Mark Manger

Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Professor, Department of Political Science

Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies

mark.manger@utoronto.ca

416-946-8927

Areas of interest

The political economy of sovereign debt
Exchange rate policy
Trade agreements.

Biography

Mark Manger is Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs at the Munk School, and Director of the Global Economic Policy Lab. His work investigates on the political economy of sovereign debt, exchange rate policy, and trade agreements. He is the author of “Investing in Protection: The Politics Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South” (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and in Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Politics, and World Development, among others. He has been a consultant to the Governments of Japan and Canada on the economic potential and feasibility of free trade agreements, including the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement.

Select publications

Books

Investing in Protection: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009. Shortlisted for the Biannual International Relations Prize of the Canadian Political Science Association. Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, The Review of International Organizations, Pacific Affairs, Latin American Politics and Society, Asian Journal of International Law, and Revista de Economía Institucional.
“Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence.” With M. Gavin. Comparative Political Studies. 56 (3) 2023:1189-1223. (16/294 in Political Science, JCR 2020).
“Power, Ideas, and World Bank Conditionality.” With B. Cormier. Review of International Organizations, 17 (3) 2022:397–425. (5/294 in Political Science, Journal Citation Reports 2020)
“Knowing When to Splurge: Precautionary Saving and Chinese-Canadians.” With J. S. Matthews. Journal of Asian Economics, 76 (5) 2021: 101367.

Chapters and Entries

“The Origin of Persistent Current Account Imbalances in the post-Bretton Woods Era.” With T. Sattler. Comparative Political Studies. 53 (3–4) 2020:613–664. (16/294 in Political Science, JCR 2020)
“Learning and the Precision of International Investment Agreements.” With C. Peinhardt. International Interactions. 43 (6) 2017:920–40. (65/94 in International Relations, JCR 2020)
“Hubs of Governance: Higher-order Effects of PTA formation.” With S. Y. Kim.
Political Science Research and Methods 5 (3) 2017:467–88. (34/182 in Political Science, JCR 2020)
“The Coevolution of Trade Agreements and Democracy: A Simulation-based Approach.” With M. Pickup. The Journal of Conflict Resolution 60 (1) 2016:164–191. (16/146 in International Relations, JCR 2020)
“The Economic Logic of Asian PTAs: the Role of Intra-Industry Trade.”
The Journal of East Asian Studies 14 (2) 2014:151–184. (95/254 in Interdisciplinary, JCR 2020)
“Political Trade Dependence and North-South Trade Agreement Formation.” With K. Shadlen. International Studies Quarterly 58 (1) 2014:79-91. Winner of the Latin American Studies Association 2015 Open Article Prize, Economics & Politics Section. (23/146 in International Relations, JCR 2020)
“Vertical Trade Specialization and the Formation of North-South PTAs.”
World Politics 64 (4) 2012: 622–58. (12/144 in International Relations, JCR 2020)
“A Hierarchy of Preferences: A Longitudinal Network Analysis Approach to PTA Formation.”
With M. Pickup and T. Snijders. The Journal of Conflict Resolution. 56 (5) 2012: 852–877. (16/146 in International Relations, JCR 2020)
“International Investment Agreements and Services Markets: Locking in Market Failure?”
World Development 36 (11) 2008: 2456–69. (6/56 in Development Studies, JCR 2020)
“Competition and Bilateralism in Trade Policy: The Case of Japan’s Free Trade Agreements.”
Review of International Political Economy 12 (5) 2005: 804–28. (7/146 in International Relations, JCR 2020)
“Foreign Direct Investment,”, in R. Pekkanen and S. Pekkanen, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics, Oxford Handbook Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).
“Asian Trade Agreements in Services: Filling Form with Content”, in M. Elsig and G. Spilker, eds., The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019): 388– 406.
“Trade and Development,” with K. Shadlen, in L. Martin, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Political Econ- omy of International Trade, Oxford Handbook Series. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015): 475–92.
“PTA Design, Tariffs, and Intra-Industry Trade,” in A. Dür and M. Elsig, Trade Cooperation: The Purpose, Design and Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015): 195– 217.
“Preferential agreements and multilateralism,” in S. Woolcock and K. Heydon, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy. (Farnham, UK: Ashgate 2012): 405–21.
“A quantitative perspective on trends in IIA rules,” in A. de Mestral & C. Lévesque, eds. Improving International Investment Agreements. (London: Routledge 2012): 76–92.
“Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements,” Oxford Bibliographies Online, Political Science
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
“Common standards in a bilateral regime: A political economy perspective on international investment
law,” Japanese Yearbook of International Law 53 2010: 41–63.
“Nihon no FTA senryaku no zenbō to haikei (The full picture and background of Japan’s FTA strategy)” in Nakatsūji K. (Ed.) Higashi Ajia kyōdōtai to iu gensō (The Illusion of an East Asian Community). (Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2006).
“Humanitarian Interventions—Even Against the National Interest?” in E. Müller, P. Schneider & K. Thony (Eds.) Menschenrechtsschutz (The Protection of Human Rights). (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002).
“The OSCE—an Unsuitable Model for the ASEAN Regional Forum?,” in IFSH (Ed.), OSCE Yearbook 2001. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002).