Welcome to my research page!

Iam Professor of Applied Macroeconomics at the University of Bremen and a Research Fellow at SPEA, Indiana University Bloomington, and DIW, Berlin. I am also affiliated with Socium and the Data Science Center (DSC), which brings together data-driven research and data science at the University of Bremen. 

My main research fields are quantitative applied Macroeconomics and Regional Economics.

Currently, I focus on the following topics:

• Data Economics, AI and Automation

• Energy Transition, Climate Change and Growth

• Development Economics

NEWS:  

• New publication: The paper Creative class dynamics, technological evolution and growth has been accepted at Economica. The online Appendix can be accessed here.

• New: Replication of  Cong, L. W., Xie, D., and Zhang, L. (2021). Knowledge accumulation, privacy, and growth in a data economy. Management Science, 67(10):6480–6492 can found here

• New! Revised paper: From Heatwaves to Cold Spells: HowExtreme Temperature Events Shape Inflation in Germany (with M. Grimm) can be accessed here.  Old slides are available here. New slides will be available soon!

• Exiting News! Newly founded project within the DFG-supported  Collaborative Research Center (CRC) "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" in a third phase.  Looking forward working on "Causal Impacts of Pension Reforms on Socio-Economic and Political Outcomes". 

• New publication:  Knowledge obsolescence, human capital inequality, and growth: A network perspective in an automated society (2025)

• The program for this summer semester's economic research colloquium is now online. Further information can be found here.

• New publication:  Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital (2025)

• New publication: The long-term evolution of technological complexity and its relationship with economic growth (2025)

• Working paper: Authoritarian Surveillance, Innovation and Growth (with D. Karpa, M.E. Leusin and M. Rochlitz). The paper can be accessed here.   [Status: Under Review].

• Heterogeneous effects of ECB's unconventional monetary policy on regional housing markets: A structural investigation of the recent housing boom in Germany (with M. Flor). [Status: Revise and Resubmit]. The current, revised version can be obtained from here. Additional results can be found here.

• Our new working paper Green Technologies and Growth: Evidence from European Regions (with P. Kerner and T. Wendler) can be accessed  here. [Status: Reject and Resubmit].

• The R code and calibration data for the paper Povery and sustainable development around the world during transistion periods are available upon request from the authors.