Publications

Journal articles

• The “spirit of the Schengen rules”, the humanitarian visa, and contested asylum governance in Europe – The Swiss case (with M. Panizzon and Marek Wieruszewski), forthcoming in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2018)
• Computers with law degrees? The role of artificial intelligence in transnational dispute resolution, and its implications for the legal profession, Transnational Dispute Management, Volume 14, Issue 2 (2017)
• Do stock prices react to immigration restrictions? Evidence from an event study in Switzerland, Applied Economics Letters, Volume 24, Issue 17
• Subsidies and Corporate Governance - An Agency Approach, Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 36,  Issue 4, pages 256-264, June 2015 (with K. Heine)

• Migration and Systems Competition: A Constitutional Economics Perspective, University of St Thomas Law Journal 12(1), 2015 (with K. Heine)

Outreach

• Artificial Intelligence and Big Data – An Uncharted Territory for Migration Studies?, Blog of the NCCR on the move - The migration-mobility nexus, 11 April 2017
• Free Trade Agreements and Migration, GIFTA Project Briefings Series, No. 2/2015

Working papers

• The Firm Location Race – Regulating Incentive Packages Given to Firms by Local and Regional Governments (with K. Heine)

Book contributions

• Data Science im Recht, in: S. Dvořák, R. Stocker und F. Gasche (Hrsg.), Alps Forum 2021 – Law and Economics of Data Science, Law and Economics Foundation St. Gallen, Weblaw, 2022
• ​Cognitive Computing in der juristischen Praxis, in: E. Portmann und S. D’Onofrio (Hrsg.), “Cognitive Computing - Theorie, Technik und Praxis”, Springer, 2020
• High-Tech Migration Control in the EU and beyond: The Legal Challenges of ‘Enhanced Interoperability, in: Carpanelli, E. and Lazzerini, N. (eds.), New Technologies as Legal Challenges for International and European Law, Springer, 2018 (with D. Vitiello)
• Internet Governance, in: Marciano, A. and Battista Ramello, G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer, forthcoming
• Intergenerational Justice and International Migration: Some Insights from Law and Economics, forthcoming
• Climate Change, Environmental Damage, and Migration: A Law and Economics Perspective, in: K. Mathis (ed.), Environmental Law and Economics, Springer, 2017
• Fiscal Federalism, in: Marciano, A. and Battista Ramello, G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Springer, 2016 (with K. Heine) 
• ​Europäische Beihilfenkontrolle und Corporate Governance [European State Aid Control and Corporate Governance], in: Kaal,W., Schwartze, A., Schmidt, M. and Ehricke, U. (eds.), Festschrift zu Ehren von Christian Kirchner, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen (with K. Heine)

Book editorships

• Erich Schweighofer / Ahti Saarenpää / Stefan Eder / Jakob Zanol / Felix Schmautzer / Franz Kummer / Philip Hanke (Hrsg./Eds.), Recht DIGITAL – 25 Jahre IRIS, Tagungsband des 25. Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions / Proceedings of the 25th International Legal Informatics Symposium
  
• Erich Schweighofer / Franz Kummer / Ahti Saarenpää / Stefan Eder / Philip Hanke (Hrsg./Eds.), Cybergovernance – Tagungsband des 24. Internationalen Rechtsinformatik Symposions (IRIS) / Proceedings of the 24th International Legal Informatics Symposium (IRIS), Editions Weblaw, 2021

​Book reviews 

• "Der Entscheid über Migration als Verfügungsrecht", by Stefan Schlegel, in: Sui Generis, Mai 2017
• “The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled”, edited by Marcel Gérard and Silke Uebelmesser, in: Journal of Economic Issues, March 2017
• “State Aid and the European Economic Constitution”, by F. De Cecco, Hart Publishing, 2013, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014
• “Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know”, by L. E. Burman and J. Slemrod, Oxford University Press, 2012, in: Journal of Economic Issues, March 2014

Studies 

• Country report Austria, in: Study on the Application of the Cross-Border Mergers Directive, Bech- Bruun and Lexidale for DG Internal Market and Services (EU), 2014 

During my time at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), I mainly contributed to three projects/studies:

• Mobility of Researchers in Europe
  Visit the project website.
• Link between job creation, education and innovation
• Erawatch: European University Observatory

​Dissertation und Abschlussarbeiten
These are the topics of the theses I wrote in order to graduate from my economics and political science studies, from the European Master Programme in Law and Economics, and from the European Doctorate in Law and Economics:

• Economics thesis:
  Economic Analysis of Corruption in Transition Economics. Abstract.
• Political science thesis:
  A comparative study of American and European strategies against terrorism and their impact on the UN’s counter-terrorism work. Abstract.
• EMLE thesis:
  A Behavioral Analysis of the Latest Financial Crisis
• PhD thesis:
  ​Regulating State Aid: Inter-jurisdictional Competition, Public Choice, and Corporate Governance

If you are interested in any of the theses and wish a complete copy, just send me an e-mail.