Unpublished Discussion Papers

Membership has its Privileges – The Effect of Membership in International Organizations on FDI (with Heiner Mikosch and Stefan Voigt), cege Discussion Paper 114, October 2010.

Does membership on the UN Security Council influence IMF conditionality? (with Jan-Egbert Sturm and James Vreeland), Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth Discussion Paper 36, June 2010.

Does Conditionality Work? A Test for an Innovative US Aid Scheme (with Hannes Öhler, Peter Nunnenkamp), Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth Discussion Paper 34, June 2010.

Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do! (with Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler), Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth Discussion Paper 29, March 2010.

The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective? (with Stephan Klasen, James Raymond Vreeland, Eric Werker), Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth Discussion Paper 26, March 2010.

Are ‘New’ Donors Different? Comparing the Allocation of Bilateral Aid between Non-DAC and DAC Donor Countries? (with Peter Nunnenkamp and Rainer Thiele), Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth Discussion Paper 25, March 2010.

Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Public Refinancing Matter? (with Peter Nunnenkamp, Susann Thiel, Rainer Thiele), January 2010.

On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter? (with Chrisitan Bjornskov, Justina A.V. Fischer, Jan Schnellenbach), KOF Working Paper 245, ETH Zürich, December 2009.

The Search for a Long-run Aid and Growth Relationship: Pitfalls and Findings (with Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Dierk Herzer, Stephan Klasen), March 2009.

Who gets elected to the United Nations Security Council? (with James Vreeland), March 2009.

Acting Autonomously or Mimicking the State and Peers? A Panel Tobit Analysis of Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs (with Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Öhler, Johannes Weisser), KOF Working Paper 219, ETH Zurich, February 2009.

Country or Leader? Political Change and UN General Assembly Voting (with Nathan M. Jensen), KOF Working Paper 217, ETH Zurich, February 2009.

Do IMF and World Bank programs induce government crises? An empirical analysis (with Martin Gassebner, KOF Working Paper 200, ETH Zurich, June 2008.

Does Membership in International Organizations Increase Governments' Credibility? A Test on the Effects of Delegating Powers (with Stefan Voigt) KOF Working Paper 193, ETH Zurich, April 2008.

The devil is in the shadow. Do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity? (with Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Friedrich Schneider) KOF Working Paper 179, ETH Zurich, November 2007.

Do Differences in Institutional and Legal Environments Explain Cross-Country Variations in IPO Underpricing? (with Christian Hopp), KOF Working Paper ETH Zurich, August 2007.

Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry (with Martin Gassebner), KOF Working Paper 166, ETH Zurich, May 2007.

On Gender Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Does Discrimination Matter? (with Christian Bjørnskov and Justina A.V. Fischer), KOF Working Paper 161, ETH Zurich, April 2007.

Power to the People? The Impact of Decentralization on Governance, KOF Working Paper 121, ETH Zurich, January 2006.

Does the IMF cause moral hazard? A critical review of the evidence, February 2004.