Research

Peer-reviewed publications

Layering of informal organizations in international regimes: The G20 Common Framework and the sovereign debt regime (with Isabel Rodriguez-Toribio) 2025. Review of International Political Economy. 

Accountable to whom? Public opinion on aid conditionality in recipient countries (with Richard Clark and Lindsay R. Dolan). 2025. International Studies Quarterly. vol. 69, issue 3, sqaf057. 

China, the IMF, and sovereign debt crises (with Lauren L. Ferry). 2024. International Studies Quarterly. vol. 68, issue 3, sqae119.

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The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020 (with Lauren L. Ferry). 2024. The Review of International Organizations. vol. 19, pp. 411-442.

Migration and development finance: A survey experiment on diaspora bonds (with Lindsay R. Dolan). 2024. The Review of International Organizations. vol 19, pp. 185-215.

Global capital cycles and market discipline: Perceptions of developing country borrowers. 2022. British Journal of Political Science. vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1944–1953.

Cascading noncompliance: Explaining how international cooperation breaks down (with Jonas Bunte and Geoffrey Gertz). 2022. Review of International Political Economy. vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 1395-1419.

Migrants as Engines of Financial Globalization: The Case of Global Banking (with David Leblang). 2021. International Studies Quarterly. vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 360–374.

Emulate or Differentiate? Chinese development finance, competition, and World Bank infrastructure funding. 2021. The Review of International Organizations. vol. 16, pp. 265–292.

Note: In June 2021, I published a correction to this paper. Correction to: Emulate or Differentiate? Chinese development finance, competition, and World Bank infrastructure funding. 2021. The Review of International Organizations. 

Regulatory convergence in the financial periphery: How interdependence shapes regulators’ decisions. (with Emily Jones). 2019. International Studies Quarterly. vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 908-922.

The Limits of Globalizing Basel Banking Standards. (with Emily Jones). 2017 Journal of Financial Regulation. vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 89–124.

Working papers and work in progress

Competition, Comparison, and the Global Gateway: Citizen perceptions of the EU and China as Funder of Megaprojects (with Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe and Simone Dietrich)

Trade knowledge and preferences: Evidence from Ghana (with Richard Clark and Lindsay R. Dolan)

Terms and Conditions: The Pricing and Politics of Bilateral Sovereign Lending (with Layna Mosley)

Central Banks as Creditors and Domestic Restructuring (with Ben Cormier and Lauren Ferry)

The Preferred Partner? How Co-financing with the African Development Bank Shapes Public Perceptions of Foreign Assistance (with Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe and Simone Dietrich)

The electoral consequences of mass violence: Evidence from the 2025 Canadian election (with Sam Rowan and Colin Scott)

Dissatisfaction and Partial Membership in International Organizations (with Isabel Rodriguez-Toribio and Sam Rowan)

A new politics of aid? The Ghanaian case in the changing international political economy of development assistance Global Economic Governance Programme Working Paper Series 2015/104