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33 papers in scope · 32 published · 1 on the econ.EM arXiv · 350 citations · h-index 11 (over the papers listed here)
Papers (1 of 33)
Effect of Austerity Measures on Infant Mortality: Evidence From Greece
published 2026 · Health Economics
with Robert John Kolesar
Do enforcement institutions matter for economic specialization? province-level evidence from Spain
published 2026 · The Annals of Regional Science
with Juan Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti
Constitutional monarchy and long-run economic growth: friends or foes?
published 2025 · European Journal of Law and Economics
working paper 2025 · arXiv · 1 citations
Populist constitutional backsliding and judicial independence: Evidence from Türkiye
published 2025 · International Review of Law and Economics · 3 citations · first circulated 2024
The Missing Window of Opportunity and Quasi-Experimental Effects of Institutional Integration: Evidence from Ukraine
published 2025 · Review of Law & Economics · 1 citations
with Chiara Natalie Focacci, Mitja Kovač
The heterogenous effects of a higher volume of regulation: evidence from more than 200k Spanish norms
published 2024 · Journal of Regulatory Economics · 11 citations
with Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti, Javier Quintana, Isabel Soler
Using synthetic control method to estimate the growth effects of economic liberalisation: Evidence from transition economies
published 2023 · World Economy · 6 citations
with Jarosław Kantorowicz
Estimating the Effects of Political Instability in Nascent Democracies
published 2023 · Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik · 6 citations
with Thomas J. Emery, Mitja Kovač
Ethnolinguistic diversity, quality of local public institutions, and firm-level innovation
published 2023 · International Review of Law and Economics · 5 citations
with Chiara Natalie Focacci, Mitja Kovač
Estimating the effects of Syrian civil war
published 2023 · Empirical Economics · 33 citations · first circulated 2022
with Aleksandar Kešeljević
Long-term effects of sectarian politics: evidence from Lebanon
published 2023 · Socio-Economic Review · 2 citations
with Thomas Emery
Does e-procurement matter for economic growth? Subnational evidence from Australia
published 2022 · The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance · 8 citations · first circulated 2020
with Thomas Emery, Lela Mélon
Economic effects of recent experiences of federalism: Analysis of the regionalization process in Spain
published 2022 · Journal of Regional Science · 11 citations · first circulated 2021
with Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti
Synthetic Control Method: A tool for comparative case studies in economic history
published 2022 · Journal of Economic Surveys · 72 citations · first circulated 2020
Long-Term Effects of Yugoslav War
published 2021 · Defence and Peace Economics · 14 citations · first circulated 2020
with Aleksandar Kešeljević
Pharmaceutical Product Liability, Litigation Regimes, and the Propensity to Patent: An Empirical Firm-Level Investigation
published 2021 · SAGE Open · 4 citations · first circulated 2020
with Mitja Kovač, Salvini Datta
Bono Malum Superate: long-run effects of radical institutional change
published 2021 · Journal of Government and Economics · 1 citations
with Federico Asta, Lela Mélon
Persistent Effects of Colonial Institutions on Long‐Run Development: Local Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina
published 2020 · Journal of Empirical Legal Studies · 8 citations
with Mitja Kovač
Is justice delayed justice denied? An empirical approach
published 2020 · International Review of Law and Economics · 29 citations
with Alessandro Melcarne, Giovanni Battista Ramello
Long-term effects of institutional instability
published 2020 · Empirical Economics · 8 citations
with Simon Hartmann
Does a ban on trans fats improve public health: synthetic control evidence from Denmark
published 2020 · Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics · 13 citations
with Mitja Kovač
The rise and fall of Argentina
published 2019 · Latin American Economic Review · 26 citations · first circulated 2018
Replicating and extending Martin-Quinn scores
published 2019 · International Review of Law and Economics · 12 citations
with Mitja Kovač
Tragedija slovenskega nacionalnega patentnega sistema
published 2019 · Economic and business review
with Mitja Kovač
Does the ban on trans-fats improve public health? In search of the optimal policy response
published 2019 · Journal of Regulatory Economics · 6 citations
with Mitja Kovač
Merjenje dolgoročnega BDP Per Capita Slovenije, 1820-2016
published 2018 · Economic and business review
Political economy of pension reforms: an empirical investigation
published 2018 · European Journal of Law and Economics · 12 citations
with Miroslav Verbič
Economic freedom and growth across German districts
published 2017 · Journal of Institutional Economics · 21 citations
with Aleksandar Kešeljević
Institutional transformation and the origins of world income distribution
published 2016 · Journal of Comparative Economics · 15 citations
Global distribution and dynamics of economic freedom: Non-parametric approach
published 2013 · Economic Modelling · 6 citations
with Aleksandar Kešeljević
Economic Growth and Income Convergence in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe
published 2013 · Journal of Global Economics · 1 citations
Endogenous economic freedom and the wealth of nations: evidence from a panel of countries, 1996–2011
published 2012 · Applied Economics · 15 citations
with Aleksandar Kešeljević
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