Research

Publications in Internationally Reviewed Journals

• Starting From Scratch: A New Approach to Subnational Public Finance (with David Bell and John Houston). Regional Studies, 55 (4), 617-629 (2021). [PDF][Link]
• Networked Innovation and Coalition Formation: The Effect of Group-Based Social Preferences (with Tom Dedeurwaerdere and Paolo Melindi-Ghidi). Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 27 (7): 577-593 (2018). [Link]
• Can Fiscal Equalisation Mitigate Tax Competition? Ad Valorem, Residence-Based Taxation in a Federation.
  International Tax and Public Finance, 24 (5): 817–853 (2017). [Link]

Work in Progress

• Does the Winner Take It All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism (with Amedeo Piolatto & Gianmarco Daniele). Submitted [PDF] [WP] [VoxEU]
• The Causal Impact of Pandemic Distress on Anti-Immigration Sentiments (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli & Lisa Windsteiger). Submitted [PDF] 
• Invest-As-You-Go: The Effects of Integrating Public Health Into Pension Systems (with Giorgio Fabbri, Paolo Melindi-Ghidi & Marie-Louise Leroux). R&R in Journal of Population Economics [PDF]
• Devolving the Productivity Puzzle: Tax Autonomy and Political Incentives. Submitted [PDF]
• Who Cares? Attitudes Towards Redistribution and Fiscal Austerity (with Sarah Brown, Alberto Montagnoli & Mirko Moro). [PDF][WP]
• Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the COVID-19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli & Lisa Windsteiger). [PDF] [WP] [CEPR][VoxEU]
• When Economic and Health Crises Collide: The Effect of Covid-19 on Political Attitudes (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli & Lisa Windsteiger). [PDF][WP][The Conversation]
• Institutions in the Fast Lane: Strike Petitions and the Electoral Cycle in Mexico (with Hector Gutiérrez-Rufrancos). [PDF]
• No Taxation Without Decentralisation? Accountability, Transparency and Tax Autonomy (with Susana Peralta).
• Do Politicians Discriminate Against Scientists? Theory and Experimental Evidence on Information Sharing (with Ekkehard Köhler).

New Projects

• The Evolution of Devolution: Socio-Economic Shocks & Attititudes towards Devolution and Secession (with David Bell , John Houston, Andrea Martinangeli and Lisa Windsteiger).
• ‘Comparative Fiscal Federalism: Lessons to be learned for the EU’ (cooperation between German, Austrian, Australian, US, Canadian and Swiss political scientists, law experts and economists).
• Complexity, Populism & Political Attitudes (with Gianmarco Daniele &  Francesco Passarelli).
• Voting Systems & Media Outlets (with Anja Prummer and Rodolfo Sejas Portillo).
• Fiscal Interaction & Local Policy (with Sander Ramboer).

Publications in Belgian Journals (Selected)

• Het Nut van Dotaties in Gelaagde Staatsvormen: een Vergelijking van Vereveningsmechanismen. (“The Aim of Federal Grants: a Cross-Country Analysis of Equalisation Mechanisms”, with André Decoster).
  Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Sociale Zekerheid, 57 (3), 561-595 (2015). [PDF]
• De Economische Theorie van het Federalisme: Was de 6de Staatshervorming een Schot in de Roos? (“Fiscal Federalism: Did the Belgian 6th Institutional Reform Hit the Mark?”, with André Decoster).
  Tijdschrift voor Bank- en Financiewezen (2), 151-157 (2015). [PDF]

Policy Reports (Selected)

• Interregionale financiële stromen in België van 2000 tot 2020. (“Interregional Fiscal Flows in Belgium from 2000 until 2020”, with André Decoster). Department of Economics, KU Leuven (2017). [PDF] [Reflectienota]
• De Nieuwe Bijzondere Financieringswet van de 6de Staatshervorming: Werden de Beloften Ingelost? (“The New Financing Law of the Belgian 6th Institutional Reform: Were All Promises Kept?”, with André Decoster). Flemosi Discussion Paper Series (28), Department of Economics, KU Leuven (2013). [PDF]