Published and Forthcoming Full Research Papers

2025

• Why Working from Home Varies Across Countries and People, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forthcoming

(with Pablo Zarate, Steven J. Davis, Nicholas Bloom, Jose Maria Barrero and Cevat Giray Aksoy)

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Featured in VoxEU, The Economist

• Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Social Cohesion in Europe?, Journal of Comparative Economics (2025)

(with Cevat Giray Aksoy, Antonio Cabrales, Ruben Durante and Lisa Windsteiger)

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Featured in VoxEU

• The Global Persistence of Work from Home, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025)

(with Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis and Pablo Zarate)

• Reformen des Bürgergelds aus Sicht der Bevölkerung, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik (2025)

(with Sarah Necker, Andreas Peichl, Boyan Petkov and Lisa Windsteiger)

• Which Factors Affect Public Support for Economic Policies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment about Rent Control in Germany, Economica (2025)

(with Paul Schüle and Lisa Windsteiger)

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Featured in Die Presse, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

• Who Bears The Burden of Real Estate Transfer Taxes? Evidence from the German Housing Market, Journal of Urban Economics (2025)

(with Clemens Fuest, Carla Krolage and Florian Neumeier)

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Featured in Handelsblatt, Die Welt, Focus Online

2024

• An Unemployment Re-Insurance Scheme for the Eurozone? Stabilizing and Redistributive Effects, European Economic Review (2024)

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Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung, WirtschaftsWoche, Reuters, Spiegel, Die Presse

• Liveability in large housing estates in Germany - Identifying differences based on a novel concept for a walkable city, Landscape and Urban Planning (2024)

(with Manuel Köberl, Michael Wurm, Ariane Droin, Oana Mihaela Garbasevschi and Hannes Taubenböck)

2023

• EU Cohesion Policy on the Ground: Analyzing Small-Scale Effects Using Satellite Data, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2023)

(with Julia Bachtrögler-Unger, Carla Krolage, Paul Schüle, Hannes Taubenböck and Matthias Weigand)

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Featured in Die Presse, Spiegel

• 'Earned, not Given?' The Effects of Lowering the Full Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions, Journal of Public Economics (2023)

(with Carla Krolage)

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Featured in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Welt, Focus Online

• Time Savings When Working from Home, AEA Papers and Proceedings (2023)

(with Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis and Pablo Zarate) 

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Featured in Bloomberg, Business Insider, Forbes, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Spiegel, Zeit Online, Tagesspiegel, VoxEU

2022

• Working from Home Around the World, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2022 Edition)

(with Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis and Pablo Zarate)

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Featured in The Economist, Bloomberg, EuroNews, New York Times, Observer, Helsinki Times, Deutsche Welle, Spiegel, N-TV, VoxEU, 2024 Economic Report of the President

• Reducing Sexual Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2022)

(with Cevat Giray Aksoy, Christopher Carpenter, Ralph De Haas and Lisa Windsteiger)

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Featured in VoxEU 

• Fiscal Consolidation and Automatic Stabilization: New Results, IMF Economic Review (2022)

(with Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl and Christian Wittneben)

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2021

• Attitudes towards Euro Area Reforms: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment, European Journal of Political Economy (2021)

(with Nils Wehrhöfer)

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2019

• Demographic Change and the European Income Distribution, Journal of Economic Inequality (2019)

(with Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, Hilmar Schneider and Eric Sommer)

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• Dynamic Scoring of Tax Reforms in the European Union, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2019)

(with Salvador Barrios, Anamaria Maftei, Andreas Peichl, Sara Riscado, János Varga and Christian Wittneben)

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Featured in The Wall Street Journal

2018

• Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?, Journal of Public Economics (2018)

(with Philipp Dörrenberg, Andreas Peichl and Holger Stichnoth)

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• An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data, International Tax and Public Finance (2018)

(with Clemens Fuest, Dirk Neumann and Andreas Peichl)

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Featured in Der Standard, treffpunkteuropa.de

2017

• Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change: A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries, International Tax and Public Finance (2017)

(with Karina Doorley, Alari Paulus, Hilmar Schneider, Sebastian Siegloch and Eric Sommer)

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2016

• Reconciling Insurance with Market Discipline: A Blueprint for a European Fiscal Union, CESifo Economic Studies (2016)

(with Clemens Fuest, Friedrich Heinemann and Andreas Peichl)

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2015

• German Public Finances through the Financial Crisis, Fiscal Studies (2015)

(with Maximilian Blömer, Clemens Fuest, Max Löffler and Andreas Peichl)

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• Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007, Economic Inquiry (2015)

(with Olivier Bargain, Herwig Immervoll, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Sebastian Siegloch)

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2014

• Tax-Benefit revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US, Annals of Economics and Statistics (2014)

(with Olivier Bargain, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch)

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• Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries when Labor Supply Responses Differ, International Tax and Public Finance (2014)

(with Olivier Bargain, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch)

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2013

• Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of a European Tax-Benefit System and Fiscal Equalisation Mechanism, Economic Policy (2013)

(with Olivier Bargain, Clemens Fuest, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel and Sebastian Siegloch)

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• Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US, Social Choice and Welfare (2013)

(with Olivier Bargain, Andre Decoster, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch)

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2012

• Automatic Stabilization and Discretionary Fiscal Policy in the Financial Crisis, IZA Journal of Labor Policy (2012)

(with Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl)

• Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe, Journal of Public Economics (2012)

(with Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl)

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Featured in VoxEU

2011

• Economic Crisis, Automatic Stabilization and Income Distribution, Research in Labor Economics (2011)

(with Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl)

2010

• Wie wirken die automatischen Stabilisatoren in der Wirtschaftskrise? Deutschland im Vergleich zu anderen  EU-Staaten und den USA, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik (2010) (with Clemens Fuest and Andreas Peichl)