Research

PUBLICATIONS

Political Economy

Elections and Policies: Evidence from COVID Pandemic, Kyklos, forthcoming, 2024; pdf

Technological Progress and Political Disenfranchisement, Comparative Economic Studies, 2023; pdf

Can Conflicts Unite a Nation? Economic Modelling, 2023; pdf, replication files

Political Polarization in the UK: Measures and Socio-Economic Correlates, Constitutional Political Economy, 2023; pdf, replication files

Parenthood and Political Engagement, European Journal of Political Economy, 2023;  pdf

Trade Openness and Political Distortions, Economics and Politics, 2021; pdf

Mandatory Spending, Political Polarization, and Macroeconomic Volatility, European Journal of Political Economy, 2021;  pdf

Shall We Riot Too? The geographical neighbor impact on political instability. Kyklos, 2018; pdf, replication files

Political frictions and public policy outcomes. Journal of Comparative Economics 44, 2016; pdf

On the determinants of political polarization. Economics Letters, 2016; pdfreplication files

Macroeconomics and Finance

Current Account and International Networks. Review of International Economics, 2020; pdfreplication files

Determinants of ins and outs of unemployment. Applied Economics Letters, 2020 (joint with Lorenzo Ductor); pdf

Firm size, bank size, and financial development. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018; pdf

Debt and deficit fluctuations in a time-consistent setup. Macroeconomic Dynamics 20, 2016; pdf

Financial development, real sector, and economic growth. International Review of Economics & Finance 37, 2015 (joint with Lorenzo Ductor); pdf; replication files

Environmental and Behavioural Economics

Robust Determinants of CO2 emissions, Energy Economics, 2021 (joint with Carlos Aller and Lorenzo Ductor); pdf

Remittances, natural resource rent and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 (joint with Pamela Ofori);  pdf

‘Nudging’ responses to marketing emails: Evidence from London Fireworks Campaign. Journal of Behavioural Economics for Policy, 2019 (joint with Alice Gimblett); pdf



WORKING PAPERS

Conflicts, Policies, and Polarization

Raising Awareness of Climate Change: Nature, Activists, Politicians; pdf

Resource Curse: Reconciling Medium and Long Term Results (joint with K. Peren Arin and Christina Zenkere)



WORK IN PROGRESS