Kexin Bai | Texas A&M University

About Me

Hello, and thanks for visiting my website!

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Texas A&M University and a scholar of international political economy. My research examines how firms and governments respond to economic restrictions, with a particular focus on U.S. export controls, global supply chains, and technological competition.

My dissertation studies how export controls shape firm innovation, supply chain relationships, and corporate political influence. I study how targeted firms respond to restrictions by building their own technological capabilities, how American suppliers adjust their business relationships by staying, exiting, or entering under new restrictions, and how affected U.S. firms seek to influence policy implementation through both formal and less visible channels. Together, these projects show how interactions among governments, targeted firms, and domestic businesses shape the consequences of economic statecraft.

My broader research examines geopolitical alignment and the reorganization of global production under great power competition. Across my projects, I combine original policy event data and firm-level financial and supply chain data with causal inference, network analysis, and computational text analysis.

I also teach International Political Economy at Texas A&M. Before beginning my doctoral studies, I earned an MSc in International Political Economy from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Tongji University in China.

Please feel free to contact me at baikexin@tamu.edu.

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