Forthcoming. “Less Is More: Property Rights and Dictators’ Demand for Foreign Direct Investment.” Review of International Organizations. (with Jacque Gao)
2023. “Great Expectations: The Democratic Advantage in Trade Attitudes.” World Politics 75 (2): 316–352. (with Jon C.W. Pevehouse and Ryan M. Powers)
2023. “Partners with Benefits: When Multinational Corporations Succeed in Authoritarian Courts.” International Organization 77 (1): 144–178. (with Jian Xu)
Winner of the David A. Lake Award for best paper at the 2019 International Political Economy Society Conference
2021. “Extended Dependence: Trade, Alliances, and Peace.” Journal of Politics 83 (1): 246–259.
Winner of the Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for outstanding research by a graduate student in the social sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2019–20
Winner of the Mildred Potter Hovland Award for best article by a Political Science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2018–19
Coverage: Peterson Institute for International Economics, Monkey Cage
2019. “Disentangling Bias: National Capabilities, Regime Type, and International Conflict Mediation.” Conflict Management & Peace Science 36 (2): 149–168.
Winner of the Mildred Potter Hovland Award for best article by a Political Science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2016–17
“Firm Nationality and Local Government Preferences for Foreign Direct Investment.” (with Jonathan A. Chu) Under review.
“Compliance in Non-Compliant Territories: How Jurisdictional Exposure Regulates Multinational Corporations.” (with Jian Xu) Under review.
“Foreign Policy in Hard Economic Times.”
“Horses for Courses: Types and Performance of U.S. Ambassadors.” (with Zhenhuan Lei)
“Strategic Substitutions: Exchange Rate Regimes, Geopolitics, and Trade.”