IIEP and its faculty specialize in the study of international trade, examining the flow of capital, goods, and services within and across global borders. IIEP and its faculty focus on a wide variety of issues in international trade, publishing books, articles, working papers, and op-eds on the impacts of big data and AI, governance, climate change, labor, politics, law, liberalization, and globalization on international trade. IIEP hosts a multitude of events that bring together DC-area and international researchers and policymakers including the annual Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS), a Trade and Development Seminar series with the GW Economics department, annual conferences on China and India, book launches, and more. IIEP also regularly partners with international trade organizations including the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) and The Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT), and hosts many current and former World Trade Organization (WTO) officials to share their knowledge with students, academics, and professionals.
What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Digital Protectionism?
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.
Data Minefield: How AI is Prodding Governments to Rethink Trade in Data
April 2018. Susan Ariel Aaronson. IIEP Working Paper 2018-11.
Information Please: A Comprehensive Approach to Digital Trade Provisions in NAFTA 2.0
November 2017 by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2018-12
Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms
August 2016 by Maggie Xiaoyang Chen (George Washington University) & Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School and NBER) IIEP Working Paper 2016-18
Articles
Dean, Adam and Jonathan Obert, “Shocked into Service: Free Trade and the American South’s Military Burden,” International Interactions, Jan 2020.
Charnovitz, Steve. “How the Topsy-Turvy Trade World Affects Climate Change Cooperation” in Cool Heads in a Warming World Part Four. Yale, 2020.
Chen, Maggie, “The Value of Reputation in Trade: Evidence from Alibaba” (with Min Wu) Review of Economics and Statistics.
Dean, Adam and Simeon Kimmel. “Beyond the Sacklers: Free-trade policies contributed to the opioid epidemic,” Boston Globe, Oct 2019.
Agur, Itai with Melissa Chan, Mangal Goswami and Sunil Sharma, On international integration of emerging sovereign bond markets, Emerging Markets Review, Vol. 38, 347-363, 2019.
Dean, Adam. “Free trade doesn’t just lead to job loss. It means more deaths from drug overdoses and increased military recruitment.”, Monkey Cage, Jul 2019.
Aaronson, Susan Ariel with Patrick Leblond, “Another Digital Divide: The Rise of Data Realms and its Implications for the WTO,” Journal of International Economic Law, Vol 21(2), 245-272, June 2018.
Kaplan, Stephen, “Fighting Past Economic Wars: Crisis and Austerity in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 53(1), 19-37, March 2018.
Charnovitz, Steve, “John Jackson and the GATT’s Transformation,” World Trade Review, Vol. 15(3), 401-403, July 2016.
Moore, Michael O. with Mark Wu, “Antidumping and Strategic Industrial Policy: Tit-for-Tat Trade Remedies and the China–X-Ray Equipment Dispute,” World Trade Review, Vol. 14(2), 239-286, April 2015.
Pelzman, Joseph “PRC Outward Investment in the USA and Europe: A Model of R&D Acquisition,” Review of Development Economics, Vol. 19(1), 1-14, February 2015.
Moore, Michael O. with Jeffery L. Dunoff, “Footloose and duty-free? Reflections on European Union – Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Footwear from China,” World Trade Review, Vol . 13(2), 149-178, April 2014.
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang, “The Matching of Heterogeneous Firms and Politicians,”Economic Inquiry, 2013, vol. 51(2), pp. 1502-1522.
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang with Alfaro, Laura “Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 4(3), pp. 30-55. 2012.
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang, with Murat Iyigun, “Patent Protection And Strategic Delays In Technology Development: Implications For Economic Growth,” Southern Economic Journal Vol. 78 No. 1, pp. 211-232. 2011.
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang “Interdependence in multinational production networks,”Canadian Journal of EconomicsVol. 44 No. 3, pp. 930-956. 2011.
Moore, Michael O., “Implementing Carbon Tariffs: A Fool’s Errand?” The World Economy Vol. 34, pp. 1679-1702. 2011.
Moore, Michael O. with Maurizio Zanardi, “Does Reduced Trade Tax Revenue Affect Government Spending Patterns?” International Tax and Public Finance Vol. 18 No. 5, pp. 555-79. 2011.
Moore, Michael O., with Maurizio Zanardi, “Trade Liberalization and Antidumping: Is There a Substitution Effect?,”Review of Development Economics Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 601-619. 2011.
Moore, Michael O. “Argentina: There and Back Again” in The Great Recession and Import Protection, Chad P. Bown (ed.), World Bank, 2011.
Pelzman, Joseph and Amir Shoham. “What’s New in Our World? Thinking about the Great Recession,” editor Special Edition. Global Economy Journal, May 2011.
Chen, Maggie X., and Sumit Joshi, “Third-Country Effects On The Formation Of Free Trade Agreements,”Journal Of International Economics Vol. 82 No. 2, pp. 238-248. 2010.
Moore, Michael O., with Alan K. Fox, “Why Don’t Foreign Firms Cooperate In US Antidumping Investigations? An Empirical Analysis,” Review Of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv Vol. 145 No. 4, pp. 597-613. 2010.
Pelzman, Joseph, with Amir Shoham, “Measuring The Welfare Effects Of Country Of Origin Rules: A Suggested Methodology,” Global Economy Journal Vol. 10 No. 1. 2010.
Pelzman, Joseph, with Amir Shoham, “Comparison of PRC and Vietnam’s Responses to the Elimination of US Textile and Apparel Quotas: Economic and Cultural Perspectives,” International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 385-408. 2010.
Chen, Maggie X. and Michael O. Moore, “Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms,” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 188-199 . March 2010
Pelzman, Joseph, with Amir Shoham, “WTO DSU: Enforcement Issues,” in James Hartigan (ed.) Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 6 No. 15. Trade Disputes and the Dispute Settlement Understanding of the WTO: An Interdisciplinary Assessment. London: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. pp. 369-395. 2009.
Chen, Maggie X., “Regional Economic Integration and Geographic Concentration of Multinational Firms,” European Economic Review, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 355-375, April 2009.
Chen, Maggie X., “Standards and Export Decisions: Firm-Level Evidence from Developing Countries” with Tsunehiro Otsuki and John S. Wilson, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 501-523 (2008).
Aaronson, Susan, “On Righting Trade: Human Rights and the 2008 Elections,” 
World Policy Journal, Winter 2007/08, 19-28.
Chen, Maggie X., “Regionalism in Standards: Good or Bad for Trade?” with Aaditya Mattoo, Canadian Journal of Economics, August 2008, Issue 41(3), pp. 838-863.
Aaronson, Susan, “The World Trade Organization and Human Rights,” World Trade Review, Novermber 2007, Vol. 6, #3, 413-449.
Aaronson, Susan, “A Match Made in the Corporate and Public Interest: Marrying Voluntary CSR Initiatives and the WTO,” Journal of World Trade, June 2007, Vol. 41, No. 3.
Charnovitz, Steve, “The WTO’s Environmental Progress,” Journal of International Economic Law, September 2007.
Moore, Michael O. with Alissa Belotti, “Initiating U.S. Free Trade Partners: How Do Potential Partners Stack Up?” International Trade Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 161-189, April 2007.
Moore, Michael O., “Antidumping Reform in the Doha Round: A Pessimistic Assessment” Pacific Economic Review, vol. 12, no. 357-379. August 2007.
Pelzman, Joseph with Amir Shoham, “WTO Enforcement Issues,” Global Economy Journal, vol. 7, issue 1, pp. 1-25, 2007.
Aaronson, Susan, “Fair Trade? How Oxfam Presented a Systemic Approach to Globalization, Human Rights and Development,” Human Rights Quarterly, November 2006, Vol. 28, No. 4, 998-1030.
Charnovitz, Steve, “Taiwan’s WTO Membership and Its International Implications,” Asian Journal of the WTO and International Health Law & Policy, September 2006.
Moore, Michael O., “U.S. Facts-Available Antidumping Decisions: An Empirical Analysis,” European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 22, issue 3, pp. 639-52, September 2006.
Moore, Michael O., “An Econometric Analysis of U.S. Antidumping Sunset Review Decisions,” Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, vol. 142, issue 1, pp. 122-50 2006.
Pelzman, Joseph with Amir Shoham, “De-linking the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Reduced Domestic Fiscal Budgets: The Experience of the Israeli Economy: 1984-2005,” Global Economy Journal,, vol. 6, issue 3, pp. 1-46 2006.
Sell, Susan,”Intellectual Property and the Doha Development Agenda” Global Social Policy, vol. 6, issue 2, pp. 147-150, August 2006.
Aaronson, Susan, “Minding Our Business: What the US has Done and Can Do to Ensure that its Multinationals Act Responsibility,” Journal of Business Ethics, June 2005, Vol. 59, 175-198.
Charnovitz, Steve, “Belgian Family Allowances and the Challenge of Origin-Based Discrimination,” World Trade Review, March 2005.
Charnovitz, Steve, “An Analysis of Pascal Lamy’s Proposal on Collective Preferences,” Journal of International Economic Law, June 2005.
Moore, Michael O., “VERs and Price Undertakings under the WTO,” Review of International Economics, vol. 13, issue 2, pp. 298-310, May 2005.
Moore, Michael O. “‘Facts Available’ Dumping Allegations: When Will Foreign Firms Cooperate in Antidumping Petitions?” European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 21, issue 1, pp. 185-204, March 2005.
Charnovitz, Steve, “Transparency and Participation in the World Trade Organization,” Rutgers Law Review, Summer 2004.
Moore, Michael O. with Philippe Kohler, “Domestic Welfare Effects of Foreign Strategic Trade Policies,” Journal of Economic Integration, vol. 18, issue 3, pp. 573-86, September 2003.
Sell, Susan “Trade Issues and HIV/AIDS” Emory International Law Journal 17:2, pp. 933- 954, Summer 2003.
Moore, Michael O., “Department of Commerce Administration of Antidumping Sunset Reviews — A First Assessment,”Journal of World Trade, vol. 36, issue 4, pp. 675-98, August 2002.
Sell, Susan, “TRIPS and the Access to Medicines Campaign,” Wisconsin International Law Journal, 20: 2, pp. 481-522, Summer 2002.
Sell, Susan, “Industry Strategies for Intellectual Property and Trade: The Quest for TRIPS and Post-TRIPS Strategies”, Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, 10, pp. 79-108, 2002.
Sell, Susan, “Post-TRIPS Developments: The Tension between Commercial and Social Agendas in the Context of Intellectual Property,” Florida Journal of International LawVol. 14, pp.193-216, Spring 2002.
Smith, Stephen C., with Edward Feasel and Yongbeom Kim, “Investment, Exports, and Output in South Korea: A VAR Approach to Growth Empirics,” Review of Development Economics, vol. 5, issue 3, pp. 421-32, October 2001.
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
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
Maggie Chen
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Expertise: International trade, foreign direct investment, and regionalism
Education: Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, International Trade, International Finance
Reid Click
Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs, Director of International Studies and the Center for International Business Education and Research
Expertise: International corporate finance
Education: Ph.D. from University of Chicago
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation
Adam Dean
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Expertise: political economy of international trade, labor politics, and American Political Development
Education: Ph.D. from University of Chicago
Categories of Work: Development Economics and Poverty Alleviation, International Trade
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
Joseph Pelzman
Professor of Economics and International Affairs; Professorial Lecturer of Law
Expertise: International trade, international trade law, trade liberalization, tax reform
Education: Ph.D from Boston College
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Trade
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
Steve Suranovic
Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Director International Trade and Investment Policy Program (July 2012 – 2014)
Expertise: International trade, international trade policy analysis, fairness in international trade
Education: Ph.D. from Cornell University
Categories of Work: U.S.-China Economic Relations, Global Economic Governance, International Trade
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
Yingyan Zhao
Assistant Professor
Expertise: international trade, development economics, and industrial organization
Education: Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University
Categories of Work: International Trade, Development, Poverty, and Inequality
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