Publications

“Industrial Espionage and Productivity”, joint with Albrecht Glitz, (forthcoming, American Economic Review)
    Media: Science, BBC, HBR, FT, WSJ.

“The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Expansion on Their Mothers’ Attitudes Towards Domestic Abuse in Turkey,” joint with Selim Gulesci and Sofia Trommlerová, World Bank Economic Review (forthcoming)

“‘Pious Populists at the Gate’ – A Case Study of Economic Development in Turkey under AKP”, Economics of Transition, Volume 25, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 271–312.

“Islamic Rule and the Empowerment of the Poor and Pious” , Econometrica, Vol. 82, No. 1 (January, 2014), 229–269, (Online Appendix)
a) STATA replication files

b) Alternative Cattaneo et al. (2017) replication files in both R and STATA

“Institutions and Nonconvergence Traps,” joint with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, in Aghion, Philippe and Peter Howitt, The Economics of Growth, MIT Press, 2009

“Religion, Politics, and Development – Essays in Development Economics and Political Economics,” IIES Monograph Series no. 68, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University

Working Papers

“Political Man on Horseback – Coups and Development”

    Media: Bloomberg, FT, The Economist, HBR.

“State Discretion, Political Connections and Public Procurement: Evidence from Turkey,” joint with Esra Gürakar

“‘For the Love of the Republic’ – Education, Secularism, and Empowerment,” joint with Selim Gulesci (submitted), (winner of the “UWIN Best Paper Award 2014”)