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Publications

• The Economics of the Democratic Deficit: The Effect of IMF Programs on Inequality. Review of International Organizations.
  • Link to open-access publication / link to ungated PDF.
• Stigma or Cushion? IMF Programs and Sovereign Creditworthiness (with Kai Gehring). Journal of Development Economics 146 (2020).
  • Link to publication / link to ungated PDF.
• The Political Economy of International Finance Corporation Lending (with Axel Dreher and Katharina Richert). Journal of Development Economics 140: 242-254 (2019).
  • Link to publication / link to ungated PDF.
• Room for Discretion? Biased Decision-Making in International Financial Institutions (with Andrea Presbitero), Journal of Development Economics 130: 1-16 (2018).
  • Link to publication​ / link to ungated PDF.
• 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 / link to ungated PDF.
• Foreign Aid in Areas of Limited Statehood (with Axel Dreher and Sebastian Ziaja), in: Risse, Thomas, Tanja Börzel, Anke Draude (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Governance and Limited Statehood, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018).
  • Link to publication / link to ungated PDF.
• ​Defining and Measuring Poverty and Inequality Post-2015 (with Hildegard Lingnau), Journal of International Development 27(3): 399-414 (2015).
  • Link to publication / link to ungated PDF.

Working papers and work in progress

• Borrowing Costs after Sovereign Debt Relief (with David Mihalyi and Andrea Presbitero). Revise & Resubmit: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
  • CEPR Discussion Paper 15832
  • latest version (2021)
  • Vox article (voxeu.org)
• ​Buying Votes and International Organizations: The Dirty-Work Hypothesis (with Axel Dreher, B. Peter Rosendorff, James Raymond Vreeland). Under review
  • CEPR Discussion Paper 13290
  • latest version (2021)
  • Vox article (voxeu.org)
• The Distribution of Gains from Globalization (with Marina M. Tavares). Under review
  • IMF Working Paper 18/54
  • latest version (2021)
  • Vox article (voxeu.org) 
• ​​​​Helping the Left Behind? Place-Based Policies and Regional Inequality (with Daniel Bischof and Nils Redeker)
  • work in progress, ​draft available on request​
• ​Abstiegsangst. Social Identity Shocks and the Rise of Political Discontent (with Lukas Haffert)
  • ​work in progress, draft available on request
• ​The Power of International Bureaucrats. Individual-Level Evidence from IMF Mission Chiefs (with Lukas Wellner)
  • work in progress, draft available on request
• ​​Aid Effectiveness and Donor Motives (with Axel Dreher)
  • work in progress
• ​Migration and the Far Right: Short and Long-Run Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Stephan Schneider) 
  • work in progress

PhD dissertation

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

Journalistic articles (selection)

• 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, 06.12.2018 [link to article]
• Schaffen wir das? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) (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 (D+C) 41(7) (2014). [link to article]
• The New Geography of Poverty, OECD Blog (2013). [link]​​

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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