Economist | Spatial Economics & AI Policy
Research Interests: Fiscal Federalism, Regional Policy, Political Economy, AI & Geography
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External Expert, OECD Economic Survey of Germany 2025
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Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy
(with Tobias Seidel and Jens Suedekum)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 13, Issue 4, 433-68, November 2021.
Featured in: Spiegel Online, VoxEU
(with Tobias Seidel)
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 57, Issue 1, 333-352, January 2019.
The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting
(with Eunjee Kwon and Pierre Magontier)
Status: Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
Featured in: Freakonomics Radio, VoxEU, nadaesgratis
[CRED Research Paper No. 37, 03/2023]
Spatial Policies and Heterogeneous Employment Responses
(with Fabian Bald)
Status: Under Review
[Berlin School of Economics Discussion Paper No. 63, 03/2025]
Institutional Path Dependence & Political Economy
Railway Towns and Path Dependence: Evidence from U.S. Land Grant Boundaries
(with Eric Strobl)
Endogenous Government Formation and Spatial Sorting
(with Pierre Magontier)
The Political Economy of Redistribution (1820-2010)
(with Pierre Magontier)
Financial Geography
Spatial Moral Hazard in Banking
Network GIV approach to identifying systemic risk transmission
The Geography of AI: How compute infrastructure reshapes spatial inequality
PhD Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen (summa cum laude)
University of Bern / CRED (2020-2025)
Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics (Organizer, 2022-2025)
25+ theses supervised | Teaching evaluations: 5.5/6.0