- Employment Stability, Earnings Dynamics, and Life-Cycle Savings with Leanne Nam and Gasper Ploj (July 2026)
supersedes older working paper available as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15460, IZA Discussion Paper No. 13887, CESIfo Working Paper No. 8710
- Distributional Dynamics with Christian Bayer and Luis Calderon (March 2026)
available as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19829
- Short-Time Work Extensions with Christina Brinkmann, Simon Jäger, Farzad Saidi, and Stefanie Wolter (December 2025)
Revision requested at the Journal of Political Economy
also available as NBER WP 33112, CEPR DP 19653, IZA DP. 17421
media mentioning of our work in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- To Have or Not to Have: Understanding Wealth Inequality with Pavel Brendler and Ulrike Steins (September 2025)
Revision requested at the Review of Economic Studies
available as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19412, OIGI Working Paper No. 98
a summary of the policy analysis from the paper is available as EIG policy essay
- Army of Mortgagors: Long-Run Evidence on Credit Externalities and the Housing Market with Tobias Herbst and Farzad Saidi (July 2024)
available as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 18942, OIGI Working Paper No. 87
- Female Employment and Structural Transformation with Iourii Manovskii and Xincheng Qiu (June 2024)
available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 17118
- Distributional Consequences of Climate Policies with Lennard Schlattmann (January 2024)
Revise and Resubmit American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
media mentioning of our work at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit
VoxEU column summarizing the paper
- Unemployment risk, portfolio choice, and the racial wealth gap with Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, and Moritz Schularick (October 2023)
available as OIGI working paper No. 086
- Intergenerational ties and case fatality rates: A cross-country analysis with Christian Bayer (March 2020)
available as CEPR discussion paper No. 16080
Media mentionings of our work at MDR, Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandfunk, N-TV, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Corriere Della Serra, La Repubblica, Neue Züricher Zeitung, El Pais, ProMarket
Older working papers
- What if? The Economic Effects for Germany of a Stop of Energy Imports from Russia with Rüdiger Bachmann, David Baqaee, Christian Bayer, Andreas Löschel, Benjamin Moll, Andreas Peichl, Karen Pittel, and Moritz Schularick (March 2022)
ECONtribute Policy Brief No. 028, EconPol Policy Report No. 36
Media mentionings of our work at Handelsblatt, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Spiegel
- The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures with Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Michèle Tertilt (June 2020)
available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 13353, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 14882, CESifo Working Paper No. 8368, ECONtribute Discussion Paper No. 002
Media mentionings of our work at Handelsblatt, Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, Generalanzeiger Bonn, Westdeutsche Zeitung, Die Rheinpfalz
- Etiopathology of Europe’s sick man Worker flows in Germany, 1959 - 2016 with Benjamin Hartung and Philip Jung (September 2016)
available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 10341