Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Details Address in Goettingen Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Faculty of Business and , Chair of Development Economics, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, D-37073 Göttingen, Address in Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiellinie 66, D-24105 Kiel, Germany E-Mail [email protected] Website www.andreas-fuchs.net Twitter @fuchs_andreas

Research Profile Fields of interest Development Economics (focus on International Development Finance) International (Political) Economics (focus on Trade, Investment, and International Organizations) Regional focus , Emerging Asia

Professional Experience

From 09/2019 of Goettingen, Germany Professor of Economics with a focus on Economic Theory and Development Economics (W3, tenured) Since 11/2019 Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Germany Senior Researcher 05/2018-08/2019 Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces (HSU/UniBwH) & Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Germany Professor of Environmental, Climate and Development Economics (W3, non-tenured) 07/2013-04/2018 (Alfred-Weber-Institute), Germany Postdoctoral research associate Research Center for Distributional Conflict and Globalization 04/2016-09/2017 University of , Germany Visiting lecturer (temporary teaching position) Chair of Development Economics 1 09/2012-06/2013 Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School), U.S.A. Postdoctoral research associate Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance 04/2011-08/2012 Heidelberg University (Alfred-Weber-Institute), Germany Researcher and teaching assistant to Prof. Dr. Chair of International and Development Politics 10/2008-09/2011 University of Goettingen, Germany Researcher and teaching assistant to Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher Chair of Development Economics and International Economics 09/2009 University of Guadalajara, Mexico Visiting lecturer at the University Centre of Economic and Managerial 04/2008-08/2008 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France Trainee at the Statistics Directorate (International Trade and Globalisation Statistics) 11/2005-07/2007 KfW Bankengruppe, Frankfurt, Germany Student research assistant at the Department of Economic Research 08/2003-09/2003 Ministry of Finances and Central Bank of the Republic of Albania, Tirana, Albania Internship and study visit Consulting European Commission (2014-2015, via Tech4Dev and SACO) Bertelsmann Foundation (2011) OECD (2008) Field research China, , Morocco, Senegal, Benin

Other Affiliations Since 2019 Research Center 'Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analyses', Member of the Executive Since 2019 DFG-funded Research Training Group (RTG) 1723 "Globalization and Development", Associated Researcher Since 2018 Research Committee on Economic Systems and Institutional Economics of the German Economic Association (VfS), Member Since 2018 European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Board Member Since 2017 European Development Network (EUDN), Associated Member Since 2015 Research Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association (VfS), Member Since 2012 AidData, Faculty Associate 2015-2018 Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University, Associated Member 2011-2013 Program at Princeton University, Visiting Fellow

2 Education 10/2008-08/2012 University of Goettingen, Germany Ph.D. in Economics (summa cum laude) Development Economics Research Group Thesis: Political determinants of foreign aid and international trade of emerging economies Committee: Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher, Prof. Stephan Klasen, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walter 08/2011-10/2011 Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School), USA Visiting Student Research Collaborator Invited by Prof. Christina Davis, Ph.D. 10/2007-09/2008 Dauphine University Paris, France Research Master 2 in International Economics and Development Thesis: Measuring, analysing and explaining the globalisation in services (in French) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bernard Guillochon 10/2005-09/2007 Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Master of in Quantitative Economics Thesis: The role of trade costs for European relative price dispersion (in English) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Günter W. Beck 10/2002-09/2005 University of , Germany Bachelor of Arts in European Economic Studies Thesis: Effects of a reduction of the work week on employment (in German) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Knoppik 09/2004-06/2005 University of Paris X-Nanterre, France Exchange student at the Department of Economics 08/1992-06/2001 Kurt-Schumacher-Schule Karben, Germany Abitur (university entrance qualification)

Pedagogical Training Summer term 2016 Heidelberg University, Germany Management program “Towards a Professorship” Summer term 2009 University of Goettingen, Germany Qualification seminar (pedagogics, didactics, rhetoric)

Additional Study Visits 07/2007-08/2007 State Pushkin Institute, Moscow, Russia Russian intensive course 11/2006&02/2007 University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Course in 03/2004-04/2004 Galway Cultural Institute, Galway, Ireland English intensive course

Languages Fluent German (native), English, French Intermediate Italian, Russian Beginner Dutch, Mandarin

Software Proficiency Data analysis STATA, Matlab, SAS, E-Views, Excel Word processing Word, PowerPoint, LaTeX

3 Research Publications (refereed) African Leaders and the Geography of China’s Foreign Assistance (with Axel Dreher, Roland Hodler, Bradley Parks, Paul A. Raschky and J. Tierney), Journal of Development Economics 140: 44-71, September 2019 How Do Firms Respond to Political Tensions? The Heterogeneity of the Dalai Lama Effect on Trade (with Faqin Lin and Cui Hu), China Economic Review 54: 73-93, April 2019 The Effects of Foreign Aid on Refugee Flows (with Axel Dreher and Sarah Langlotz), European Economic Review 112:127-147, February 2019 State Control and the Effects of Foreign Relations on Bilateral Trade (with Christina Davis and Kristina Johnson), Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(2): 405.438, February 2019 Development Minister Characteristics and Aid Giving (with Katharina Richert), European Journal of Political Economy 53: 186-204, July 2018 Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa (with Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney), International Studies Quarterly 62(1): 182-194, March 2018 The Home Bias in Sovereign Ratings (with Kai Gehring), Journal of the European Economic Association 15(6): 1386-1423, December 2017 Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid- Conflict Nexus Revisited (with Austin Strange, Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks and Michael J. Tierney), Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(5): 935-963, May 2017 Rogue Aid? An Empirical Analysis of China’s Aid Allocation (with Axel Dreher), Canadian Journal of Economics 48(3): 988-1023, August 2015 Why Donors of Foreign Aid Do Not Coordinate: The Role of Competition for Export Markets and Political Support (with Hannes Öhler and Peter Nunnenkamp), World Economy 38(2): 255- 285, February 2015 Determinants of Donor Generosity: A Survey of the Aid Budget Literature (with Axel Dreher and Peter Nunnenkamp), World Development 56: 172-199, April 2014 Paying a Visit: The Dalai Lama Effect on International Trade (with Nils-Hendrik Klann), Journal of International Economics 91(1): 164-177, September 2013 New Donors (with Axel Dreher and Peter Nunnenkamp), International Interactions 39(3): 402-415, June 2013 The Needy Donor: An Empirical Analysis of India's Aid Motives (with Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati), World Development 44: 110-128, April 2013 Does Terror Increase Aid? (with Axel Dreher), Public Choice 149: 337-363, December 2011

Revise & resubmit Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset (with Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney), R&R at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy [Working Paper: AidData Working Paper No. 46, October 2017] Democracy and Aid Donorship (with Angelika Müller), R&R at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy [Working Paper: Kiel Working Paper No. 2113, September 2018]

Under review Is Favoritism a Threat to Chinese Aid Effectiveness? A Subnational Analysis of Chinese Development Projects (with Axel Dreher, Roland Hodler, Bradley Parks, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney) [Working Paper: Kiel Working Paper No. 2134, June 2019] Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance (with Hannes Öhler) [Working Paper: Kiel Working Paper No. 2128, April 2019] Distortions in Aid Allocation of United Nations Flash Appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake (with Vera Z. Eichenauer, Sven Kunze and Eric Strobl) [Working Paper: Kiel Working Paper No. 2120, February 2019] 4 Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries (with Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney) [Working Paper: AidData Working Paper No. 46, September 2018] The Effects of Trade, Aid and Investment on China’s Image in Developing Countries (with Vera Z. Eichenauer and Lutz Brückner) [Working Paper: University of Heidelberg Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series No. 646, March 2018] Emergency Aid 2.0 (with Nils-Hendrik Klann) [Working paper: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013: Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Session: International Trade and Finance, No. D08-V3, September 2013]

Collected works BRICS and Foreign Aid (with Gerda Asmus and Angelika Müller), intended for publication in The World Scientific Reference on the Economies of the BRIC Countries (edited by Edward Mansfield and Nita Rudra), World Scientific, December 2019 The Motives of China’s Foreign Aid (with Marina Rudyak), Handbook of the International Political Economy of China (edited by Ka Zeng), Edward Elgar, March 2019 China’s Economy Diplomacy and the Politics-Trade Nexus, Research Handbook on Economic Diplomacy (edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk and Selwyn Moons), Edward Elgar, June 2018

Book project Explaining Chinese Aid (with Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney), under contract with Cambridge University Press

Short articles Chinas Wirtschaftsengagement in Lateinamerika: Was denkt eigentlich die Bevölkerung vor Ort? (with Vera Z. Eichenauer and Elena Quante), Ökonomenstimme, October 2019 Political bias and the economic impact of Chinese aid (with Bradley Parks, Roland Hodler, Axel Dreher, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney), Voxeu.org, October 2019 Are democracies more likely to give development aid? The answer is surprising. (with Angelika Müller), AidData Blog, October 2019 Wie beurteilen Sie die Rolle Chinas in Afrika?, Frag Leibniz, February 2019 Belt and Road projects direct Chinese investment to all corners of the globe. What are the local impacts? (with Bradley Parks, Richard Bluhm, Axel Dreher, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney), Washington Post (Monkey Cage), September 2018 Schaffen wir das? (with Axel Dreher, Valentin Lang and Sarah Langlotz), FAZ, September 2018 Russia’s foreign aid re-emerges (with Gerda Asmus and Angelika Müller), AidData Blog, April 2018 China’s overseas development programs: busting “rogue donor” myths (with Austin M. Strange, Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks and Michael J. Tierney), GlobalDev Blog, February 2018 Rogue agent or team player? Beijing’s motivations for aid provision (with Axel Dreher, Bradley Parks, Austin M. Strange and Michael J. Tierney), AidData Blog, February 2018 Chinese aid is helping African economies, but not in the places that need it most (with Bradley Parks, Roland Hodler, Axel Dreher, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney), Washington Post (Monkey Cage), October 2016 Die Rolle der Entwicklungsminister: Erfahrung macht den Unterschied (with Katharina Richert), Ökonomenstimme, December 2015 Many in the West fear Chinese ‘aid’ to Africa. They’re wrong. Here’s why. (with Austin M. Strange, Bradley Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Axel Dreher and Vijaya Ramachandran), Washington Post (Monkey Cage), October 2015 Are African leaders misusing Chinese development finance? The price of country ownership (with Bradley Parks, Roland Hodler, Axel Dreher, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney), IGC Blog, London School of Economics and , August 2015 5 Diving into the Details: What "Aid on Demand" Says and Doesn't Say about China in Africa (with Bradley Parks, Roland Hodler, Axel Dreher, Paul A. Raschky and Michael J. Tierney), The First Tranche AidData blog, November 2014 Does the Home Country of Credit-Rating Agencies Affect Sovereign Ratings? (with Kai Gehring), EconoMonitor, January 2014 Heimat-Bias bei Länderratings: Wie das Heimatland einer Ratingagentur deren Ratings beeinflussen kann (with Kai Gehring), Ökonomenstimme, January 2014 India - The Needy Donor (with Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati), AidData Blog, February 2013 Rogue aid? On the importance of political institutions and natural resources for China’s allocation of foreign aid (with Axel Dreher), Voxeu.org, January 2012 Unbegründete Furcht vor Chinas Entwicklungshilfe (with Axel Dreher), NZZ, December 2011 Was kostet ein Treffen mit dem Dalai Lama? (with Nils-Hendrik Klann), cege Report, March 2011 Wie glaubwürdig sind Chinas Androhungen wirtschaftlicher Vergeltungsmaßnahmen? (with Nils-Hendrik Klann), Ökonomenstimme, December 2010 How credible are China’s threats of economic retaliation in the context of bilateral disputes? (with Nils-Hendrik Klann), Voxeu.org, November 2010 Peut-on mesurer la mondialisation? / Ist Globalisierung messbar? (with Axel Dreher), La Vie économique / Die Volkswirtschaft, January 2010 Now more important than ever: A successful completion of the Doha round of multilateral trade liberalisation (with Axel Dreher, Stephan Klasen and Jan-Egbert Sturm), Voxeu.org, October 2008

Papers in progress China-India Aid Competition? An Analysis of Chinese and Indian Development Projects (with Gerda Asmus, Vera Z. Eichenauer and Bradley Parks) Competing for Aid Recipients? Donor Responses to Chinese Development Finance (with Soo Yeon Kim and Austin M. Strange) Does It Pay Off to Attend Davos? (with Andrew K. Rose and Sebastian Schmidt) Sovereign Debt, Regime Type and the Rise of China: Re-Reconsidering the Democratic Advantage (with Kai Gehring and Daniel McDowell) Feed the Executive Board: Corporate Governance and International Food Aid (with Hannes Öhler) Analyzing the Effectiveness of Emergency Aid from Outer Space (with Vera Z. Eichenauer and Sven Kunze)

6 Media Coverage (selection of media outlets discussing or quoting my research in their print or online editions) Europe BBC, Bilan, Börsen-Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Der Standard, , , Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Голос Росси, Handelszeitung, La Stampa, Neue Presse Hannover, n-tv, ORF, Público, Radio France Internationale, Russia Today, Slate, TF1, , The Guardian, Vårt Land, Wiener Zeitung, Wirtschaftswoche Americas Chicago Tribune, CNN, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, Marketplace, Reuters, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post Asia CCTV, China Daily, Daily News & Analysis India, Global Times, Newsweek , NTD Television, Sankei Shimbun, The Hindu, The Times of India Other Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Daily Nation Kenya, Mail & Guardian

Award of Project Grants, Third-party Funding and Scholarships 2017 Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FoF4) Grant for workshop funding (EUR 1,000) Workshop: FHM Workshop in Development Economics 2017 Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FoF4) Grant for workshop funding (EUR 5,000) Workshop: Tracking International Aid and Investment from Developing and Emerging Economies 2017 AidData (College of William & Mary) Grant for workshop funding (US$ 8,000) Workshop: Tracking International Aid and Investment from Developing and Emerging Economies 2016 AidData Research Consortium/U.S. Global Development Lab (powered by USAID) Grant for workshop funding (US$ 18,209) Workshop: Geospatial Analysis of Disaster: Measuring Welfare Impacts of Emergency Relief

2015-2018 German Research Foundation (DFG) Research grant “Sachbeihilfe” (principal investigator, EUR 158,622) Project: The Economics of Emerging Donors in Development Cooperation 2015-2018 Academic Research Fund of the Ministry of Education Singapore Research grant (collaborator, principal investigator: Soo Yeon Kim) Project: From Emerging Markets to Rising Powers? Power Shift in Int'l Economic Governance 2014 Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FoF4) Grant for workshop funding (EUR 4,500) Workshop: South-South-Development Cooperatio n 2011-2013 German Research Foundation (DFG) Research grant “Sachbeihilfe” (collaborator, principal investigator: Axel Dreher) Project: Foreign Aid of Emerging Donors and International Politics 2011 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Short-term research scholarship for graduate studies at Princeton University 2010 Goettingen Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG) Tandem research grant (with Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati) Project: Analysis of Indian Development Assistance

7 Teaching Experience University of Goettingen, Germany Winter term 2019/20 Development Economics I (Master, lecture) Winter term 2019/20 International Development Policy (Master, lecture, with N.N.) Winter term 2019/20 China's Economic and Political Development (Master, seminar, with Felix Turbanisch) Winter term 2019/20 Advanced Development Economics (Master/PhD, lecture, with Marcela Ibañez Diaz, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Holger Strulik) Summer term 2011 Introduction to Stata for BA/MA Theses (Bachelor/Master, course, with Jan H. Höffler and Nils- Hendrik Klann, in German) Winter term 2010/11 Economics and Politics of International Financial Organizations (Master, tutorials) Winter term 2010/11 Introduction to Stata for BA/MA Theses (Bachelor/Master, course, with Jan H. Höffler and Nils- Hendrik Klann, in German) Summer term 2010 Political Economy of Development (Master, tutorials) Summer term 2010 Introduction to Stata for BA/MA Theses (Bachelor/Master, course, with Nils-Hendrik Klann, in German) Winter term 2009/10 Development Aid (Master, tutorials) Winter term 2009/10 Topics in Economic Globalization (Master, seminar, with Axel Dreher and Jan H. Höffler) Summer term 2009 Economics and Politics of International Financial Organizations (Master, tutorials) Summer term 2009 Development Aid (Master, seminar, with Axel Dreher and Nicolás Corona Juárez) Winter term 2008/09 Political Economy of the IMF and the (Master, seminar, with Axel Dreher) Winter term 2008/09 Macroeconomics I (Bachelor, tutorials, with Yvonne Sperlich)

Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (HSU/UniBw H), Germany Winter term 2019 Environmental Economics (Master, lecture, in German) Winter term 2019 Political Economy of Development (Master, lecture) Fall term 2018 Introduction to Development Economics (Bachelor, lecture, in German)

Heidelberg University, Germany Winter term 2017/18 Macroeconomics (Bachelor, lecture, in German) Summer term 2015 China’s Economic Cooperation with Developing Countries (Bachelor, seminar, with Marina Rudyak) Summer term 2012 Introduction to Stata for BA/MA Theses (Bachelor/Master, course, in German) Winter term 2011/12 Macroeconomics (Bachelor, tutorials, with Nicolás Corona Juárez, Kai Gehring and Maya Schmaljohann)

University of Passau, Germany Summer term 2017 Growth and Development (Bachelor, lecture) Winter term 2016/17 Economic Globalization (Master, seminar) Summer term 2016 Growth and Development (Bachelor, lecture)

University of Guadalajara, Mexico 09/2009 Empirical International Trade (Master, seminar, with Nils-Hendrik Klann) 09/2009 Development Aid (Master, seminar, with Nicolás Corona Juárez)

8 List of (Co-)Supervised Bachelor, Master, and Postgraduate Program Theses

HSU Hamburg Eine empirische Analyse der Determinanten saudi-arabischer Entwicklungshilfe Determinanten chinesischer Waffenexporte

IfW Kiel Introducing a New Dataset for Investments in Greenland Beyond Europe: Implications of Brexit on UK Development Aid

Heidelberg University An Empirical Analysis of the Link between Human Rights in Recipient Countries and Chinese Aid Allocation Allocation Criteria for Chinese Infrastructure Assistance: An Econometric Analysis Is China's Aid Allocation Consistent with International Development Goals? A Sector-specific Empirical Analysis The Effects of International Development Aid on Migration Intentions The Distribution of Development Finance within China: an Empirical Analysis at the Regional Level China’s Economic Cooperation and its Public Perception Abroad: Empirical Evidence from America The Effect of Tropical Cyclones on Economic Development Disentangled - A Panel Data Analysis Using Geodata The World Food Programme and its Allocation of Aid – Does Executive Board Membership Matter?

University of Goettingen The Determinants of China's Outward FDI Activities: An Empirical Approach European Union Aid Architecture: Rethinking Comparative Advantage Human Rights Violations and Trade with China: An Empirical Analysis China im Zeitalter der Globalisierung Liberalisierung des Agrarhandels: Wachstumsimpuls für die Entwicklungsländer? Wohlfahrtseffekte von Handelsliberalisierung: Mögliche Auswirkungen eines Abschlusses der Doha-Runde

9 Services to the profession Refereeing Academic journals American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; Asian Education and Development Studies; Canadian Journal of Economics; China Economic Review; Contemporary Economic Policy; Contemporary South Asia; Defence and Peace Economics; Ecological Economics; Economics; Economics & Politics; Economic Notes; Economic Journal; Economics Letters; Emerging Markets Finance and Trade; European Economic Review; European Journal of Development Research; European Journal of Health Economics; European Journal of International Relations; European Journal of Political Economy; Foreign Policy Analysis; International Interactions; International Organization; International Studies Quarterly; Japanese Journal of Political Science; Journal of African Economies; Journal of Common Market Studies; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Development Studies; Journal of East Asian Studies; Journal of Human Rights; Journal of International Development; Journal of International Economics; Journal of International Trade & Economic Development; Journal of Money, Credit & Banking; Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Politics; Journal of Public Policy; Journal of the European Economic Association; Migration Studies; New England Journal of Political Science; Political Research Quarterly; Public Choice; Review of Development Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of International Organizations; Review of International Political Economy; Review of Middle East Economics and Finance; Review of World Economics; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Third World Quarterly; Weather, Climate and Society; World Development; World Economy; World Politics Third-party funding Research Grants Council of Hong Kong; Sino-German Center for Research Promotion Conferences Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Leipzig 2019); Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (Jerusalem 2019); Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Vienna 2014)

Organization of Academic Conferences, Workshops and Public Lecture Series 11/2019 Development Economics Poster Workshop (with Samuel Siewers), University of Goettingen, Germany 06/2019 Beyond Basic Questions Workshop (with Sebastian Schmidt), Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany 06/2019 2nd HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics (with Sebastian Schmidt), Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany 11/2018 1st HSU-IfW-Workshop in Development and Environmental Economics (with Sebastian Schmidt), HSU Hamburg, Germany 11/2018 Talks on Migration Policy (Migrationspolitische Gastvorträge) (with Annette Jünemann and Max Steinhardt), HSU Hamburg, Germany 10/2017 3rd FHM Development Economics Workshop: Globalization and Distributional Conflict in Developing Countries (with Sarah Langlotz and Michael Schleicher), Heidelberg University, Germany 09/2017 Workshop "Tracking International Aid and Investment from Developing and Emerging Economies" (with Gerda Asmus, Axel Dreher, Vera Z. Eichenauer and Angelika Müller), Heidelberg University, Germany Winter term 2016/17 Public lecture series “The End of Globalization? Understanding Challenges to International Cooperation” (with Sebastian Ziaja), Heidelberg University, Germany 07/2016 Symposium "Geospatial Analysis of Disasters: Measuring Welfare Impacts of Emergency Relief" (with Vera Eichenauer and Sven Kunze in collaboration with the GIScience Group of Heidelberg University), Heidelberg University, Germany 09/2014 Workshop "South-South Development Cooperation: Chances and Challenges for the International Aid Architecture" (with Dana de la Fontaine, Katharina Richert and Jivanta Schöttli), Heidelberg University, Germany

10 Conference Presentations, Workshop Participations and Invited Talks

2019 08/2019 Workshop Behavioral Insights in Development and Peace Building, University of Goettingen, Germany 08/2019 China Economics Summer Institute, Peking University, Beijing, China (08/2019) 07/2019 Next Generation Economics (NGE) Seminar, , Stuttgart, Germany 06/2019 Beyond Basic Questions Workshop, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany 06/2019 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Development Economics, DIW , Germany 06/2019 Tuesday Talk at the Institute For Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany 05/2019 GeoData in Economics Workshop, , Germany 05/2019 Seminar talk at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany 05/2019 Economics Research Seminar, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy 04/2019 Research Seminar of the Department of Economics at the Graduate Institute (IHEID), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 04/2019 International Conference on the Past, Present and Future of African-Asian Relations, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland 04/2019 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 03/2019 Global Solutions Summit: The World Policy Forum, ESMT Berlin, Germany 02/2019 Conference on the Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship, University of Münster, Germany 02/2019 TEDE Workshop "Topics in Development and Environmental Research", University of Birmingham, UK 01/2019 KfW-DEG „Managementtag zu EZ in Theorie und Praxis“, Montabour , Germany 01/2019 Erich-Schneider-Seminar of the Department of Economics, Kiel University, Germany

2018 11/2018 German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), , Germany 11/2018 GP Salon "Wirtschaft als Teil der Lösung", Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany 10/2018 PEGNet Conference 2018, African School of Economics, Cotonou, Benin 09/2018 Séminaire DIAL, Université Paris Dauphine, France 09/2018 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Economic Systems and Institutional Economics, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany 06/2018 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Development Economics, University of Zurich/ETH Zurich, Switzerland 06/2018 Book Workshop "Entwicklungsökonomik", ETH Zurich, Switzerland 06/2018 Research Seminar at the Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Norway 06/2018 IfW Special Staff Seminar, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany 05/2018 Workshop on Geodata and Economics, TU Braunschweig, Germany 05/2018 International Conference on Globalization and Development, University of Goettingen, Germany 04/2018 FHM Development Economics Workshop, University of , Germany 04/2018 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy 03/2018 CSAE Conference 2018: Economic Development in Africa, University of Oxford, UK 02/2018 RITM Economics Seminar, Université Paris Sud, France 11 01/2018 Sheffield Workshop in Political Economy, University of Sheffield, UK 01/2018 Graduiertenseminar in Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Bayreuth, Lichtenfels, Germany

2017 12/2017 EUDN Scientific Conference, University of Goettingen, Germany 11/2017 Annual Conference of the International Political Economy Society, UT Austin, USA 11/2017 Hamburg Lecture on & Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany 10/2017 FHM Development Economics Workshop, Heidelberg University, Germany 10/2017 Public Lecture Series "Entwicklungsökonomik – Herausforderungen. Chancen. Lösungen?", , Germany 07/2017 Workshop "Tracking International Aid and Investment from Developing and Emerging Economies", Heidelberg University, Germany 07/2017 Workshop BNUBS (Lyon)-GATE (Beijing)-AWI (Heidelberg), Heidelberg University, Germany 06/2017 10th International Conference on "Migration and Development", Center for Research on International Development (CERDI), Clermont-Ferrand, France 06/2017 Beyond Basic Questions Workshop, University of Milan, Gargnano (Lombardy), Italy 06/2017 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Development Economics, University of Goettingen, Germany 05/2017 2017 ZEW Public Finance Conference: Public Finance and Development, ZEW Mannheim, Germany 04/2017 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 04/2017 Workshop on Experiments in Foreign Aid Research: Views from Donor and Recipient Publics, University of California Washington Center, Washington, DC, USA 04/2017 FHM Development Economics Workshop, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany 03/2017 Conference on BRICS and the Global Economy, National University of Singapore, Singapore 01/2017 Research Seminar of the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 01/2017 Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations, University of Bern, Switzerland

2016 12/2016 EUDN Scientific Conference/European Development Conference 2016: Migration and Development, , Germany 12/2016 FHM Development Economics Workshop, University of Mannheim, Germany 10/2016 Research Seminar in Economics, , Germany 09/2016 Colloquium of the Center for Comparative & International Studies, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, Switzerland 09/2016 Villanova Department of Economics Seminar Series, Villanova University, USA 09/2016 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, USA 08/2016 Conference “Development, Trade and Investment,” Stockholm China Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics, 08/2016 China Economics Summer Institute, Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China 07/2016 Symposium "Geospatial Analysis of Disasters: Measuring Welfare Impacts of Emergency Relief", Heidelberg University, Germany 07/2016 Beyond Basic Questions Workshop, University of Salzburg, Austria 06/2016 Development Economics Conference "Goettinger Schule", University of Goettingen, Germany

12 06/2016 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Development Economics, Heidelberg University, Germany 04/2016 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, , Germany 03/2016 CSAE Conference 2016: Economic Development in Africa, University of Oxford, UK 03/2016 Seminar of the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore 01/2016 Seminar of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 01/2016 Workshop Global Economic Governance in Transition, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA 01/2016 Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

2015 11/2015 Workshop on Foreign Direct Investment and Multinational Corporations, , Germany 09/2015 Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Münster, Germany 08/2015 Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, University of Mannheim, Germany 06/2015 Beyond Basic Questions Workshop, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany 06/2015 Nordic Conference on Development Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 06/2015 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Development Economics, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany 06/2015 European Development Days, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 05/2015 International Economic Policy Research Seminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany 05/2015 International Conference on Globalization and Development, University of Goettingen, Germany 04/2015 IMF Conference on Financing for Development, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 04/2015 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, University of Groningen, Netherlands 03/2015 CSAE Conference 2015: Economic Development in Africa, University of Oxford, UK 02/2015 Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany 02/2015 International Conference "Approaches and Implementation of Asian and European Official Development Assistance (ODA): Similarities, Specificities and Convergences", Catholic Louvain University, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium 01/2015 International Economic Policy Research Seminar & AFRASO Lecture, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

2014 11/2014 AWI Departmental Workshop, Heidelberg University, Germany 11/2014 AidData Event "Where in the World is Chinese Development Finance?", OpenGov Hub, Washington, DC, USA 11/2014 Annual Conference of the International Political Economy Society, , Washington, DC, USA 10/2014 SNIS Dissemination Workshop "The Proliferation of Multilateral Funds", University of Zurich, Switzerland 09/2014 Workshop "South-South Development Cooperation: Chances and Challenges for the International Aid Architecture", Heidelberg University, Germany 09/2014 School of International Economics and Trade Weekly Forum, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China 13 06/2014 First Symposium of Development and Institutional Economics, Kaifeng, China 06/2014 China Meeting of the Econometric Society, , China 06/2014 Beyond Basic Questions Workshop, Heidelberg University, Germany 03/2014 Volkswirtschaftliches Kolloquium, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, Germany 02/2014 Public Seminar of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore 01/2014 Annual Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations, Princeton University, USA 01/2014 Convening of the AidData Research Consortium, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, USA

2013 11/2013 AWI Departmental Workshop, Heidelberg University, Germany 10/2013 Conference "Fragmentation or Pluralism? The organisation of development cooperation revisited", German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, Germany 09/2013 KOF Research Seminar, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 09/2013 Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Düsseldorf, Germany 08/2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, USA 06/2013 Guest Lecture at the Institute for West Asian & African Studies (IWAAS), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, China 06/2013 Guest Lecture at the National Health Development Research Center (NHDRC), Ministry of Health, Beijing, China 06/2013 China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Beijing, China 06/2013 Annual Conference of the Chinese Economists Society, Chengdu, China 06/2013 Guest Lecture at the School of International and Public Affairs, Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China 06/2013 Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, HEC Montréal, 04/2013 CGD PublicEvent, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA 04/2013 Research Frontiers in Foreign Aid, Princeton University, USA 04/2013 International Development Conference, , Cambridge, USA 04/2013 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, USA 03/2013 CSAE Conference 2013: Economic Development in Africa, University of Oxford, UK 03/2013 Panel "When China Met Africa", Princeton University, USA 02/2013 CGD Lunchtime Discussion, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA

2012

12/2012 International Relations Faculty Colloquium, Princeton University, USA 11/2012 Annual Conference of the International Political Economy Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA 10/2012 Faculty seminar of the Government Department, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, USA 04/2012 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Diego, USA 03/2012 2nd World Congress of the Public Choice Societies, Miami, USA 01/2012 Seminar of the "Verein Freiburger Wirtschaftswissenschaftler e.V.", University of Freiburg, Germany

2011 12/2011 Ph.D. Colloquium of the German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, Germany 14 11/2011 Annual Conference of the International Political Economy Society, Madison, USA 10/2011 International Relations Graduate Seminar, Princeton University, USA 07/2011 New Directions in Welfare 2011 Congress, OECD Paris, France 06/2011 Beyond Basic Questions Workshop, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 06/2011 Bonner Praxisseminar zur Entwicklungspolitik, Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, Germany 05/2011 Workshop "The Transatlantic Community and Rising Powers in the Global Economy", FU Berlin, Germany 04/2011 Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Rennes, France 04/2011 Spring Meeting of Young Economists, University of Groningen, Netherlands 03/2011 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Montréal, Canada 01/2011 RWTH Aachen Research Seminar in Economics, Aachen, Germany

2010

12/2010 Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía (SAEe), Madrid, 11/2010 CESifo Workshop on Political Economy, Dresden, Germany 11/2010 NORRAG Meeting, Bern, Switzerland 09/2010 Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 07/2010 Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, Pontresina, Switzerland 06/2010 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Development Economics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany 03/2010 Beyond Basic Questions Workshop, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Denmark 02/2010 Göttinger Workshop Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, University of Goettingen, Germany

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