Publications
Work in Progress
PhD Dissertation
Newspaper Articles and Other Publications
Editorial work
- The Political Economy of International Finance Corporation Lending (with Axel Dreher and Katharina Richert). Journal of Development Economics 140: 242-254 (2019).
- Room for Discretion? Biased Decision-Making in International Financial Institutions (with Andrea F. Presbitero), Journal of Development Economics 130: 1-16 (2018).
- The Political Economy of International Organizations (with Axel Dreher), in: Congleton Roger, Bernard Grofman, Stefan Voigt (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018)
- Foreign Aid (with Axel Dreher and Sebastian Ziaja), in: Risse, Thomas, Tanja Börzel and Anke Draude (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Governance and Limited Statehood, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018).
- Link to publication
- CESifo Working Paper 6340: "Foreign Aid in Areas of Limited Statehood"
- Defining and Measuring Poverty and Inequality Post-2015 (with Hildegard Lingnau), Journal of International Development 27(3): 399-414 (2015).
Work in Progress
- The Distribution of Gains from Globalization (with Marina Mendes Tavares)
- Buying Votes and International Organizations: The Dirty-Work Hypothesis (with Axel Dreher, B. Peter Rosendorff, James Raymond Vreeland)
- Stigma or Cushion? IMF Programs and Sovereign Creditworthiness (with Kai Gehring)
- The Economics of the Democratic Deficit: The Effect of IMF Programs on Inequality
- Abstiegsangst. Social Identity Shocks and the Rise of Political Discontent (with Lukas Haffert)
- Targeting the Left Behind? Place-Based Policies and Regional Inequality in Europe (with Daniel Bischof and Nils Redeker)
PhD Dissertation
- Political Decisions, Economic Effects: How International Organizations Govern the Globalized Economy. PhD dissertation, Heidelberg University (2018).
- Fritz-Grunebaum-Preis
- Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research, awarded by KfW and VfS
- Faculty-Prize, for best doctoral thesis in economics at Heidelberg University in the 2017-2019 period
- Link to publication
- PhD supervisors: Axel Dreher and Christopher Kilby
Newspaper Articles and Other Publications
- Schwieriges Vorbild. Ein Währungsfonds für Europa? Gastbeitrag. Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), 23.09.2019 [link to article]
- Schwellenländer in der Krise: Hilft der IWF? ifo Institut: ifo Schnelldienst [link to article]
- Schaffen wir das? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (with Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Sarah Langlotz) [link to article]
- re-printed in: Institut für die Weltwirtschaft Kiel Focus
- Redefining poverty (with Hildegard Lingnau), Development and Cooperation 41(7) (2014). [link to article]
- The New Geography of Poverty, OECD ProgBlog, 6.11.2013. [link]
- Iraq (Sunni militant groups), in: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research: Conflict Barometer 2011, Heidelberg: 97-98 (2012).
- Iraq (AQI, ISI), in: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research: Conflict Barometer 2010, Heidelberg: 81-82 (2011).
- Iraq (Kurdish Regional Government), in: Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research: Conflict Barometer 2009, Heidelberg: p. 78.
Editorial work
- OECD (2015), OECD & Post-2015 Reflections, OECD Publishing, Paris.
- Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (2012), Conflict Barometer 2011, Heidelberg.
- Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (2011), Conflict Barometer 2010, Heidelberg.
- Lang, Joachim (2010), Neues vom alten Brecht. Manfred Wekwerth im Gespräch. Aurora, Berlin (eds.: Valentin Lang and Karoline Sprenger).
