Hot off the presses from International Studies Quarterly  is this article  ( ungated version ) by Darin Christensen and Eric Wibbels, "...

Some of my research involves the regulation of bank capitalization, including the use of risk-weights. One of the things I constantly empha...

Recent reports have indicated that the new head of the WTO will hail from the Global South. After the latest round of elimination, the two r...

Brad DeLong and Barry Eichengreen have written the preface to a new edition of Kindleberger's The World in Depression . It is a very go...

First quarter GDP growth figures  for the US released yesterday were disappointing, and the Commerce Department pointed to falling military ...

Matt Yglesias is being raked across the coals for this . It's understandable. The best time to parrot an econ 101 line is not imme...

New research: "Economics and Elections Revisited" Richard Nadeau & Michael S. Lewis-Beck & Éric Bélanger3 Comparative ...

I'm breaking my self-imposed silence to pass along something which was recently passed along to me. Apparently supporters of Fidesz, the...

And then there were five :   Following up on an earlier post, there are now 5 candidates left in the running for WTO Director General.   L...

The European Central Bank should no longer be considered a central bank. Instead, it is a negotiating arm of Germany and (to a lesser extent...