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FIELDS OF INTEREST

Macroeconomics / Labor economics / Structural change / Economic growth

WORKING PAPERS

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

• 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

• The Effects of Biased Labor Market Expectations on Consumption, Wealth Inequality, and Welfare (with Almut Balleer, Susanne Forstner, and Johannes Goensch). CEPR Discussion Paper 16444.  American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, R&R. (Slides)

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

PUBLISHED WORK

• 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. VOX Column  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. Video about the paper: click here

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

• 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. VOX Column

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

• "Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth" (with Martin Zagler). Journal of Economic Surveys, 17, 2003, 397–418.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Structural Transformation, Firm Dynamics and Labor Market Policies

• R&D, growth and structural change

[with Miguel Sanchez-Martinez