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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Economic Growth and Development, Economic History, Macroeconomics.

• Productivity and the Welfare of Nations, forthcoming, with S. Basu, F. Schiantarelli and L. Serven, the Journal of European Economic Association.
• The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?, forthcoming, with J. Mayshar and O. Moav. the Journal of Political Economy.
• Religion, Division of Labor and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in German Regions over 600 Years, 2019, with S. Becker, the American Economic Review, 109(5), pp. 1764-1804.
• The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development, 2017, the American Economic Review, 107(9), pp. 2821-54.
• Banks and Development: Jewish Communities in the Italian Renaissance and Current Economic Performance, 2016, the Review of Economics and Statistics, 98(1), pp. 140-158.