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
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
Frederick R. Chen. 2019. “Disentangling Bias: National Capabilities, Regime Type, and International Conflict Mediation.” Conflict Management and 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
Research in Progress
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. “Less Is More: Property Rights and Dictators' Demand for Foreign Direct Investment."
Frederick R. Chen and Jonathan A. Chu. “Subnational Governments in Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from U.S. Local Policymakers.”
Frederick R. Chen and Zhenhuan Lei. “Making Diplomacy Work: Types and Performance of U.S. Ambassadors.”
Frederick R. Chen. “Strategic Substitutions: Exchange Rate Regimes, Geopolitics, and Trade.”