Research

Research Interests:

Political Economics, Industrial Organization, Energy and Resource Economics, Gender Economics

Refereed Publications

• “Petro Rents, Political Institutions, and Hidden Wealth: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts”, with Jørgen Juel Andersen, David Dreyer Lassen and Niels Johannesen, Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(4)

• "Confining the Coase Theorem: Contracting, Ownership, and Free-riding ", with Tore Ellingsen (2016), Review of Economic Studies, 83 (2)

• “Protection for Sale: The Case of Oligopolistic Competition and Interdependent Sectors” (2014), Canadian Journal of Economics, 47, [link to the working paper version] (more detailed derivation of some appendix results can be found here).

• "The Private Provision of Excludable Public Goods: An Inefficiency Result”, with Tore Ellingsen (2012), Journal of Public Economics, vol. 96(9-10) [link to the working paper version]

• “Club-in-the-club: Reform under Unanimity”, with Erik Berglof, Mike Burkart and Guido Friebel (2012), Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 40(3) [link to the working paper version]

• "Assessing Gas Transit Risks: Russia vs. the EU", with Chloé Le Coq (2012), Energy Policy, vol 42 [link to the working paper version]

• "Measuring the Security of External Energy Supply in the European Union", with Chloé Le Coq (2009), "Energy Policy", vol. 37(11) [link to the working paper version]

• "Widening and Deepening: Reforming the European Union", with Erik Berglof, Mike Burkart and Guido Friebel (2008), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, vol. 98(2) [link to CEPR version]

• “Workers' Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion: A Segmentation Model of the Russian Labor Market”, with I. Grosfeld, C. Senik-Leygonie, T. Verdier, S. Kolenikov (2001), Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 29(2)

Book Chapters

• "Regional impact of the Russian energy sector", with Chloé Le Coq and Natalia Volchkova (2018), chapter in The Russian Economy under Putin, edited by Torbjorn Becker and Susanne Oxenstierna, Routledge

• "EU-Russia Gas Relationship at a Crossroads”, with Chloé Le Coq (2013), in Russian Energy and Security up to 2030, edited by Susanne Oxenstierna and Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Roothledge [link to the SITE working paper version]

Working Papers and Work in Progress

• Autocracy, Democratization and the Resource Curse, 2019

• Gender and Discretion in Public Procurement, with V.Jascisens and G.Spagnolo

• Effects of (De)Criminalization of Domestic Violence, with M.Berlin, P.Campa and G.Spagnolo

• Oil and Gender: Microlevel Evidence

• Oil, Environmental Damage and Social Conflict: Microlevel Evidence

• Gasoline Prices and Electoral Cycles in Russia, with S.Atmaca

• Political Institutions and Endogenous Trade Integration, with N.Volchkova

• Common Policies in a Union: the EU Energy Policy, with C. Le Coq

• "Public Procurement Thresholds and Data in Sweden", with Roman Bobilev, Andrea Guglielmo, and Giancarlo Spagnolo (2015), KKV Report 2015:3

• "Supply diversification and allocation of bargaining power in the EU-Russia gas relationship” (2013), Baltic Rim Economies 3:2013

• “Common Energy Policy in the EU: The Moral Hazard of the Security of External Supply”,  with Chloé Le Coq (2008), SIEPS Report 2008:1

• “Essays on Commitment and Inefficiency in Political Economy”, PhD Thesis, Nov 2006, Stockholm School of Economics.

• Review of the book “Central Europe: Core of Periphery?”, ed. Christopher Lord,  Scandinavian Economics History Review, vol. L, no 1, 2002.