Research

Publications (peer-reviewed journals)

• The Home Bias in Sovereign Ratings (with Kai Gehring), Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming
• Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa (with Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney), International Studies Quarterly, forthcoming
• Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid-Conflict Nexus Revisited (with Austin M. Strange, Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks and Michael J. Tierney), Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(5): 935-963, May 2017
• Rogue Aid? An Empirical Analysis of China’s Aid Allocation (with Axel Dreher), Canadian Journal of Economics 48(3): 988-1023, August 2015
• Why Donors of Foreign Aid Do Not Coordinate: The Role of Competition for Export Markets and Political Support (with Hannes Öhler and Peter Nunnenkamp), World Economy 38(2): 255–285, February 2015
• Determinants of Donor Generosity: A Survey of the Aid Budget Literature (with Axel Dreher and Peter Nunnenkamp), World Development 56: 172–199, April 2014
• Paying a Visit: The Dalai Lama Effect on International Trade (with Nils-Hendrik Klann), Journal of International Economics 91(1): 164-177, September 2013
• New Donors (with Axel Dreher and Peter Nunnenkamp), International Interactions 39(3): 402-415, June 2013
• The Needy Donor: An Empirical Analysis of India's Aid Motives (with Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati), World Development 44:110-128, April 2013
• Does Terror Increase Aid? (with Axel Dreher), Public Choice 149(3-4): 337-363 (special issue "The Many Faces of Counterterrorism"), December 2011

Revise & resubmit

• State Control and the Effects of Foreign Relations on Bilateral Trade (with Christina Davis and Kristina Johnson), revise & resubmit at Journal of Conflict Resolution [Working paper: MPRA Paper No. 74597, October 2016]
• Do Development Minister Characteristics Affect Aid Giving? (with Katharina Richert), revise & resubmit at European Journal of Political Economy  [Working Paper: University of Heidelberg Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series No. 604, November 2015]

Under review

• How Do Firms Respond to Political Tensions? The Heterogeneity of the Dalai Lama Effect on Trade (with Faqin Lin and Cui Hu) [Working Paper: University of Heidelberg Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series No. 628, December 2016]
• Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China’s Foreign Assistance (with Axel Dreher, Roland Hodler, Bradley Parks, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney) [Working Paper: AidData Working Paper No. 3 (revised), October 2016]
• Emergency Aid 2.0 (with Nils-Hendrik Klann) [Working paper: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013: Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Session: International Trade and Finance, No. D08-V3, September 2013]

Work in progress

• The Causal Effects of Trade, Aid and Investment on China’s Image Abroad (with Lutz Brückner and Vera Z. Eichenauer)
• Does Aid Help Refugees Stay? Does Aid Keep Refugees Away? (with Axel Dreher and Sarah Langlotz)
• Sovereign Debt, Regime Type and the Rise of China: Re-Reconsidering the Democratic Advantage (with Kai Gehring and Daniel McDowell)
• Aid Donors (with Angelika Müller)
• The Effects of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake on Local Welfare (with Vera Z. Eichenauer, Sven Kunze and Eric Strobl)
• Analyzing the Effectiveness of Emergency Aid from Outer Space (with Vera Z. Eichenauer and Sven Kunze)
• A New Scramble for Africa? An Analysis of Chinese and Indian Development Projects (with Gerda Asmus, Vera Z. Eichenauer and Bradley Parks)
• Feed the Executive Board: Corporate Governance and International Food Aid (with Marta Curto-Grau)

Book project

• Explaining Chinese Aid (with Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney)

Collected works​

• BRICS and Foreign Aid (with Gerda Asmus and Angelika Müller), intended for publication in The World Scientific Reference on the Economies of the BRIC Countries (edited by Edward Mansfield and Nita Rudra)
  
• China’s Economy Diplomacy and the Politics-Trade Nexus, forthcoming in Handbook of Economic Diplomacy Research (edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk and Selwyn Moons), Edward Elgar Publishing UK
  

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Short articles and other publications

• Chinese aid is helping African economies, but not in the places that need it most (with Bradley Parks, Roland Hodler, Axel Dreher, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney), Washington Post (Monkey Cage), October 2016
• Die Rolle der Entwicklungsminister: Erfahrung macht den Unterschied (with Katharina Richert), Ökonomenstimme, December 2015
• Many in the West fear Chinese ‘aid’ to Africa. They’re wrong. Here’s why. (with Austin M. Strange, Bradley Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Axel Dreher and Vijaya Ramachandran), Washington Post (Monkey Cage), October 2015
• Are African leaders misusing Chinese development finance? The price of country ownership (with Bradley Parks, Roland Hodler, Axel Dreher, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney), IGC Blog, London School of Economics and University of Oxford, August 2015
• The European Union, Africa and New Donors Moving Towards New Partnerships (with Axel Dreher, Juan Carlos Vilanova Pardo and Alejandra Suarez Aller), project funded by the European Union (Framework Contract Commission 2011, Lot 1: Studies and Technical Assistance in All Sectors, Specific Contract N° 2014/337469) and implemented by iSACO (SAFEGE/COWI) in cooperation with SAFEGE and Tech4Dev, 2015
• Diving into the Details: What "Aid on Demand" Says and Doesn't Say about China in Africa (with Bradley Parks, Roland Hodler, Axel Dreher, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney), The First Tranche AidData blog, November 2014
• Does the Home Country of Credit-Rating Agencies Affect Sovereign Ratings? (with Kai Gehring), EconoMonitor, January 2014
• Heimat-Bias bei Länderratings: Wie das Heimatland einer Ratingagentur deren Ratings beeinflussen kann (with Kai Gehring), Ökonomenstimme, January 2014
• China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection (with Austin M. Strange, Bradley Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Axel Dreher and Vijaya Ramachandran), Center for Global Development Working Paper 323, April 2013
• India - The Needy Donor (with Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati), The First Tranche AidData blog, February 2013
• Rogue aid? On the importance of political institutions and natural resources for China’s allocation of foreign aid (with Axel Dreher), Voxeu.org, January 2012
• Unbegründete Furcht vor Chinas Entwicklungshilfe  (with Axel Dreher), Neue Züricher Zeitung, December 2011
• Was kostet ein Treffen mit dem Dalai Lama? (with Nils-Hendrik Klann), cege Report, March 2011
• Wie glaubwürdig sind Chinas Androhungen wirtschaftlicher Vergeltungsmaßnahmen? (with Nils-Hendrik Klann), Ökonomenstimme, December 2010
• How credible are China’s threats of economic retaliation in the context of bilateral disputes? (with Nils-Hendrik Klann), Voxeu.org, November 2010
• Peut-on mesurer la mondialisation? / Ist Globalisierung messbar? (with Axel Dreher), La Vie économique / Die Volkswirtschaft, January 2010
• Now more important than ever: A successful completion of the Doha round of multilateral trade liberalisation (with Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen and Jan-Egbert Sturm), Voxeu.org, October 2008

Refereeing
Peer-reviewed journals
American Political Science Review; Asian Education and Development Studies; China Economic Review; Contemporary South Asia; Defence and Peace Economics; Ecological Economics; Economic Notes; European Economic Review; European Journal of Development Research; European Journal of Health Economics; European Journal of Political Economy; Foreign Policy Analysis; International Interactions; International Studies Quarterly; Journal of African Economies; Journal of Common Market Studies; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Development Studies; Journal of East Asian Studies; Journal of Human Rights; Journal of International Development; Journal of International Economics; Journal of International Trade & Economic Development; Journal of Money, Credit & Banking; Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Politics; Journal of Public Policy; New England Journal of Political Science; Political Research Quarterly; Public Choice; Review of Development Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of International Organizations; Review of International Political Economy; Review of Middle East Economics and Finance; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Third World Quarterly; Weather, Climate and Society; World Development; World Economy; World Politics

Other refereeing activities
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong; Sino-German Center for Research Promotion; Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Vienna 2014)


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