Introduction -- Democratic processes and political risk: evidence from foreign exchange markets -- When markets party: stocks, bonds, and cabinet formation -- The cross-national financial consequences of political predictability -- Cabinet dissolutions and interest rate behavior -- Bargaining...

Democracy and trade policy in developing countries -- Trade protection and electoral malpractice in new democratic regimes -- Trade protection and electoral fraud in new democracies: the empirical evidence -- Political particularism and trade policy in developing democracies -- Empirical tests...

Recent analysis by political economists of monetary institution determinants in different countries has been limited by the fact that exchange rate regimes and central bank institutions are studied in isolation from each other, without examining how one institution affects the costs and benefits...

A First Look at International Political Economy -- Fundamentals of Trade Politics -- Determinants of Trade Politics -- International Trade Law and Institutions -- The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations -- Political Economy of International Finance -- Financial...

This study examines how the politics of coalition government formation affect foreign exchange markets in Western European parliamentary democracies. Existing studies suggest that ex ante uncertainty associated with formation of coalition governments increases exchange rate volatility. We...

This study examines how coalition governments affect the size of government, measured by total central government expenditure as a share of GDP. Existing studies suggest that multiparty governments spend more because they have a larger number of parties, greater ideological fragmentation, and...