I am a professor of Macroeconomics at Leipzig University.
Further affiliations: CESifo Research Network, DFG Research Training Group ECO-N, IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research, Central-German Doctoral Program Economics CGDE
Fields of interest: Macroeconomics (real & long term); Economic Growth; Inequality Dynamics; Public Economics; Economic Growth & Climate Change
Working Paper: Economic Growth and Climate Change: Many Trajectories, Many Destinations, CESifo WP, No. 11053, 2024. R&R IER
Thomas Steger & Timo Trimborn
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Relaxation: Check out the Relaxation Algorithm, a powerful technique to numerically solve a large class of economic growth models.
Das House Kapital: A Long-Run Theory of House Prices and Housing Wealth
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION | 2024
Volker Grossmann, Benjamin Larin & Thomas Steger
Open Access
Distributional Consequences of Surging Housing Rents
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY | 2021
Volker Grossmann, Benjamin Larin, Hans Torben Löfflad & Thomas Steger
Working Paper
Reversal of Migration Flows: A Fresh Look at the German Reunification
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS | 2017
Benjamin Fuchs, Volker Grossmann, Andreas Schäfer & Thomas Steger
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No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870–2012
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2017
Katharina Knoll, Moritz Schularick & Thomas Steger
Working Paper // Summary on VoxEU
Does Expansion of Higher Education Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS | 2015
Sebastian Böhm, Volker Grossmann & Thomas Steger
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Financial Integration, Investment, and Economic Growth: Evidence From Two Eras of Financial Globalization
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS | 2010
Moritz Schularick & Thomas Steger
Working Paper
Multi-Dimensional Transitional Dynamics: A Simple Numerical Procedure
MACROECONOMIC DYNAMICS | 2008
Karl-Josef Koch, Timo Trimborn & Thomas Steger
Working Paper // Relaxation website
Anti-Competitive Conduct, In-House R&D, and Growth
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2008
Volker Grossmann & Thomas Steger
Working Paper
Economic Growth with Subsistence Consumption
JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | 2000
Thomas Steger
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Leipzig University
Institute for Theoretical Economics | Macroeconomics
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