Research
Working Papers
Firm Exports, Foreign Ownership, and the Global Financial Crisis (with Marcel Smolka), 2023. Update of CESifo Working Paper 8808. Revise & resubmit IMF Economic Review. Bibtex.
Decoupling Global Value Chains (with Gabriel Felbermayr, Oliver Krebs, and Bohdan Kukharskyy), 2023. Update of CESifo Working Paper 9079. Supersedes 'Covid-19 Shocking Global Value Chains', 2020. Bibtex.
See my presentation at the ETOS. Featured in VoxEU (English), FAZ and Oekonomenstimme (German), and Atlantico (French).
Journal Publications
Optimal Ownership and Firm Performance: An Analysis of China's FDI Liberalization (with Hong Ma), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming. Final version, also available as CESifo Working Paper 10551. Replication files (incl. FDI policy data). Bibtex.
External Financial Dependence and Firms' Crisis Performance Across Europe (with Katja Neugebauer), Empirical Economics 62: 887–904, 2022. Replication files (incl. EFD measures). Bibtex.
Contracting Institutions and Firm Integration Around the World (with Bohdan Kukharskyy), European Economic Review 137: 103815, 2021 . Online Appendix. Final version. Longer working paper version. Replication files. Bibtex.
Service Offshoring and Firm Employment, Journal of International Economics 117: 209-228, 2019. Online Appendix. Replication files. Bibtex.
Supersedes 'Exploiting the Potential for Services Offshoring: Evidence from German Firms', IAW Discussion Paper 108, 2014.
For a summary (in German), see Oekonomenstimme.
The Great Trade Collapse and the Spanish Export Miracle: Firm-level Evidence from the Crisis (with Nicole Meythaler, Marc-Manuel Sindlinger, and Marcel Smolka), The World Economy 41(2): 457-493, 2018. Bibtex.
Also available as University of Tübingen Working Paper 93, 2017.
See the media coverage at ABC.es, El Confidencial, elEconomista.es, and La Vanguardia among others.
Did Globalization Influence Credit Market Deregulation? (with Niklas Potrafke), The World Economy 39(3): 426–443, 2016. Bibtex.
Also available as CESifo Working Paper 5374, 2015. For a summary (in German), see ifo Schnelldienst, 12/2015.
Bilateral Trade and Similarity of Income Distributions: The Role of Second Moments (with Gabriel Felbermayr), Economics Letters 126: 159–162, 2015. Bibtex.
Also available as Ifo Working Paper 184, July 2014. Online Appendix.
Book Publication
Essays in International Trade and Global Production, Dissertation, Tübingen, 2018.
Awarded the Roman Herzog Forschungspreis Soziale Marktwirtschaft 2019 (first prize) and the RWT Dissertation prize for the best dissertation of the year at the School of Business and Economics at the University of Tübingen.
Work in Progress (selected)
Shock Transmission in Multinational Firm Networks (with Bohdan Kukharskyy).
Slice to Protect (with Bohdan Kukharskyy, Alireza Naghavi, and Gianmarco Ottaviano).
Offshoring Goods and Services (with Ferdinand Ammon, Dominik Boddin, and Anna Gumpert).
Globalization and Digitalization Transforming the Labor Market (with Ferdinand Ammon, Manfred Antoni, Dominik Boddin, and Anna Gumpert).
Financing Service Trade (with Marcus Biermann and Karol Paludkiewicz).