Layna Mosley
Biography
Layna Mosley is a professor of politics and international affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics. She directs the Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab, part of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance.
Mosley’s research investigates the connections between domestic politics and the global economy. Much of her research focuses on the politics of sovereign debt, and on how professional investors evaluate and react to political institutions and government policy choices. She also investigates how low- and middle-income governments manage their relationships with creditors, including how they decide whether to borrow from commercial banks or bond investors, and how they market themselves to potential creditors. Another stream of Mosley’s work examines the effect of multinational production and global supply chains on workers’ rights in developing countries, as well as the ways in which U.S. trade policies might affect workers’ rights abroad. With respect to labor rights, she also is interested in efforts at private sector governance, such as the Bangladesh Accord on Building and Fire Safety.
Mosley currently serves as co-editor-in-chief of International Organization. She co-founded the Global Research in International Political Economy (GRIPE) webinar series, co-directing it from May 2020 to September 2022. From 2017 to 2022, she was an executive board member of the Women Also Know Stuff initiative. Prior to joining the faculty at Princeton, Mosley was Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Publications and External Links
Recent Publications
- Government Choices of Debt Instruments (with B. Peter Rosendorff). 2023. International Studies Quarterly 67(2).
- How Do Sovereign Debt Investors React to Political Events in Emerging Market Countries? (with Sarah M. Brooks and Raphael Cunha). 2022. Comparative Political Studies 55(9): 1501-1538.
- Coming to Terms: The Politics of Sovereign Bond Denomination (with Cameron Ballard-Rosa and Rachel Wellhausen). 2022. International Organization 76(1): 32-69. Supplementary Materials; Replication Files. I discuss this paper, as well as some related research, on this episode of the Clauses and Controversies podcast.
- Prospects for Labor-Related Upgrading in Global Supply Chains. 2022. In Kimberly Ann Elliott, ed., Handbook on Globalisation and Labour Standards. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Race and Identity in the Study of International Political Economy. 2021. Global Perspectives 2(1): 22013.
- Labor Upgrading, Trade Agreements and Export Market Opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam. (with Edmund Malesky). Economics & Politics, Early View.
- “Firm Participation in Voluntary Regulatory Initiatives: the Accord, Alliance and US Garment Imports from Bangladesh” (with John Ahlquist). Review of International Organizations (early view). Replication materials via the Harvard Dataverse; Supplemental Appendix.
- “Contingent Advantage? Sovereign Borrowing, Democratic Institutions and Global Capital Cycles.” (with Cameron Ballard-Rosa and Rachel Wellhausen). 2021. British Journal of Political Science.
Recent Non-academic/Non-peer Reviewed
- What Can be Done about the Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis? Good Authority podcast, February 8, 2024.
- The Financial and Economic Dangers of Democratic Backsliding. Published jointly by the Governance Studies program at The Brookings Institution and the States United Democracy Center. July 2023.
- The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis (with B. Peter Rosendorff), Current History, January 2023, pp. 9-14. [.pdf]
- The G-20 Common Framework Needs Upgrades to Prevent a Global Debt Crisis (with B. Peter Rosendorff), World Politics Review, August 2022.