The Journal of International Economics is intended to serve as the primary outlet for theoretical and empirical research in all areas of international economics
The JIE is pleased to announce that it now allows Short Paper submissions.
Manuscripts should be under 6,000 words, with at most 5 exhibits (tables or figures).
The first decision will be accept, accept conditional on expositional changes, reject, or desk reject.
We're proud to establish a new prize: the Calvo award for the best paper on international macroeconomics published in the JIE. This prize honors Guillermo Calvo, one of the most prominent researchers in intl macro. We're honored & grateful that he agreed to lend his name to it.
Announcing the first Summer School in International Economics.
Hosted by University of Crete (Rethymnon, Greece) June 14-16, 2023.
Lectures by
@LucaFornaro3
,
@skalemliozcan
, Mendoza, Costinot, Eaton & Rappoport.
PhD students, apply by January 30:
Welcome to new co-editors Tommaso Monacelli
@monacelt
, Laura Alfaro, and Kim Ruhl!
We are grateful to outgoing co-editors
@fabroner
,
@skalemliozcan
, and Ralph Ossa for their years of service.
We are pleased to announce that Yan Bai (
@YANBAI25157736
), from the University of Rochester, and Gianmarco Ottaviano, from Bocconi University have joined our editorial board as co-editors. We wish to thank Vivian Yue and Treb Allen (
@TrebAllen
) for their excellent service.
Call for Papers: The World Bank (
@wb_research
) and the editorial team from JIE will host a conference to discuss the role of international trade on development outcomes in Washington, DC on Sept 12-13, 2024.
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2024
The
@MinneapolisFed
and the Journal of International Economics are organizing a conference on Sovereign Debt on November 9-10. Submit your paper by August 15. The special volume of the JIE will be guest edited by
@cristinarellano
&
@JavierBianchi7
.
"Monetary policy surprises and exchange rate behavior" by
@RefetGurkaynak
, Hakan Kara, Burçin Kısacıkoğlu, Sang Seok Lee (
@BilkentEconDept
). Most models predict appreciation after unexpected tightening. But event studies show currencies often depreciate.
The Journal of International Economics: publishing since 1971, tweeting since 2020.
We'll be sharing newly accepted articles, research highlights, and other JIE-related info.
#EconTwitter
New submission option! You may now elect to expedite the editorial process at the JIE using our Prior Review Process. Along with your paper, submit the decision letter and referee reports from a top-5 journal by choosing "PRP" in the Article Type Menu.
The 12th paper to win the JIE's Bhagwati Award for International Trade is "The Comparative Advantage of Cities" by Donald Davis
@newyorkonomics
and Jonathan Dingel
@TradeDiversion
, which appeared in the JIE in Volume 123.
We are pleased to announce that Isabela Manelici (LSE -
@LSEEcon
), Dmitry Mukhin (LSE), Nitya Pandalai-Nayar -
@nityanayar
(UT Austin -
@UTAustinEcon
) and Liliana Varela -
@liliana_vvarela
(LSE) and have joined our editorial board as Associate-Editors.
The first paper to win the JIE's Calvo Award for International Macroeconomics is "Inflation expectations as a policy tool?" by Olivier Coibion
@UTAustinEcon
,
@YGorodnichenko
, Saten Kumar &
@mathpedemonte
, which appeared in the JIE in Volume 124.
We are pleased to announce that Jesse Schreger (
@JSchreger
), from CBS-
@Columbia_Biz
and Eduardo Morales, from Princeton-
@PrincetonEcon
, have joined our editorial board as co-editors. We wish to thank Matilde Bombardini (
@m_bombardini
) and Alan Taylor for their excellent service.
New: "Does it matter how central banks accumulate reserves? Evidence from sovereign spreads" by César Sosa-Padilla (
@cesarspa1
) and Federico Sturzenegger (
@fedesturze
-
@EconUdesa
).
1/2
New: "Trade, farmers' heterogeneity, and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Colombia" by Margarita Gafaro
@mgafarog
@BancoRepublica
and Heitor Pellegrina
@NYUAD_SocialSci
. Why do only some farmers sell to distant markets? 1/2
New: Special Issue on Financial Frictions: Macroeconomic Implications and Policy Options for Emerging Economies. This volume collects some of the papers presented at the conference held (virtually) at the Central Bank of Chile in May 2021. 1/3
We are pleased to announce that Juanma Castro-Vincenzi -
@castrovincenzi
(Harvard -
@HarvardEcon
), Manuel Garcia-Santana (World Bank), Rohan Kekre (Chicago Booth) and Zhengyang Jiang (Northwestern) have joined our editorial board as Associate-Editors.
New: "International Reserves and Central Bank Independence" by
@gutysamano
. Why do economies paying significant sovereign spreads accumulate international reserves instead of paying back public debt? What is the social welfare effect? 1/3
New: "Bias and consistency in three-way gravity models" by Martin Weidner (
@OxfordEconDept
),
@TomZylkin
(
@urichmond
). Are you running gravity regressions using the Poisson PML estimator in a panel setting? Take a look. 1/4
Call for papers: Conference on "International Fragmentation, Supply Chains, and Financial Frictions" in Santiago, Chile, on March 1-2,2023.
Papers that are selected for presentation will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the JIE.
The most cited
@JIntlEcon
article since 2018 is "On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements: Lessons from twenty years of trade integration" by Scott L. Baier,
@YotovG
, and
@TomZylkin
.
New: "Trade, unemployment, and monetary policy" by Matteo Cacciatore (
@HEC_Montreal
) &
@FabioGhironi
. Does trade integration makes monetary cooperation more desirable? How do trade linkages affect conduct of monetary policy in short and long run? 1/4
Led by editors Enrique Mendoza, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare & Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, the JIE's impact factor has risen to 3.3 while time to first decision is down to 10 weeks. Please welcome our new editors, Costas Arkolakis & Martin Uribe, who aim to continue these trends.
It's been twenty years since the JIE published one of its most cited articles: "The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade" by
@davidhummels
, Jun Ishii, and Kei-Mu Yi. (Volume 54, Issue 1, June 2001)
New: "A theory of economic sanctions as terms-of-trade manipulation" by John Sturm Beck (
@JohnSturmBecko
). How can a country design cost-effective trade sanctions?
1/2
New: "Accounting for the new gains from trade liberalization" by Chang-Tai Hsieh (
@ChicagoBooth
), Ralph Ossa (
@econ_uzh
), Nicholas Li (
@UofT
), Mu-Jeung Yang (
@UUtah
). "We challenge the conventional wisdom on the... 'new' gains from trade." 1/4
New: "Capital flows in an aging world" by Zsofia Barani (
@ceu
), Nicolas Coeurdacier (
@ScPoResearch
) and Stephane Guibaud (
@ScPoEcon
). An aging global population has important implications for the international flow of capital.
1/2
New: "China's overseas lending" by Sebastian Horn,
@carmenmreinhart
, Christoph Trebesch (
@kielinstitute
). Half of China's lending to developing countries is absent from the most widely used official debt statistics. 1/4
Call for Papers:
@WIeconomics
and the University of Rochester will host a conference to discuss advances in dynamic, quantitative trade models in Madison, Wisconsin on November 21-22, 2024. Submit by midnight ET on June 23, 2024, to: 1/3
New: "The dark side of the boom: Dutch disease, competition with China, and technological upgrading in Colombian manufacturing" by Lee Branstetter (
@Carnegie
Mellon) and Ricardo Laverde-Cubillos (
@rlaverdec
).
1/2
New: "Economic and policy uncertainty: Aggregate export dynamics and the value of agreements" by
@carballoecon
,
@kylelhandley
& Nuno Limão
@bsosumd
. Can credible trade agreements mitigate international spillovers of uncertainty? Study of US exporters. 1/4
New: "Reserve accumulation, growth and financial crises" by
@BenignoGianluca
,
@LucaFornaro3
&
@mw_econ
. Fast-growing emerging countries run current account surpluses and accumulate foreign reserves. This article presents a theory of export-led growth. 1/4
New: "Exchange rate policy and heterogeneity in small open economies" by Aleksei Oskolkov (
@aioskolkov
). How do exchange rate regimes shape the distributional effects of external shocks? 1/2.
New: "Global Banks, Dollar Funding, and Regulation" by
@i_aldasoro
, Torsten Ehlers &
@egemeneren87
. Non-US global banks hold $13 trillion in dollar-denominated assets. This article examines a key source of their dollar funding: US money market funds. 1/4
New: "Sovereign Spreads and the Effects of Fiscal Austerity" by Diego Anzoategui. When are fiscal austerity policies likely to be self-defeating? This article introduces a small-open-economy GE model that incorporates the relevant trade-offs. 1/3
We are happy to share that the first
#JIEsummerschool
took place at the University of Crete on Jun 14-16. Over 90 students participated in the lectures by A. Costinot, J. Eaton,
@LucaFornaro3
,
@skalemliozcan
, E. Mendoza, and V. Rappoport.
New: "Unveiling the dance of commodity prices and the global financial cycle" by Luciana Juvenal (
@luccitweeting
) and Ivan Petrella (
@WarwickBSchool
).
1/2
New: "The rise in foreign currency bonds: The role of US monetary policy and capital controls" by Philippe Bacchetta(
@phbacche
), Rachel Cordonier and Ouarda Merrouche(
@OuardaMerrouche
). The paper studies bond issuance by firms in Emerging Markets (EM).
1/2
New: "A tale of two global monetary policies" by
@_SiLviA_mA
and Tsvetelina Nenova
@LBS
. Is US monetary policy unique in its international spillovers? This article compares and contrasts effects of unconventional
@federalreserve
&
@ecb
policies. 1/2
Announcement: 50% Discount on Submission Fees for Students.
The JIE is pleased to announce that submissions where all authors are students will pay a reduced fee of 95 USD. For more details, please see
New: "Robots, tasks, and trade" by Erhan Artuc (
@wb_research
), Paulo Bastos and Bob Rijkers (
@BobRijkers
). How does robotization affect North-South trade?
1/2
New: "Endogenous product adjustment and exchange rate pass-through" by Andreas Freitag (
@UniBasel_en
) and Sarah Lein (
@LeinSarahMarit
). Firms respond to an exchange rate appreciation by increasing product quality.
1/2
New: "Monetary policy shocks and consumer expectations in the euro area" by Martin Geiger (
@LieInstitut
), Daniel Gründler and Johann Scharler (
@econstatUIBK
). Consumers update their expectations broadly in line with empirical and theoretical models.
1/2
New: "On the evolution of comparative advantage: Path-dependent versus path-defying changes" by
@NDConiglio
, Davide Vurchio (
@unibait
),
@NicoCantore
, Michele Clara (
@UNIDO
). How much do current exports predict future patterns of specialization? 1/4
New: "The unequal effects of trade and automation across local labor markets" by Simon Galle (
@Simon__Galle
) and Linnea Lorentzen (
@Linnea_Lor
). How does the China shock compare to automation of labor, in its GE impact across commuting zones?
1/2
New: "Risk sharing and the adoption of the Euro" by Alessandro Ferrari (
@aferrari0
) and Anna Rogantini(
@AnnaRogantiniPi
). Has the Euro affected the consumption smoothing of countries that adopted it? 1/2
The 2020 Bhagwati Award for the Best Article in the Journal of International Economics went to
@kathrynholston
, Thomas Laubach & John C. Williams (
@NewYorkFed
) for “Measuring the natural rate of interest: International trends and determinants” . Congrats!
New: "Is 3D Printing a Threat to Global Trade? The Trade Effects You Didn't Hear About" by
@CarolineFreund
,
@a_mulabdic
, and Michele Ruta
@WorldBank
. In principle, we might trade digital files and print goods locally. But what happens in practice? 1/3
New: "The boom of corporate debt in emerging markets: Carry trade or save to invest?" by José De Gregorio (
@fenuchile
) and Mauricio Jara (
@decon_uchile
).
1/2
New: "Unequal Gains, Prolonged Pain: A Model of Protectionist Overshooting and Escalation" by
@emilyjblanchard
&
@gerald_willmann
. This article incorporates labor market frictions and rising inequality into a workhorse dynamic political economy model. 1/4
New: "Exchange rate risk, banks' currency mismatches, and credit supply" by Puriya Abbassi (
@bundesbank
) and Falk Bräuning (
@BostonFed
). How do exchange rate movements transmit to the real economy?
1/2
Forthcoming in the JIE: "The cost of a global tariff war: A sufficient statistics approach" by
@ALashkaripour
(
@IndianaUniv
). What damage would a global tariff war do? A computational advance to estimate the costs for many countries and industries. 1/4
New: "Robust optimal macroprudential policy" by Federico Bennet(
@frbennett13
), Giselle Montamat and Francisco Roch(
@francisco_roch
). How is macroprudential policy affected by fears of model misspecification?
1/2
New: "GVCs and trade elasticities with multistage production" by Robert Johnson (
@nd_econ
) and Andreas Moxnes (
@m0xnes
). How do global value chains shape trade?
1/2
New: "Forecasting the U.S. Dollar in the 21st Century" by Charles Engel (
@WIeconomics
) and Steve Wu (
@SteveWuEcon
). Can exchange rates be predicted?
1/2
New: "Sudden stop with local currency debt" by Siming Liu (
@siml98023103
), Chang Ma and Hewei Shen (
@hewei_shen
). How does local currency debt affect macroprudential policy?
1/2
New: "Revisiting the exchange rate pass through: A general equilibrium perspective" by Javier García-Cicco (
@BancoCentral_AR
), Mariana García-Schmidt (
@bcentralchile
). How to interpret empirical estimates of price responses to nominal exchange rates? 1/3
New: "Real interest rates and productivity in small open economies" by Tommaso Monacelli (
@monacelt
), Luca Sala and Daniele Siena (
@DanieleSiena_
). What is the effect of real interest rates on productivity?
1/2
New: "Financial Shocks, Credit Spreads, and the International Credit Channel" by
@AmbrogioCB
& Andrej Sokol (
@ecb
). Does the international credit channel transmit US financial shocks? A comparison to monetary-policy and central-bank information shocks. 1/4
New: "UIP deviations: Insights from event studies" by Elias Albagli (
@CBChileresearch
), Luis Ceballos, Sebastian Claro and Damian Romero (
@dcromeroc
). Does Uncovered Interest Rate Parity (UIP) validity depend on the nature of the shocks?
1/2
New: "Immigration and occupational comparative advantage" by Gordon Hanson (
@gordon_h_hanson
) and Chen Liu. Why is job selection by high-skilled foreign-born workers strongly correlated with country of origin?
1/2
New: "The open-economy ELB: Contractionary monetary easing and the trilemma" by Paolo Cavallino (
@paolocavallino
) and Damiano Sandri (
@damianosandri
) of
@BIS_org
.
How an effective lower bound (ELB) changes the monetary trilemma.
1/2
New: "Protectionism and the business cycle" by
@a_barattieri
, Matteo Cacciatore (
@HEC_Montreal
),
@FabioGhironi
. Can trade barriers serve as macroeconomic stimulus? VAR estimates & a SOE model w/ heterogeneous firms & nominal rigidities suggest not. 1/5
New: "Escaping import competition in China" by Ana Cecília Fieler (
@YaleEconomics
) and Ann E. Harrison (
@BerkeleyHaas
). How do firms respond to increased import competition?
1/2
New: "Questioning the puzzle: Fiscal policy, real exchange rate and inflation" by
@FerraraLaurent
, Luca Metelli (
@bancaditalia
),
@filonat
,
@DanieleSiena_
. Empirically, ↑ in US government spending appreciates the real exchange rate and ↑ inflation. 1/4
New: "International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level" by Wolfgang Keller and Hale Utar (
@HaleUtar
). Which workers are most affected by increases in imports?
1/2
New: "International input–output linkages and changing business cycle volatility" by Wataru Miyamoto (
@HKUFBE
) and Thuy Lan Nguyen (
@ThuyLanNguyen1
).
1/2
New: "Global banking and the international transmission of shocks: A quantitative analysis" by José Fillat (
@BostonFed
), Stefania Garetto (
@StefaniaGaretto
-
@bu_economics
) and Arthur Corea-Smith. How should large banks be regulated?
1/2
New: "Trade and minimum wages in general equilibrium: Theory and evidence" by Xue Bai
@Xue31
, Arpita Chatterjee
@arpchat
, Kala Krishna (
@PennStateEcon
), Hong Ma (
@Tsinghua_Uni
). How does a minimum wage affect productivity & exit of heterogeneous firms? 1/4
New: "The costs and benefits of rules of origin in modern free trade agreements" by Emanuel Ornelas (
@EmanuelOrnelas_
) and John L. Turner (
@TerryCollege
). Can rules of origin improve welfare?
1/2
New: "The political economy of protection in GVCs: Evidence from Chinese micro data" by Rodney D. Ludema, Anna Maria Mayda (
@GCER_Georgetown
), Zhi Yu, Miaojie Yu. How do component suppliers influence governments' tariffs on imports made w/ their parts? 1/4
New: "Preemptive austerity with rollover risk" by Juan Carlos Conesa (
@jcconesaSBU
) and Timothy Kehoe (
@TimTkehoe
). Why do countries engage in austerity in the presence of low interest rates?
1/2
New: "Foreign Currency Loans and Credit Risk: Evidence from U.S. Banks" Friederike Niepmann & Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (
@federalreserve
). This paper uses loan-level data to analyze how exchange rate changes affect firms' ability to service their debt. 1/4
"Reviving the Salter-Swan Small Open Economy Model" by Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé & Martín Uribe (
@columbia_econ
). This model emphasizes relative price of non-tradables, not the terms of trade, as mechanism of small open economy macroeconomic adjustment.
New: "Commodity prices and banking crises" by
@a_presbitero
&
@MEDevEcon
. Commodity prices are one of the most important factors driving economic aggregates in developing countries. Do they drive financial sector distress? 1/4
The new Calvo award will be given every two years, starting in 2021. The Calvo award will alternate with the current Bhagwati award, which will now be for the best paper in international trade.
New: "Labor share, foreign demand and superstar exporters" by
@LudovicPanon
. A growing share of value added is in exporters with lower labor shares. This article studies how trade affects labor shares using French micro data on manufacturing exporters. 1/3
New: "Sovereign bond prices, haircuts and maturity" by Tamon Asonuma
@IMFNews
,
@DirkNiepelt
, and Romain Ranciere
@USC_Econ
. In practice, do unsecured debt instruments rank equally among themselves and with other external debt obligations? 1/4
New: "What Price Index Should Central Banks Target? An Open Economy Analysis" by Misaki Matsumura. Should monetary policy target headline CPI, core CPI or PPI? Prior studies describe closed economies. This article uses a multi-sector DGSE model of SOE. 1/4
New: "Gains from trade liberalization with flexible extensive margin adjustment" by Chang-Tai Hsieh (
@ChicagoBooth
), Nicholas Li (
@TorontoMet
), Ralph Ossa (
@econ_uzh
), and Mu-Jeung Yang (
@OUeconomics
).
1/2.
New: "Exchange rate misalignment and external imbalances: What is the optimal monetary policy response?" by Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola (
@ECB_Research
) and Sylvain Leduc. How should monetary policy respond to excessive capital inflows ?
1/2
New: "Quality and gravity in international trade" by
@LisandraFlach
& Florian Unger (
@uniGoettingen
). This article analyzes how quality differentiation influences the effect of trade costs on export flows and firm entry. 1/3
Call for Papers: The 2024 meeting of the International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISOM) will be hosted by
@BIS_org
in Basel on June 4-5. Deadline for submissions is October 15. Please see for more details.
New: "How Does Import Market Power Matter for Trade Agreements?" by
@Beshkar
&
@rlee1390
. Efficient trade deals should make import market power irrelevant to negotiated tariffs, but there is a correlation. This article examines two hypotheses. 1/4