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Overview

Alan O. Sykes is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research focuses on areas intersecting social sciences, business, management and accounting, as well as economics, econometrics, and finance. Within these broad fields, they have contributed particularly to subfields such as political science and international relations, general economics, econometrics and finance, strategy and management, and accounting.

The main topics addressed in Sykes' work include:

  • World Trade Organization Law
  • Global trade and economics
  • International Arbitration and Investment Law
  • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
  • Taxation and Legal Issues
  • EU Law and Policy Analysis
  • Intellectual Property and Patents

Sykes has authored several recent papers, with a focus on international trade, legal analysis, and economic implications of trade policy. Key publications include:

  • The Economic Structure of International Trade-in-Services Agreements, 2020, Journal of Political Economy
  • The Law and Economics of "Forced" Technology Transfer and Its Implications for Trade and Investment Policy (and the U.S.-China Trade War), 2020, The Journal of Legal Analysis
  • Reciprocity and the China Shock, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Short Supply Conditions and the Law of International Trade: Economic Lessons from the Pandemic, 2020, American Journal of International Law
  • Disputes in International Investment and Trade, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Robert W. Staiger
  • Gene M. Grossman
  • Chad P. Bown
  • Lorenzo Caliendo
  • Fernando Parro

In terms of publication venues, Sykes has contributed multiple works across prominent platforms such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • The Journal of Legal Analysis
  • American Journal of International Law
  • Journal of International Economic Law

Alan O. Sykes has also published a book titled The Law and Economics of International Trade Agreements (2023), released by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book has accumulated citations reflecting academic engagement with their work.

Best Publications

  • Legal problems of international economic relations : cases, materials, and text on the national and international regulation of transnational economic relations

    John Howard Jackson;William J. Davey;Alan O. Sykes

  • The Economics of Vicarious Liability

    Alan O Sykes

  • An Introduction to Regression Analysis

    Alan O. Sykes

  • TRIPS, pharmaceuticals, developing countries, and the Doha "solution".

    Alan O. Sykes

  • Justice in immigration: The welfare economics of immigration law: a theoretical survey with an analysis of U.S. policy

    Alan O. Sykes

  • The genesis of the GATT

    Douglas A. Irwin;Petros C. Mavroidis;Alan O. Sykes

  • The Boundaries of Vicarious Liability: An Economic Analysis of the Scope of Employment Rule and Related Legal Doctrines

    Alan O. Sykes

  • Protectionism As a Safeguard: A Positive Analysis of the GATT Escape Clause with Normative Speculations

    Alan O. Sykes

  • The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the World Trade Organization

    Warren F. Schwartz;Alan O. Sykes

  • The Internet and the Dormant Commerce Clause

    Jack L. Goldsmith;Alan O. Sykes

  • Regulatory Protectionism and the Law of International Trade

    Alan O. Sykes

  • Countervailing Duty Law: An Economic Perspective

    Alan O. Sykes

  • The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the WTO/GATT System

    Alan O. Sykes;Warren F. Schwartz

  • The Economics of WTO Rules on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

    Alan O. Sykes

  • Product Standards for Internationally Integrated Goods Markets

    Alan O. Sykes

  • The Dormant Commerce Clause and the Internet

    Jack L. Goldsmith;Alan O. Sykes

  • "Currency Manipulation" and World Trade

    Robert W. Staiger;Alan O. Sykes

  • Terrorism and Insurance Markets: A Role for the Government as Insurer?

    Alan O. Sykes;Anne Gron

  • Public versus Private Enforcement of International Economic Law: Standing and Remedy

    Alan O. Sykes

  • The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, Class Actions, and the Patient's Bill of Rights

    Alan O. Sykes;Richard A. Epstein;Richard A. Epstein;Richard A. Epstein

  • Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

    Alan O. Sykes

  • Constructive Unilateral Threats in International Commercial Relations: The Limited Case for Section 301

    Alan O. Sykes

  • Municipal Liability under § 1983: A Legal and Economic Analysis

    Larry B. Kramer;Alan O. Sykes

  • Herfindahl Concentration, Rivalry, and Mergers

    Janusz A. Ordover;Alan O. Sykes;Robert D. Willig

  • The Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability in a Second-Best World

    Alan O. Sykes

  • The Safeguards Mess : a Critique of WTO Jurisprudence

    Alan O. Sykes

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric A. Posner
Eric A. Posner University of Chicago
Robert W. Staiger
Robert W. Staiger Dartmouth College
Gene M. Grossman
Gene M. Grossman Princeton University
Petros C. Mavroidis
Petros C. Mavroidis Columbia University
John H. Jackson
John H. Jackson Georgetown University
Douglas A. Irwin
Douglas A. Irwin Dartmouth College
Kyle Bagwell
Kyle Bagwell Stanford University
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Jack Landman Goldsmith Harvard University
Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein New York University
Joost Pauwelyn
Joost Pauwelyn Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

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