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Journal Articles

• The Political Economy of International Finance Corporation Lending (with Axel Dreher and Katharina Richert). Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.
  • Link to publication
  • Link to working paper (ungated)
• Room for Discretion? Biased Decision-Making in International Financial Institutions (with Andrea F. Presbitero), Journal of Development Economics 130: 1-16 (2018).
  • Link to publication
  • Media coverage: Ökonomenstimme, Handelsblatt
• ​Defining and Measuring Poverty and Inequality Post-2015 (with Hildegard Lingnau), Journal of International Development 27(3): 399-414 (2015).
  • Link to publication

Working Papers

• The Distribution of Gains from Globalization (with Marina Mendes Tavares) [most recent version (2018)]
  • IMF Working Paper 18/54
  • Vox column (VoxEU.org)
  • Media coverage: World Economic Forum, IMF Blog, Wirtschaftswoche, Strategist, MoneyWeek, Ideas for India
• ​ Buying Votes and International Organizations: The Dirty-Work Hypothesis (with Axel Dreher, B. Peter Rosendorff, James Raymond Vreeland)
  • CEPR Discussion Paper 13290
  • Vox column (VoxEU.org)
• Stigma or Cushion? IMF Programs and Sovereign Creditworthiness (with Kai Gehring)
  • ETH Zurich & University of Zurich CIS Working Paper 98
  • ​CESifo Working Paper 7339
  • ​Media coverage: ifo Schnelldienst, Ökonomenstimme
• The Economics of the Democratic Deficit: The Effect of IMF Programs on Inequality [most recent version (2018)]
  • Heidelberg University Discussion Paper 617​ (2016)

Book Chapters

• 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)
  • Link to publication
  • CESifo Working Paper 6077
• 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"

PhD Dissertation

• Political Decisions, Economic Effects: How International Organizations Govern the Globalized Economy. PhD dissertation, Heidelberg University (2018).
  • Link to publication
  • PhD supervisors: Axel Dreher and Christopher Kilby

Newspaper Articles and Other Publications

• 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).

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