Peer-reviewed Publications

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

Working Papers

  1. Unravelling the ‘race to the bottom’ argument: How does FDI affect different types of labour rights? (With Nicole Janz)
  2. Local Effects of Foreign Direct Investment (With Tabea Palmtag, and Tobias Rommel)
  3. Strategic Donor Competition in Foreign Aid (With Marcel Schliebs)

  4. The UNPC: A New Multi-Country Political Competition Measurement (With Marcel Schliebs)

  5. Robert Kubinec, Joan Barceló, Rafael Goldszmidt, Vanja Grujic, Timothy Model, Caress Schenk, Cindy Cheng, Thomas Hale, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Luca Messerschmidt, Anna Petherick, and Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir,”Statistically Validated Indices for COVID-19 Public Health Policies” https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/rn9xk Working Paper

  6. Robert Kubinec, Luiz Carvalho, Joan Barceló, Cindy Cheng, Luca Messerschmidt, Derek Duba, and Matthew S. Cottrell. “Fear, Partisanship and the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States.” https://10.31235/osf.io/jp4wk. Working Paper

  7. Cindy Cheng, Luca Messerschmidt, Joan Barceló, Vanja Grujic, Allison Spencer Hartnett, Robert Kubinec, Timothy Model, Caress Schenk, Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir. “Open Doors or Closed Borders: Dyadic Dataset of Governments’ COVID-19 Border Policies (CoronaNet v.1.1)” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zIMqxx6pqtwUs4VOTQQDLW8fCjcZRz1d/view?usp=sharing. Working Paper

  8. Tim Buthe, Joan Barceló, Cindy Cheng, Paula Ganga, Luca Messerschmidt. “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 Working Paper

Other Publications

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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