Main Papers

Main Research Papers

Political Consequences of Consumer Debt Relief. 2024. Review of Economics and Statistics, revise and resubmit. (with Toke Aidt and Lusine Badalyan)

Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis. 2024. The Economic Journal, third round revise and resubmit. (with Armenak Antinyan)

Austerity and Distributional Policy. 2022. Journal of Monetary Economics, 131, 112-127. (with Matteo Alpino, Sebastian Blesse and Nils Wehrhöfer)

Taxes and Business Philanthropy in Armenia. 2022. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 200, 914-930. (with David Joulfaian)

Vote Buying or (Political) Business (Cycles) as Usual? 2020. Review of Economics and Statistics 102(3), 409-425. (with Toke Aidt, Lusine Badalyan and Friedrich Heinemann)

Balanced Budget Rules and Fiscal Outcomes: Evidence from Historical Constitutions. 2018. Journal of Public Economics 167, 105-119. (with Cesar Castellon and Thomas Stratmann)

Remittances and Public Finances: Evidence from Oil-Price Shocks. 2017. Journal of Public Economics 55, 122-137. (with Benjamin Bittschi and Philipp Dörrenberg)

Direct Democracy and Local Public Finances under Cooperative Federalism. 2017. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119 (3), 801–820. (with Thushyanthan Baskaran, Theocharis Grigoriadis and Friedrich Heinemann)

Cover: White on White, by Kazimir Malevich, 1918