Research

Publications

[1] Essays on Natural Disasters and Fiscal Resilience (2023)

[2] Budget Process and Budget Structure under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia (2022), in 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 Performance Budgeting Reform: Theories and International Practices

Working papers

[5] From White Elephant to White Whale: The Economics and Politics of Nusantara, with Thomas Pepinsky (Submitted)

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

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

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

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

Work in progress

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

[11] Diffusion of Climate Finance Instruments: Evidence from Developing Countries, with Komla Dzigbede (Presented at the ABFM and ISA conferences)