IIEP and its faculty specialize in research on international economic policy, including research on political economy, trade, governance systems, policymaking, welfare systems, cities, and economic theory. IIEP hosts a multitude of events focusing on international economic policy in the U.S., China, India, and the world. Past events include our annual conference on China’s Economy and U.S.-China Economic Relations, our Envisioning India series, annual IMF Regional Economic Outlook reviews, book launch events, and more. IIEP regularly partners with institutions including the World Bank, the IMF, the International Growth Center, and DC-area universities to bring together academics, policymakers, and students in international economic policy. IIEP also works closely with the Elliott School’s Master’s in International Economic Policy (MIEP) program, coordinating with graduate students to support their research and professional development.
A tale of two wage subsidies: The American and Australian fiscal responses to COVID-19
July 2020. Steven Hamilton. IIEP working paper 2020-12.
The Economic Impact of the Black Death
June 2020. Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama. IIEP working paper 2020-14.
Medieval Cities Through the Lens of Urban Economic Theories
May 2020. Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama. IIEP working paper 2020-9.
Search for Yield in Large International Corporate Bonds: Investor Behavior and Firm Responses
November 2019. Tomas Williams, Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio L. Schmukler. IIEP working paper 2019-15.
September 2017. Remi Jedwab and Adam Storeygard. IIEP Working Paper 2019-9.
Data is Different: Why the World Needs a New Approach to Governing Cross-border Data Flows
November 2018. Susan Ariel Aaronson. IIEP Working Paper 2018-10.
October 2018. David Szakonyi. IIEP Working Paper 2018-8.
September 2018. Stephen C. Smith. IIEP Working Paper 2018-7.
Articles
Dunning, Thad, et. al. (with Eric Kramon), “Voter Information Campaigns and Political Accountability: Cumulative Findings from a Pre-registered Meta-analysis of Coordinated Trials”, Science Advances, 2020, Volume 5 Issue 7.
Bartels, Brandon L. and Eric Kramon, “Does Public Support for Judicial Power Depend on who is in Political Power? Testing a Theory of Partisan Alignment in Africa”, American Political Science Review, 2020, 114 (1): 144-63.
Brierley, Sarah, Kramon, Eric and George Ofosu, “The Moderating Effect of Debates on Political Attitudes”, American Journal of Political Science, 2020, 64 (1): 19-37.
Pelzman, Joseph, “The Spillover Effects of the Re-Imposed United States Sanctions on Iran on MENA, the PRC, Russia, and Turkey”, Global Economy Journal, May 2020, Volume 20, Issue 2
Kuka, Elira, Shenhav, Na’ama and Kevin Shih, “Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020, Vol. 12 (1): 293-324.
Szakonyi, David. “Private Sector Policymaking: Business Background and Politicians’ Behavior in Office.” Journal of Politics, 2020.
Charnovitz, Steve. “A WTO if you can keep it,” November 2019
Joshi, Sumit, “Structural Balance and Welfare,” with Ahmed Saber Mahmud, November 2019.
Rafanelli, Lucia M., “Promoting Justice Across Borders”, Political Studies, Sep 2019, Published online, DOI: 10.1177/0032321719875402; Peer-reviewed.
Williams, Ben, “Identification of the linear factor model,” Econometric Reviews, Jul 2019, Volume 39, 2020.
Charnovitz, Steve. The Historical Lens in International Economic Law, Journal of International Economic Law, jgz004, 2019.
Kaminsky, Graciela Laura, “Boom-Bust Capital Flow Cycles”, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance,Oxford University Press, July 2019.
Charnovitz, Steve. “Grading Trump’s China Strategy” in European Yearbook of International Law 2019 (M. Bungenberg et al eds.), Cham: Springer, 2019, 217-256.
Aaronson, Susan, “What Are We Talking About When We Discuss Digital Protectionism?”, Forthcoming, World Trade Review, Winter 2018
Kaminsky, Graciela Laura, “Globalización en la periferia: qué se gana y qué se pierde en la política monetaria,” Boletín, Vol 62 (2), 121-132 April 2017
Kaplan, Stephen, “Partisan technocratic cycles in Latin America,” Electoral Studies, Vol. 45, 219-229, February 2017
Kaplan, Stephen, “Banking unconditionally: the political economy of Chinese finance in Latin America,” Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 23, 346-676, September 2016
Aaronson, Susan, “The Digital Trade Imbalance and Its Implications for Internet Governance,” Global Commission on Internet Governance, February 2016.
Kaminsky, Graciela Laura, with Pablo Vega-Garcia, “Systemic and idiosyncratic sovereign debt crises,” Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol 14(1), 80-114, February 2016
Shambaugh, Jay C. with Joong Shik Kang, “The rise and fall of European current account deficits,” Economic Policy, Vol 31 (85), 153-199, January 2016
Charnovitz, Steve, “An Appraisal of the Labor Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Committee on Ways and Means Democrats, January 2016.
Aaronson, Susan, “Why Trade Agreements are not Setting Information Free: The Lost History and Reinvigorated Debate over Cross-Border Data Flows, Human Rights and National Security”, World Trade Review, April 2015.
Aaronson, Susan With Rod Abouharb, “Does the WTO help member states improve governance?”, World Trade Review, 13, iss 3, (2014): 547-582.
Aaronson, Susan,“Righting Business: John Ruggie and the Struggle to Develop International Human Rights Standards for Transnational Firms,” Dec. 2013, Human Rights Quarterly
Charnovitz, Steve with Daniel C. Esty, “How the United States Can Improve Energy and Climate Policies,” World Financial Review, July/August 2012.
Charnovitz, Steve “Correcting America’s Continuing Failure to Comply with the Avena Judgment,” American Journal of International Law, July 2012.
Joutz, Fred, withGail Cohan and Prakash Loungani, “Energy Security: Depend, but Diversify,” Energy Dialogue, April 2011.
Joutz, Fred, with Gail Cohan and Prakash Loungani, “Measuring energy security: Trends in the diversification of oil and natural gas supplies,” Energy Policy Vol. 39, pp.4860-4869. 2011.
Pelzman, Joseph. “The Economics of the Middle East and North Africa (Mena).”World Scientific Pub Co, 2011.
Pelzman, Joseph. with Amir Shoham. “A Review Of The Crisis.” Global Economy Journal Vol. 11 No. 2, 2011.
Susan Aaronson
Research Professor of International Affairs
Expertise: economic growth and human rights, digital trade and internet governance, global trade, free trade agreements, WTO
Education: Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Trade
Streams of Work: Trade and Internet Governance; Work to Make Trade Policy More Trusted, Transparent, and Accountable
Steve Charnovitz
Associate Professor of Law
Expertise: International Trade, International Labor Law, International Law, U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Environmental Sustainability
Education: J.D. from Yale University, M.P.P. from Harvard University
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance, International Trade
James E. Foster
IIEP Director, Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Expertise: Development economics, inequality and poverty, economic theory and policy
Education: Ph.D from Cornell University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance
Barry Chiswick
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Expertise: Skill acquisition, the labor market adjustment and economic impact of immigrants and immigration policy, and the human capital and labor market behavior of racial, religious, and ethnic groups
Education: Ph.D. from Columbia University
Frederick L. Joutz
Professor of Economics
Expertise: Macroeconomic and energy econometric modeling, forecasting
Education: Ph.D from McGill University (Quebec)
Categories of Work: International Finance
Graciela Laura Kaminsky
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Expertise: International Finance, Topics in Emerging Markets, Macroeconomics, and topics in Economic Development
Education: Ph.D from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance
Stephen Kaplan
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Expertise: Political economy of global markets and development, politics of macroeconomic policymaking, Latin American politics
Education: Ph.D from Yale University
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance, International Trade
Danny M. Leipziger
Professor of International Business
Expertise: Development Economics, International Economic Policy, Macro and Economic Growth
Education: Ph.D from Brown University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance
Michael O. Moore
MIEP Director, Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Expertise: U.S. trade policy, the economics of antidumping, foreign direct investment
Education: Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance
Jennifer W. Spencer
Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs and Director, Center for International Business Education and Research (GW-CIBER)
Expertise: Knowledge spillovers from multinational enterprises, knowledge diffusion and knowledge sharing, international entrepreneurship, emergence of high technology industries
Education: Ph.D from University of Minnesota
Categories of Work: International Trade, International Finance
David Szakonyi
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Political economy; business-government relations; post-Soviet politics; corruption; authoritarianism; clientelism
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Stephan Smith
Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Former Director of Institute for International Economic Policy (2009-2012, 2015-2017)
Expertise: Development economics, poverty, economics of organization, economics of participation
Education: Ph.D from Cornell University
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, Adaptation to Climate Change, Economics of Ultra-Poverty, U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance
Emmanuel Teitelbaum
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Expertise: Comparative politics, South Asian politics, political economy of development, and political economy of labor
Education: Ph.D. from Cornell University
Robert J. Weiner
Professor of International Business, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs
Expertise: Political economy of energy security, oil & conflict, energy crises, resource nationalism, and US-Chinese competition for oil
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Jay C. Shambaugh
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Expertise: International Macroeconomics
Education: Ph.D from U.C. Berkeley University
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Finance
Ariel Weinberger
Assistant Professor of International Business
Expertise: trade and macro, with specialization in settings with firm heterogeneity and variable market power
Education: Ph.D. from University of California, Davis
Categories of Work: Global Economic Governance, International Trade, International Economic Policy
