PUBLICATIONS  

“The Role of Productivity, Transportation Costs, and Barriers to Intersectoral Mobility in Structural Transformation” (with M. Pintea), Economic Modelling, 108, 2022.

“Romes without empires: Urban concentration, political competition, and economic development” (with M.A. Ulubasoglu), European Journal of Political Economy, 63, 2020.

“Exports of primary goods and human capital accumulation,” (with Y. Hou), Review of International Economics, 27:1371-1408, 2019.

“Incomplete integration and contagion of debt distress in economic unions,” (with H. Onder), Economics & Politics, 31:194-215, 2019.

“Fiscal decentralization, fiscal reform, and economic growth in China,” (with Y. Ding and A. McQuoid), China Economic Review, 53: 152-167, 2019.

“Property Rights and the First Great Divergence: Europe 1500-1800” International Review of Economics and Finance, 42: 484-98, 2016.

“Trade and Cities” (with H. Yilmazkuday), World Bank Economic Review, 29: 523-49, 2014.

”State Owned Enterprises and Redistribution: An empirical Analysis” (with M. Ulubasoglu and V. Avsar), Economics & Politics, 25.3: 387-410, 2013.




"Habit formation, adjustment costs, and international transmission of fiscal policy" (with R. Gonzalez-Hernandez), Journal of International Money and Finance, 32: 341-359, 2013.

“Divided We Stand United We Fall: The Hume-North-John mechanism for the Rise of Europe,” International Economic Review, 49: 973-997, 2008.




“Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Relative Prices: An Industry-Level Empirical Investigation” (with Prasad S. Bhattacharya and Dimitrios D. Thomakos),  Journal of International Money and Finance, 27: 1135-1160, 2008.




“Income distribution, sovereign debt and public investment” (with K. McCollister), Economics and Politics, 17: 351-65, 2005.




“Economic (dis)integration in the presence of evolutionary learning” (with D. Mitra and D. Mendez-Carbajo), Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 14: 463-481, 2004.




“Trade in Goods and Trade in Assets,” (with Andre Burgstaller) International Journal of Business and Economics, 2: 97-108, 2003.




“Habit Formation and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy," Macroeconomic Dynamics 7: 407-423 (2003).




“Infrastructure, Returns to Scale and Sovereign Debt” (with K. McCollister and Devashish Mitra), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 11:267-278 (2002).




“Multiple Equilibria, Coordination, and Transitional Growth,” (with Devashish Mitra) Journal of Development Economics 60, 297-316, 1999.




“Temporary and Permanent Government Spending in a Small Open Economy” Journal of Monetary Economics 43, 125-141, 1999.

“A Political Economic Model of the State Owned Enterprises," Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies, vol. 1, 1999.

"The Role of Stock Markets in International Economic Integration," Journal of Economic Integration, 11: 93-113, March 1996.

"Redistributive Taxation in a Small Open Economy," Canadian Journal of Economics, XXIX: 688-698, August 1996.

"Stockmarkets, Adjustment Costs, and International Transmission of Shocks" Economica 63, 599-610, 1996.

"Heterogeneous Households, the Distribution of Wealth, and the Laursen-Metzler Effect," Review of International Economics, 3, 86-103 (1995).

"Capital Income Taxation and Welfare in a Small Open Economy," Journal of International Money and Finance, 14: 785-800, December 1995.

"Government Spending and Cyclical Adjustment in a Small Open Economy," Journal of Economic Integration, 10: 454-474, December 1995.

"Temporary and Permanent Migration with and without an Immobile Factor," Journal of Development Economics 43, 197-215 (1994).

"Adjustment Costs in Investment, Time Preferences, and the Current Account," Journal of International Economics 37, 81-95 (1994).

"International Capital and Labor Mobility: Vent for Surplus Labor" (in Portuguese), Estudos Economicos, 24, 183-202 (1994).




REPORTS

“Allocation of Natural Resource Revenues: A Fiscal Framework for Strategic Decisions in Kurdistan Region of Iraq,” World Bank Report, 2015.

“Decision-Making Constraints on the Implementation of Viable Disaster Risk Reduction Projects: Some Perspectives from Economics”, (with P. Thompson) Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations, 2011

“Inclusive Growth in Azerbaijan: Growth and Employment,” World Bank Report, 2011.

“Domestic Conflict, Public Services, and Regional Integration,” (with H. Onder) Background paper, The Fallout of War, World Bank, Washington, DC.

WORKING PAPERS

“Exports of Primary Commodities and Fertility,” (with Y. Hou)




“Habit Formation and Supply Shocks”

"Endogenous Growth, Endogenous Time Preference, and Social Status" (with Andre Burgstaller)

“International Capital Movements under Endogenous Growth” (with Andre Burgstaller)