Research

Working papers

“Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict” (with Kai Gehring). CESifo Working Paper No. 10423. Accepted: Quarterly Journal of Economics.

“Mining for peace” (with Roland Hodler and Alberto Vesperoni). CEPR Discussion Paper No. 17807. Conditionally accepted: Journal of the European Economic Association.

“Ethnofederalism: Subnational borders and the salience of ethnicity in politics” (with Richard Bluhm and Roland Hodler). CESifo Working Paper No. 9314.

“Local majorities: How administrative divisions shape comparative development” (with Richard Bluhm and Roland Hodler). University of St.Gallen Discussion Paper No. 2021-10.

Publications

“The political geography of cities.” (with Richard Bluhm and Christian Leßmann). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Forthcoming.

“Armed groups: Competition and political violence.” (with Martin Gassebner and Melvin H. L. Wong). Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162:103052.

“Fueling conflict? (De)Escalation and bilateral aid” (with Richard Bluhm, Martin Gassebner, and Sarah Langlotz). Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36:2, 244-261.

“First impressions: How leader changes affect bilateral aid” (with Tobias Rommel). Journal of Public Economics, 2020, Vol. 185 (May), 1-12.

The effect of migration on terror – Made at home or imported from abroad?” (with Axel Dreher and Martin Gassebner). Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53:4, 1703-1744.

Ph.D. Dissertation

“The Political Economy of Development and Organized Violence”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Leibniz University Hannover (2019).