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 (2020), accepted
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
Discussion Papers:
Human Barriers to International Trade
currently Revise & Resubmit
with Irene Fensore and Lukas Schmid
University of St.Gallen Discussion Paper No. 2017-12 [Link]
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
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
Utilization of Trade Agreements - Evidence and Determinants
with Piotr Lukaszuk
Presented at: 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