Professor of Economics
International Macroecononomics and Finance
School of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen
Contact: gernot.mueller<at>uni-tuebingen.de
CV: pdf
Research: Google Scholar | IDEAS/RePEc
Current research/working papers
Firm Expectations and News: Micro v Macro, with Benjamin Born, Zeno Enders, Manuel Menkhoff, and Knut Niemann, September 2024, Earlier version: CEPR Discussion paper 17768, see also VoxEU
The Price of War, with Jonathan Federle, André Meier, Willi Mutschler, and Moritz Schularick, September 2024, earlier version: CEPR Discussion paper 18834 and Price of War Calculator; Kiel Policy Brief
Distorted Prices and Targeted Taxes in the New Keynesian Network Model with Anastasiia Antonova, September 2024, CEPR Discussion paper 19444
Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Disaggregated Economies, with Lydia Cox, Jiacheng Feng, Ernesto Pasten, Raphael Schoenle, and Michael Weber, August 2024, CEPR Discussion paper 19340
Financial repression in general equilibrium: The case of the United States, 1948--1974, with Martin Kliem, Alexander Kriwoluzky, and Alexander Scheer, March 2024, CEPR Discussion paper 18944, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, revise and resubmit
Exchange Rate Insulation Revisited, with Giancarlo Corsetti, Keith Kuester, and Sebastian Schmidt, December 2023, Earlier versions: ECB Working paper 2630 and CEPR Discussion paper 15689, summary on VoxEU, Review of Economic Studies, revise and resubmit
Hicks in HANK: Fiscal Responses to an Energy Shock, with Christian Bayer, Alexander Kriwoluzky, and Fabian Seyrich, October 2023, CEPR Discussion paper 18557, Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, revise and resubmit
Dollar Trinity and the Global Financial Cycle, with Georgios Georgiadis and Ben Schumann, August 2023, CEPR Discussion paper DP18427
Uncertainty Shocks in Currency Unions, with Benjamin Born and Johannes Pfeifer, CEPR Discussion paper 15579, December 2020
Different no more: Country spreads in advanced and emerging economies, with Benjamin Born, Johannes Pfeifer, and Susanne Wellmann, May 2020, summary on VoxEU
Recently published or forthcoming
On FIRE, news, and expectations, with Benjamin Born and Zeno Enders, June 2023, prepared for the forthcoming Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective, Routledge.
Big News: Climate-Disaster Expectations and the Business Cycle, with Alexander Dietrich and Raphael Schoenle, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 227, November 2024, doi
Proximity to War: The stock market response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Jonathan Federle, André Meier and Victor Sehn, summary on VoxEU, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, October 2024
Pandemics, Public Policy and Peltzman Effects, with Alexander Dietrich and Wilhelm Kohler, Economic Theory, October 2024, summary on VoxEU
Big G, with Lydia Cox, Ernesto Pasten, Raphael Schoenle, and Michael Weber, Journal of Political Economy, 132(10), October 2024, doi, data sources and paper with online appedix
A HANK^2 model of monetary unions, with Christian Bayer, Alexander Kriwoluzky, and Fabian Seyrich, Journal of Monetary Economics 147, October 2024, Online Appendix
Delayed Overshooting: The Case for Information Rigidities, with Martin Wolf and Thomas Hettig, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 16(3), July 2024, doi
Mr. Keynes meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate, with Benjamin Born, Francesco D'Ascanio, and Johannes Pfeifer, Journal of Political Economy 132(5), May 2024, doi
Global Risk and the Dollar, with Georgios Georgiadis and Ben Schumann, Journal of Monetary Economics, 144, May 2024
Risk Sharing in Currency Unions: The Migration Channel, with Wilhelm Kohler and Susanne Wellmann, European Economic Review 158, September 2023, summary on VoxEU, doi
The Coronavirus stimulus package: How large is the transfer multiplier?, with Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, and Ralph Luetticke, The Economic Journal, 133(652), May 2023, summary on VoxEU, doi
Firm expectations about production and prices: Facts, determinants, and effects, with Benjamin Born, Zeno Enders, and Knut Niemann, 2023, Chapter 12 of the Handbook of Economic Expectations, Elsevier, edited by Rüdiger Bachmann, Giorgio Topa, and Wilbert van der Klaauw, pages 355-383, doi
Firm expectations and economic activity, with Zeno Enders and Franziska Hünnekes, December 2022, Journal of the European Economic Association, 20(6) , doi
News and uncertainty about COVID-19: Survey evidence and short-run economic impact, with Alexander Dietrich, Keith Kuester, and Raphael Schoenle, Journal of Monetary Economics 129, July 2022, summary on VoxEU, doi
Is large-scale rapid CoV-2 testing a substitute for lockdowns? with Marc Diederichs, René Glawion, Peter Kremsner, Timo Mitze, Dominik Papies, Felix Schulz, and Klaus Wälde, PLoS ONE 17(3): e0265207, March 2022, doi
Growth Expectations, Undue Optimism, and Short-run Fluctuations, with Zeno Enders and Michael Kleemann, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 103 (5): 905–921, December 2021, doi
The macroeconomic impact of Trump, with Benjamin Born, Moritz Schularick and Petr Sedláček, Policy Studies, 42:5-6, 580-591, April 2021, earlier version: CEPR Discussion paper 13798, summary on VoxEU, doi
The Lockdown Effect: A Counterfactual for Sweden, with Benjamin Born and Alexander Dietrich, PLoS ONE 16(4): e0249732, April 2021, a short lecture (in German) explaining the study, doi
Does Austerity Pay Off?, with Benjamin Born and Johannes Pfeifer, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(2), May 2020, doi, Summary on VoxEU.org, Summary in German on Oekonomenstimme.org, replication files
Monetary Policy Announcements and Expectations: Evidence from German Firms, with Zeno Enders and Franziska Hünnekes, Journal of Monetay Economics, 108, 45-63, December 2019, doi
Exit expectations and debt crises in currency unions, with Alexander Kriwoluzky and Martin Wolf, Online Appendix, Journal of International Economics, 121, November 2019, doi
The Costs of Economic Nationalism: Evidence from the Brexit Experiment, with Benjamin Born, Petr Sedláček, and Moritz Schularick, The Economic Journal 129(10), October 2019, doi, summary on VoxEU
Fiscal policy coordination in currency unions at the effective lower bound, with Thomas Hettig, Journal of International Economics 115, November 2018, 80-98, doi
Fixed on flexible: Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes after the Great Recession, with Giancarlo Corsetti and Keith Kuester, IMF Economic Review 65(3), 586-632, August 2017, see Summary on VoxEU.org
Deleveraging, deflation and depreciation in the euro area, with Dmitry Kuvshinov and Martin Wolf, European Economic Review 88, 42-66, September 2016