Welcome to my research page!

I am a Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Bremen and Research Fellow at SPEA, Indiana University, Bloomington. 

Since April 2022 I am also affiliated with the interdisciplinary Data Science Center (DSC) that merges data-driven research and data science at the University of Bremen.

Since May 2021 I am also affiliated with the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) that is one of Germany’s leading schools of doctoral training in the social sciences. 

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

Currently, I focus on the following topics:

• Data Economics

• Energy Transition and Growth

• Sustainability, Health and Climate Change and the Role of Fiscal Policy

• Computational Economics, esp. (boundly) rational dynamic programing techniques

• Housing Economics and the Role of Monetary Economics

• Economics of Innovation and Automation

• Economics of Inequality

NEWS:  

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

• New 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].

• New publication: Subsistence Consumption and Natural Resource Depletion: Can resource-rich low-income countries realize sustainable consumption paths? (with J. Antony) [Forthcoming, Journal of Macroeconomics].

• The long-term evolution of technological complexity and its relationship with economic growth (with T. Broekel and L. Mewes) [Status: Revise and Resubmit].

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

• 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.

• New working paper (with Tobias Hohn): Knowledge obsolescence, human capital inequality, and growth: A network perspective in an automated society. [Status: Under Review]. 

• New Book Chapter Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Big Data (2022), with David Karpa and Michael Rochlitz, forthcoming in Diginomics Research Perspectives: The Role of Digitalization in Business and Society, Springer Nature 

• Michael Rochlitz and I have received founding from Bremen IDEAS for our new research project entitled Digital Surveillance, Authoritarian Politics and Innovation

• Heterogeneous effects of ECB's unconventional monetary policy on regional housing markets: A structural investigation of the recent housing boom in Germany [former title: Is housing really local? The role of ECB’s unconventional monetary policy explaining the dynamics of the recent house price boom across German regions] . The current, revised version can be obtained from here. Additional results can be found here.

• Since May 2021 I am also affiliated with the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) that is one of Germany’s leading schools of doctoral training in the social sciences. Here I work on the following topics:

  • Digitization, Distribution and Population Aging

  • Health and Distribution

• Our Economics Letters aricle (joint with J. Antony) The implications of automation for economic growth when investment decisions are irreversible (with J. Antony) is mentioned several times in the new Book Automation and Its Macroeconomic Consequences written by Klaus Prettner & David Bloom. It is available here