Peer-reviewed Publications (selected)

  1. Chiara Podrecca, Enea Parimbelli, Daniele Pala, Cindy Cheng, Luca Messerschmidt, Tim Büthe, Riccardo Bellazzi. “A comparative analysis of the effects of containment policies on the epidemiological manifestation of the COVID-19 pandemic across nine European countries.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37751-4 Scientific Reports 13, 2023.

  2. Luca Messerschmidt, Nicole Janz. “Unravelling the ‘race to the bottom’argument: foreign direct investment and different types of labour rights.”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X2200287X World Development 161, 2023.

  3. Cindy Cheng, Amélie Desvars-Larrive, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Thomas Hale, Alexandra Howes, Lukas Lehner, Luca Messerschmidt et al. “Capturing the COVID-19 crisis through public health and social measures data science.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01616-8 Scientific Data 9, 2022.

  4. Joan Barceló, Tiril Høye Rahn, Cindy Cheng, Robert Kubinec, Luca Messerschmidt, “Suppression and Timing: Using COVID-19 Policies against Political Dissidents?” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00223433211062389 Journal of Peace Research, 2021.

  5. Cindy Cheng, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, and Luca Messerschmidt, “COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0)” In Nature Human Behaviour 4, pages 756–768. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0909-7 ,Springer, 2020.

  6. Marcel Schliebs, Benedikt S. L. Fritz, Luca Messerschmidt, Johannes Volkmann, and Joachim Behnke, “The Effects of Coalition Signals on Voting Behavior. Experimental Findings from the State Elections in Baden-Württemberg 2016.” In Jahrbuch für Handlungs-und Entscheidungstheorie, pages 57–84. https://www.springerprofessional.de/die-auswirkungen-von-koalitionssignalen-auf-das-wahlverhalten-ex/12103912 , 2017.

Other Publications (selected)

  1. Clara Albrecht, Cindy Cheng, Christa Hainz, Luca Messerschmidt, Tanja Stitteneder, “Das CoronaNet-Forschungsprojekt: Sammlung und Systematisierung von Daten zu staatlichen Maßnahmen gegen die Covid-19-Pandemie. In ifo Schnelldienst, 2021.

  2. Cindy Cheng, Luca Messerschmidt, Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir, Clara Albrecht, Christa Hainz, Tanja Stitteneder, Joan Barceló, Vanja Grujic, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, Timothy Model, Caress Schenk,”Tracking Government Responses To Covid-19: The CoronaNet Research Project. In CESifo Forum https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/CESifo-Forum-2021-3-20-May.pdf#page=49, 2021.

  3. Markus Siewert, Stefan Wurster, Luca Messerschmidt, Cindy Cheng, and Tim Buthe, “A German Miracle? Crisis Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Multi-Level System” In PEX Special Report: Coronavirus Outbreak, Presidents’ Responses, and Institutional Consequences, Inacio, Magna and Aline Burni (eds.). https://pex-network.com/2020/06/25/a-german-miracle-crisis-management-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-a-multi-level-system/, 2020.

  4. Tim Buthe, Luca Messerschmidt, and Cindy Cheng, “Policy Responses to the Coronavirus in Germany” In The World Before and After COVID-19: Intellectual Reflections on Politics, Diplomacy and International Relations, Gian Luca Gardini (eds.). Stockholm – Salamanca: European Institute of International Relations, 756–768. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3614794, 2020.

  5. Cindy Cheng, Luca Messerschmidt, Joan Barceló, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Vanja Grujic, Robert Kubinec, Timothy Model, and Caress Schenk. “Behind CoronaNet: How we built our dataset” In Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research https://socialsciences.nature.com/posts/behind-coronanet-how-we-built-our-dataset, 2020.

  6. Tim Buthe, Joan Barceló, Cindy Cheng, Paula Ganga, Luca Messerschmidt, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec. “Patterns of policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in federal vs. unitary European democracies.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3692035 SSRN, 2020.

Blog Posts

Immer auf die Kleinen by Luca Messerschmidt & Marcel Schliebs. In ZU Daily

The Future of U.S. Foreign Assistance. Trump’s First 100 Days: Will cutting foreign aid undermine American hegemony? by Luca Messerschmidt. In Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Washington D.C.

Die Gesellschaft \& Wir: Ohnmacht by Luca Messerschmidt. In Futur Drei