Working papers and work in progress

Gentrification and affordable housing policies (with Niklas Gohl), CESifo Working Paper No. 9454 and CEPA Discussion Papers (39), 2021, revise and resubmit, European Economic Review 

Urban Pollution: A Global Perspective (with Philipp Schrauth), CESifo Working paper No. 10171, revise and resubmit, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 

Property tax competition: A quantitative assessment (with Jun Oshiro and Yasuhiro Sato),  CIRJE Discussion Papers F-1199, 2022, revise and resubmit, Journal of Urban Economics 

Energy and transport policies and pollution in two developing country cities (with Peter Mulder), revise and resubmit, Journal of Development Economics  

Populism: The urban-rural divide (with Robert Gold and Moritz Meister), work in progress

Is work from home good for the environment? (with Matthias Kalkuhl and Kai Lessmann), work in progress

Otimal city system with endogenous fertility (with Tadashi Morita and Yasuhiro Sato), work in progress

The Environmental Impact of Working From Home (with Martin Jégard, Efthymia Kyriakopoulou and Pierre Picard), work in progress

Spatial political sorting (with Marcel Henkel), work in progress

Selected publications

Population density and urban air quality, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021 (with Philipp Schrauth)

Pollution and city size: can cities be too small?, Journal of Economic Geography, 2019 (with Takatoshi Tabuchi)

Optimal energy taxation in cities, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 5, 481–516, 2018 (with Jan Brueckner)

Green cities: Urbanization, trade and the environment, Journal of Regional Science, 2019 (with Michael Pflüger)

Public transport and urban pollution, Regional Science and Urban Economics 77, 356-366, 2019

Adieu Rabenmutter - culture, fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare, Journal of Population Economics 27, 739 – 765, 2014

Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition, International Economic Review 53, 2012 (with Hyun-Ju Koh and Michael Pflüger)

Agglomeration and tax competition, European Economic Review, 50, 647–668, 2006 (with Michael Pflüger)

Political economy of commuting subsidies, Journal of Urban Economics, 57, 478–499, 2005 (with Matthias Wrede)

Other publications, blog posts etc.

Energy Policies, Agglomeration and PollutionHandbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer 

Steigende Mieten? – Gentrifizierung in deutschen Großstädten und die Suche nach bezahlbarem Wohnraum, Ökonomenstimme, 21 April 2022 ( in German, with Niklas Gohl)