From Sovereign Nations to Federal States. Creating Stable Systems of Fiscal Federalism in the United States and Germany. Lessons for the Eurozone. Cambridge University Working Paper, March 2014
The importance of not defaulting: The significance of the election of 1710.
Paper contributed to Questioning Credible Commitment: Perspectives on the Rise of Financial Capitalism. Cambridge University Press, 2013
Whan can history teach us about the sovereign debt crisis?
Powerpoint presentation, June 2010
Life After Debt. Foreign Policy, August 2011
Italy's fundamentals aren't worse than usual. Reuters, November 2011
The Fourteenth Amendment. Reuter's, January 2011
Should commercial and investment banking be separated? The historical background to the current debate. McKinsey&Company, 2010
Lessons from the Jazz Age for creditor nations. Financial Times, July 2009
How the French invented subprime in 1719. Financial Times, March 2008
The social liabilities of reneging on pensions. Financial Times, August 2006
A history of US marginal tax rates. June 2009
Review of Niall Ferguson's High Financier: The Life and Times of of Siegmund Warburg.
Review of William Cohen's Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. London Review of Books, November 2011
Still a National Blessing? Public Debt in the "Post-war" Era.