Publications
"Enrollment expansion and quality differentiation across higher education systems" (with Volker Meier), Economic Modelling (2020), 90, issue C, p. 43-53.
"Inequality, opting-out and public education funding" (with Calin Arcalean), Social Choice and Welfare (2016), 46 (4)
"Technology adoption, human capital formation and income differences", Journal of Macroeconomics (September 2015), 45
"Student Debt in Selected Countries" (with Elena del Rey), European Expert Network on Economics of Education (EENEE) Analytical Report No. 25 and Policy Brief (November 2015)
"Optimal higher education enrollment and productivity externalities in a two-sector model", (with Volker Meier), Journal of Public Economics (2015), 121(1)
"Growth Effects of Geographic Redistributive Policies" (with Calin Arcalean and Gerhard Glomm), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2012), 36(7)
"Political Economy of Education" (with Gerhard Glomm and B. Ravikumar), Handbook of the Economics of Education (2011), vol. 4, Eds. Eric Hanushek, Stephen Machin and Ludger Wößmann
"Public versus Private Investment and Growth in a Hierarchical Education System" (with Calin Arcalean), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2010), 34: 604-622
"Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De)Centralization and Welfare" (with Calin Arcalean, Gerhard Glomm and Jens Suedekum), Canadian Journal of Economics (2010), vol. 43(3), 832-859
Working Papers
"The Rise of For-Profit Higher Education: A General Equilibrium Analysis" (with Ciprian Domnisoru), CESifo Working Paper No. 9134
"Urbanization, Productivity Differences and Spatial Frictions" (with Calin Arcalean and Gerhard Glomm), CESifo Working Paper No. 7609
"Inequality and Education Funding – Theory and Evidence from the US School Districts", with Calin Arcalean