Research

Increasing Trust in the Bank to Enhance Savings: Experimental Evidence from India (with Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle)
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Volume 69, Issue 2, January 2021 
Pre-print: Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) Working Paper 2016:02

Deeper Crisis, Higher Skills Demand? Impact of Financial Crises on Demand for Skills (with Laura Cyron)
Education Economics, May 2021. 

Abnormal Pricing in International Commodity Trade: Evidence from Switzerland (with Gilles Carbonnier)
Resources Policy, Volume 74, December 2021
Pre-print: Working Paper: R4D-IFFs Working Paper Series

Abnormal Pricing in Commodity Trade: Evidence from Ghana (with Ama Ahene-Codjoe and Angela Alu)
International Economics, Volume 172, December 2022
Pre-print: Working Paper: R4D-IFF Working Paper Series

Abnormal Pricing in Commodity Trade: Evidence from Lao PDR (with Vanthana Nolintha and Vanxay Sayavong)
International Trade Journal, August 2022.
Pre-print: Working Paper: R4D-IFFs Working Paper Series

Selected Works-in-Progress

Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: Conceptual Framework and Empirical Methods (with Gilles Carbonnier)
Pre-print: Working Paper: R4D-IFFs Working Paper Series

Covid-19 Contagion and Conflict in India
(under revision)

Stereotypes or Prejudice: Evidence of Gender Discrimination from Rural India
(under review)

Irrigating the Killing Fields: Economic Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Revolution
(submitted)

Lightly peer-reviewed research

Contagion and Conflict: Evidence from India
CEPR Covid Economics 25, 3 June 2020: 122-140 

Trade Implications of Tax Expenditures (with Agustin Redonda, Facundo Calvo, Gilles Carbonnier, Bob Koopman and Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama)
Council on Economic Policies (CEP), Zurich
T20 Saudi Arabia: Task Force on “Trade, Investment and Growth” (to support G-20 Summit hosted by Saudi Arabia in 2020) 

Recent Media and Policy Publications

November 2022: New article titled, A Renewed Neocolonial Scramble for Resources? (with Gilles Carbonnier) published by Global Challenges, Issue No. 12 on Weaponization of Economics

September 2020: Policy brief titled, Trade Implications of Tax Expenditures (co-authored with Agustin Redonda, Facundo Calvo, Gilles Carbonnier, Bob Koopman and Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama) published by Think20 in advance of  the G-20 summit in Saudi Arabia.

June 2020: Podcast on the Violent consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India, recorded as part of the special issue of the Global Challenges on the ‘Politics of the Coronavius Pandemic’ 

February 2020: Première visite d’un président africain en Suisse depuis 60 ans: la Suisse déroule le tapis rouge pour le cacao et l’or ghanéen: Le Temps (paywall)

June 2019: Increasing Trust in Bankers to Enhance Savings: Experimental Evidence from India: New interview on our forthcoming publication

April 2019: How to assess commodity-trade related illicit financial flows? (with Gilles Carbonnier): L’Agefi Commodities, Special Edition, April 2019