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Working Papers

2025

1. Estimating interaction effects with panel data
   Papers, arXiv.org
   Also in GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO) (2025)
2. How does FDI transmit into domestic investment? Exploring intra-industry and financial channels
   wiiw Working Papers, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw

2024

3. Investment incomes vs. the trade balance: Is the current account still a meaningful concept? (Konstantin Wacker)
   Working Papers, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank)
4. Leveraging Growth Regressions for Country Analysis
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2023

5. Accounting for cross-country output differences: A sectoral CES perspective
   Working Papers, International Network for Economic Research - INFER
6. Human Capital Misallocation and Output per Worker Differences: Beyond Cobb-Douglas
   GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
7. Measuring Multinational Production with Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Developments
   IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund View citations (3)

2022

8. A global dataset of pandemic- and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
9. Good Enough for Outstanding Growth: The Experience of Bangladesh in Comparative Perspective
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective, Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute (2024) (2024)

2021

10. The Rise of Robots and the Fall of Routine Jobs
    ADB Economics Working Paper Series, Asian Development Bank View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs, Labour Economics, Elsevier (2020) View citations (95) (2020)

2019

11. The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: An introduction
    Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: An introduction, Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) (2019) View citations (3) (2019)
12. Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (8)

2017

13. Financial Globalization and the Labor Share in Developing Countries: The Type of Capital Matters
    Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Financial globalisation and the labour share in developing countries: The type of capital matters, The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell (2020) View citations (7) (2020)
14. Growth (but not only) is good for the poor: some cross-country evidence to promote growth and shared prosperity in Haiti
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
15. Is there poverty convergence?
    Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG
    Also in Working Papers, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (2017) View citations (6)
16. Productivity Growth in Latin American and the Caribbean
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group

2016

17. There is poverty convergence
    Department of Economics Working Paper Series, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business View citations (4)
    Also in Department of Economics Working Papers, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics (2016) View citations (4)

2015

18. Ethiopia?s growth acceleration and how to sustain it?insights from a cross-country regression model
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (2)
19. Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean’s Income Gap
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group

2014

20. Benchmarking the Determinants of Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (10)
21. Beyond Commodities
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group View citations (1)
    See also Book Beyond Commodities, World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group (2016) View citations (1) (2016)
22. Measuring financial conditions in major non-euro area economies
    Working Paper Series, European Central Bank View citations (15)
23. Terms of Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Development: A Case of Intra-Asian “Kicking Away the Ladder”?
    Working Papers on Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development Bank View citations (1)

2013

24. Do Financially Constrained Firms Suffer from More Intense Competition by the Informal Sector? Firm-Level Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys
    Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG View citations (1)
25. On the measurement of foreign direct investment and its relationship to activities of multinational corporations
    Working Paper Series, European Central Bank View citations (16)
26. Why We Don’t See Poverty Convergence: The Role of Macroeconomic Volatility
    Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG

2012

27. Globalization and Female Labor Force Participation in Developing Countries: An Empirical (Re-)Assessment
    Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG View citations (6)
28. The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows: New Evidence from the SDDS
    IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund View citations (14)
    Also in Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG (2012)

2011

29. Do Multinationals Influence Labor Standards? A Close Look at US Outward FDI
    Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers, Courant Research Centre PEG
30. Do multinationals beat down developing countries' export prices? The impact of FDI on net barter terms of trade
    Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research View citations (4)
31. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Developing Countries' Terms of Trade
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (6)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Good enough for outstanding growth: The experience of Bangladesh in comparative perspective
   Development Policy Review, 2024, 42, (2)
   See also Working Paper Good Enough for Outstanding Growth: The Experience of Bangladesh in Comparative Perspective, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2023

2. Drivers of growth accelerations: What role for capital accumulation?
   World Development, 2023, 169, (C) View citations (3)
3. Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics
   Review of Development Economics, 2023, 27, (3), 1746-1768

2022

4. Explaining the global landscape of foreign direct investment: Knowledge capital, gravity, and the role of culture and institutions
   The World Economy, 2022, 45, (10), 3080-3108
5. When Do We See Poverty Convergence?*
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84, (6), 1283-1301 View citations (6)

2020

6. Financial globalisation and the labour share in developing countries: The type of capital matters
   The World Economy, 2020, 43, (9), 2343-2374 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Financial Globalization and the Labor Share in Developing Countries: The Type of Capital Matters, Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (1) (2017)
7. The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs
   Labour Economics, 2020, 66, (C) View citations (95)
   See also Working Paper The Rise of Robots and the Fall of Routine Jobs, ADB Economics Working Paper Series (2021) View citations (1) (2021)

2019

8. The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: An introduction
   Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), 2019, 13, 1-7 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: An introduction, Economics Discussion Papers (2019) View citations (3) (2019)
9. Who is Afraid of Informal Competition? The Role of Finance for Firms in Developing and Emerging Economies
   The European Journal of Development Research, 2019, 31, (4), 1126-1146 View citations (7)

2017

10. Explaining Ethiopia’s Growth Acceleration—The Role of Infrastructure and Macroeconomic Policy
    World Development, 2017, 96, (C), 198-215 View citations (17)
11. Poverty and Shared Prosperity: Let’s Move the Discussion Beyond Growth
    Forum for Social Economics, 2017, 46, (2), 192-205

2016

12. (When) Should We Use Foreign Direct Investment Data to Measure the Activities of Multinational Corporations? Theory and Evidence
    Review of International Economics, 2016, 24, (5), 980-999 View citations (23)
13. Assaf, Razin: Understanding global crises: an emerging paradigm
    Journal of Economics, 2016, 117, (3), 285-287
14. Do Multinationals Deteriorate Developing Countries' Export Prices? The Impact of FDI on Net Barter Terms of Trade
    The World Economy, 2016, 39, (12), 1974-1999 View citations (1)
15. Foreign Direct Investment, Terms of Trade, and Quality Upgrading: What Is So Special about South Asia?
    Asian Development Review, 2016, 33, (1), 28-55 View citations (4)

Books

2016

1. Beyond Commodities
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Beyond Commodities, World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group (2014) View citations (1) (2014)
2. Understanding the Income and Efficiency Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (5)

Chapters

2020

1. Differences in measuring FDI: do they matter for our economic conclusions?
   A chapter in Bridging measurement challenges and analytical needs of external statistics: evolution or revolution?, 2020, vol. 52 View citations (3)