ORCID Profile
0000-0002-8033-2958
Current Organisation
Monash University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Economic Development and Growth | Public Economics- Public Choice | Applied Economics | Public Economics- Taxation and Revenue | Panel Data Analysis |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Fiscal Policy | Economic Growth | Political Systems | International Aid and Development | International Political Economy (excl. International Trade) | Taxation
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Publications
Institutions and the losses from natural disasters
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 07-2008
Abstract: Abstract. Natural hazards can be seen as a function of a specific natural process and human (economic) activity. Whereby the bulk of literature on natural hazard management has its focus on the natural process, an increasing number of scholars is emphasizing the importance of human activity in this context. Existing literature has identified certain socio-economic factors that determine the impact of natural disasters on society. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the effects of the institutional framework that influences human behavior by setting incentives and to point out the importance of institutional vulnerability. Results from an empirical investigation of large scale natural disasters between 1984 and 2004 show that countries with better institutions experience less victims and lower economic losses from natural disasters. In addition, the results suggest a non-linear relationship between economic development and economic disaster losses. The suggestions in this paper have implications for the discussion on how to deal with the adverse effects of natural hazards and how to develop efficient adaption strategies.
Intergovernmental Interaction in Compliance with an International Environmental Agreement
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1086/679666
The effects of government intervention on the market for corporate terrorism insurance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2011
Reducing bias in preference elicitation for environmental public goods*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-12-2022
Abstract: The recent stated preference literature emphasises the importance of incentive compatible elicitation methods, which depend on respondent beliefs that payment can be collected if provision occurs. We investigate this condition in a randomised field experiment where stated choices are incentivised financially. The objective of the treatment was to make choices salient by making each decision financially relevant and to increase the respondents' beliefs that future payments will be enforced. Our results show that the treatment increases estimates of the marginal utility of income, with the effect being economically and statistically significant for low‐income respondents. We develop a stylised theoretical framework that allows us to quantify the bias that is implied by the observed differences between the treated and control groups. We find that failure to account for respondents' doubts about payment coercion in an otherwise well‐designed survey inflates the marginal willingness to pay among low‐income respondents by a factor of at least 1.72.
The media and discretionary behaviour of bureaucrats
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2013
Gold and silver mining in the 16th and 17th centuries, land titles and agricultural productivity
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Ethnic politics and the diffusion of mobile technology in Africa
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Regional Favoritism
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 07-03-2014
DOI: 10.1093/QJE/QJU004
Abstract: We complement the literature on distributive politics by taking a systematic look at regional favoritism in a large and erse s le of countries and by employing a broad measure that captures the aggregate distributive effect of many different policies. In particular, we use satellite data on nighttime light intensity and information about the birthplaces of the countries’ political leaders. In our panel of 38,427 subnational regions from 126 countries with yearly observations from 1992 to 2009, we find that subnational regions have more intense nighttime light when being the birth region of the current political leader. We argue that this finding provides evidence for regional favoritism. We explore the dynamics and the geographical extent of regional favoritism and show that regional favoritism is most prevalent in countries with weak political institutions and poorly educated citizens. Furthermore, foreign aid inflows and oil rents tend to fuel regional favoritism in weakly institutionalized countries, but not elsewhere.
Charity hazard-A real hazard to natural disaster insurance?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2007
Oil and the duration of dictatorships
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-06-2011
Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Valuing environmental services provided by local stormwater management
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019776
Reproductive behaviour at the end of the world: the effect of the Cuban Missile Crisis on U.S. fertility
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-06-2017
Uncertainty of Governmental Relief and the Crowding out of Flood Insurance
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-08-2012
Institutions and the resource curse: New insights from causal machine learning
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 06-2023
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0284968
Abstract: There is a widely held belief that natural resource rents are a blessing if institutions are strong, but a curse if institutions are weak. We use data from 3,800 Sub-Saharan African districts and apply a causal forest estimator to reassess the relationship between institutions and the effects of resource rents. Consistent with this belief, we document that stronger institutions increase the positive effect of the presence of mining activities on economic development and d en the negative effect of mining activities on conflict. In contrast, we find that the effects of higher world mineral prices on economic development and conflict in mining districts are non-linear and vary little in institutional quality.
The long-term health effects of mass political violence
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-07-2017
Corporate Demand for Insurance: New Evidence From the U.S. Terrorism and Property Markets
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-03-2015
DOI: 10.1111/JORI.12031
Genetic distance, immigrants' identity, and labor market outcomes
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-03-2015
Aid, Catastrophes and the Samaritan's Dilemma
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-05-2016
DOI: 10.1111/ECCA.12194
On the channel and type of aid: The case of international disaster assistance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Does federal disaster assistance crowd out flood insurance?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Media, institutions, and government action: Prevention vs. palliation in the time of cholera
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Expropriations, property confiscations and new offshore entities: Evidence from the Panama Papers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2020
Analysing decision mechanisms for natural hazard management
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2009
The Unintended Consequences of Censoring Digital Technology - Evidence from Italy's ChatGPT Ban
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 20-04-2023
Abstract: We analyse the effects of the ban of ChatGPT, a generative pre-trained transformer chatbot, on in idual productivity. We first compile data on the hourly coding output of over 8,000 professional GitHub users in Italy and other European countries to analyse the impact of the ban on in idual productivity. Combining the high-frequency data with the sudden announcement of the ban in a difference-in-differences framework, we find that the output of Italian developers decreased by around 50\\% in the first two business days after the ban and recovered after that. Applying a synthetic control approach to daily Google search and Tor usage data shows that the ban led to a significant increase in the use of censorship bypassing tools. Our findings show that users swiftly implement strategies to bypass Internet restrictions but this adaptation activity creates short-term disruptions and h ers productivity.
Natural hazard insurance in Europe: tailored responses to climate change are needed
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-10-2010
DOI: 10.1002/EET.554
The Value of Names - Civil Society, Information, and Governing Multinationals
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 18-12-2020
Abstract: Civil society plays a critical role in governance where laws and authority are weak. We study how a key strategy of international civil society—disseminating information about human rights abuse—impacts multinationals. To do so, we focus on trends at the center of international c aigns: the assassination of activists, and collect 20 years of data related to murders associated with the global mining sector. Using event study methodology, we estimate the impact of the human rights spotlight on the stock price of firms connected to events. We find that the effect of the human rights spotlight is substantial. Firms named in assassination coverage have large, negative abnormal returns following assassinations. Our estimates imply a median loss in market capitalization of 100 million USD. Meanwhile, these events do not impact the social responsibility scores of firms. We show that the media plays a crucial role in these effects: the negative impact of assassinations is strongest when they coincide with calm news cycles versus peak news cycles, when news may be crowded out by large, international stories. In addition, we argue our results are driven by events where companies are explicitly named in the reporting. Last, we show that assassinations are positively related to the royalties paid by mining projects to domestic governments.
Economic shocks and civil conflict at the regional level
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
The Hedonics of Hedonism – Estimating the Value of Risk‐Taking Activities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2009
Valuing flood disasters using the life satisfaction approach
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2009
Creative disasters? Flooding effects on capital, labour and productivity within European firms
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-03-2009
Does democracy drive income in the world, 1500-2000?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2015
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Related Funding Activities
Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100061
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 12-2020
Amount: $609,100.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Projects - Grant ID: DP120103492
Start Date: 2012
End Date: 06-2016
Amount: $135,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity