International Organization articles from January 1999

International Organization archives from January 1999

Toward a positive theory of international institutions: regulating international aviation markets.
January 1, 1999... The rapid growth in global trade in recent decades poses major analytic issues for our understanding of the international institutions and agreements underlying this expansion. Partly in response to increasingly global markets and partly a...

Origins of the Federal Reserve System: international incentives and the domestic free-rider problem.
January 1, 1999... From the Civil War to 1914, the United States had one of the worst financial systems in the world. The dominant institutional feature of the system was the absence of a central bank, and its most salient performance characteristics were the...

Democratic institutions and exchange-rate commitments.
January 1, 1999... From the end of World War II until 1971, exchange-rate practices were governed by the Bretton Woods system (or the dollar standard) - an international regime of fixed exchange rates with the U.S. dollar serving as the anchor currency. The...

Asset specificity and the political behavior of firms: lobbying for subsidies in Norway.
January 1, 1999... In this article we provide empirical evidence that under pressure from international competition firms whose assets are more specific (or less mobile) are indeed more likely to lobby for subsidies, other things equal. Applying insights from...

Retaliation, bargaining, and the pursuit of "free and fair" trade.
January 1, 1999... Introduction In this article we empirically examine the hypothesis that retaliation by the United States can successfully deter protectionism in its partner countries. A striking feature of any comparison of tariff and nontariff barrier...

Case studies and the statistical worldview: review of King, Keohane, and Verba's 'Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research.'.(comments on the philosophies in the book authored by Gary King, O. Keohane and Sydney Verba)
January 1, 1999... Introduction Is there a single logic of explanation common to all empirical social scientific research? Is that logic a statistical one? Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba's Designing Social Inquiry answers "yes" to both...