PUBLICATIONS
Sovereign Debt in a Warming World: Are Credit Rating Agencies Responding to Climate Change? (single-authored), Kyklos, 2025. Article link
Hysteresis and the Long Shadow of the Exchange Rate Regime (single-authored), Review of Keynesian Economics, 2024. Article link
The Cost of a Currency Peg during the Great Recession (single-authored), Open Economies Review, 2023. Article link
Does Democracy Cause Gender Equality? (single-authored), Journal of Institutional Economics, 2023. Article link
Too Big to Fail and Moral Hazard: Evidence from an Epoch of Unregulated Commercial Banking (with Peter Sandholt Jensen), IMF Economic Review, 2022. Article link
Historical Migration and Contemporary Health (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Pablo Selaya), Oxford Economic Papers, 2021. Article link
Preaching Democracy: The Second Vatican Council and the Third Wave (with Peter Sandholt Jensen), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019. Article link
Fads and Trends in OECD Economic Thinking on Denmark: A Word Frequency Approach (single-authored), Econ Journal Watch, 2019. Article link
Join to Prosper: An Empirical Analysis of EU Membership and Economic Growth? (with Mikkel Barslund and Pieter Vanhuysse), Kyklos, 2019. Article link
Pre-Reformation Roots of the Protestant Ethic (with Jeanet Bentzen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Paul Sharp), Economic Journal, 2017. Article link
The macroeconomics of a delayed recovery from the global financial crisis: A comparative approach (with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller), Singapore Economic Review, 2017. Article link
Climate and the Emergence of Global Income Differences (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Pablo Selaya), Review of Economic Studies, 2016. Article link
The Heavy Plow and the Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe (with Peter Sandholt Jensen and Christian Volmar Skovsgaard), Journal of Development Economics, 2016. Article link
Innovations in mortgage finance and the onset of the Great Recession in a small open economy with a euro peg (with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller), Comparative Economic Studies, 2015. Article link
Inflation targeting and macroeconomic performance since the Great Recession (with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Jens Nordvig), Oxford Economic Papers, 2015. Article link
How Much Did China’s WTO Accession Increase Economic Growth in Resource-Rich Countries? (with Mikkel Barslund, Casper Worm Hansen, Thomas Harr, and Peter Sandholt Jensen), China Economic Review, 2014. Article link
Is Africa’s Recent Growth Sustainable? (with Peter Sandholt Jensen), International Economic Journal, 2014. Article link
Power Outages and Economic Growth in Africa (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Energy Economics, 2013. Article link
Lightning, IT Diffusion and Economic Growth across the US States (with Jeanet Bentzen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard, and Pablo Selaya), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012. Article link
The Finance-Growth Thesis: A Skeptical Assessment (with Sam Jones and Finn Tarp), Journal of African Economies, 2012. Article link
Walking the talk: the need for a trial register for development interventions (with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Ole Dahl Rasmussen), Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2011. Article link
Does the Internet Reduce Corruption: Evidence from U.S. States and across Countries (with Jeanet Bentzen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard, and Pablo Selaya), World Bank Economic Review, 2011. Article link
Flows of People, Flows of Ideas, and the Inequality of Nations (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard), Journal of Economic Growth, 2011. Article link
IMF and Economic Reform in Developing Countries (with Phil Abbott and Finn Tarp), Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2010. Article link
E-government as an anti-corruption strategy (single-authored), Information Economics and Policy, 2009. Article link
Synthesis of Impact Evaluations of Microcredit (with Jens Kovsted and Andreas Kuchler), Danida Evaluation Study, 2009. Article link
Auditing, Capital Requirements and Franchise Values in Optimal Bank Regulation (with Thomas Harr), Journal of Emerging Market Finance, 2008. Article link
Petrodollars, Portfolio Restructuring and Long-Term Interest Rates (with Sofie Nedergaard Fich and Frank Øland Hansen), Danmarks Nationalbank Monetary Review, 2007. Article link
Strategic Interaction in Undeveloped Credit Markets (with Nikolaj Malchow-Møller), Journal of Development Economics, 2006. Article link
US Politics and World Bank IDA-Lending (with Henrik Hansen and Thomas Markussen), Journal of Development Studies, 2006. Article link
Commentaires sur l'intervention de Jean-Philippe Platteau (with Finn Tarp), Afrique Contemporaine, 2004. Article link
Financial Liberalization, Financial Development and Economic Growth (with Finn Tarp), Journal of International Development, 2003. Article link
Finansiel udvikling og økonomisk vækst (single-authored), Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, 2001. Article link