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Having received the PhD from LSE's Economic History Department, I currently work at Humboldt's Economics Department. My research fields are international economics, economic history, political economy, and urban/regional economics. Most of my research asks how political decision-making and economic factors affect outcomes with respect to inequality, public finance, or the organization of cities.
My doctoral dissertation "Trade Frictions, Trade Policies, and the Interwar Business Cycle" has been awarded the Gino Luzzatto Prize by the European Historical Economics Society for the best dissertation in Economic History submitted between June 2017 and June 2019. My dissertation was also finalist for the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize by the Economic History Association.
My mostly empirical research focuses on economic change in both, the short-run and long-run.
You can find my cv here.
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I am now WID fellow. WID is the World Inequality Database - a fantastic international team effort to boost our knowledge about the evolution of inequality.
Recently accepted working papers
Selective default expectations (with Olivier Accominotti and Kim Oosterlinck ) [Acepted at Review of Financial Studies]
Sovereign defaults and international trade: Germany and its creditors in the 1930s (with Olivier Accominotti and Kim Oosterlinck ) [Accepted at Journal of Historical Political Economy]
Current R&Rs
Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018 (with Charlotte Bartels and Moritz Schularick) [R&R at Journal of the European Economic Association]
Recently published book chapters:
Inequality and its drivers in Germany, 1840-1914 (with Charlotte Bartels), in Ulrich Pfister and Nikolaus Wolf (eds.): An economic history of the first German unification: state formation and economic development in a European perspective, London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 236-254.
New working papers
Industrialization, returns, inequality (with Felix Kersting and Timo Stieglitz)
A granular spatial model (with Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Kris Behrens)
Income misperception and populism (with Felix Kersting and Fabian Kosse )