading Human Rights: How Preferential Trade Agreements Influence Government Repression." International Organization 59, no. 3 (2005): 593–629.

Copelovitch, Mark S., and David Andrew Singer. "Financial Regulation, Monetary Policy, and Inflation in the Industrialized World." The Journal of Politics 70, no. 3 (2008): 663–80.

Simmons, Beth. "The International Politics of Harmonization: The Case of Capital Market Regulation." International Organization 55, no. 3 (2001): 589–620.

Additional Readings on International Financial Regulation

Kapstein, Ethan B. "Resolving the Regulator's Dilemma: International Coordination of Banking Regulations." International Organization 43, no. 2 (1989): 323–47.

Oatley, Thomas, and Robert Nabors. "Redistributive Cooperation: Market Failures, Wealth Transfers, and the Basle Accord." International Organization 52, no. 1 (1998): 35–54.

Singer, David Andrew. "Capital Rules: The Domestic Politics of International Regulatory Harmonization." International Organization 58, no. 3 (2004): 531–65.