How does a state's natural resource wealth influence its economic development? For the
past fifty years, versions of this question have been explored by both economists and …

▪ Abstract Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by
measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal …

A New Normal environment for business has emerged in the years after the 2008 financial
crisis based on numerous changes in the world's economic, technological, demographic …

The examination of political risk, political uncertainty, and political institutions in the
international business literature has, not unexpectedly, been shaped by the prevailing …

The fossil fuel divestment campaign has rapidly gained traction throughout university
campuses and elsewhere since its launch. As part of our research we test whether the …

Over the past forty-five years, bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most
important international legal mechanism for the encouragement and governance of foreign …

There is a renewed interest in how political risk affects multinational corporations operating
in emerging markets. Much of this research has focused on the relationship between …

The first and definitive book of its kind, Joan Spero's The Politics of International Economic
Relations has been fully updated to reflect the swee** changes in the international arena …

While the currently prevailing conceptual framework of first mover advantages (FMAs)
specifies various market mechanisms through which first movers can gain pioneering …

Stylized evidence indicates that democracies and autocracies both expropriate foreign direct
investment but that democracies do so less frequently. What explains the similarities and …