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Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Stigma or Cushion? IMF Programs and Sovereign Creditworthiness (with Kai Gehring). Journal of Development Economics 146 (2020).
  • Link to publication
• 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
• Room for Discretion? Biased Decision-Making in International Financial Institutions (with Andrea Presbitero), Journal of Development Economics 130: 1-16 (2018).
  • Link to publication​
• ​Defining and Measuring Poverty and Inequality Post-2015 (with Hildegard Lingnau), Journal of International Development 27(3): 399-414 (2015).
  • Link to publication

Work in progress and under review

• The Economics of the Democratic Deficit: The Effect of IMF Programs on Inequality. Revise and Resubmit: Review of International Organizations.
  • Heidelberg University Discussion Paper 617
  • most recent version (2020) 
• The Distribution of Gains from Globalization (with Marina Mendes Tavares)
  • IMF Working Paper 18/54
  • most recent version (2019)
  • Vox column (VoxEU.org) 
• ​Buying Votes and International Organizations: The Dirty-Work Hypothesis (with Axel Dreher, B. Peter Rosendorff, James Raymond Vreeland)
  • CEPR Discussion Paper 13290
  • most recent version (2019)
  • Vox column (VoxEU.org)
• ​​​Abstiegsangst. Social Identity Shocks and the Rise of Political Discontent (with Lukas Haffert)
  • ​draft available on request
• Targeting the Left Behind? Place-Based Policies and Regional Inequality in Europe (with Daniel Bischof and Nils Redeker)
  • ​draft available on request

Handbook chapters and other publications

• 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)
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• 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 working paper
• Political Decisions, Economic Effects: How International Organizations Govern the Globalized Economy. PhD dissertation, Heidelberg University (2018).
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• Schwellenländer in der Krise: Hilft der IWF? ifo Institut: ifo Schnelldienst
  • Link to publication

Newspaper articles

• Schwieriges Vorbild. Ein Währungsfonds für Europa? Gastbeitrag. Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), 23.09.2019 [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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