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

Manger, Mark. 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.

Selected Articles

Manger, Mark. “Competition and Bilateralism in Trade Policy: The Case of Japan’s Free Trade Agreements.” Review of International Political Economy 12, no. 5 (2005): 804–828.
(7/146 in International Relations, JCR 2020)
Manger, Mark. “Vertical Trade Specialization and the Formation of North-South PTAs.” World Politics 64, no. 4 (2012): 622–658.
(12/144 in International Relations, JCR 2020)
Manger, Mark and K. Shadlen. “Political Trade Dependence and North-South Trade Agreement Formation.” International Studies Quarterly 58, no. 1 (2014): 79–91.
Winner of the LASA 2015 Open Article Prize, Economics & Politics Section.
Manger, Mark and T. Sattler. “The Origin of Persistent Current Account Imbalances in the Post-Bretton Woods Era.” Comparative Political Studies 53, no. 3–4 (2020): 613–664.
(16/294 in Political Science, JCR 2020)
Manger, Mark and B. Cormier. “Power, Ideas, and World Bank Conditionality.” Review of International Organizations 17, no. 3 (2022): 397–425.
(5/294 in Political Science, JCR 2020)
Manger, Mark and M. Gavin. “Populism and De Facto Central Bank Independence.” Comparative Political Studies 56, no. 3 (2023): 1189–1223.
(16/294 in Political Science, JCR 2020)

Selected Chapters and Entries

Manger, Mark. “Humanitarian Interventions—Even Against the National Interest?” In Menschenrechtsschutz, edited by E. Müller, P. Schneider & K. Thony. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002.
Manger, Mark. “Preferential Agreements and Multilateralism.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy, edited by S. Woolcock and K. Heydon. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2012: 405–421.
Manger, Mark. “PTA Design, Tariffs, and Intra-Industry Trade.” In Trade Cooperation: The Purpose, Design and Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements, edited by A. Dür and M. Elsig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015: 195–217.
Manger, Mark and K. Shadlen. “Trade and Development.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade, edited by L. Martin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015: 475–492.
Manger, Mark. “Asian Trade Agreements in Services: Filling Form with Content.” In The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance, edited by M. Elsig and G. Spilker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019: 388–406.
Manger, Mark. “Foreign Direct Investment.” In The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics, edited by R. Pekkanen and S. Pekkanen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.