Jonas Loebbing Econ AP @ LMU - Research

Jonas Loebbing Econ AP @ LMU

Working Papers

"Automation and Polarization," with Daron Acemoglu, 2025, Accepted, Journal of Political Economy.

Low-pay jobs have been shielded from automation to some extent in the past because wages were low, but future automation threatens these jobs as well.

"Redistributive Income Taxation with Directed Technical Change," 2022.

Progressive income tax reforms can reduce inequality in pre-tax wages through directed technical change effects.
Awarded the Musgrave Prize at the IIPF conference in 2019 and the Reinhard Selten Award at the VfS conference in 2020.

"Inefficiency and Regulation in Credence Goods Markets with Altruistic Experts," with Razi Farukh and Anna Kerkhof, 2020.

Entry restrictions can yield Pareto gains on markets for credence goods when experts have an empirically plausible form of social preferences.

Publications

"An Elementary Theory of Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality," 2022, Review of Economic Studies, 89(1), pp. 411-451.

Early version (2016) with explicit formulation of the LeChatelier Principle for relative demand implied by the paper: "A LeChatelier Principle for Relative Demand and Implications for Directed Technical Change".

"Everything is Different in the 2000s? The Decreasing Importance of Sectoral Structural Change for the Fall of Labour Shares in Germany," with Alexander Herzog-Stein and Ulrike Stein, German Review of Social Policy, 03/2016.

Policy Reports

"Foreign Trade of the EU27 - A Regional and Sectoral Analysis," with Sabine Stephan, IMK Report Nr. 83e, 2013.

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