Papers by Topic

Public Finance

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

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

Does the Frequency of Reminders Matter for their Effectiveness? 2021. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 191, 752-764. (with Armenak Antinyan, Zhixin Dai, and Kezhi Wang)

The Incidence of VAT Evasion. 2020. CESifo Working Paper No. 8666. (with David Gomtsyan)

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)

Responses of Firms to Tax, Administrative, and Accounting Rules: Evidence from Armenia. 2016. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-065 [updated]. (with Andreas Peichl)

Political Economics

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

The Regional Economics of Mineral Resource Wealth in Africa. 2024. Economica, accepted.  (with Thushyanthan Baskaran, Carlo Birkholz and Patrick Hufschmidt)

Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications. 2022.  CESifo Working Paper No. 9797. (with Thushyanthan Baskaran, Carlo Birkholz and David Gomtsyan)

Regional Favoritism and Human Capital Accumulation. 2021. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-030. (with Thushyanthan Baskaran, Patrick Hufschmidt and Alexander Stöcker)

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

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)

The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions. 2020. Review of International Organizations 15, 707-740. (with Annika Havlik)

Biases in Fiscal Multiplier Estimates. 2020. European Journal of Political Economy 63. (with Annika Havlik, Friedrich Heinemann and Justus Nover)

Reforming the Public Administration: The Role of Crisis and the Power of Bureaucracy. 2017. European Journal of Political Economy 48, 128-143. (with Friedrich Heinemann and Hans Pitlik)

Dissertation Chapters: Direct Democracy (summary slides)

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)

Vetoing and Inaugurating Policy Like Others Do: Evidence on Spatial Interactions in Voter Initiatives. 2017. Public Choice 172 (3-4), 525–544. (with Annika Havlik and Frank Streif)

The Effect of Direct Democracy on the Level and Structure of Local Taxes. 2017. Regional Science and Urban Economics 65, 35-55. (with Thushyanthan Baskaran and Friedrich Heinemann)

The Indirect Effects of Direct Democracy: Local Government Size and Non-Budgetary Voter Initiatives in Germany. 2016. International Tax and Public Finance 23 (3), 580-601. (sole-authored)

Direct Democracy and Local Government Efficiency. 2015. European Journal of Political Economy 39, 58-99. (with Kristof De Witte)

Pre-Doctoral Work: Fiscal Federalism

Revisiting the Link between Growth and Federalism: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach. 2015. Journal of Comparative Economics 43 (3), 772-781. (with Lars P. Feld)

Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Sub-National Government Fiscal Discipline: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries. 2015. Public Choice 163 (3-4), 307-320. (with Benny Geys and Lars P. Feld)

Cover: White on White, by Kazimir Malevich, 1918