Stephen Weymouth

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Stephen Weymouth is an assistant professor of international business in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He earned a Ph.D. in political science and international affairs from the University of California, San Diego in 2010. Professor Weymouth's research examines the political economy of international trade and investment, property rights institutions, and firms' nonmarket strategies.


Publications

2013. "Unbundling the Relationship between Authoritarian Legislatures and Political Risk" (with Nathan Jensen and Edmund Malesky). British Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming.

2013. "Government Partisanship and Property Rights: Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence" (with J. Lawrence Broz). Economics and Politics. Forthcoming.

2012. "Firm Lobbying and Influence in Developing Countries: A Multilevel Approach." Business and Politics 14(4): 1-26.

2012. "The Social Construction of Policy Reform: Economists and Trade Liberalization around the World" (with J. Muir Macpherson). International Interactions 38(5): 670-702.
   
2011. "Political Institutions and Property Rights: Veto Players and Foreign Exchange Commitments in 127 Countries." Comparative Political Studies 44(2): 211-240.

2011. "National Competitiveness in Comparative Perspective: Evidence from Latin America" (with Richard Feinberg). Latin American Politics and Society 53(3): 141-159.

2010. "The Politics of Stock Market Development" (with Peter Gourevitch and Pablo Pinto). Review of International Political Economy 17(2): 378-409. 

2008. "Exchange Rate Policy Attitudes: Direct Evidence from Survey Data" (with J. Lawrence Broz and Jeffry Frieden). IMF Staff Papers 55(3): 417-444. 


Working Papers

"Why Currency Undervaluation Provokes Trade Disputes in Some Settings but Not Others" (with J. Bradford Jensen and Dennis Quinn).
Conference Presentations:
Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, Charlottesville, VA, November 2012 
Annual Strategy and the Business Environment Conference, Austin, TX, May 2013
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 2013

"Firms, Politics, and the Global Organization of Production: Evidence from U.S. Imports" (with Pablo Pinto). Conference Presentations:
Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2013
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2013
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. August 2013