Peer-reviewed publications

Business equity and wealth inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (forthcoming in Comparative Economic Studies)

Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from the Spanish Survey of Household Finances, Economics Letters, 2023, Vol. 223 (with Bernd Süssmuth)

Taxing the digital economy: Challenges in the European Union, Sanford Journal of Public Policy, 2017.

Youth Unemployment in Kosovo: Policy and Governance, The Journal of International Policy Solutions, Volume XX, University of San Diego, 2018. 

Ongoing projects and working papers

Capital and Crises, 1870-2020 

An analysis of the relationship between wealth accumulation/inequality and the probability of financial crises and asset price bubbles.

Testing the Dynamics of Wealth Accumulation and Inequality in the Long Run

An analysis of the relationship between r-g, wealth-income ratios, and the share of wealth held by the top 1%.

David trades with Goliath: Welfare and trade effects of an FTA between asymmetric countries

This paper analyzes the welfare and trade effects of an FTA between a small (Kosova) and a large (Turkey) country. Using a partial equilibrium model, we simulate ex ante changes in producer and consumer surplus, tariff revenue, and trade balance, at the industry level. Our simulations show that the effect in the small country is expected to be a small loss in producer surplus but a much higher gain in consumer surplus. This is true across all industries, but especially in those that make up the largest share of imports, such as textiles, food, and machinery. However, due to a higher loss in tariff revenue, we estimate an aggregate net welfare loss of 0.1% of GDP. Compared to the actual data from the first three years of the implementation of the FTA, we find that our estimates approximate well changes in exports but underestimate the magnitude of change in the trade deficit and the tariff revenue loss. 

Policy papers

Limitations and prospects of economic relations between the Republic of Kosova and Serbia, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), 2022.

The Big Picture: A progressive economic agenda for Kosovo, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), 2022 (with Dita Dobranja, Dina Vllasaliu, Lule Bahtiri, and Mimozë Veliu).

Economic effects of COVID19: An analysis of the private sector in Kosovo, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, 2021 (with Dina Vllasaliu, Lule Bahtiri, Iliriana Shala, Sovran Berisha, Tringa Krasniqi, and Blerta Greiçevci).

Taxing the digital economy - It's complicated, The Brookings Institution, 2017.