Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

2022. Domestic Bank Reform and the Contingent Nature of the Structural Power of Finance in Emerging Markets. . Politics & Society, 50(4), 2022, 571–98 (with L. Rethel).

2022. Introduction: The Structural Power of Finance Meets Financialization. Politics & Society, 50(4), 2022, pp. 523–42 (with S. Hager, N. Naqvi and K. Wansleben).

2021. Tussle for space: The politics of mock-compliance with global financial standards in developing countries. Regulation & Governance. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12427 (with R. Engebretsen).

2020. Banking on courts: Financialization and the rise of third-party funding in investment arbitration. Review of International Political Economy, 28(5), 1362-1384 (with Z. Williams).

2020. Catch22 or the Politics of Navigating Basel Standards in Nigeria’s Fragile Banking Sector. Book chapter in E. Jones (ed.), Risk and Reputation. The Politics of Banking Regulation in Developing Countries. Oxford University Press (open access publication).

2019. Ambiguity in International Finance and the Spread of Financial Norms: The Localization of Financial Inclusion in Kenya and Nigeria. Review of International Political Economy (online pre-publication).

2018. Fuelled Power: Oil, Financiers and Central Bank Policy in Nigeria. New Political Economy 24(5): 641-658.

2018. Localising Sovereign Debt: The Rise of Local Currency Bond Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Economy 41(12): 3317-3314 (with D. Essers and U. Volz).

2018. Balancing Multiple Central Bank Objectives: Lessons from Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda on Walking a Tightrope. In M. Ndulo and S. Kayizzi (eds.), Financing Innovation and Sustainable Development in Africa, 150-181. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2018. Demystifying Green Bonds. In S. Boubaker, D. Cumming and D. K. Nguyen (eds.), Research Handbook of Investing in the Triple Bottom Line. Chapter 15. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (with K. Berensmann and N. Lindenberg).

2017. The Politics of Finance: How Capital Sways African Central Banks. Journal of Development Studies 55(2): 311-327.

​2016. A financial sector to support development in low-income countries. In: S. Griffith-Jones and R. Gottschalk (eds.), Achieving Financial Stability and Growth in Africa, 1-21. Oxon: Routledge (with S. Griffith-Jones and E. Karwowski).

2015. Developing local currency bond markets for long-term development financing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 31 (3-4): 350-378 (with K. Berensmann and U. Volz).

Non-Peer Reviewed

2022. The financialization of investor-state dispute settlement. In: B. Braun und K.Koddenbrock (Eds.): Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance, Routledge: X (with Z. Williams)

2022. The African Development Bank. In: K. Freistein, J. Leininger and S. Weinlich (Eds.): Handbook of International Organizations. Theories, Concepts and Empirical Insights. De Gruyter: Oldenburg.

2021. Employing capital: Patient capital and labour relations in Kenya’s manufacturing sector. DIE Discussion Paper (with R. Upadhyaya and C. Sommer).

2020. The rise of cross-border banking and the transformation of African economies: Evidence and knowledge gaps. In C. Enoch (Ed.), Finance in Africa: Addressing challenges in the 21st century, Political Economy of Financial Markets Series. University of Oxford: Oxford.

2020. 14 Ideas for After Corona. Dezernat Zukunft: Berlin (with A. Binder et al.).

2018. Basel Standards and Developing Countries - a Difficult Relationship. Africa Finance Forum Blog of the African Development Bank (with T. Beck, E. Jones and P. Knaack)

2017. Is transformative research the way forward? Africa at LSE Blog and Global Policy (with B. Never).

2017. Marshall-Plan für Afrika: Kann das klappen? Participation in a panel discussion as part of the WDR Funkhausgespräche. Köln, 16.03.2017.

2016. Green Bonds: Taking Off the Rose-Coloured Glasses. DIE Briefing Paper (with K. Berensmann, M. Kautz and N. Lindenberg).

2015. Financing Global Development: The Role of Local Currency Bond Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. DIE Briefing Paper (with K. Berensmann and U. Volz).

2015. Financing Global Development: The Role of Central Banks. DIE Briefing Paper (with U. Volz).

2014. Walking a Tightrope. Progress in Balancing Multiple Central Bank Objectives in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

2013. Post 2015: Why the Development Finance Debate Needs to Make the Move from Quantity to Quality. DIE Briefing Paper (with H. Janus and R. Hartwig).

2013. Yet another agenda: raising the quantity and quality of development financing beyond 2015. GREAT Insights, 2 (3), 16-17 (with H. Janus and R. Hartwig).

2013. Money. Development Finance (with H. Janus and R. Hartwig). In: J. Mackie, S. Klingebiel and P. Martins (eds.), European Report on Development 2013: Post-2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future. Brussels. European Commission: 106-137.

2009. “No Business like Slum Business? The Political Economy of the Continued Existence of Slums: A case study of Nairobi.” LSE International Development Working Paper Series.