Publications

I have published on the following themes: the IMF, World Bank, and global economic governance; rising powers, China, and the AIIB; populism and international organizations; monetary policy and financial crises; climate finance and global environmental governance, and economic globalization. Please see the full list by type below.

Browse by type: Books · Peer-Reviewed Articles · Book Chapters & Essays · Working Papers

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Books

• Power and Global Economic Institutions. Cambridge University Press, 2015 (hardback), 2017 (paperback).
• Global Inequality: Patterns and Explanations. Edited with David Held. Polity Press, 2007.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “IMF Conditionality on Corruption: The Politics of Good Governance.” With M. Angin, S. Metinsoy, and B. Reinsberg. Regulation & Governance, 2026.
• “Understanding the World Bank’s Role in Climate Finance.” With A. Leblebicioglu. Climatic Change 178, 160 (2025).
• “Power by Proxy: Participation as a Resource in Global Governance.” With S. Arias and R. Clark. The Review of International Organizations (published online February 4, 2025).
• “Covert Participation: How Populists Engage with International Organizations.” With A. Carnegie and R. Clark. Journal of Politics 86(3): 877–891, 2024.
• “Sovereignty Intrusion: Populism and Attitudes Toward the International Monetary Fund.” With S. Handlin and H. Gunaydin. International Studies Quarterly 67(4), 2023.
• “When Do Established Powers Support Rising Powers’ Multilateral Institutions? The Case of the Asian Development Bank.” With M. Salah*. The Chinese Journal of International Politics 15(1): 1–26, 2022.
• “China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): Chinese Influence Over Membership Shares?” With B. Woo. The Review of International Organizations 17: 781–813, 2022.
• “The Federal Reserve’s Move to an Explicit Inflation Target: Incremental Policy Shifts in Techno-Political Institutions.” Review of International Political Economy 29(5): 1625–1649, 2022.
• “Frames That Matter: Increasing Willingness to Get the Covid-19 Vaccines.” With S. Diament and E. Magenheim. Social Science & Medicine 292: 114562, 2022.
• “Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as an Instrument for Chinese Influence? Supplementary versus Remedial Multilateralism.” With C. Kilby and J. Kay*. World Development 145: 105531, 2021.
• “Which Countries Send More Delegates to Climate Change Conferences? Analysis of UNFCCC COPs, 1995–2015.” With L. S. Schofield. Foreign Policy Analysis 16(3): 478–491, 2020.
• “How Did the Washington Consensus Move Within the IMF?” With M. Reay. Review of International Political Economy 26(3): 384–409, 2019.
• “The Federal Reserve’s Dual Mandate and the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff.” With S. Golub, M. Kuperberg, and F. Lin*. Contemporary Economic Policy 37(4): 641–651, 2019.
• “COP21 and the Paris Agreement: Change and Status Quo.” With A. Desai*. Global Policy, 2016.
• “Designing the Multilateral Trading System: Voting Equality at the International Trade Organization.” World Trade Review 25(1): 25–49, 2016.
• “Why the 2008 Crisis Was a Bad Crisis for New Ideas.” With G. Herrera. Journal of International Relations and Development 18(4): 505–531, 2015.
• “What Were They Thinking? The Federal Reserve in the Run-Up to the 2008 Financial Crisis.” With S. Golub and M. Reay. Review of International Political Economy 22(4): 657–692, 2015.
• “The EU’s China Problem: A Battle over Norms.” International Politics 51(2): 214–233, 2014.
• “How Do Multilateral Institutions Influence Individual Perceptions of International Affairs?” With J. T. Walker. European Journal of Development Research 26(5): 832–852, 2014.
• “Conflicted Principals, Uncertain Agency: The IMF and the Great Recession.” Global Policy 3(1): 24–34, 2012.
• “The Legitimacy of Foreign Investors.” With J. T. Walker. Multinational Business Review 20(3): 266–295, 2012.
• “Why Global Inequality Matters: Derivative Global Egalitarianism.” With A. Keba. Journal of International Political Theory 7(2): 140–165, 2011.

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Book Chapters & Policy Essays

• “Populism and International Organizations.” With R. Tella*. In Rode, Hartwell & Stöckl (eds.), Handbook on Economic Populism. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.
• “Washington’s Multilateral Retreat Creates an Opening for State and Local Leaders.” With J. Temin. Just Security, September 17, 2025.
• “Climate Change.” In Desai, Devarajan & Tobin (eds.), Handbook on Aid and Development. Elgar Press, 2024.
• “Economic Inequality and Growth.” In Momani & Hibben (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the IMF, 2024.
• “Multilateral Development Banks and Climate Finance: More Words Than Action.” IISD Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Hub, 2022.
• “The 100 Billion Dollar Question: COP26 Glasgow and Climate Finance.” With O. Stoetzer*. Global Policy Opinion, November 2021.
• “BRICS and the International Financial Institutions.” In Kim (ed.), BRICS and the Global Economy. World Scientific, 2020.
• “Messy Multilateralism.” In The Future of the International System, CSIS Report.

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Working Papers & In Progress

• The World Bank’s Climate Finance as a Global Public Good: Allocation Dynamics, Catalytic & Greening Impacts. With Asli Leblebicioglu. (Book, near completion.)
• “The Catalytic Impact of the World Bank’s Climate Finance in Emerging Markets.” With A. Leblebicioglu. (Completed, under review.)
• “The Distributional Consequences of Regime Complexity: Evidence from Multilateral Climate Finance.” With I. Bellezza. (Completed, pre-submission.)

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