Production, communication, and transportation technology have had profound consequences for global markets, the products that are traded, and the nature and extent of economic interactions. The research at the Professorship of International Political Economy asks how integration into global markets shapes, and is shaped by, political contests between and among governments, firms, and citizens; and how this interplay, in turn, depends on domestic and international institutions. 

The research and teaching at the Professorship of International Political Economy address core questions of democratic governance and the sustainability of globalization: questions of the political influence of firms, the consequences of inequalities in representation, and the distributional consequences of institutions in the context of global markets and technological change.