Research

Publications

Frederick R. Chen, Jon C.W. Pevehouse, and Ryan M. Powers. 2023. “Great Expectations: The Democratic Advantage in Trade Attitudes.” World Politics 75 (2): 316–352 [open access].

Frederick R. Chen and Jian Xu. 2023. “Partners with Benefits: When Multinational Corporations Succeed in Authoritarian Courts.” International Organization 77 (1): 144–178 [open access].

Winner of the David A. Lake Award for best paper at the 2019 International Political Economy Society Conference
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Frederick R. Chen. 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
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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
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Frederick R. Chen. “Foreign Policy in Hard Economic Times.”

Frederick R. Chen and Jian Xu. “Non-Compliant Compliance: How Jurisdictional Exposure Regulates Multinational Corporations.”

Frederick R. Chen and Jacque Gao. “Balancing Internal and External Threats: Dictators' Demand for Foreign Direct Investment.”

Frederick R. Chen and Jonathan A. Chu. “Local Governments in Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from U.S. Policymakers.”

Frederick R. Chen, Zhenhuan Lei, and Yishuang Li. “Making Diplomacy Work: Types and Performance of U.S. Ambassadors.”

Frederick R. Chen. “Strategic Substitutions: Exchange Rate Regimes, Geopolitics, and Trade.”

Frederick R. Chen and Jian Xu. “Authoritarian Judiciaries in the Shadow of Interstate Tensions.”