Recent Research Papers

A Simple Graph Showing: The Democratic Transition in a Generic Country (with Martin Paldam). Mimeo, Aarhus and Kiel, March 2010.

Look Before You Leap: The Economics of Free Trade and Income Redistribution (with Albert de Vaal).  Kiel Working Paper, 1583, January 2010. 

The Religious Transition. A Long-run Perspective (with Martin Paldam).
Kiel Working Paper, 1576, December 2009. 

The Agricultural and the Democratic Transitions (with Martin Paldam).
Kiel Working Paper, 1521, May 2009. 

Technological Change, Trade, and Endogenous Factor Endowments (with Albert de Vaal).
Kiel Working Paper, 1471, December 2008.

The Democratic Transition. A Study of the Causality between Income and the Gastil Democracy Index (with Martin Paldam).
Kiel Working Paper, 1459, October 2008.  

Essays

Weniger ist selten mehr. Financial Times Deutschland. 14.12.2009, p. 24.

Demokratie, Verteilung und Wachstum aus ökonomischer Sicht. Replik.
Wissenschaft & Umwelt Interdisziplinär 13, 2009: 157-159.
Abstract

Arbeitssparender technischer Fortschritt und Löhne.
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, Heft 4, 2009: 188-192.
Kiel Working Paper, 1382, September 2007.