Core Publications
The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts (with Amal Ahmad, Sebastian Vollmer), RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
General vs. Tailored Information for Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in India (with Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Development Economics, accepted (pre-results track).
Technology Adoption under Costly Information Processing, International Economic Review, 2022, 63(2), 699-753.
The Demand for Advice: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Matthias Schündeln), World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36(1), 91-113. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9532]
The Social Planning Problem with Costly Information Processing: Towards Understanding Production Decisions in Centralized Economies, Economica, 2023, 90(357), 285-314.
Other Journal Articles
Fiscal Pro-Cyclicality Revisited: Global, Regional, and Country-Level Evidence with a Spotlight on MENA (with Želko Bogetić), Economic Analysis and Policy, 87(2025), 569-584. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 10959]
Evaluating Accession Decisions in Customs Unions: A Dynamic Machine Learning Approach (with Philippe De Lombaerde, Takfarinas Saber), International Economics and Economic Policy, 2025, 22(2), 1-27. [UNU-CRIS Working Paper, No. 24-04]
Cash for Coolers or Sustainable Lighting? Assessing Different Components of a Large-Scale Energy Efficiency Program in Mexico (with Raghavan Narayanan, Virginia Ziulu), Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60(4), 479-493. [Working Paper]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: New Evidence on Alternative Views of Corruption (with Željko Bogetić), Applied Economics, 2024, 56(33), 4019-4032. [Working Paper]
The Relevance of Development Policies to Confront Crisis Situations: World Bank’s Early Response to Covid-19 (with Raghavan Narayanan, Virginia Ziulu), Journal of Policy Modeling, 2024, 46(5), 847-866. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9935]
Corruption and Government Revenue: Evidence of a Non-Linear Relationship Driven by Crises (with Željko Bogetić), Journal of Applied Economics, 2024, 27(1), 1-17.
Intelligent Computational Methods for Economics: Editorial (with Takfarinas Saber, Malika Bendechache), Expert Systems, 2024, 41(2), e13523.
Regional Economic Integration and Machine Learning: Policy Insights from the Review of Literature (with Philippe De Lombaerde, Takfarinas Saber, Hung Vo), Journal of Policy Modeling, 2023, 45(5), 1077-1097. [Working Paper]
On the Optimal Size and Composition of Customs Unions: An Evolutionary Approach (with Philippe De Lombaerde, Takfarinas Saber), Computational Economics, 2023, 62, 1457–1479.
Impacts of Energy Efficiency Projects in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Spatial Difference-in-Differences Analysis in Malawi (with Raghavan Narayanan, Virginia Ziulu), Energy for Sustainable Development, 2023, 73, 365-375. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9842]
Measuring Untapped Revenue Potential in Developing Countries: Cross-Country Frontier and Panel Data Analysis (with Željko Bogetić, Raghavan Narayanan), Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2023, 38(1), 89-127. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9776]
Attracting Private Capital for Development: Are Poorer Countries Less Efficient? (with Raghavan Narayanan), International Economics and Economic Policy, 2023, 20, 1-26.
Do Democracies Perform Worse During Pandemics? Evidence from 2020 (with Yuyang He), Economics Bulletin, 2022, 42(3), 1681-1687.
Regional Integration Clusters and Optimum Customs Unions: A Machine Learning Approach (with Philippe De Lombaerde, Takfarinas Saber), Journal of Economic Integration, 2021, 36(2), 262-281. [UNU-CRIS Working Paper, No. 21-04]
Untapped Regional Integration Potential: A Global Frontier Analysis (with Raghavan Narayanan), Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2020, 29(6), 722-747. [Working Paper]
An Empirical Estimation of Asia’s Untapped Regional Integration Potential Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Asian Development Review, 2015, 32(2), 178-195. [ADB Economics Working Paper, No. 445]
Dataset
Household and Plot-level Survey Data on Adoption, Outcomes, and Perceptions of Early Sown Wheat and Zero Tillage in Northwest India (with Basma Albanna, Abhijeet Kumar, Sebastian Vollmer), Scientific Data, 2023, 10(516), 1-5. [Data]
Book Chapters
Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluate Resource Mobilization and Regional Integration Outcomes: Recent Trends and Future Challenges (with Raghavan Narayanan). In: Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis in Business, Finance, and Sustainability: Recent Trends and Developments, S. Boubaker and T. Ngo (Eds.), World Scientific, 2024.
Hunger, Food Insecurity, and Poverty Traps: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries. In: Economics in Action: Topics and Resources, T. Brancaccio, Y. Deli, I. Pastine, and C. Whelan (Eds.), McGraw-Hill, 2019.
Working Papers
Scaling Information Access: Evidence from a Nationwide Digital Policy in China (with Shilong Zhao, Juan Liu, Junqiao Ma), World Development, R&R.
Countercyclical Fiscal Policy, Women, and the Poor (with Željko Bogetić, Shiyun Hu, Luan Zhao, Yahui Zhao), Labour, R&R.
Assessing the Adoption and Outcomes of Early-Sown Wheat Varieties in Northwest India (with Basma Albanna, Gunnar Hesch, Daniel Otto, Mohammad Hassan, Meha Jain, Sebastian Vollmer, Hanna Ewell, Raphael Nawrotzki), International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, R&R.
Does Adoption of Zero Tillage Reduce Crop Residue Burning? Evidence from Satellite Remote Sensing and Household Survey Data in India (with Virginia Ziulu). Applied Economics, forthcoming. [Working Paper]
The Long-term Consequences of the Global 1918 Influenza Pandemic: A Systematic Analysis of Census Data from 51 Countries (with Juditha Wójcik, Christian Bommer, Sebastian Vollmer).
Work in Progress
Backfiring Effects of Category-Specific Information Provision in a Pricing Model with Rationally Inattentive Buyers (with Sergey Turlo).
The Effect of Improvements in Agricultural Productivity on Child Labor: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the Green Revolution (with Matthias Schündeln).
Drought and Intimate Partner Violence: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Kenya (with Hanne Schwabe).
Rain and Children: The Effect of Climate Change on Fertility in Tanzania (with Geofrey Mushibi).
The Economic Lives of the Poor Revisited (with Sebastian Vollmer).