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Featured Faculty Research

Professor Jeff Colgan

Selected Publications

  • “Domestic Revolutionary Leaders and International Conflict” World Politics. Forthcoming (2013).
  • “The Pathways from Oil to War” International Security. Forthcoming (Summer 2013).
  • “Measuring Revolution” Conflict Management and Peace Science, 29:4. 2012.
  • “Oil and Revolutionary Governments: Fuel for International Conflict” International Organization, 64:4. 2010.

Professor Randall Henning

Selected Publications

  • “Global Economics in Extraordinary Times: Essays in Honor of John Williamson,” The Peterson Institute for International Economics, November 2012.
  • "California's Lesson for the Euro," The Prospect, June 20, 2012.
  • “Accountability and Oversight of US Exchange Rate Policy.” The Peterson Institute for International Economics, June 2008.
  • “East Asian Financial Cooperation,” in Policy Analyses in International Economics 68, The Peterson Institute for International Economics, October 2002.
  • “The Exchange Stabilization Fund: Slush Money or War Chest?,” in Policy Analyses in International Economics 57, The Peterson Institute for International Economics, May 1999.

  • “Cooperating with Europe's Monetary Union, in Policy Analyses,” in International Economics 49, The Peterson Institute for International Economics, May 1997.

  • “Global Economic Leadership and the Group of Seven,” The Peterson Institute for International Economics, June 1996 (co-author).

  • “Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan,” The Peterson Institute for International Economics, September 1994.

Professor Sarah Knight

Selected Publications

  • "Monetary Unions, Bretton Woods, and Global Finance," in Gerard Caprio, ed. The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure. Oxford: Elsevier Press. 2012.
  • "Divested Interests:Globalization and the New Politics of Exchange Rates," Business and Politics, Vol. 12, Issue 2 (August 2010).
  • "Electronic Commerce," in Robert A. Denamark, ed. The International Studies Compendium Project. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2010. (Co-authored with Catherine L. Mann)
  • "Review of One Economics, Many Recipes, by Dani Rodrik," Democracy and Society, Volume 5 (December), 2007.
  • "Regulatory Conflict Over Data Privacy," Cases on Transatlantic Relations, American Consortium on European Studies, 2003.
  • Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer, book co-authored with Catherine L. Mann and Sue E. Eckert. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 2000.
  • "Electronic Commerce and the World Trade Organization,"chapter co-authored with Catherine L. Mann, in Jeffrey Schott, ed., The WTO After Seattle. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 2000.

Professor Arturo Porzecanski

Selected Publications

  • "Borrowing and Debt: How Do Sovereigns Get Into Trouble?," in Sovereign Debt Management, 2013.
  • "Behind the Greek Default and Restructuring of 2012,” in Sovereign Debt and Debt Restructuring, 2013.
  • "Buenos Aires to Athens: The Road to Perdition," in CSIS Americas Program, April 2, 2012.  
  • "Mexico's Retrogression: Implications of a Bankruptcy Reorganization Gone Wrong," CSIS Americas Program Hemisphere Focus, November 2011.  
  • "Should Argentina be Welcomed Back by Investors?" World Economics, July-September 2011.
  • "Corporate Workouts in Mexico: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," CSIS Issues in International Political Economy, April 2011.  
  • "When Bad Things Happen to Good Sovereign Debt Contracts: The Case of Ecuador," Law and Contemporary Problems, Fall 2010.  
  • "Latin America: The Missing Financial Crisis," United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, October 2009.
  • "U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality," Council on Foreign Relations, May 2008 (contributor).  
  • "The Fixed-Income Market in Uruguay," Bond Markets in Latin America, 2008 (co-author).  
  • "The Constructive Role of Private Creditors," Dealing Fairly with Developing Country Debt, 2007.  
  • "Debt Relief by Private and Official Creditors: The Record Speaks," International Finance, Summer 2007.
  • "El Mercado de Renta Fija en Uruguay,"Banco Central del Uruguay Revista de Economia, May 2007 (co-author).
  • "Dealing with Sovereign Debt: Trends and Implications," in Sovereign Debt at the Crossroads, 2006.

Professor Stephen Silvia

Publications

  • Holding the Shop Together: German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013.

  • "The Unsinkable Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate," AICGS Advisor, 9 October 2012.

  • "Why do Germans and US Reactions to the Financial Crisis differ?" German Politics and Society 29, no.4 (Winter 2011).

  • "Things Fall Apart: Contemporary Analyses of German Economic and Political Developments," Comparative European Politics, (October 2010).
  • "The Elusive Quest for Normalcy: The German Economy since Unification," German Politics and Society 28, no. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 82-101.
  • "Why Germany reformed Public Pensions, but the United States did not," German Studies Review 32, no. 1 (February 2009): 23-50.
  • "German Trade Unionism in the Postwar Years: The Third and Fourth Movements," in Craig L. Phelan, ed., Trade Unions since 1945: Towards a Global History. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.
  • "Why are German Employers Associations Declining? Arguments and Evidence," Comparative Political Studies 40, no. 12 (Dec. 2007): 1433-59 [lead author, with Wolfgang Schroeder].
  • The German Locomotive: Can It Drive the European Economy? Transatlantic Council of the United States, 2007 (with Fran Burwell et al.).
  • "Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labor Markets," Journal of Public Policy 24, no. 2 (August 2004): 147-168.
  • Reinventing the German Economy. AICGS, The Johns Hopkins University, 2003.
  • "Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbnde, [Trade Unions and Employers Associations,] in Wolfgang Schroeder and Berhard Wessels, eds., Gewerkschaften in Politik und Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik [Trade Unions in the Politics and Society of the Federal Republic]. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2003, [with Wolfgang Schroeder].

Professor Krista Tuomi

Publications

  • "How demand sophistication (de-)limits economic upgrading: Comparing the film industries of South Africa and Nigeria," (with Helena Barnard), Industry and Innovation, Vol. 15 (6), December 2008.
  • "A Comparative Analysis of the South African Feature Film Industry," Social Dynamics, December 2006, Vol. 32 (1), December 2006.
  • "Organizational Shifts in the Feature Film Industry: Implications for South Africa," Transformation, January 2007.
  • "Micro Economic Development Strategy for the South African Film Sector," Department of Economic Development and Tourism, ISBN: 0-621-36038-4, June 2005.
  • "Assessing the Role and Impact of Ecolabelling in the Three BCLME Countries," Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME), BCLME Project LMR/SE/03/02, December 2005.
  • "Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis," Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, November 2003. Jointly published with Tony Leiman.

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