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Under submission and work in progress

• (with Hoang Khieu) When do tax systems turn regressive?
• (with Wanda Schleder) What should we teach our children?
• (with Ole Strothmann) On the existence of social groups
• Stress and Coping: An Economic Approach
  • Slides (regular and short talk)
  • Web appendix

Articles (selection)

• (with Matthias Birkner and Niklas Scheuer) The dynamics of Pareto distributed wealth in a small open economy. Economic Theory (2023)
• (with Hoang Khieu) Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution Economic Modelling (2023)
• (with Kai Pastor, Thorsten Schank and Olga Troitschanskaia) A practical approach to overcoming biases in comparing student performance in higher education, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (2022)

• (with Timo Mitze, Reinhold Kosfeld and Johannes Rode) The Covid‐19 containment effects of public health measures ‐ A spatial difference‐in‐differences approach Journal of Regional Science (2021), doi: 10.1111/jors.12536
• (with Timo Mitze, Reinhold Kosfeld and Johannes Rode) Face Masks Considerably Reduce Covid‐19 Cases in Germany. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), December 3, 2020
• (with Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion and Bodo Plachter) Projecting the spread of COVID-19 for Germany, German Economic Review 21 (2020): 181–216

• (with Christian Bayer and Alan D. Rendall)  The Invariant Distribution of Wealth and Employment Status in a Small Open Economy with Precautionary Savings, Journal of Mathematical Economics 85 (2019): 17-37
• (with Agnes Moors) Current Emotion Research in Economics. Invited survey paper for Emotion Review 9 (2017): 271-278
• (with Andrey Launov) The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency. European Economic Review 84 (2016): 140-164

• (with Andrey Launov) Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits International Economic Review 54 (2013): 1159-1198

• (with Alejandro Donado) How Trade Unions Increase Welfare. Economic Journal 122 No. 563 (2012): 990 - 1009

• (with Pia Weiß) International Competition, Downsizing and Wage Inequality. Journal of International Economics 73 (2007): 396 - 406. Complete discussion paper version with appendix

• (with Martin Bossmann and Christian Kleiber) Bequests, Taxation and the Distribution of Wealth in a General Equilibrium Model. Journal of Public Economics 91 (2007): 1247-1271. Final version with appendix

• Endogenous Growth Cycles. International Economic Review 46 (2005): 867 - 894. The appendix is here

• (with Paul Tang) International competition, growth and welfare. European Economic Review 45 (2001): 1439-1459. The appendix is here

• (with Cecilia García-Peñalosa) Efficiency and Equity Effects of Subsidies to Higher Education. Oxford Economic Papers 52, 4 (2000): 702-722.

• A Model of Creative Destruction with Undiversifiable Risk and Optimising Households. Economic Journal 109 No. 454 (1999): C156 - C171.

• Optimal Saving under Poisson Uncertainty. Journal of Economic Theory 87, (1999): 194-217

Other papers

• (with Thomas Rothe) Where Did All the Unemployed Go? Non-standard work in Germany after the Hartz reforms

• (with Christian Bayer) The Dynamics of Distributions in Continuous-Time Stochastic Models, 2015

• (with Christian Bayer) Matching and Saving in Continuous Time: Theory (long version), 2009