Research interest
Cooperation and conflict, cultural economics, macroeconomics, political economy.
Publications
The social benefits of “anti-social” punishment, Evolution and Human Behavior, vol 46, issue 1, 2025. DOI: [10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106655]
Cross-cultural differences in retaliation: Evidence from the soccer field, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol 223, 216-233, 2024. DOI: [10.1016/j.jebo.2024.05.010 ]
Recognition of Collective Victimhood and Outgroup Prejudice (with Elias Dinas and Vasiliki Fouka), Public Opinion Quarterly, 85:2, 517–538, 2021. DOI: [10.1093/poq/nfab024]
Family History and Attitudes Towards Outgroups: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis (with Elias Dinas and Vasiliki Fouka), The Journal of Politics, 83:2, 647-661, 2021. DOI: [10.1086/710016]. (Winner of the 2022 Joseph L. Bernd Best JOP Paper Award)
Agricultural Labor Intensity and the Origins of Work Ethics (with Vasiliki Fouka), The Economic Journal, 130:628, 1081–1113, 2020. DOI: [10.1093/ej/ueaa029]. (Winner of the 2020 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize)
The emergence and selection of reputation systems that drive cooperative behavior, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 285, 2018. DOI: [10.1098/rspb.2018.1508].
Has the Euro-Mediterranean partnership affected Mediterranean business cycles? (with Fabio Canova), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 30:2, 241-263, 2015. DOI: [10.1002/jae.2364].
Working papers
Culture Clash: Incompatible Reputation Systems and Intergroup Conflict (with Vasiliki Fouka) [pdf][NBER working paper ][Extended Online Appendix].
Unemployment Risk, Precautionary Savings, and the Effects of Monetary Policy [pdf].
Financial Risk and the Stability-Resilience Trade-off [pdf].
Work in progress
Learning social norms across group boundaries (with Vasiliki Fouka and Edith Zink).
Exposure to autocratic regimes and democratic attitudes (with Marcela Ibáñez).
Fostering norms of cooperation after conflict (with Marcela Ibáñez).
Reputation and Variation in Institutional Quality (with Vasiliki Fouka).
Persistent Boundaries: National Borders and Cultural Values in Europe.