Research
Research
Publications, Discussion Papers, Work-in-Progress
Publications:
Do Professionals Get It Right? Limited Attention and Risk-Taking Behaviour
The Economic Journal (2016), Vol. 126 (592), 724-755 [pdf]
with Reto Föllmi and Lukas Schmid
Media Briefing by the Royal Economic Society [Link]
Coverage by the LSE Business Review [Link]
Presented at: RES 2015, ESEM 2014, St.Gallen 2014
Media Attention and Betting Markets
European Economic Review (2016), Vol. 87, 304-333 [pdf]
with Lukas Schmid
Media coverage by: Handelszeitung
Presented at: Princeton 2015, IEA 2014, RGS 2014, NBER Summer Institute 2013, EEA 2013, WIEM 2013, SMYE 2013, Zurich 2012, St.Gallen 2012
Dyadic Value Distance: Determinants and Consequences
Economics Letters (2018), Vol. 165, 48-53 [pdf]
Swiss Trade During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Early Appraisal
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (2020), Vol. 156 (22) [pdf]
with Konstantin Büchel, Vincent Pochon and Philipp Wegmüller
Innovation and Trade in the Presence of Credit Constraints
Canadian Journal of Economics (2021), Vol. 54 (3), forthcoming [pdf]
with Reto Föllmi and Alexa Tiemann
Presented at: Midwest Trade Conference 2014, ETSG 2014, EEA 2014, SMYE 2014, St.Gallen 2014, SSES 2014, CEPR/SNF Conference 2014, WIEM 2014, AEL 2013, Harvard 2013, Sinergia Workshop 2012
Thucydides' Trap in the Business World
International Journal of Business Strategy (2021), Vol. 21 (1) [pdf]
with Tomas Casas
Presented at: IABE San Francisco 2021
Human Barriers to International Trade
Journal of Comparative Economics (2022), Vol. 50 (1) [pdf]
with Irene Fensore and Lukas Schmid
Media coverage: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Presented at: Zurich 2015, St.Gallen 2016, NHH 2016, ETSG 2016, U Colorado Boulder 2016, SAE 2016, SSES 2017, EGIT ifo Insitut 2017, Lindau 2017, Stanford 2017
Discussion Papers:
Trading Off Welfare and Immigration in Europe
with Ole-Petter Moe Hansen
Discussion Paper, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), No. 22/2015 [Link]
Media coverage by: Finansavisen, Klassekampen
Presented at: NHH-UiO in Oslo 2015, NHH-UiB 2015, NPSA 2015, Spanish Economic Association 2015, European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society 2015, RES 2016, CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection 2016
Drawbridges Down: Altruism and Immigration Preferences
with Ole-Petter Moe Hansen
CESifo Working Paper No. 6204, November 2016 [Link]
Quantifying Determinants of Immigration Preferences
with Ole-Petter Moe Hansen
University of St.Gallen Discussion Paper No. 2017-10 [Link]
Work in Progress:
Do Free Trade Agreements Create Trade?
Presented at: Konstanz 2018, Zurich 2018, St.Gallen 2019, SSES 2019
Predicting Conflict over Immigration Policies
with Ole-Petter Moe Hansen
Presented at: St.Gallen 2016, SSES 2016
Innovation in an Aging Population
Presented at: Warwick 2013, St.Gallen 2016, EEA 2016, Luxembourg 2016
Government Size and Economic Growth: The Role of Country Diversity
Presented at: Midwest Macro Meeting 2015