Research
(Click HERE for a documentation of my Citations)
Working Papers:
Does Performance-based Public Funding pay off? UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Research Productivity (with A.Khan and S.Özcan)
Do Social Media Science Stars Get Citation Premium? (with C.hristian Lessmann)
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Science after Communism: Why does Westernization Correlate with Productivity? (with H.Chan, V.Lariviere, N.Moy, D.Schilling, B.Torgler)
Click here to read about it in ifo Dresden Berichtet (4/2022)
Click here to read about it in die Hochschule Journal für Wissenschaft und Bildung (1-2/2022)
Leadership in Scholarship: Editors' Appointments and Scientific Narrative (with Sergey Popov and Sascha Schweitzer)
Appendix: List of identified topics
Journal Publications:
Women in STEM Graduate Education: Case of the German Excellence Initiative
Higher Education Quarterly, 10.1111/hequ.12507, (2024)
(with H.Chan, S.Schweitzer, B.Torgler) Economics Letters, 231:111270, (2023)
(with Filiz Künüroğlu) Migration Letters, 20(1): 25-37, (2023)
The Role of Out-group Network in the Choice of Migration Destination: Evidence from Turkey
(with Filiz Künüroğlu) Migration Letters, 19(3): 253-260, (2022)
Specialization, Field Distance, and Quality in Economists' Collaborations
(with Sascha Schweitzer and Hakan Yilmazkuday) Journal of Informetrics, 15(4): 101222, (2021)
(with Hakan Yilmazkuday) Open Economics, 3: 70-85, (2020)
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(with Matthias Flückiger and Markus Ludwig) Economic Journal, 129(621): 2064-2089, (2019)
No Place Like Home: Opinion Formation with Homophily and Implications for Policy Decisions
(with Marco Portmann and David Stadelmann) Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 42(2): 47-76, (2018)
Handelsblatt Ranking and Journal Quality: A Cautionary Note
German Economic Review, 18(4): 516-522, (2017)
(with Sascha Schweitzer) Scientometrics, 110(3): 1297-1331, (2017)
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Trade Partner Diversification and Growth: How Trade Links Matter
(with Hakan Yilmazkuday) Journal of Macroeconomics, 50: 241-258, (2016)
Are all Economics Graduate Cohorts Created Equal? Gender, Job Openings, and Research Productivity
(with John Conley and Benno Torgler) Scientometrics, 108(2): 937-958, (2016)
(with Ho Fai Chan and Benno Torgler) Scientometrics, 106(2): 509-524, (2016)
Is Economics a House Divided? Analysis of Citation Networks
(with Marko Terviö) Economic Inquiry, 53(3): 1491-1505, (2015)
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State Taxes, Tax Exemptions, and Elderly Migration
(with Herwig Schlunk) Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 45(1): 47-67, (2015)
Do Nobel Laureates Change their Patterns of Collaboration Following Prize Reception?
(with Ho Fai Chan and Benno Torgler) Scientometrics, 105(3): 2215-2235, (2015)
Taxing Cross-Border Labor Income and Tax Revenue Sharing in the Öresund Region
(with Mattias Dahlberg) Bulletin for International Taxation, 69(1): 29-36, (2015)
(with John Conley) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(3): 205-216, (2014)
Note: Previous title was "An Empirical Guide to Hiring Assistant Professors in Economics"
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The Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics
(with John Conley, Mario Crucini, and Robert Driskill) Economic Inquiry, 51(2): 1251-1276, (2013)
Note: WP Version: NBER Working Paper no. 17043 (2011)
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Book Chapters and other Publications:
Die Verwestlichung der ostdeutschen Wissenschaft: was die Wende für die ostdeutschen MINT-Fächer bedeutete [Westernization of East German Science: Meaning of Re-unification for East German STEM fields]
in die Hochschule Journal für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1-2, (2022)
Ostdeutsche Wissenschaft nach der Wende: Institutioneller Umbau und Produktivität [East German Science after Re-unification: Institutional Restructuring and Productivity]
in ifo Dresden Berichtet, 29(4): 23-28, (2022)
Publication Lags and the Research Output of Young Economists
(with John Conley, Mario Crucini, and Robert Driskill)
in Publishing and Measuring Success in Economics (eds. S.Galiani, U.Paniza), Chapter 8, CEPR Press, (2020)
Toplumsal Fikir Ayrılıkları, Sosyal Ağlar ve Mahalleler [Opinion Gaps, Social Networks and Clusters]
in Iktisat ve Toplum Dergisi, 107: 63-69, (2019)
Internationale Migration- Erklärungsfaktoren und wirtschaftliche Konsequenzen für Deutschland [International Migration- Explanatory Factors and Economic Consequences for Germany]
(with David Stadelmann) in Ausländische Fachkräfte gesucht: voreilig? notwendig? willkommen?
(eds. H.Barz, M.Jung), Düsseldorf University Press, (2015)
Federal Sistemlerde Vergi Rekabeti [Tax Competition in Federal Structures]
in Kriz ve Maliye Düşüncesinde Değişim: İzzettin Önder'e Armağan (eds. A.Pinar, A.H.Köse, N.Falay), Sosyal Araştırmalar Vakfı, (2011)
Academy of Economics and Finance Papers and Proceedings, 32: 263-264, (2008)
Optimum Monetary Policy During Monetary Union Enlargement
in Quantitative Economic Policy (eds. R. Neck, C. Richter, P. Mooslechner), Springer Verlag, pp.275-291, (2008)