Micro-geographic property price and rent indices, Forthcoming Regional Science and Urban Economics (with G. Ahlfeldt and T. Seidel).
The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters, Economic Journal, 132(641), 199-217 (with Christian Dippel, Robert Gold, and Rodrigo Pinto).
East Side Story: Historic Pollution and Neighborhood Segregation, Journal of Political Economy, 129(5), 1508-1552 (with A. Trew and Y. Zylberberg).
[Freakonomics] [econimate] [TED Talk featuring the paper] [Guardian] [Cheddar] [The Economist]
Market Tremors: Shale Gas, Earthquakes, and Their Impact on House Prices, Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming (with S. Gibbons and C. Timmins).
The Impact of Public Employment? Evidence from Bonn, Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming (with S. Becker and D. Sturm) [Appendix].
History and Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics , forthcoming in a Special Issue on History and Urban Economics (with W. Hanlon).
Leadership and Social Norms: Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the Civil War, American Economic Review, 111(2), 2021, 472–505 (with C. Dippel) .
The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(4), 2020, 2059–2133 (with S. Redding and D. Sturm).
[pdf] [Appendix] [Vox Eu] [Vox Talks] [CEP]
ivmediate: Causal mediation analysis in instrumental variables regressions, STATA Journal, 20(3), 2020, 613-626 (with C. Dippel and A. Ferrara).
https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867X20953572 [paper][code]
Banking and Industrialization, Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(6), 2019, 1753–1796 (with A. Trew).
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvy037
Music in the Air. Estimating the Social Return to Cultural Amenities, Journal of Cultural Economics , 42(3), 2018, 365–391 (with O. Falck, M. Fritsch and A. Otto).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-017-9310-4
Lifting the Iron Curtain: How Systemic Shock Brings up Entrepreneurial Intentions, Journal of Economic Geography, 17(5), 2017, 1111–1148 (with O. Falck and R. Gold).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbw026
The effect of perceived regional accents on individual economic behavior: A lab experiment on linguistic performance, cognitive ratings and economic decisions, PLoS ONE, 10(2), 2015 (with A. Lameli and G. Riener).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113475
E-lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet, American Economic Review, 104(7), 2014, 1–29 (with O. Falck, and R. Gold).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.7.1
Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 98, 2014, 56-69 (with S. Bauernschuster, O. Falck, and J. Suedekum, and A. Lameli).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2013.12.011
Parent universities and the location of academic startups, Small Business Economics, 42(1), 2014, 1–15 (with V. Slavtchev).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11187-013-9470-3
From Russia With Love. Identifying Agglomeration Economies, Journal of Economic Geography, 13, 2013, 419–449 (with O. Falck, C. Günther, and W. Kerr).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs035
Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange, Journal of Urban Economics, 72(2-3), 2012, 225–239 (with O. Falck, A. Lameli, and J. Südekum).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2012.05.007
The Shadows of the Socialist Past: Lack of Self-Reliance Hinders Entrepreneurship, European Journal of Political Economy, 28(4), 2012, Pages 485–497(with S. Bauernschuster, O. Falck, and R. Gold).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2012.05.008
Forced Migration and the Effects of an Integration Policy in Post-WWII Germany, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Topics, 12(1), 2012 (with O. Falck and S. Link).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/1935-1682.3171
Intergenerational Transmission of Entrepreneurial Intentions, Journal of Business Venturing, 27(4), 2012, 414–435 (with S. Laspita, N. Breugst, and H. Patzelt).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2011.11.006
Cluster Innovation Along the Industry Lifecycle, Industry and Innovation, 19, 2012, 233-248 (with A. Eisingerich, O. Falck, and T. Kretschmer).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2012.669619
Identity and Entrepreneurship: Do School Peers Shape Entrepreneurial Intentions? Small Business Economics, 39(1), 2012, 39-59 (with O. Falck and E. Luedemann).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11187-010-9292-5
Local Entrepreneurship in Context, Regional Studies, 46(3), 2012, 379-389 (with D. Audretsch, O. Falck, and M. Feldman).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2010.490209
The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth, Labor Economics, 18(6), 2011, 755–766 (with O. Falck and M. Fritsch).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2011.06.004
Who’s Got the Aces Up His Sleeve? Functional Specialization of Cities and Entrepreneurship, Annals of Regional Science, 46(3), 2011, 621-636 (with D. Audretsch and O. Falck).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00168-009-0353-0
Incumbent Innovation and Domestic Entry, Small Business Economics, 36(3), 2011, 271–279 (with O. Falck and S. Kipar).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9219-1
Social Capital Access and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 76(3), 2010, 821–833 (with S. Bauernschuster, and O. Falck).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2010.09.014
Industrial Innovation: Direct Evidence from a Cluster-Oriented Policy, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40(6), 2010, 574-582 (with O. Falck, and S. Kipar).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2010.03.007
Training and Innovation, Journal of Human Capital, 3(4), 2009, 323-353 (with S. Bauernschuster and O. Falck).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/653713
The Impact of Age Structure on Entrepreneurship, Economic Geography, 85(3), 2009, 268-287 (with W. Boente and O. Falck).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01032.x
Modern Location Factors in Dynamic Regions, European Planning Studies, 16, 2008, 1385-1403 (with O. Falck).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654310802420094
Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing Well by Doing Good, Business Horizons, 50(3), 2007, 247-254 (with O. Falck).