For how unjust is it, if when we allow different recreations to each particular course of life, we afford no diversion to studies; especially when trifles may be a whet to more serious thoughts, and comical matters may be so treated of, as that a reader of ordinary sense may possibly thence reap more advantage than from some more big and stately argument.
Research interests:
Deglobalization, Sanctions, Economic Diplomacy
- On the brink of deglobalization… again, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Impact factor: 3.508 rank: 18/347 in economics and 6/79 in geography
- A meta-analysis of FDI and productivity spillovers in Developing Countries. Journal of Economic Surveys 2016 (With Binyam Demena) impact factor 1.402 rank 78/333 in economics
- Macroeconomics of Natural Disasters: Strengths and Weaknesses of MetaAnalysis and Review of Literature, Risk Analysis 2015 35 (6) pp. 1050–1072, (with Sara Lazzaroni). Impact factor 2.50 rank 9/99 in mathematics, interdisciplinary applications
- Natural disasters impact, factors of resilience and development: a metaanalysis of the macroeconomic literature Ecological Economics 2014 107, pp.333-346 (with Sara Lazzaroni). Impact factor 2.517 rank 33/332 in economics and 14/96 in ecological studies
- Potential early phase success and ultimate failure of economic sanctions: A VAR approach with an application to Iran. Journal of Peace Research. 50(6), 721-736. (2013) (With Sajjad F Dizaji). Impact factor: 2.280, rank 5/82 in international relations and 6/156 in political studies.
- Economic diplomacy, trade and developing countries, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society), 4 (2): 157-162 (2011) (with Mina Yakop). Impact factor: 1.764 rank: 62/332 in economics and 16/72 in geography
- Official Finance Requirements in the l990s, World Development (1991) 19 (5), pp. 497-510 (with Robert Lensink). Impact factor: 1.527, rank: 76/332 in economics and 14/55 in planning & development
- International Price Discrimination: The Pharmaceutical Industry, World Development (1986) 16 (9), 1141-50 (With Frederik Schut). Impact factor: 1.527, rank: 76/332 in economics and 14/55 in planning & development
- Observing FDI spillover transmission channels: Evidence from firms in Uganda, Third World Quarterly (with B.A. Demena), https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1596022
- Heterogeneity and Geography of the World Trade Collapses of the 1930s and 2000s, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2017
- Biased Sanctions? Methodological Change in Economic Sanction Reconsidered and its Implications International Interactions 2017 43 (5), 879-893 (with Muhammad S.H. Siddiquee)
- The proliferation of developing country classifications, Journal of Development Studies 2017 53 (1), 99-115 (with Djalita Fialho)
- Does Economic Diplomacy Work? A Meta-analysis of Its Impact on Trade and Investment, The World Economy 2017 World Economy 40 (2), 336-368 (With Selwyn Moons)
- “Heterogeneous economic resilience and the great recession’s world trade collapse.” Papers in Regional Science 96.1 (2017): 3-12. (with S. Brakman and C. van Marrewijk)
- Expected Extent and Potential Duration of the World Import Crunch, Kyklos, 2009, 479-487,
- Costs and benefits of Merger Control: An applied game theoretic perspective, Kyklos 2006 59 85-98 (with Bas Postema and Marie Goppelsröder)
- EMU, the term structure and the Lucas critique Kyklos, 547-556 (with Jan Marc Berk)
- The Impact of Economic Sanctions in the 1990s The World Economy (1995) 18 (3), pp. 443-455.
- Cartel instability: the case of OPEC Acta Politica (1995) 30 (3), pp. 256-288 (with C. van der Linde).
- Endogenous Trade Uncertainty: Why Countries May Specialize Against Comparative Advantage, Regional Science & Urban Economics (1993) 23 (3), pp. 681-94 (with C. van Marrewijk).
- Measuring the Speed of the Invisible Hand: The Macro-economic Costs of Price Rigidity, Kyklos (1993) 44 (4), pp. 529-44 (with R.C.G. Haffner and P.M. Waasdorp).
- The Determinants of Developing Countries Access to the International Capital Market,’ Journal of Development Studies (1991) 28 (1), pp. 86-103 (with R. Lensink).
- Détènte, Market-oriented Reform and German Unification. Potential Consequences for the World Trade System, Kyklos (1990) 43 (4), pp. 599 – 609 (with H. Oldersma).
- Success and Failure of Economic Sanctions, Kyklos 42 (1989) (3), pp. 385-404.