Alessandro Guasti

Research

Published Articles

Guasti, A. (2026), “Do Preferential Trade Agreements with Labor Clauses Displace Labor Abuses? The Unintended Consequences of Global Governance on Labor Standards”. Review of International Political Economy, (Forthcoming). doi:10.1080/09692290.2026.2693756

Arena, M., Guasti, A., & Hussein, H. (2023). “Can Conditional Cash Transfers reduce Vulnerability to Climate Change?”, Climate Policy, 23(4), 462–476. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2183174. (link)

Guasti, A., & Koenig-Archibugi, M. (2022). “Has global trade competition really led to a race to the bottom in labor standards?”, International Studies Quarterly, 66(4), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac061. (link)

Under Review

Amengual, M., Distelhorst, G., & Guasti, A., “What Jobs Do Workers Want? Worker Preferences in Global Value Chains”.

Guasti, A., Amengual, M., & Raess, D., “Corporate Social Irresponsibility in Global Value Chains: Overcoming Supplier Information Barriers Through Training”.

Guasti, A., Wagner, P., & Pham, P., “Does the importer’s country matter? Unpacking the ‘Shanghai Effect’ from the perspective of Brazilian managers”.

Amengual, M., Guasti, A., “Compliance”, Encyclopedia of Global Value Chains.

Working Papers

Guasti, A., Amengual, M., & Distelhorst, G. “Exporting, regulatory institutions, and labor conditions: Evidence from garment industry workers”.

Guasti, A., Amengual, M., Rustler, A., & Raess, D., “Under (indirect) pressure: Cascading substantive change to non-targeted firms”.