My main interest is on the functioning of globalization and technological change, and their implications for socio-economic development.

Selected working papers and publications

1. Structural change in times of increasing openness: assessing path dependency in European economic integration

2. Understanding economic openness: A review of existing measures

3. Is Europe disintegrating? Macroeconomic divergence, structural polarization, trade and fragility

4. Export performance, price comeptitiveness and technology: Revisiting the Kaldor paradox

5. The heterogeneous relationship between income and inequality: a panel co-integration approach

I understand institutions broadly as "codifiable systems of social structures (in particular norms and rules) that lead to inclinations for people to act in specific ways". Thus defined, economic agents constitute, but are also affected by institutions. What are the underlying mechanisms? And how do institutions relate to socio-economic development?

Selected working papers and publications

1. Defining institutions - A review and a synthesis

2. Trust and Social Control. Sources of cooperation, performance, and stability in informal value transfer systems

3. Agent-Based Computational Models - A Formal Heuristic for Institutionalist Pattern Modelling?

4. New Perspectives on Institutionalist Pattern Modeling: Systemism, Complexity, and Agent-Based Modeling