Broadly viewing the global economy as a political competition that produces winners and
losers, International Political Economy holistically and accessibly introduces the field of IPE …

Reliance on established macroeconomic thinking is not of much use in trying to understand
what to do in response to the constellation of forces driving up inflation and slowing down …

We study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of “stimulus checks” to US
taxpayers and the single round of direct payments to Hong Kong citizens. The first two …

With the popularity of e-commerce, consumers purchase durable products online more
frequently. In order to effectively communicate information about products, various product …

We examine the distribution of household consumption, income and savings from 2019
through the end of 2020 using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and other data. This …

The COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented in scale and impact, has significantly influenced
consumer spending. This study leverages a longitudinal transaction dataset from South …

This chapter provides an overview on the evolution of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and on
how they were impacted by Covid-19. Evidence from recent studies on Italy shows that …

The rise in inflation in 2021-22 sparked a growing literature and debate over the causes of
the surge as well as the near-and medium-term path for inflation. This review offers three key …

This article examines how the COVID‐19 pandemic affected European trade patterns.
Specifically, dynamic panel data models are estimated over the period 2019M1–2021M12 to …

Using US Bureau of Labor Statistics data and novel analytical methods, this article shows
how automotive dealerships contributed to new-vehicle consumer inflation through markup …