"Sparking knowledge: Early technology adoption, innovation ability and long-run growth", GEP Research Paper 2021/05  [PDF][Replication files];  Media: ECIPE-Podcast; EHS The Long Run Journal of the European Economic Association (2026) Volume 24, Issue 1

"Trade disruption, industrialisation, and the setting sun of British colonial rule in India", with Roberto Bonfatti, Journal of the European Economic Association (2024): Volume 22, Issue 3 [PDF][Replication files]. Media: E-IR, Ideas for India, Indian Strategic Studies, EEA press release

"The Effect of Recent Technological Change on U.S. Immigration Policy: Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2024): Volume 227,  106759 [PDF][Replication files](Codes only, data available on request)] 

"The role of human-capital in Artificial Intelligence adoption", with Erik van der Marel Economics Letters (2024): Volume 244, 111949, [PDF][Replication files]. Media: ECIPE Report, Podcast

"The dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on agricultural yield, wages, and food prices in India", with Matthias S. Hertweck, Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2023): Issue 3, p.616-654 [PDF][Replication files]. 

"The extension of short-time work schemes during the Great Recession: A story of success?", with Matthias S. Hertweck, Macroeconomic Dynamics 24 (2020): 360-402. [PDF]. 

"The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany", with Giovanni Facchini, CEPR Working Paper DP19383 [WP]. 

"Panic politics on the US West Coast", with Nicolas Berman and Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti, CEPR Working Paper DP17874  [PDF][WP] 

"The Death of King Coal and the Scars of Deindustrialization", with Valeria Rueda, CEPR Working Paper DP19082  [WP] Media: VoxEU

“Collective Memory and National Identity Formation: The Role of Family and the State”, with Joanne Haddad and Lamis Kattan, CESifo Working Papers 12080, [WP] 

“Technological change and gender attitudes: Evidence from Switzerland”, with Cecilia García Peñalosa and Edoardo Cefala, NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 03/2026, [WP] 

"Export Subsidies as Industrial Policy: the Case of the 19th Century Sugar Industry", with Lidia Smitkova and Karolina Hutkova, [preliminary draft here] 

"Property Rights and Technological Inertia: Evidence from the Electrification of Switzerland", with Jacob Weisdorf, [preliminary draft here] 

"Forbidden love: The impact of banning interracial marriages", with Jade Ponsard and Roberta Ziparo [presented] 

"Supporting independence: Political connections and import substitution in India" with Roberto Bonfatti and Cyril Thomson [presented]

"Swiss folklore: A dataset of historical economic, legal and cultural practices" with Paula Gobbi, Marc Goñi, David Mainus [data collection in progress]

General interest talks:

Keynote Energiomstilling VEST meeting 2026

Keynote 2025 Norwegian Economic Association conference (Forskermøtet)

Podcasts: 

The long-term effects of technology on economic growth, ECIPE episode 83, June 2022, hosted by Erik van der Marel

Articles:

Inne i den svarte boksen til moderne økonomisk vekst: Nobelprisen i økonomi 2025 (Inside the Black Box of Modern Economic Growth), Samfunnsøkonomen nr. 1/2026.

The persistent human costs of deindustrialisation, VOXEU/CEPR column, 2024, with Valeria Rueda

Artificial Intelligence and the Clustering of Human Capital: The Risks for Europe, ECIPE, December 2023, with Frederik Erixon and Erik van der Marel [Blog][Summary][Policy Report]

Trade, industrialization and support for anti-colonial movements, E-International relations, August 2020, with Roberto Bonfatti 

World War I and industrialization in British India, Ideas for India, May 2020, with Roberto Bonfatti