Media
Newspaper articles and columns written by me:
"Promouvoir l'écologie et non le populisme" (with Christian Gollier), Les Echos, 8 February 2024.
"Nation building successes and failures matter to the EU and OECD", OECD Development Matters, 6 November 2023.
"Three ways policy makers can avoid the political risks of the green transition" (with Christian Gollier), World Economic Forum (WEF) blog, 21 August 2023.
"Promoting peace not pollution: Insights from a new eBook" (with Christian Gollier), VOXEU.org, 29 June 2023.
"Nation Building: A new eBook" (with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), VOXEU.org, 3 March 2023.
"Increased urgency for the green transition in Europe" (with Luis Garicano and Beatrice Weder di Mauro), VOXEU.org, 23 September 2022.
"The economic consequences of the Ukraine war: A new eBook" (with Luis Garicano and Beatrice Weder di Mauro), VOXEU.org, 14 September 2022.
"Medication against misery: How health interventions can address ill health and also prevent conflict" (with Andrea Berlanda, Matteo Cervellati, Elena Esposito, and Uwe Sunde), VOXEU.org, 9 April 2022. Re-posted on VoxDev.
"Handel verhindert Kriege", NZZ am Sonntag, 5 December 2021.
"Pollution reduction during lockdowns can teach us how to build back better a sustainable economy" (with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Quentin Gallea, Dimitrija Kalanoski, Rafael Lalive, Raahil Madhok, Frederick Noack, and Tommaso Sonno), VOXEU.org, 21 June 2021.
"From tragedy to hesitancy: How public health failures boosted COVID-19 vaccine scepticism" (with Géraldine Blanchard-Rohner, Bruno Caprettini and Joachim Voth), VOXEU.org, 1 June 2021.
"COVID-19, air pollution lockdown review", Air Quality News, 24 May 2021.
"COVID-19 lockdowns improved air quality in some cities, shedding light on how to curb pollution" (with Frederik Noack and Raahil Madhok), The Conversation, 14 April 2021. Reprinted in National Post.
"COVID-19, Crises and Conflict", Alumni HEC Lausanne, Nr. 94, 2020.
"Teile und befriede", Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13 November 2020.
"Saving the Economy Requires Controlling the Pandemic", Open letter with various other economists based in Switzerland, 2 November 2020. Printed in full in Le Temps (in French) and in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) (in German). Coverage in SRF, Tages-Anzeiger (also re-printed in Der Bund, Basler Zeitung), Cash, Swissinfo / Bloomberg, Watson, Aargauer Zeitung, RTS, St.Galler Tagblatt, Foreign Policy, Financial Times.
"The role of ethnicity -- and democracy -- for urbanisation" (with Ulrich Eberle, Vernon Henderson and Kurt Schmidheiny), VoxEU.org, 9 July 2020.
"Déconfinons! Déconfinons? Esquisse d'une stratégie combinant facteurs sanitaires et économiques" (with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Arturo Bris, Marius Brülhart, Jean-Pierre Danthine, Nicolas Fasel, Cem Gabay, Eric Jondeau and Mathias Thoenig), Le Temps, 16 April 2020. Coverage in 24 Heures.
"Ein Lockdown-Ausstieg in drei Schritten" (with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Arturo Bris, Marius Brülhart, Jean-Pierre Danthine, Nicolas Fasel, Cem Gabay, Eric Jondeau and Mathias Thoenig), Batz.ch, 16 April 2020.
"The economics of wage compensation and corona loans: Why and how the state should bear most of the economic cost of the COVID lockdown" (with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Marius Brülhart, Jean-Pierre Danthine, and Eric Jondeau), VoxEU.org, 6 April 2020. Coverage in Finanz, VoxEU.
"Ces prêts corona sont ni efficaces ni équitables" (with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Marius Brülhart, Jean-Pierre Danthine and Eric Jondeau), Le Matin Dimanche (and appearing in Tribune de Genève and 24 Heures), 29 March 2020. Coverage in Sonntagszeitung, NZZ, NZZ (Second article), Heidi News. English version of the article: E4S website.
"Wieso und wie der Staat die Kosten des Lockdown übernehmen sollte" (with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Marius Brülhart, Jean-Pierre Danthine and Eric Jondeau), Batz.ch, 28 March 2020. Coverage in Sonntagszeitung, NZZ, NZZ (Second article), Heidi News. English version of the article: E4S website.
"La responsabilité sociale des multinationales suisses fera-t-elle une véritable différence" (with Mathias Thoenig), Le Temps, 8 March 2020.
"African political conflict and the impact of education" (with Alessandro Saia), Africa Times, 8 September 2019.
"Constructing Schools to Curb Conflict" (with Alessandro Saia), OECD Development Matters, 17 May 2019.
"Books not Bullets" (with Alessandro Saia), VoxEU.org, 5 May 2019.
"Shared power as a way to reduce violence" (with Hannes Mueller), VoxEU.org, 12 January 2018.
"The local dynamics of complex warfare: Neighbourhood configuration and power-sharing" (with Hannes Mueller and David Schönholzer), VoxEU.org, 12 July 2017.
"Fragmented Civil Wars" (with Michael König, Mathias Thoenig and Fabrizio Zilibotti, VoxDev, 26 June 2017.
"L'intégration économique des requérants d'asile réduit la criminalité" (with Mathieu Couttenier, Veronica Preotu and Mathias Thoenig), La Vie économique / Die Volkswirtschaft, 26 June 2017. (German version)
"Countering the mining curse" (with Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier, and Mathias Thoenig), VoxEU.org, 9 June 2017. (Also available under VoxDev).
"Rethinking Refugee Policy", Huffington Post, 4 May 2017.
"Die Ökonomie von Krieg und Frieden", Finanz und Wirtschaft, 10 April 2017.
"How minerals fuel conflicts in Africa" (with Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier and Mathias Thoenig), Africa Times, 20 March 2017.
"The Long Run Benefits of Open Doors to War Refugees", Institute of Economics & Peace Blog, 31 October 2016.
"Die Geographie der Ölkriege", Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), 25 April 2016.
"Violence by asylum seekers: Role of homenation conflict" (with Mathieu Couttenier, Veronica Preotu and Mathias Thoenig), VoxEU.org, 6 April 2016.
"Quelques pistes pour éviter à la France de s'enliser au Mali", Le Temps, 25 March 2013.
"Asymmetric Oil:Fuel for Conflict" (with Francesco Caselli and Massimo Morelli), VoxEU.org, 19 July 2013.
Interviews and debates (print, TV, radio):
Interview, Décripté, 12 June 2024
Interview, Tribu, Swiss radio La 1ère RTS, 7 May 2024
Interview, Uniscope, 12 February 2024
Interview, Atlantico, 9 Avril 2023
Interview, Sonntagszeitung, 25 September 2022
VOX-Webcast (video) on "Medication against conflict: Did antiretroviral drugs reduce violence", 2 August 2022.
VOX-Talk (podcast) on "Distracted donors and political violence", 27 July 2022.
Interview, Réformés, 31 May 2022.
Interview ("Demokratien ziehen nicht gegen andere Demokratien in den Krieg"), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), 7 April 2022.
Interview, A bon entendeur (RTS-Swiss National TV), 26 October 2021.
Interview, Atlantico, 23 June 2021.
Interview, Atlantico, 2 June 2021.
Interview, 24 Heures, 23 March 2021.
VOX-Talk (podcast) on "Boiling Point in Africa", 22 January 2021.
Interview, Davar (Israel), 1 May 2020.
Interview, Le Temps, 30 April 2020.
Video-Interview, Le Temps, 18 April 2020.
Live chat, Le Temps, 17 April 2020.
Interview, Le Temps, 15 April 2020.
Interview, Le Temps, 12 March 2020.
VOX-Talk (podcast) on "Education creates Peace", 14 February 2020.
Interview, Ferdi TV, 19 February 2018.
Interview, Uniscope, 25 April 2016.
Interview, HECimpact, 18March 2016.
Interview, La 1ère (Swiss National Radio), 23 September 2015, in the programme "Le journal du matin" on migration.
Interview, Sveriges Radio (Swedish National Radio), 19 September 2015, on mining and conflict.
Interview, Espace 2 (Swiss National Radio), 2 July 2015, in the programme "Babylone" on the topic "En vouloir toujours plus est-il suicidaire ?".
Interview, as expert in the "Congo Tribunal", 27 June 2015, Berlin.
Debate, BeCuriousTV, 18 Mai 2015, on the topic "A quel point les Suisses sont-ils Européens ?".
Debate, Le Temps, 27 June 2013, podcast of a 30 minutes debate together with Jean-Paul Rouiller in the series "Le débat économique" on "Les guerres civiles se gagnent aussi sur le front économique".