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Working papers and work in progress

Gentrification and Affordable Housing Policies (with Niklas Gohl and Oliver Krebs), revised version of CESifo Working Paper No. 9454, conditionally accepted, European Economic Review

Is work from home good for the environment? (with Matthias Kalkuhl and Kai Lessmann), CESifo working paper, November 2025

Otimal city size with endogenous fertility (with Tadashi Morita and Yasuhiro Sato), CESifo working paper, April 2026

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

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

Spatial political sorting, work in progress

On the environmental and welfare effects of compact cities (with Carl Gaigné and Jacques Thisse), work in progress

Selected publications

Property tax competition: A quantitative assessment (with Jun Oshiro and Yasuhiro Sato), Journal of Urban Economics, 2026

Energy and transport policies and pollution in two developing country cities, Journal of Development Economics , 2024 (with Peter Mulder)

Urban Pollution: A Global Perspective, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024 (with Philipp Schrauth)

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.

Ist Homeoffice gut für die Umwelt? (with Matthias Kalkuhl and Kai Lessmann), guest article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26 January 2026 (in German)

Energy Policies, Agglomeration and Pollution, Handbook 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)