Working Papers
(with David A. Lake), "The New Political Economy of U.S. Trade"
(with Richard Grossman and Daniel Lowery) "Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and socio-economic effects of Reconstruction in the American South," October 2025
"Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and Socio-economic Effects of Reconstruction" presentation based on an earlier draft of the paper
The costs of coercion Prepared for presentation at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's 69th economic conference, "The US Economy in a Changing Global Landscape," November 21-22, 2025
"The political economy of policies for structural change: A cautionary note" Based on remarks at Peterson Institute for International Economics/International Monetary Fund conference on "Rethinking Policies to Steer Structural Change," April 2024
"The political economy of international monetary arrangements" Prepared for presentation at a conference on “Floating Exchange Rates at Fifty” at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, March 2023
(with Chase Foster) "Compensation, Austerity, and Populism: Labor Market Spending and Voting in 17 Western European Countries"
"Attitudes, interests, and the politics of trade" forthcoming in Political Science Quarterly
(with Arthur Silve) "The political reception of innovations" forthcoming in Economics and Politics
"Global trade in the Age of Populism," Written for a special issue of the journal Perspectivas – Journal of Political Science on “New Globalization Challenges and EU Trade Policy,” edited by Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres
(with David A. Lake, Michael Nicholson, and Aditya Ranganath), “Economic Crisis and Political Change in the United States, 1900 to the Present”