Books

Religion & Comparative Development: The Genesis of Democracy & Dictatorship, Series: New Thinking in Political Economy, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire & Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar, 2018.  Reviewed by Christa Hainz, Journal of Economics, Vol. 128, No. 1 (September 2019): 95-97.  

Aid in Transition: EU Development Cooperation with Russia & Eurasia, New York, New York: Springer, 2015. 

Refereed Articles 

With Alise Vitola. “Shades of Empire: Evidence from Swedish & Polish-Lithuanian Partitions in the Baltics", Economic History Review (2025): 13410 

With Marvin Suesse. “Financing Late Industrialization: Evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire”, Journal of Economic History, accepted.

With Maria Polugodina. “East Prussia 2.0: Persistent Regions, Rising Nations”, European Economic Review, (2024): 104790.

With Akos Dombi & Junbing Zhu. “Antiquity, Capitalism & Development: The Finance-Growth Perspective”, Emerging Markets Review (2024): 101113.

With Imran Qaiser. “Empire, Diversity & Development: Evidence from Afghan Provinces”, Applied Economics (2024): 1-16.

With Praduymn K. Tripathi. “State Capacity & the Soft Budget Constraint: Fiscal Federalism, Indian Style”, Asia & the Global Economy, Vol. 3, No. 2  (July 2023): 100058.

“Aristotle vs. Plato: The Classical Origins of Capitalist & Socialist Political Economies”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 70(4) (2023), 372-390.

With Dimitrios Moschos. “Farewell Anatolia: Refugees & the Rise of the Greek Left”, European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 77 (March 2023): 102281.

With Jonathan Fox. “Rural Health in the Progressive Era: Revisiting the Hookworm Intervention in the American South”, Journal of Rural Medicine, Vol. 17, No. 4 (2022): 236-247.

With Junbing Zhu. “Chinese Dialects, Culture & Economic Performance”, China Economic Review, Vol. 73,  (June 2022): 101783.

With Walied Hassan. “The Regional Origins of the Libyan Conflict”, Middle East Policy, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer 2021): 119-129.

With Tania Röttger. “Arctic Conflicts & Russian Foreign Policy”, Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, Lead Article, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2021.

With Corinna Breyel. “Civil Society, Natural Resources & Dictatorship”, Eurasian Geography & Economics, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2021): 131-155.

With Carsten Stann. “Monetary Policy Transmission to Eastern Europe & Russia”, Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 62 (2020): 303-353. 

With Akos Dombi. “State History & the Finance-Growth Nexus: Evidence from Transition Economies”, Economic Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2020): 100738.

With Imran Qaiser. “Measuring the Ecological Efficiency of Thermal Power Plants: Evidence from Pakistan”, Asian Development Review, Vol. 37, No. 1 (March 2020): 1-26. 

With Samuel Jung. “Persistence of Confucian Values? Legacies of Imperialism in China & Taiwan”, Schmollers Jahrbuch: Journal of Contextual Economics, 139 (2019): 73-122. 

With Pavel Konyukhovskiy. “Proxy Wars & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Special Issue: Political-economic Perspectives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Defence and Peace Economics, Vol. 31, No. 8 (2020): 904–926. 

With Ioannis N. Grigoriadis. “The Political Economy of Kulturkampf: Evidence from Imperial Prussia & Republican Turkey”, Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 3 (September 2018): 339-369.  

“Religion, Administration & Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Russia”, Economic Modelling, Vol. 66 (November 2017): 42-60.  

With Jannik Jaeger. “The Effectiveness of the ECB’s Unconventional Monetary Policy: Comparative Evidence from Crisis and non-Crisis Euro-area Countries”, Journal of International Money & Finance, Vol. 78 (November 2017): 21-43.  

With Zareh Asatryan, Thushyanthan Baskaran & Friedrich Heinemann. “Direct Democracy & Local Public Finances under Cooperative Federalism”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 119, No. 3 (July 2017): 801-820.

With Friedrich Heinemann. “Origins of Reform Resistance & the Southern European Regime”, Empirica, Vol. 43, No. 4 (November 2016): 661-691.  

“Religious Origins of Democracy & Dictatorship”, Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 38, No. 5 (September-October 2016): 785-809.  

“Aid Effectiveness and Imperfect Monitoring: EU Development Aid as Prisoner’s Dilemma”, Rationality & Society, Vol. 25, No. 4 (November 2013): 489-512.

“Compromising Islam with Empire: Bureaucracy and Class in Safavid Iran”, Iran & the Caucasus, Vol. 17, No. 4 (2013): 371-382.  

“Aid Effectiveness and Donor Preferences: European Aid Systems in the former Soviet Union, 1992-2007”, Journal of International Development, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 2013): 45-66.  

“Aid Effectiveness and the Soft Budget Constraint: EU Development Aid to the former Soviet Union”, Economics Letters, Vol. 112, No. 3 (September 2011): 287-289.  

With Benno Torgler. “Energy Polarization and Popular Representation: Evidence from the Russian Duma”, Energy Economics, Vol. 31, No. 2 (March 2009): 322-334.  

“State Responsibility and Antitrust in the Energy Charter Treaty: Socialization vs. Liberalization in Bilateral Investment Relations”, Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 44 (2009 1): 45-64. 

Book Chapters 

“Peremeny i Konflikty v Rossiiskoi Imperii”, in Saginadze, Ella. 2018. Problemy Reformirovaniia Rossii na rubezhe XIX-XX vv Saint Petersburg: EUSPb Press.  

“Nuclear Power Contracts and International Cooperation: Analyzing Innovation and Social Distribution in Russian Foreign Policy”, in Aggarwal, Vinod and Kristi Govella. 2012. Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and Responses from the European Union and the United States. Berlin and New York: Springer.