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I am a professor of Macroeconomics at Leipzig University.
Further affiliations: CESifo Research Network, DFG Graduate School ECO-N, IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research
Latest
Working Paper: Economic Growth and Climate Change: Many Trajectories, Many Destinations, CESifo Working Paper No. 11053, April 2024 (with Timo Trimborn) // Slides
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Selected Publications
Das House Kapital: A Long-Run Theory of House Prices and Housing Wealth, forthcoming: Journal of the European Economic Association. (with Volker Grossmann & Benjamin Larin)
Distributional Consequences of Surging Housing Rents, Journal of Economic Theory, 2021, Vol. 196. (with Volker Grossmann, Benjamin Larin & Hans Torben Loefflad)
Working Paper
Reversal of Migration Flows: A Fresh Look at the German Reunification, Journal of International Economics, 2017, Vol. 109, 1-15. (with Benjamin Fuchs, Volker Grossmann & Andreas Schäfer)
Working Paper
No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870–2012, American Economic Review, 2017, Vol. 105 (2), 331-353. (with Katharina Knoll & Moritz Schularick)
Working Paper // Summary on VoxEU
Does Expansion of Higher Education Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?, Journal of Public Economics, 2015, Vol. 132, 79–94. (with Sebastian Böhm & Volker Grossmann)
Working Paper
Financial Integration, Investment, and Economic Growth: Evidence From Two Eras of Financial Globalization, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, Vol. 92, No. 4, 756-768. (with Moritz Schularick)
Anti-Competitive Conduct, In-House R&D, and Growth, European Economic Review, 2008, Vol. 52, No. 6, 987-1008. (with Volker Grossmann)
Economic Growth with Subsistence Consumption, Journal of Development Economics, 2000, Vol. 62, No. 2, 343-361.
Coordinates
Leipzig University
Institute for Theoretical Economics | Macroeconomics
Grimmaische Straße 12 | 04109 Leipzig | Germany
Phone: ++49 - 0341 - 9733541
Fax: ++49 - 0341 - 9733549
Mail: lastname[at]wifa.uni-leipzig.de
Room: I207
Office hours: on appointment