Research interests: Macroeconomics, Labor economics,  Structural Change and growth

Current research

• The Effects of Biased Labor Market Expectations on Consumption, Wealth Inequality, and Welfare (with Almut Balleer, Susanne Forstner, and Johannes Goensch), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, R&R. (Slides)

• Biased Expectations and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from German Survey Data and Implications for the East-West Wage Gap (with Almut Balleer, Susanne Forstner, and Johannes Goensch). CEPR Discussion Paper 18005

• Wage Bargaining and Labor Market Policy with Biased Expectations (with Almut Balleer, Susanne Forstner, and Johannes Goensch). CEPR Discussion Paper No. 18019.

• Structural Transformation, Firm Dynamics and Labor Market Policies

• Informational Frictions and the Life-Cycle Dynamics of Job Mobility. Journal of Labor Economics, R&R

Selected publications

• Structural Change within the Services Sector and the Future of Cost Disease (with Berthold Herrendorf and Akos Valentinyi), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22(1), 428–473.  Working paper. 

• Structural Change and Productivity Growth in the EU - Past, Present and Future, (with Miguel Sanchez-Martinez), European Economic Review, 2023, Volume 151. Working paper version. 

• Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment (with Berthold Herrendorf), Economica, 2022, 89, 789-814. 

• Trade Openness and Growth: A Network-Based Approach (with Moritz Meyer and Fernando Vega-Redondo). Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37( 6), 1182– 1203. Replication Files / Globalization Index Data

• The Productivity Growth Slowdown and Kaldor's Growth Facts (with Berthold Herrendorf and Akos Valentinyi), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021, Volume 130. Working paper version.

• Social Networks and the Process of Globalization (with Fernando Vega-Redondo). Review of Economic Studies, 2018, 85(3), 1716-1751

• Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production around the World (with Benjamin Bridgman and Berthold Herrendorf). Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 133, 102-126.

• On the Allocation of Time – A Quantitative Analysis of the Role of Taxes and Productivities (with Berthold Herrendorf). European Economic Review, 102, 2018, 169-187.

• Technology adoption, turbulence and the dynamics of unemployment. Journal of the European Economic Association 12, June 2014, 724 - 754.