Asatryan, Zareh, Carlo Moana Birkholz and Friedrich Heinemann (2025), Evidence-based policy or beauty contest? An LLM-based meta-analysis of EU cohesion policy evaluations, International Tax and Public Finance 32, 625-655.

Asatryan, Zareh, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Carlo Moana Birkholz and Patrick Hufschmidt (2024), The regional economics of mineral resource wealth in Africa, Economica 91(364), 1424-1453.

Birkholz, Carlo Moana and David Gomtsyan (2023), Immigrant religious practices and criminality: The case of Ramadan, Journal of Comparative Economics 51(1), 90-104.

Asatryan, Zareh, Carlo Moana Birkholz and Friedrich Heinemann (2024), Rethinking EU Cohesion Policy, ZEW policy brief No. 24-10, Mannheim

Asatryan, Zareh, Carlo Moana Birkholz and Friedrich Heinemann (2024), Evidence-Based Policy or Beauty Contest? An LLM-Based Meta-Analysis of EU Cohesion Policy Evaluations, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-037, Mannheim , published in : International Tax and Public Finance

Asatryan, Zareh, Carlo Moana Birkholz and Friedrich Heinemann (2024), How to Make Evaluations of EU Cohesion Policy More Credible, ZEW policy brief No. 24-08, Mannheim

Heinemann, Friedrich, Zareh Asatryan, Julia Bachtrögler-Unger, Carlo Moana Birkholz, Franceso Corti, Maximilian von Ehrlich, Ugo Fratesi, Clemens Fuest, Valentin Lang and Martin Weber (2024), Enhancing Objectivity and Decision Relevance: A Better Framework for Evaluating Cohesion Policies, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-034, Mannheim

Asatryan, Zareh, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Carlo Moana Birkholz and Patrick Hufschmidt (2023), Favoritism by the Governing Elite, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 23-053, Mannheim

Birkholz, Carlo Moana, Zareh Asatryan, Thushyanthan Baskaran and Patrick Hufschmidt (2023), Favoritism by the Governing Elite, Ruhr Economic Papers , Essen.

Birkholz, Carlo Moana and Friedrich Heinemann (2023), Magnitudes and Capital Key Divergence of the Eurosystem’s PSPP/PEPP Purchases, Update April 2023, ZEW expert brief No. 23-02, Mannheim

Asatryan, Zareh, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Carlo Moana Birkholz and David Gomtsyan (2022), Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, STEG Working Paper .

Asatryan, Zareh, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Carlo Moana Birkholz and David Gomtsyan (2022), Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, CESifo Working Papers , Munich.

Birkholz, Carlo Moana and Friedrich Heinemann (2022), Magnitudes and Capital Key Divergence of the Eurosystem’s PSPP/PEPP Purchases – Update June 2022, Study supported by the Brigitte Strube Foundation, ZEW expert brief No. 22-05, Mannheim

Birkholz, Carlo Moana and Friedrich Heinemann (2021), Magnitudes and Capital Key Divergence of the Eurosystem’s PSPP/PEPP Purchases – Update December 2021, ZEW expert brief No. 21-13, Mannheim

Asatryan, Zareh, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Carlo Moana Birkholz and Patrick Hufschmidt (2021), Regional Redistribution of Mineral Resource Wealth in Africa, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-032, Mannheim

Asatryan, Zareh, Thushyanthan Baskaran, Carlo Moana Birkholz and David Gomtsyan (2021), Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-031, Mannheim

Asatryan, Zareh, Carlo Moana Birkholz and Friedrich Heinemann (2024), The Future of EU Cohesion, Final report of the research project: “Ausrichtung der europäischen Strukturpolitik in der nächsten Förderperiode 2028-2034 aus finanzpolitischer Sicht“ commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Finance, Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF), Mannheim

2025: The Future of EU Cohesion, Cohesion Talks, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2024: Beyond Additionality: The Impact of EU Cohesion Policy on Investments by the Member States, IIPF, Prague, Czech Republic

2024: ChatGPTing about inflation - Do news about inflation drive heterogeneous inflation expectations?, Armenian Economic Association Meeting, Dilijan, Armenia

2024: The Global Software Production Network, Homecoming of the Göttingen School of Development Economics, Göttingen, Germany

2024: The Global Software Production Network, EEA, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2023: Favoritism by the Governing Elite, Chair Research Seminar, Universität Göttingen, Germany

2023: Favoritism by the Governing Elite, SV-UB Joint Research Day, ZEW Mannheim, Germany

2023: Favoritism by the Governing Elite, German Development Economics Conference, TU Dresden, Germany more information

2023: Favoritism by the Governing Elite, 1st ZEW-ifo Young Scholar Political Economy Workshop, ZEW Mannheim, Germany

2023: The Global Software Production Network, Chair Research Seminar, Universität Göttingen, Germany

2023: Favoritism by the Governing Elite, 79th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Logan, Utah, United States of America more information

2023: Discussion Panel: Careers in and outside Academia, Homecoming of the Göttingen School of Development Economics, Universität Göttingen, Germany

2022: Do they actually move? Detecting tax evasion with smart meters, NHH Brown Bag Seminar, NHH Bergen, Norway more information

2022: Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Basel, Switzerland more information

2021: Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, German Development Economics Conference, Hamburg (digital), Germany more information

2021: Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, Research Seminar in Public Economics, University of Mannheim (digital), Germany

2021: Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, 3rd International Conference on Globalization and Development, University of Göttingen (digital) , Germany more information

2021: Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, Annual Congress of the IIPF, University of Iceland (digital), Iceland more information

2021: Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications, European Economic Association Congress, Copenhagen (digital), Denmark more information

09.2024: Zeitschrift "The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics"

01.2024: Zeitschrift "The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics"

02.2022: Zeitschrift "Panoeconomicus"

05.2022:

01.2022: Zeitschrift "The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance"

03.2022: Zeitschrift "Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization"

Mannheim, Germany, 2023

Mannheim, Germany, 2022

11. – 11.2022 Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Bergen, Norway

2022 - until now: Affiliated Researcher, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Bergen, Norway