Publications
Articles
"How labor market institutions influence the relationship between exchange rate regimes and economic growth", (with Muhammad Asali and Simonas Algirdas Spurga), PLOS One, 20(9): e0332492, 2025.
“The Political Economy of External (Im)Balances: The Interaction Between Exchange Rate Regimes and Labor Market Institutions” (with Simonas Algirdas Spurga), Comparative Economic Studies, early view, 2025.
"Drivers of fintech policy evolution: The role of policy learning and institutions" (with Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Matti Ylönen), Policy & Politics, 53(1), 87-108, 2025.
"Regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs for FinTech: Experiences of the Baltic states" (with Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, James W. Douglas), European Journal of Law and Economics, early view, 2024.
"A spatiotemporal analysis of NATO member states' defense spending: how much do allies actually free ride?" (with Ringailė Kuokštytė), Political Science Research and Methods [research note], early view, 2024.
Replication data (Harvard Dataverse)
"To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech" (with Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Vytenis Čipinys, Matti Ylönen), Regulation & Governance, early view, 2024.
"The Political Economy of Transatlantic Security – A Policy Perspective" (with Jordan Becker and Ringailė Kuokštytė), The Economists' Voice, 2023.
"How Institutions Moderated the Pandemic's Economic Impact in EU Member States" (with Ringailė Kuokštytė), JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 61(2), 503-525, 2023.
Replication data in Stata format
"Economic Adaptability in the Absence of Democratic Corporatism: Explaining Lithuania's Export Performance" (with Ramūnas Vilpišauskas), Politologija 2(104), 116-157, 2022.
"Labor Market Flexibility and Exchange Rate Regimes" (with Muhammad Asali and Simonas Algirdas Spurga), European Journal of Political Economy, 2022.
Replication material here in Stata format
"External and domestic political determinants of defence spending: A time-series cross-section analysis of EU member states" (with Ringailė Kuokštytė and Ieva Miklaševskaja), European Security 30 (2), 197-217, 2021.
Data (in Stata format); Stata replication code
"Retrospective voting in Central and Eastern Europe: Hyper-accountability, corruption or socio-economic inequality?"(with Mažvydas Jastramskis and Matas Baltrukevičius), Party Politics 27 (4), 667-679, 2021.
Data for original sample; Stata replication code for original sample
Data for expanded sample; Stata replication code for added cases
"Explaining National Preferences on the New European Banking Policy Framework: The Case of Lithuania" (co-authored with Marius Skuodis), Journal of Baltic Studies 49 (3), 351-369, 2018.
“Fiscal Policy Learning from Crisis: Comparative Analysis of the Baltic Countries” (co-authored with Ringa Raudla, Rainer Kattel, and Aleksandrs Cepilovs), Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 20 (3), 288-303, 2018.
“Currency boards, depoliticization and macroeconomic stability: the political economy of institutional complementarities” (co-authored with Magnus Feldmann), Policy Studies 38 (4), 356-374, 2017.
“Economic Conditions and Tax Compliance: The Mediating Effect of Trust”, Journal of Comparative Politics 10 (2), 55-69, 2017.
“Searching for historical analogies in political economy: the Baltic states and the gold standard regime”, Journal of Baltic Studies 47 (3), 287-299, 2016.
“Race to the Euro: Why Latvia Joined Earlier Than Lithuania” (co-authored with Anastazija Markevičiūtė), Baltic Journal of Political Science 5 (5), 5-20, 2016.
“Jingle bELLs and Struggling GIPS: Comparing the Baltic and the southern euro zone’s crisis experience using the varieties of capitalism framework”, Acta Oeconomica 65 (s1), 39-64, 2015.
“Fiscal consolidation and structural reforms in Lithuania in the period 2008–2012: from grand ambitions to hectic firefighting” (co-authored with Vitalis Nakrošis and Ramūnas Vilpišauskas), International Review of Administrative Sciences 81 (3), 522-540, 2015.
“Cooperating Estonians and “exiting” Lithuanians: trust in times of crisis”, Post-Soviet Affairs 31 (6), 557-575, 2015.
“Baltic States in World Markets: Does Katzenstein’s Framework Still Hold?”, Journal of Baltic Studies 46 (2), 109-126, 2015.
“What type of capitalism do the Baltic countries belong to?”, EMECON 1, 2011.
Book chapters
"The Baltic States and the Eurozone" , (co-authored with Magnus Feldmann), in Krisztina Arató, Boglarka Koller, and Anita Pelle (eds.), The Political Economy of the Eurozone in Central and Eastern Europe: Why In, Why Out? Routledge, 2021.
“Lithuania’s Economic Diplomacy: Export Promotion and FDI Attraction”, (co-authored with Ringailė Kuokštytė), in Andris Sprūds and Karlis Bukovskis (eds.), Economic Diplomacy of the Baltic States. Latvian Institute of International Affairs/Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Riga, 115-131, 2014.
“The Politics of Reacting to the Crisis in Lithuania from 2008-2013: Exiting the Crisis, Entering Politics as Usual?” (co-authored with Ramūnas Vilpišauskas and Vitalis Nakrošis), in Karlis Bukovskis (ed.), The Politics of Economic Sustainability: Baltic and Visegrad Responses to the European Economic Crisis. Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Riga, 2014, 30-50.
Currently, I am working on these projects:
"Political underpinnings of economic success in the Eurozone: The role of wage bargaining coordination" (with Simonas Algirdas Spurga), Revise & Resubmit.
"Exchange Rates and Economic Growth During the Global Business Cycle: The Role of Labor Market Institutions" (with Muhammad Asali and Simonas Algirdas Spurga), IZA Discussion Paper, under review.
"Limitations of foreign-owned banking and Baltic financial adjustment strategies in the era of geoeconomic fragmentation" (with Edgars Eihmanis), under review.
"Financial Bureaucracy Featuring Innovation Bureaucracy – Insights from Diverging Pathways in the Baltic States" (with Egert Juuse, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Ringa Raudla).
"The Effect of Labor Market Reforms on Exports” (with Povilas Lastauskas and Simonas Algirdas Spurga).
"Exchange Rate Regimes, Labor Market Flexibility, and Economic Growth: Testing Conventional Wisdom” (with Muhammad Asali and Simonas Algirdas Spurga).
"Causal effect of neoliberal reforms on wealth and income inequality" (with Denis Ivanov).
"Explaining global adoption of fintech sandboxes" (with Alfredo Sanchez).