Forthcoming

• Does India Use Development Finance to Compete with China? A Subnational Analysis  (with Gerda Asmus, Andreas Fuchs, and Brad Parks), Journal of Conflict Resolution

  • AidData Working Paper 110, University of Göttingen Discussion Paper 281

  • Safeguarding strategic interests with development finance? India's response to China's expanding footprint  in the Global South, Blog post, Ideas for India, July 6, 2022.

  • Dataset: geocoded location of officially financed Indian development projects in developing countries and in India. Data includes projects financed by the India Ministry of External Affairs and the Exim Bank.

R&R 

• Power Shifts, Emigration and Population Sorting (with Michaël Aklin)

  • CESIfo Working Paper 9765, KOF Working Paper 502, 

  • Earlier versions used the title: Voting with Your Feet: Socioeconomic Sorting in the Aftermath of Regional Autonomy 

Working Papers

• Mild De-globalization: The Effects of Screening Foreign Direct Investments on Mergers and Acquisitions (with Feicheng Wang)

  • Kiel Working Paper 2265

  • Data on investment screening mechanisms for OECD and EU countries. Subannual dates for adoption and entry into force.

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Work in progress (selection)

• The Rise of Investment Screening: Norms and Diffusion in International Economic Policy (with Renaud Bourlès and Michael Dorsch)

• Green Bonds and Investor Demand for Transparency (with Michaël Aklin and Andreas Kern)

On hold

• Ethnic Winning Coalitions and the Political Economy of Aid (with Nils-Christian Bormann and Simon Hug)

• December Fever in Public Finance, KOF Working Paper 470

Publications (refereed journals)

• Consistent Daily Google Trends Data: An Application to Economic Indicators (with Ronald Indergand, Isabel Z. Martínez and Christoph Sax), 2022, Economic Inquiry 60(2): 694-705, Open Access.

  • Working paper: KOF Working Paper 484.

  • The project trendEcon uses Google searches to track the daily development of the Swiss economy. 

  • R code

• Close Encounters of the European Kind: Structural Reforms, Economic Integration and Sectoral Heterogeneity  (with Jan-Egbert Sturm and Nauro Campos), 2020, European Economic Review 129: 103511.

  • Working paper: KOF Working Papers, No. 482, June 2020

  • VoxEU and Ökonomenstimme blogs, KOF Bulletin

• Distortions in Aid Allocation of United Nations Flash Appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake (with Andreas Fuchs, Sven Kunze, and Eric Strobl), 2020, World Development 136: 105023.

  • AidData Working Paper #71 

• The Effects of Trade, Aid and Investment on China’s Image in Latin America (with Andreas Fuchs and Lutz Brückner), 2021, Journal of Comparative Economics 49(2): 483-498.

  • Supplementary material

  • Working Paper: University of Heidelberg Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series No. 646, March 2018

  • Chinas Wirtschaftsengagement in Lateinamerika: Was denkt eigentlich die Bevölkerung vor Ort? Ökonomenstimme  

• Die wirtschaftspolitischen Maßnahmen der Schweiz zu Beginn der Covid-19-Pandemie (with Jan-Egbert Sturm), 2020, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 21(3): 290-300.

• The Politics of Special Purpose Trust Funds (with  Simon Hug) (2018), Economics and Politics 30(2): 211–255.

• What Determines Earmarked Funding to International Development Organizations? Evidence From the New Multi-Bi Aid Data (with Bernhard Reinsberg) (2017), Review of International Organizations 12(2): 171–197. 

  • Data via the Multi-bi Aid Platform at the University of Zurich

• The Poverty and Policy Selectivity of World Bank Trust Funds (with Stephen Knack) (2018), The Journal of International Development 30(4): 707–712.

  • [Working Paper: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. WPS7731, June 2016] 

• Geopolitics, Aid and Growth (with Axel Dreher and Kai Gehring) (2018), World Bank Economic Review 32(2): 268–286. Online Appendix

  • VoxEU and Ökonomenstimme blog

Book contributions and other articles

• Investment Screening Mechanisms: The Trend to Control Inward Foreign Investment (with Michael Dorsch and Feicheng Wang), 2021, EconPol Policy Report 34, December.

• China: a competitor to the EU, a partner to Switzerland, KOF Bulletin, 2.7.2021

• Fiscal Rules in Switzerland (with Jan-Egbert Sturm), 2021, Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives, edited by Barry W. Poulson, John Merrifield, and Steve H. Hanke, London: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-66690-256-3.

• Daten als Rohstoff der forschenden Schweiz: open by default, bitte!, 2020, "décodage", Blog der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

• The Rise of Multi-bi Aid and the Proliferation of Trust Funds (with Bernhard Reinsberg and Katharina Michaelowa), 2015. Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, edited by B.M. Avin & B. Lew. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. On Google Books. 

• Trust Funds: DAC Donors Contribute, Most Non-DAC Donors Don't (Blog Post on First Tranche hosted by AidData)