As Japan's longest serving Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe brought political stability to Japan and regional and global leadership on trade and economic diplomacy at a time of great uncertainty. Japan navigated a more assertive China and a USA in retreat from global leadership. Abe led the conclusion...

Does what you exported matter? We build a new global commodity-level export database for the previous era of globalization and find persistence in productive capabilities proxied by economic complexity, export diversification, and sophistication across a century. We also show that productive...

We construct a new global commodity-level export dataset to analyze the persistence of export patterns as proxies of productive capabilities across the first and the current waves of globalization. We find that productive capabilities are path-dependent and historical capabilities are powerful...

This paper outlines our collaborative research project for 2014-16, aimed at evaluating the economic and legal risks associated with the Australian Government's recent approach to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), and broader implications for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and...

Based on an interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research project (2014-7) assessing international investment treaty dispute management more broadly, this paper (abridged from a related project) introduces part of our joint project examining key questions around the effect of investment...

The Asia Pacific region, and especially East Asia, has experienced rapid economic integration without the ‘hard politics' of legally binding economic and political treaties, unlike Europe where integration has been institution‐led. The ‘soft politics' and market‐led integration in East...

This paper outlines our collaborative research project for 2014-16, aimed at evaluating the economic and legal risks and benefits associated with the Australian Government's recent approach to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), and broader implications for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)...