CV
Books
Making Financial Globalization: How Firms Shape International Regulatory Cooperation (Oxford University Press, 2024)
The Geopolitics of the Critical Minerals Supply Chain (with Kyle Beardsley and Pei-Yu Wei), under review & under contract with Cambridge University Press: Elements in Globalization and Supply Chains Series
The Political Economy of Climate Change, in progress.
Working Papers
"The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transition," under review.
"The Effects of International Economic Agreement on FDI: Evidence from Africa," under review.
"Data Protection and Government Policies"
Policy Writing
"How to Save Climate Finance Multilateralism" Duke Political Science, Dec. 2024.
The climate finance negotiations at the COP 29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, showed the emerging cracks of multilateralism. Dubbed the finance COP, the Baku summit focused on new financial targets of climate finance contributions from developed countries to developing countries to help them mitigate and adapt to climate change. While negotiators burned the midnight oil and finally arrived at a decision of at least $300 billion a year a year by 2035, the ever-increasing public finance problems in developed countries raise the possibility that they might turn away from a multilateral approach in the future. Instead, developed countries might turn to signing bilateral and regional climate finance agreements with a smaller set of countries, just like in international trade.
"Second Order Impacts of Aggression Toward Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China" (with Kyle Beardsley and Pei-Yu Wei). Duke Center for International Development Report. June 2024.
With tensions in the Taiwan Strait on the rise, the goal of this report is to identify how an increase in hostilities towards Taiwan by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) could impact global economies and industries. The threat has grown in recent years, as the PRC asserts with increasing provocations its long-held claim that Taiwan is part of mainland China, while the Taiwan government seeks to maintain its de facto independence. The importance of understanding the risk profile of aggression directed by the PRC to Taiwan is underscored by the impact on world economies of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Unprepared at the time of the initial attack for the extent of Russian aggression, global policymakers were forced to scramble to prevent widespread damage to food systems. Against a backdrop of growing PRC hostilities in the Taiwan Strait, the research that makes up the body of this report is designed to provide a foundation for ensuring greater preparedness in the event of further PRC aggression.