This thesis makes two unique contributions to the International Political Economy literature. It presents the first comprehensive, empirical investigation of petrodollar accumulation and recycling spanning the period 1980-2021. It also corrects the misconception that petrodollar recycling in the...

International tax law has traditionally been built upon bilateral treaties and unilateral actions, while trade law has traditionally been multilateral and international investment law has been bilateral but with Most Favored Nation (MFN) clauses that render it effectively multilateral. This...

We develop the first firm-level measure of regulatory pipeline: the average number of proposed federal rules that are relevant to the firm. The measure is based on a granular data set which tracks the entire rulemaking activity of all federal agencies since 1995. Out of 41,000 rule proposals,...