Heinemann, Friedrich, Zareh Asatryan, Julia Bachtrögler-Unger, Carlo Moana Birkholz, Francesco Corti, Maximilian von Ehrlich, Ugo Fratesi, Clemens Fuest, Valentin Lang and Martin Weber (2026), Enhancing Objectivity and Decision Relevance: A Better Framework for Evaluating EU Cohesion Policies, Regional Studies 60(1), 2625765.

Birkholz, Carlo Moana and David Gomtsyan (2025), The global software production network, Journal of Development Economics 180, 103708.

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