PROF. DR. KRISZTINA KIS-KATOS
Google Scholar Citations (as of June 2025): 2,921h-index (as of June 2025): 23Most cited papers (as of June 2025):
Economic Causes of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Working Paper): 317 Civil conflict and displacement: village-level determinants of forced migration in Aceh (Journal of Peace Research): 275 The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investment in Indonesia (Journal of Comparative Economics): 254 Poverty, labor markets and trade liberalization in Indonesia (Journal of Development Economics): 223 Political budget cycles in Indonesia at the district level (Economic Letters): 223
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Esther Gehrke, Robert Genthner, and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2025):Regulating manufacturing FDI: Local labor market effects of a protectionist policy in Indonesia , Journal of Development Economics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103563 . Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian S. Schmidt, Felix Turbanisch and Feicheng Wang (2025): Tracking Chinese aid through China Customs: Darlings and orphans after the COVID-19 outbreak , World Development, forthcoming. Andreas Fuchs, Lennart Kaplan, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Sebastian S. Schmidt, Felix Turbanisch and Feicheng Wang (2025): Mask wars: Sourcing a critical medical product from China in times of COVID-19 , Journal of International Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2025.104068 . Feicheng Wang, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Minghai Zhou (2025): Trade liberalization and the gender employment gap in China , Journal of Human Resources, https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1220-11399R3 . Elias Cisneros and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2024):Unintended environmental consequences of anti-corruption strategies , Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103073 . Kerstin Unfried and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2023): The heterogeneous effects of conflict on education: A spatial analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa , Journal of Peace Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221099557 . Fabian Wölk, Tingting Yuan, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Xiaoming Fu (2023): A temporal-spatial analysis on the socioeconomic development of rural villages in Thailand and Vietnam based on satellite image data , Computer Communications, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2023.02.017 . Jacqueline Seufert, Andre Python, Christoph Weisser, Elías Cisneros, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Thomas Kneib (2022): Mapping ex-ante spatial risks of COVID-19 in Indonesia using a Bayesian geostatistical model on airport network data , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, http://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12866 . Kerstin Unfried, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Tilman Poser (2022): Water scarcity and social conflict , Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102633 , earlier version at IZA DP Robert Genthner and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2022): Foreign investment regulation and firm productivity: Granular evidence from Indonesia , Journal of Comparative Economics, 50 (3): 668-687, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2022.02.003 . Gillian Kant, Levin Wiebelt, Christoph Weisser, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Mattias Luber, Benjamin Säfken (2022) An iterative topic model filtering framework for short and noisy user-generated data: Analyzing conspiracy theories on twitter , International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, https://10.1007/s41060-022-00321-4 . Christoph Weisser, Friederike Lenel, Yao Lu, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Thomas Kneib (2021): Using solar panels for business purposes: Evidence based on high-frequency power usage data , Development Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.deveng.2021.100074 . Elías Cisneros, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Nunung Nuryartono (2021): Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 108, 102453, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102453 , Earlier version at SSRN . Felix Stips and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2020): The impact of co-national networks on asylum seekers' employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany , PLOS One, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236996 . Patrick Meyfroidt, Jan Börner, Rachael Garrett, Toby Gardner, Javier Godar, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Britaldo Soares-Filho, Sven Wunder (2020): Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world , Environmental Research Letters, 15, 090202 Krisztina Kis-Katos, Janneke Pieters and Robert Sparrow (2018): Globalization and social change: Gender-specific effects of trade liberalization in Indonesia , IMF Economic Review, 66(4): 763-793, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-018-0065-5 . Krisztina Kis-Katos and Bambang S. Sjahrir (2017): The impact of fiscal and political decentralization on local public investment in Indonesia , Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(2): 344-365, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2017.03.003 . Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow (2015): Poverty, labour markets and trade liberalization in Indonesia , Journal of Development Economics, 117: 94-106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.07.005 . Jan Börner, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Jorge Hargrave and Konstantin König (2015): Post-Crackdown Effectiveness of Field-Based Forest Law Enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon , PLoS ONE, 10(4): e0121544, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Helge Liebert and Günther G. Schulze (2014): On the Heterogeneity of Terror , European Economic Review, 68: 116-136.Stata Code for encoding terror groups Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther G. Schulze (2014): Administrative Overspending in Indonesian Districts: The Role of Local Politics , World Development, 59: 166-183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.008 . Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther G. Schulze (2013): Political Budget Cycles in Indonesia at the District Level , Economics Letters, 120 (2): 342-345, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.05.007 . Jorge Hargrave and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2013): Economic Causes of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: A Panel Data Analysis for the 2000s , Environmental and Resource Economics, 54 (4): 471-494. Krisztina Kis-Katos (2012): Gender Differences in Work-Schooling Decisions in Rural North India , Review of Economics of the Household, 10 (4): 491-519. Krisztina Kis-Katos, Helge Liebert and Günther G. Schulze (2011): On the Origin of Domestic and International Terrorism , European Journal of Political Economy, 27 (Suppl.1): 17-36. Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther G. Schulze: (2011): Child Labour in Indonesian Small Industries , Journal of Development Studies, 47 (12): 1887-1908. Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow (2011): Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia , Journal of Human Resources, 46 (4): 722-749, https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.46.4.722 . Mathias Czaika and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2009): Civil Conflict and Displacement - Village-Level Determinants of Forced Migration in Aceh Krisztina Kis-Katos (2007): Does Globalization Reduce Child Labor? , Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 19 (1): 71-92.
WORKING PAPERS
Marco Ferro, Jan Börner, Silke Hüttel, Katja Kowalski, Patrick Hostert, Krisztina Kis-Katos (2025): The causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on Germany’s grasslands during a compound drought and heatwave in 2018 , RTG Sustainable Food Discussion Papers. Soyeon Bae, Catrin Westphal, Christian Ammer, Patrick Hostert, Silke Hüttel, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Thomas Kneib, Holger Kreft, Carola Paul, Tobias Plieninger, Birgitta Putzenlechner, Reimund Rötter, Michael Schlund, Dominik Seidel, Stefan Siebert, Kerstin Wiegand, Alexander Knohl (2025): Disentangling Landscape Heterogeneity: Compositional, Configurational, Vertical, and Temporal Heterogeneity , https://doi.org/10.32942/X29P9Q . Alexandra Avdeenko, Maximilian Kaiser, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Leonie Reher (2024): Sanctions, sales, and stigma: A tale on the performance of international brands in Russia SSRN. Tobias Hellmundt, Elías Cisneros, Krisztina Kis-Katos (2024): Land-use transformation and conflict: The effects of oil palm expansion in Indonesia , SSRN. Elías Cisneros, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Jan Priebe and Lennart Reiners (2023): Cash transfers and violent crime in Indonesian communities , SSRN. Marina Dodlova, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Anna Kochanova and Olivia Wirth (2023): Mobile technologies and firm formalization: Evidence from Uganda , WIDER Working Paper 2023/99, Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. Elías Cisneros, Tobias Hellmundt and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2023): Oil palm expansion and the economics of forest fragmentation , SSRN. Elías Cisneros, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Lennart Reiners (2023): Losing territory: The effects of administrative splits on land use in the tropics , SSRN.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Fabian Wölk, Tingting Yuan, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Xiaoming Fu (2021): Measuring Consumption Changes in Rural Villages based on Satellite Image Data -- A Case Study for Thailand and Vietnam, The 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2021), Exeter, UK, IEEE, 12/2021. Andreas Buchmüller, Gillian Kant, Christoph Weisser, Benjamin Säfken, Thomas Kneib, Krisztina Kis-Katos (2021), Twitmo: Twitter Topic Modeling and Visualization for R. R package version 0.1.2., https://cran.r-project.org/package=Twitmo . Mattias Luber, Christoph Weisser, Benjamin Säfken, Alexander Silbersdorff, Thomas Kneib and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2021): Identifying Topical Shifts in Twitter Streams: An Integration of Non-negative Matrix Factorisation, Sentiment Analysis and Structural Break Models for Large Scale Data , in Bright J., Giachanou A., Spaiser V., Spezzano F., George A., Pavliuc A. (Eds), Disinformation in Open Online Media. MISDOOM 2021. Oxford Internet Institute. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12887, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87031-7_3 Krisztina Kis-Katos, Janneke Pieters and Robert Sparrow (2018): Gender, labour markets and trade liberalization in Indonesia, in Arianto A. Patunru, A., M. Pangestu, and M.Ch. Basri (eds.) Indonesia in the New World: Globalisation, Nationalism and Sovereignty, Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, pp. 157-179. Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther G. Schulze (2014): Context-specificity of economic research: The example of corruption research in Southeast Asia, in Huotari, M., J. Rüland and J. Schlehe (eds.) Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies, London: Palgrave, August 2014, pp. 187-210. Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther G. Schulze (2013): Corruption in Southeast Asia: A survey of recent research, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 27 (1): 79-109. Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther G. Schulze (2002): Labor Standards and International Trade, World Economics, 3 (4): 101-129.
