Dr. Lavelle is currently working on projects related to the domestic implementation of international financial agreements, such as the Basel Agreements, and international contributions to US law, such as the Volcker Rule. She recently completed a book project on the American governing institutions that formulate financial policy titled Money and Banks in the American Political System, released by Cambridge University Press. She derived the analytical framework for this and her other recent book on Congress and the IMF and World Bank from her experience working as a Congressional fellow on the staff of the House Committee on Financial Services for Chairman Barney Frank. Since that time, she has used extensive archival evidence and interviews to provide additional evidence for the policy process in the domestic and international arenas.