Working Papers
“Did the Cold War Produce Development Clusters in Africa?” with Gunes Gokmen, Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber, CEPR Discussion Paper DP15810
“Asymmetry in Civic Information: An Experiment on Tax Participation among SMEs in Togo” with Moussa Blimpo.
“Did Industrialization Increase Support for the Radical Left? Evidence from the 1917 Russian Revolution” with Andrei Markevich
“Democratic support for the Bolshevik Revolution: An empirical investigation of the 1917 Constituent Assembly elections” with Andrei Markevich
“Effective Governance and Taxation: A Comparative Analysis of SMEs in Togo, Ghana and Benin” with Moussa Blimpo.
“Local taxation and development finance in the DRC: A comment on Balán et al. (2022)” with Sossou Adjisse and Moussa Blimpo. Contribution to “Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope”, by Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook et al. (many other authors of replications).
Works in Progess
"Double Vision: A Study of Policy Change in a Transition Country" with Muzna Alvi, Anton Liutin and Claudia Ringler
“Control through Empowerment: Evidence from Nation-building in Soviet Central Asia” with Andrei Markevich and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
“Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution” with Scott Gehlbach, Dmitrii Kofanov, Steven Nafziger and Vladimir Novikov
“Who Goes to (Proxy) War? The Long Shadow of the USSR Collapse and Participation in the Donbas War by Russian Citizens” with Nikita Zakharov
Publications
“Firms, Kinship and Economic Growth in the Kyrgyz Republic” with Theodore Gerber and Shlomo Weber, Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 50, December 2022, Pages 997-1018.
"The Value of a Statistical Life in a Dictatorship: Evidence from Stalin" with Andrei Markevich and Shlomo Weber, European Economic Review, Volume 133, April 2021, 103663.
“Land Titles and Violent Conflict in Rural Mexico" with Tobias Pfutze, Journal of Development Economics Volume 144, May 2020, 102431.
“Land Rights, Rental Markets and the Post-Socialist Cityscape” with William Pyle, Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 47, Issue 4, December 2019, Pages 962-974.
“Democratization as a Continuous Choice: A Comment on Acemoglu and Robinson’s Correction to `Why Did the West Extend the Franchise?’” with Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach and Steven Nafziger, Journal of Politics, Volume 82, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 776-780.
“The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia” with Andrei Markevich, European Review of Economic History Volume 23, Issue 3, August 2019, Pages 241–267.
“Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms” with Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach and Steven Nafziger, American Political Science Review Volume 112, Issue 1, February 2018 , pp. 125-147.
"Labor Misallocation and Mass Mobilization: Russian Agriculture during the Great War” with Andrei Markevich, Review of Economics and Statistics Volume 100, Issue2, May 2018, pp. 245-259.
"Colonial Legacy, Polarization and Linguistic Disenfranchisement: The Case of the Sri Lankan War” with Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber, Journal of Development Economics Volume 127, July 2017, pp. 440-448.
“Vote Suppression and Incomplete Property Rights” with Tobias Pfutze, Journal of Development Economics, volume 114, May 2015, pages 1-19.
“Fiscal Federalism and Conflict Prevention” with Shlomo Weber, in The Handbook of Multilevel Finance, 2015, eds. Ethisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio.
“A History of Resistance to Privatization in Russia” with Andrei Markevich, Journal of Comparative Economics, volume 42(4), December 2014, pages 855-873.
“Signaling Credit-Worthiness: Banking Practices, Land Titles and Access to Formal Credit in Indonesia” with Liz Potamites, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, volume 50(3), December 2014, pages 435-459.
“Property Rights, Land Liquidity and Internal Migration” with Eugenia Chernina and Andrei Markevich, Journal of Development Economics, volume 110, September 2014, pages 191-215.
“Specificity of Control: The Case of Mexico's Ejido Reform” with Tobias Pfutze, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, volume 91, July 2013, pages 13-33.
Dormant Papers
"The Potency of Power: Local Authority, Land Rights and Agriculture in Ghana”
“Almost Anonymous Implicit Contracting” with Andrei Bremzen