Professor of Economics and Management, University of Cologne
Co-Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association
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Methods Reviews
Methods Reviews
The Social Desirability Atlas (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Ingar Haaland and Nicolas Röver)
Recent Advances in Studies of News Consumption (with Francesco Capozza, Ingar Haaland, and Johannes Wohlfart)
Understanding Economic Behavior Using Open-ended Survey Data (with Ingar Haaland, Stefanie Stantcheva and Johannes Wohlfart), Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming
Designing Information Provision Experiments (with Ingar Haaland and Johannes Wohlfart), Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61(1), 3–40.
Working Papers
Working Papers
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel and Rafael Jiménez-Durán) Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review
Attention to the Macroeconomy (with Sebastian Link, Andreas Peichl, Oliver Pfäuti and Johannes Wohlfart) Revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Non-User Utility and Market Power: The Case of Smartphones (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard and Filip Milojević)
Measuring Markets for Network Goods (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Matthew Gentzkow, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard and Filip Milojević)
Coarse Categories in a Complex World (with Thomas Graeber and Marco Sammon)
Explanations (with Thomas Graeber and Constantin Schesch)
Lost in Transmission (with Thomas Graeber and Shakked Noy)
The Effects of Monetary Policy: Theory with Measured Expectations (with Mirko Wiederholt and Johannes Wohlfart) [Online Appendix]
Depression Stigma (with Peter Schwardmann and Egon Tripodi)
Main Publications in Economics
Main Publications in Economics
Narratives about the Macroeconomy (with Peter Andre, Ingar Haaland, Mirko Wiederholt and Johannes Wohlfart) Accepted, Review of Economic Studies. [instructions]
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence From a Field Experiment (with Felix Chopra and Johannes Wohlfart), American Economic Review. 2025, 115 (7): 2267–2305.
Voice and Political Engagement: Evidence From a Field Experiment (with Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel and Andreas Stegmann), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025.
Misperceived Effectiveness and the Demand for Psychotherapy (with Peter Schwardmann and Egon Tripodi), Journal of Public Economics, 2024, Vol. 240, 105254.
Stories, Statistics, and Memory (with Thomas Graeber and Florian Zimmermann) [Instructions], Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024, Vol 139 (4), pp. 2181–2225.
The Demand for News: Accuracy Concerns versus Belief Confirmation Motives (with Felix Chopra and Ingar Haaland) [slides] [instructions], The Economic Journal, 2024, Vol. 134(661), pp. 1806-1834
Worker Beliefs about Outside Options (with Simon Jäger, Nina Roussille and Benjamin Schoefer). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024, Vol 139 (3), pp. 1505–1556.
Uncertainty and Information Acquisition: Evidence from Firms and Households (with Heiner Mikosch, Samad Sarferaz and Johannes Wohlfart). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, Vol. 16(2), pp. 375-405.
The Null Result Penalty (with Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland and Andreas Stegmann) [slides], The Economic Journal, 2024, Vol. 134 (657), 193-219.
Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity (with Manuel Bagues), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3): 322-50.
Justifying Dissent (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, Ingar Haaland and Aakaash Rao), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138(3), 1403-1453.
Opinions as Facts (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, David Yanagizawa-Drott), Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90(4), p.p. 1832–1864.
Political Activists as Free-Riders: Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment (with Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel and Johannes Hermle), The Economic Journal, 2023, Vol. 133 (653), 2068-2084.
Information Frictions Among Firms and Households (with Sebastian Link, Andreas Peichl and Johannes Wohlfart), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023, 135, p.p. 99-115.
Beliefs about Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies (with Ingar Haaland), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105(1): p.p. 40–53.
Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy: Evidence From Experts and Representative Samples (with Peter Andre, Carlo Pizzinelli and Johannes Wohlfart), Review of Economic Studies, 2022, Vol. 89(6), pp. 2958–2991.
Risk Exposure and Acquisition of Macroeconomic Information (with Sonja Settele and Johannes Wohlfart), American Economic Review: Insights, 2022, 4(1): 34–53.
Do People Demand Fact-Checked News? Evidence From U.S. Democrats (with Felix Chopra and Ingar Haaland), Journal of Public Economics, 2022, Vol. 205, 104549.
Beliefs about Public Debt and the Demand for Government Spending (with Sonja Settele and Johannes Wohlfart), Journal of Econometrics, 2022. Vol. 231(1), pp. 165-187
Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety (with Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel and Johannes Hermle), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (5): 968–978.
Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration (with Ingar Haaland) [Instructions], Journal of Public Economics, 2020, Vol. 191, 104256
How Do Expectations About the Macroeconomy Affect Personal Expectations and Behavior? (with Johannes Wohlfart), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(4)
Income Shocks and Suicides: Causal Evidence From Indonesia (with Cornelius Christian and Lukas Hensel), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101(5), pp. 905–920
Experienced Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution (with Johannes Wohlfart), Journal of Public Economics, 2018, Vol. 167, pp. 251-262.
Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand (with Jon de Quidt and Johannes Haushofer), American Economic Review, 2018, Vol. 108 (11), pp. 3266-3302.
Publications in Other Social Sciences
Publications in Other Social Sciences
Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments (with Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel, and Johannes Hermle). 2024. Accepted. British Journal of Political Science.
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements (with Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel and Johannes Hermle), American Political Science Review, 2022, Vol. 116 (3), pp. 1051-1066
Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? (with Alexis Grigorieff and Diego Ubfal), Demography, 2020, 57, 1117-1143.
Does Party Competition Affect Political Activism? (with Anselm Hager, Lukas Hensel and Johannes Hermle), The Journal of Politics, 2021 , 83(4), 1681-1694.
Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic (joint with Lukas Hensel , Thiemo Fetzer, Marc Witte, Jon Jachimowicz, Johannes Haushofer, Andriy Ivchenko, Stefano Caria, Elena Reutskaja, Stefano Fiorin, Margarita Gómez, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Friedrich Götz, Erez Yoeli), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 193, 473 - 496.
Other Publications
Other Publications
Information Experiments (with Ingar Haaland, Julian König and Johannes Wohlfart), Prepared for the Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science
Scapegoating During Crises (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, Ingar Haaland and Aakaash Rao). AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2022, Vol. 112, pp. 151-55
Makroökonomische Erwartungen und ihre Rolle in wirtschaftlichen Entscheidungen von Haushalten (with Johannes Wohlfart). Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 20 (2), 159-166
Policy Articles
Policy Articles
Lost in Transmission (with Thomas Graeber and Shakked Noy). VoxEU Column. March 2024.
Product Market Traps: The Case of Social Media (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel and Rafael Jiménez-Durán). VoxEU Column. November 2023.
Stories, Statistics, and Memory (with Thomas Graeber and Florian Zimmermann). VoxEU Column. February 2023.
The Null Result Penalty (with Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland and Andreas Stegmann). VoxEU Column. July 2022.
Rationales and Social Cover (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, Ingar Haaland and Aakaash Rao). VoxEU Column. March 2022.
Inflation Narratives (with Peter Andre, Ingar Haaland and Johannes Wohlfart). VoxEU Column. December 2021.
Interregional Contact and National Identity (with Manuel Bagues). VoxEU Column. January 2021.
Excuses for Prejudice (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Ingar Haaland and Aakaash Rao). VoxEU Column. July 2020.
Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic Anxiety (with Thiemo Fetzer, Lukas Hensel and Johannes Hermle). VoxEU Column. March 2020.
Information changes attitudes towards immigrants (with Alexis Grigorieff and Diego Ubfal). VoxEU Column. March 2017.
Resources
Resources
EconGradAdvice (with David Schindler)
Meditation and the Choice of Frames
Practical Advice on Meditation
Slides on Advice for PhD Students (with David Schindler)
NBER Behavioral Macro Bootcamp 2024: Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Syllabus.
Course materials for a PhD course on Subjective Beliefs, Attention and Economic Behavior in Copenhagen in 2023 (organized with Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland, Sonja Settele, and Johannes Wohlfart)
Course materials for a PhD course on Subjective Beliefs in Macroeconomics and Household Finance which took place on April 19-23 2021 (organized with Johannes Wohlfart )
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