Working Papers / in Progress

"Adjusting to Decentralization: Investment Dynamics and Beyond" with Beata Javorcik
updated April 2024. CEPR DP18081
- see also column at VoxEU

"Timing is Everything: Labor Market Winners and Losers during Boom-Bust Cycles" with Erik Katovich and Nick Parker
updated April 2024, CEPR DP17887 R&R at JAERE

"The Impact of Venture Capital on Economic Growth" with Benjamin Wache
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2023-050/VIII. Updated November 2023

"Corporate Acquisitions and Bank Relationships" with Razvan Vlahu and Vadym Volosovych
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2021-082/IV. Updated October 2023. R&R at Management Science

"Droughts and Malnutrition in Africa" with Nora Fingado
November 2023. CESifo WP 10385

"Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads" with Roberto Bonfatti and Yuan Gu
updated November 2023, STEG WP031, CEPR DP15354. IGC Cities Funded Project nr. 39304. Reject&R
- see also column at VoxEU and podcast at VoxTalks and VoxDevTalks.

"Politics in Financial Intermediation: Evidence from Brazil" with Thorsten Beck, Matias Ossandon Busch, and Paul Pelzl

Funded projects:

"Restricting raw material exports" (with team members Maarten Bosker, Paul Pelzl, and Else-Marie van den Herik)
NWO Open Competition M, €400k, 2023-2027

"Critical minerals and the clean energy transition" (joint with Joëlle Noailly and Gerard van der Meijden; team members Ayse Nihal Yilmaz and Fábio Bentz Maciel)
Swiss National Science Foundation Grant 100018M_212632, CHF 811k, 2023-2027

"Roads to Trade: the welfare effects of connecting mines versus cities" (with Roberto Bonfatti)
IGC Cities Funded Project nr. 39304, £40k, 2015-2017 

See a complete list of working papers at EconPapers or RePec.