Research

Publications

[1] Strategic Investment of Public Funds: State Responses to Federal R&D Grants (Forthcoming), with Thomas Luke Spreen, Journal of Public Policy

[2] Budget Process and Budget Structure under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia (2022), in Giovanna Dabbicco et al. (Eds), Public Sector Accounting, Financial Accountability and Viability in Times of Crisis

[3] Government responses to the coronavirus in the United States: immediate remedial actions, rising debt levels and budgetary hangovers (2020), with Philip Joyce, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management

[4] Performance Budgeting in Indonesia: Brief History, Progress, and Lessons Learned (2019), in Ho, Alfred T., Maarten de Jong, and Zaozao Zhao (Eds.), Performance Budgeting Reform: Theories and International Practices

Working papers

[5] Flood Disasters and Fiscal Federalism: Evidence from U.S. States (Submitted)

[6] Proactive and reactive policy agendas during hurricanes: A textual analysis of budget documents (Submitted)

[7] From White Elephant to White Whale: The Economics and Politics of Nusantara, with Thomas Pepinsky (R&R in Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies)

[8] Disaster Risk Disclosure in Government Financial Reports: A Computational Text Analysis (Submitted)

[9] Diffusion of Climate Finance Instruments: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries, with Komla Dzigbede (Submitted)

Work in progress

[10] Climate change as policy agenda: Evidence from Southeast Asia (Presented at Cornell, Harvard, and UMD)

[11] Budgetary Politics and Fiscal Sustainability: Malaysia and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective