Research

Publications

• The Power of Religion, Journal of Economic Growth, 2023 (with Jeanet Bentzen)

• Human Capital Transfers and Sub-national Development: Armenian and Greek Legacy in post-expulsion Turkey, Journal of Economic Growth, 2023 (with Eren Arbatli) (Best General Interest Paper Award - Armenian Economic Association)

• Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms, Economic Journal, 2021 (with Tommaso Nannicini, Massimiliano Onorato and Chris Papageorgiou) Online Appendix

• The Imperial Roots of Global Trade, Journal of Economic Growth, 2020 (with Wessel Vermeulen and Pierre-Louis Vezina) (Featured on VoxEU, Royal Economic Society Media Briefings, and The Long Run Economic History Society Blog)

• Cultural Distance and Income Divergence over Time, Economics Letters, 2020 (with Vincenzo Bove)

• Investment Shocks and Inequality Dynamics, Economic Modelling, 2020 (with Annaig Morin)

• Career Incentives in Political Hierarchy: Evidence from Imperial Russia, European Review of Economic History, 2019 (with Dmitrii Kofanov) Online Appendix

• Inequality in the Aftermath of Financial Crises: Some Empirical Evidence, Applied Economics Letters, 2019 (with Annaig Morin)

• Clash of Civilizations and the Impact of Cultural Differences on Trade, Journal of Development Economics, 2017, Online Appendix (Featured on Marginal Revolution)

• Genetic Distance, Trade, and the Diffusion of Development, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018 (with Vincenzo Bove)

• War and Well-Being in Transition: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018 (with Evgeny Yakovlev)

• Clash of Civilizations Demystified, European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, Online Appendix

• Ethnic Minorities and Trade: The Soviet Union as a Natural Experiment, The World Economy, 2018 (with Pierre-Louis Vezina and Elena Nickishina)

• Cultural Distance and Interstate Conflicts, British Journal of Political Science, 2016 (with Vincenzo Bove) Online Appendix

• Cultural Diversity and the Future of International Relations, International Studies Review, 2015

Working Papers

• Cultural Origins of Risk Taking in Financial Markets, R&R Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (with Andreas Ek and Kaveh Majlesi)

• Did the Cold War Produce Development Clusters in Africa? (with Paul Castaneda Dower, Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber), CEPR Discussion Paper 15810

• Heterogeneous Effects of the Slave Trade on Mistrust in Africa (with Steve Berggreen)

Work in Progress

• Traditional Norms and Parental Investment in Human Capital (with Steve Berggreen)

• Artificial Borders and Conflict (with Vincenzo Bove and Kristian Gleditsch)

Policy Papers

• Traditionella Normer och Föräldrars Investering i Humankapital, Ekonomisk Debatt, 2023 (with Steve Berggreen and Jan Bietenbeck)

• The Imperial Roots of Global Trade: Evidence from a New Database, VoxEU, 2020 (with Wessel Vermeulen and Pierre-Louis Vezina)

• Forna Imperier och Dagens Handel, Ekonomisk Debatt, 2020 (with Wessel Vermeulen and Pierre-Louis Vezina)

• Conflict, Minorities and Well-Being, FREE Policy Brief, 2018 (with Evgeny Yakovlev)

• Ethnic Networks in Ex-USSR, FREE Policy Brief, 2017 (with Elena Nickishina and Pierre-Louis Vezina)

• Culture and Interstate Dispute, FREE Policy Brief, 2016 (with Vincenzo Bove)

• Culture, Cold War and Trade, FREE Policy Brief, 2014

Conferences Organized

• 3rd Arne Ryde Workshop on Culture, Institutions, and Development, 2023 (with Romain Wacziarg as the keynote speaker)

• 2nd Arne Ryde Workshop on Culture, Institutions, and Development, 2022 (with Joachim Voth as the keynote speaker)

• Arne Ryde Workshop on Culture, Institutions, and Development, 2021 (with Nancy Qian as the keynote speaker)

• Europe in Crisis? Migration, Trade (Wars) and Populism, 2021 (with Massimo Morelli and Mathias Thoenig as the keynote speakers)

• ASREC Europe in Lund, 2019 (with Guido Tabellini and Nico Voigtländer as the keynote speakers)