Publications

Journal Articles: 

• Rollentausch: Determinanten der Wirtschaftspfade Russlands und Chinas (2023), Osteuropa, 7-9(2023): 75-90

• Verspielte Zukunft: Russlands Wirtschaft unter dem Druck der Geheimdienste (2022), Osteuropa, 11(2022): 157-170

• Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors (2022), with Noah Buckley, Ora John Reuter and Anton Aisin, Comparative Political Studies, 55(9): 1539-1568

• Bureaucratic Discrimination in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Experimental Evidence from Russia (2021), with Evgeniya Mitrokhina and Irina Nizovkina, European Journal of Political Economy, 66: 101957

• Collective Memories, Propaganda and Authoritarian Political Support (2020), with Alessandro Belmonte, Economic Systems, 44(3): 100771

• Property Rights in Russia after 2009: From Business Capture to Centralized Corruption? (2020), with Anton Kazun and Andrei Yakovlev, Post-Soviet Affairs, 36(5-6): 434-450

• The Political Economy of Collective Memories: Evidence from Russian Politics (2019), with Alessandro Belmonte, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 168: 229-250

• The Return of the Siloviki: An Introduction (2019) Russian Politics, 4(4): 493-498

• Control over the Security Services in Periods of Political Uncertainty: A Comparative Study of China and Russia (2019), with Nikolay Petrov, Russian Politics, 4(4): 546-573

• Unter Räubern - Russland: Investitionsrisiko Unternehmensplünderungen (2016), with Anton Kazun and Andrei Yakovlev, Osteuropa, 66(5): 95-110

• Performance Incentives and Economic Growth: Regional Officials in Russia and China (2015), with Vera Kulpina, Tom Remington and Andrei Yakovlev, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 56(4): 421-445

• At the Crossroads: Putin's Third Presidential Term and Russia's Institutions (2015), Political Studies Review, 13(1): 59-68

• How (Not) to Measure Russian Regional Institutions, (2015), with A. Baranov, E. Malkov, L. Polishchuk and G. Syunyaev, Russian Journal of Economics, 1(2): 154-181; Russian version published in Voprosy Ekonomiki, 87(2): 69-103

• Corporate Raiding and the Role of the State in Russia (2014), Post-Soviet Affairs, 30(2-3): 89-114; paper included in "The Russian Economy" (2017), a collection of "the most informative and influential works on the Russian economy", edited by Stephen Fortescue

• Absorptive Capacity Compared: Evidence from Sectoral Data (2014), with Letizia Montinari, Applied Econometrics and International Development, 14(2): 25-46

Book:

• Federalism in China and Russia: Story of Success and Story of Failure? (2019), with Alexander Libman, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Book Chapters:

• Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Big Data (2022), with David Karpa and Torben Klarl, in Diginomics Research Perspectives: The Role of Digitalization in Business and Society, edited by Lars Hornuf, Springer Nature (arXiv working paper)

• The Siloviki in Russian Politics (2018), with Andrei Soldatov, in The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia, edited by Daniel Treisman, Brookings

• Violent Pressure on Business and the Size of the Informal Economy: Evidence from Russian Regions (2017), in The Informal Economy in Global Perspective, Abel Polese et al. (ed.), SpringerNature

• 产业政策和府能力 — 俄罗斯与中国的比较分析 (Industrial Policy and State Capacity: A Comparative Analysis of Russia and China), 2013, Studies of Development Economics, Economic Science Press, Beijing (in Chinese, English version)

Datasets: 

• Characteristics of Political Elites: Long-term Trends in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe (2022), with Oksana Chorna, Charlotta Cordes, Mareike zum Felde, Friederike Jahn, Kateřina Kňapová, Daniel Kovarek, Ekaterina Paustyan, Heiko Pleines, Esther Somfalvy and David Swierzy, v. 1.0, Discuss Data, <doi:10.48320/F0A8C6A1-7757-4587-9000-8063F33A0D8E>

Other Writings:

• Im Abseits: Russlands Weg in die wirtschaftliche Stagnation (2023), ifo Schnelldienst, 76(5): 9-12

• No Way Out? Why the West Should Offer an Exit Option to Russia's Elites and Population (2023), Russian Analytical Digest, 294: 10-12 

• Why Russia is Lacking an Economic Strategy for the Future (2022), Russian Analytical Digest, 285: 9-12

• Is Russia Becoming a Second North Korea? (2022), Russian Analytical Digest, 280: 10-13

• Russia's Slide into International Isolation (2022), ZOiS Spotlight, 10/2022

• Russia's Economy: A Possible Vision for the Future (2021), Russian Analytical Digest, 268: 13-14

• The Economic Consequences of Autocracy (2021), Russian Analytical Digest, 266: 15-16

• Putin's Plan 2.0? What Might Stand Behind Russia's Constitutional Reform (2020), Russian Analytical Digest, 246: 8-9

• The Power of the Siloviki: Do Russia’s Security Services Control Putin, or Does He Control Them? (2018), Russian Analytical Digest, 223: 2-4

• «Поле чудес»: бандитские могилы и борьба за капитал (2015), with Andrey Grechko, Археология русской смерти, 1: 194-208