Trade and Investment Rules

Working Papers, Journal Articles & Reports

• Investor-State Disputes Threaten the Global Green Energy Transition

  May 2022

• How Global Trade Rules Put the World at Risk for Financial Crisis

  February 2022

• Policy Space for Capital Flow Management: An Empirical Investigation

  December 2021

• Insulin Imports Fail to Meet Many Countries’ Needs

  August 2021

• Trading Away Industrialization? Contexts and Prospects of the EU-MERCOSUR Agreement

  May 2021

• Evaluating the Impact of Data Exclusivity on the Price per Kilogram of Pharmaceutical Imports

  April 2021

• Future Trade & Investment: US-Kenya FTA and Safeguarding Public Health

  April 2021

• Mitigation of CO2 Emissions from International Shipping through National Allocation

  April 2021

• RCEP: Goods Market Access Implications for ASEAN

  March 2021

• Open Letter to TRIPS Council Members: Remove Barriers to Access for Critical COVID-19 Supplies

  November 2020

• Domestic Resource Mobilization and the Trade and Investment Regime: The Need for Policy Coherence

  July 2020

• The Fiscal Impacts of Trade and Investment Treaties

  July 2020

• The Social Costs of Graduating from Least Developed Country Status: Analyzing the Impact of Increased Protection on Insulin Prices in Bangladesh

  May 2020

• Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

  December 2019

• The Impact of Trade and Investment Treaties on Mobilization of Taxation in Developing Countries

  November 2019

• Reforming US Trade Policy for Shared Prosperity and the Planet

  November 2019

• Rethinking Trade Treaties & Access to Medicines: Toward a Policy-Oriented Research Agenda

  November 2019

• The Co-Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement: Environmental and Social Safeguards, Infrastructure Investment, and Deforestation in the Andean Amazon, 2000-2015

  August 2019

• Policy Space for Public Health & SDG3: A Literature Review on the Impact of Trade and Investment Treaties on Access to Medicines

  June 2019

• Quantifying the Policy Space for Regulating Capital Flows in Trade and Investment Treaties

  April 2019

• Expansive Disclosure: Regulating Third-Party Funding for Future Analysis and reform

  November 2018

• Assessing the Climate Impacts of U.S. Trade Agreements

  May 2018

• Could Trade Treaties Trump Green Jobs? Upper and Lower Bounds on Clean-Energy Employment Under Varying Trade Policies

  November 2017

• Policy Space for Jobs and Clean Energy: Trade, Investment Rules, and Local Content Requirements in Renewable Energy Policies

  November 2017

• Standardizing Sustainable Development: A Comparison of Development Banks in the Americas

  August 2017

• Trade in the Balance: Reconciling Trade and Climate Policy

  November 2016

• Renewable Energy Investment in Africa and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

  November 2016

• Climate Finance and Developing Countries: The Need for Regime Development

  November 2016

• Big Banks Finance Water-Damaging, Climate-Warming Energy Projects

  August 2016

• Mission Creep The Emerging Role of International Investment Agreements in Sovereign Debt Restructuring

  May 2016

• Europe’s Regulations at Risk: The Environmental Costs of the TTIP

  April 2016

• Colombia and China: Social and Environmental Impact of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

  April 2015

• An Assessment of the Environmental and Social Impacts of Chinese Trade and FDI in Bolivia

  April 2015

• FDI and Trade: Is China Relevant for the Future of Our Environment? The Case of Argentina

  April 2015

• Investment Treaties Bring More Risk Than Benefit

  November 2014

• NAFTA’s Uninvited Guest: China and the Disintegration of North American Trade

  June 2014

• Crossing the Ocean By Feeling For the BITs: Investor-State Arbitration in China’s Bilateral Investment Treaties

  May 2014

• On Fairness and Freedom: The WTO and Ethical Sourcing Initiatives

  May 2014

• Financial Stability and the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Lessons from Chile and Malaysia

  October 2013

• Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System: A Compatibility Review

  March 2013

• Sovereign Debt Restructuring and International Investment Agreements

  July 2011