Research Interests
Political Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Public Economics
Journal Publications
- "Confining the Coase Theorem: Contracting, Ownership, and Free-riding ", with Tore Ellingsen, forthcoming in The Review of Economic Studies
- “Protection for Sale: The Case of Oligopolistic Competition and Interdependent Sectors”, forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Economics
- "The Private Provision of Excludable Public Goods: An Inefficiency Result”, with Tore Ellingsen (2012), Journal of Public Economics, vol. 96(9-10), pp.658-669
- “Club-in-the-club: Reform under Unanimity”, with Erik Berglof, Mike Burkart and Guido Friebel (2012), Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 40(3), pp.492-507
- "Assessing Gas Transit Risks: Russia vs. the EU", with Chloé Le Coq (2012), Energy Policy, vol 42, pp.642–650
- "Measuring the Security of External Energy Supply in the European Union", with Chloé Le Coq (2009), "Energy Policy", vol. 37(11), pages 4474-4481
- "Widening and Deepening: Reforming the European Union", with Erik Berglof, Mike Burkart and Guido Friebel, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2008
- “Workers' Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion: A Segmentation Model of the Russian Labor Market”, with I. Grosfeld, C. Senik-Leygonie, T. Verdier, S. Kolenikov, Journal of Comparative Economics, June 2001
Working Papers and Work in Progress
- “Autocracy, Democratization and the Resource Curse”
- “Petro Rents and Hidden Wealth: Evidence from Bank Deposits in Tax Havens”, with Jørgen Juel Andersen, David Dreyer Lassen and Niels Johannesen
- “Common Policies in a Union: the EU Energy Policy”, with Chloé Le Coq
- “Protection for Sale with Substitutability: Empirical Verification”