Latest Research
Publications
2025:
Franck, R., Aidt, T. S. (2025). Peaceful and Violent Origins of Voting Rights. A Political Economy Analysis of the Great Reform Act of 1832. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, forthcoming.
2024:
Bluhm, R., Dreher, A., Fuchs, A., Parks, B., Strange, A., Tierney, M. (2024). Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries. Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.
Bluhm, R., Lessmann, C., Schaudt, P. (2024). The political geography of cities. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, conditionally accepted.
Butler, J., Fehr, D. (2024). The Causal Effect of Cultural Identity on Cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 221.
Fehr, D., Mollerstrom, J., Perez-Truglia, R. (2024). Listen to Her: Gender Differences in Information Diffusion within the Household. Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
Fehr, D., Müller, D., Preuss, M. (2024). Social Mobility Perceptions and Inequality Acceptance. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 221.
Franck, R. (2024). Labor Scarcity, Technology Adoption and Innovation: Evidence from the Cholera Pandemics in 19th Century France, Journal of Economic Growth 29 (4), 543–583.
2023:
Düben, C., Krause, M. (2023). The Emperor's Geography - City Locations, Nature and Institutional Optimisation. Economic Journal 133.
Franck, R. (2023). The Impact of Industrialization on Secondary Schooling during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from 19th Century France. Journal of Population Economics 36 (4), 2007-2023.
2022:
Bluhm, R., Burney, J., Benz, S., Hemes, K., Levy, M., Polonik, P., Ricke, K., Sanford, L. (2022). Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s COVID-19 economic shutdown. Nature Sustainability 5.
Bluhm, R., Krause, M. (2022). Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development. Journal of Development Economics 157.
Bluhm, R., McCord, G. (2022). What can we learn from nighttime lights for small geographies? Measurement errors and heterogeneous elasticities. Remote Sensing 14.
Fehr, D., Fink, G., Jack, K. (2022). Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity. Journal of Political Economy 130.
Fehr, D., Mollerstrom, J., Perez-Truglia, R. (2022). Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 14.
Franck, R., Galor, O. (2022). Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization. Economic Journal 132 (642), 618-643.
2021:
Bluhm, R., Pinkovskiy, M. (2021). The spread of COVID-19 and the BCG vaccine: A natural experiment in reunified Germany. Econometrics Journal 24.
Budjan, A., Fuchs, A. (2021). Democracy and Aid Donorship. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13.
Düben, C., Krause, M. (2021). Population, Light, and the Size Distribution of Cities. Journal of Regional Science 61.
Franck, R., Finley, T., Johnson, N. D. (2021). The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution. Journal of Law and Economics 64 (2), 233-267.
Franck, R., Galor, O. (2021). Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development. Journal of Monetary Economics 117, 108-128.
2020:
Bluhm, R., de Crombrugghe, D., Szirmai, A. (2020). Do weak institutions prolong crises? On the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slumps. World Bank Economic Review 34.
Bluhm, R., Gassebner, M., Schaudt, P., Langlotz, S. (2020). Fueling conflict? (De)Escalation and bilateral aid. Journal of Applied Econometrics 32.
Bluhm, R., Thomsson, K. (2020). Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economic declines. Journal of Development Economics 144.
Fehr, D., Rau, H., Trautmann, S., Xu, Y. (2020). Inequality, Fairness and Social Capital. European Economic Review 129.
2019:
Fehr, D., Heinemann, F., Llorente-Saguer, A. (2019). The Power of Sunspots: An Experimental Analysis. Journal of Monetary Economics 103.
Fehr, D., Sutter, M. (2019). Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions. Games and Economic Behavior 113.
Franck, R., Aidt, T. S. (2019). What Motivates an Oligarchic Elite to Democratize? Evidence from the Roll Call Vote on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Journal of Economic History 79 (3), 773-825.
Franck, R., Daudin, G., Rapoport, H. (2019). Can Internal Migration Foster the Convergence in Regional Fertility Rates? Evidence from Nineteenth Century France. Economic Journal 129 (620), 1618-1692.
2018:
Bluhm, R., de Crombrugghe, D., Szirmai, A. (2018). Poverty accounting. European Economic Review 104.
Duffy, J., Fehr, D. (2018). Equilibrium Selection in Similar Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Precedents. Experimental Economics 21.
Fehr, D. (2018). Is Increasing Inequality Harmful? Experimental Evidence. Games and Economic Behavior 107.
Fehr, D., Schmid, J. (2018). Exclusion in All-Pay Auctions: An Experimental Investigation. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 27.
2017:
Fehr, D. (2017). Learning from Failure and Costly Communication in Organizational Coordination. European Economic Review 93.
2016:
Bluhm, R., de Crombrugghe, D., Szirmai, A. (2016). The dynamics of stagnation. Macroeconomic Dynamics 20.
Fehr, D., Huck, S. (2016). Who Knows it is a Game? On Strategic Awareness and Cognitive Ability. Experimental Economics 19.
Franck, R., Johnson, N. D., Nye, J. V. C. (2016). Can Public Policies Lower Religiosity? Evidence from School Choice in France, 1878-1902. Economic History Review 69 (3), 915-944.
Franck, R. (2016). The Political Consequences of Income Shocks: Explaining the Consolidation of Democracy in France. Review of Economics and Statistics 98 (1), 57-82.
2015:
Fehr, D., Hakimov, R., Kuebler, D. (2015). The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap: A Failed Replication of Plott and Zeiler. European Economic Review 78.
Franck, R., Aidt, T. S. (2015). Democratization under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832. Econometrica 83 (2), 505-547.
2014:
Franck, R., Iannaccone, L. R. (2014). Religious Decline in the 20th Century West: Testing Alternative Explanations. Public Choice 159 (3), 385-414.
Franck, R., Johnson, N. D., Nye, J. V. C. (2014). From Internal Taxes to National Regulation: Evidence from a French Wine Tax Reform at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Explorations in Economic History 51, 77-93.
2013:
Binzel, C., Fehr, D. (2013). Giving and Sorting Among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment. Economics Letters 121.
Binzel, C., Fehr, D. (2013). Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo. Journal of Development Economics 103.
Franck, R., Aidt, T. S. (2013). How to Get the Snowball Rolling and Extend the Franchise: Voting on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Public Choice 155 (3), 229-250.
2012:
Danz, D., Fehr, D., Kuebler, D. (2012). Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-form Game. Experimental Economics 15.
Franck, R., Rainer, I. (2012). Does the Leader’s Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Favoritism, Education and Health in sub-Saharan Africa. American Political Science Review 106 (2), 294-325.
2010:
Franck, R., Krausz, M. (2010). Judicial Independence and the Validity of Controverted Elections. American Law and Economics Review 12 (2), 394-422.
Franck, R. (2010). Economic Growth and the Separation of Church and State: the French Case. Economic Inquiry 48 (4), 841-859.
2009:
Franck, R., Krausz, M. (2009). Institutional Changes, Wars and Stock Market Risk: Evidence from the Israeli Stock Market from 1945 to 1960. Cliometrica 3 (2), 141-164.
Franck, R. (2009). Judicial Independence under a Divided Polity: A Study of the Rulings of the French Constitutional Court, 1959-2006. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 25 (1), 262-282.
2008:
Franck, R., Krausz, M. (2008). Why Separate Monetary Policy from Banking Supervision? Journal of Comparative Economics 36 (3), 388-411.
2007:
Franck, R., Epstein, G. (2007). Campaign Resources and Electoral Success: Evidence from the 2002 French Parliamentary Elections. Public Choice 131 (3-4), 469-489.
Franck, R., Preminger, A. (2007). Forecasting Exchange Rates: A Robust Regression Approach. International Journal of Forecasting 23, 71-84.
Franck, R., Krausz, M. (2007). Liquidity Risk and Bank Portfolio Allocation. International Review of Economics and Finance 16 (1), 60-77.
2005:
Franck, R. (2005). Guest editor of a Symposium on the Political Economy of the French Referendum on the European Constitution. European Journal of Political Economy 21 (4).
Franck, R., Hillman, A. L., Krausz, M. (2005). Public Safety and the Moral Dilemma in the Defence against Terror. Defence and Peace Economics 16 (5), 347-364.
Franck, R. (2005). Why did a Majority of French Voters Reject the European Constitution? European Journal of Political Economy 21 (4), 1071-1076.
2004:
Coricelli, G., Fehr, D., Fellner, G. (2004). Partner Selection in Public Goods Experiments. Journal of Conflict Resolution 48.
2003:
Franck, R., Fourçans, A. (2003). Currency Crises: A Theoretical and Empirical Perspective. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.