Professor of Economics |
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Research and Teaching Fields
Public Economics, Family Economics, Macroeconomics, Computational Economics
Recent Journal Publications
- “High Marginal Tax Rates on the Top 1%? Lessons from a Life Cycle Model with Idiosyncratic Income Risk” (joint with Dirk Krueger), AEJ: Macroeconomics, 14(2), 319–366, 2022.
- “Inheritance Taxation and Wealth Effects on the Labor Supply of Heirs” (joint with Lukas Mayr and Dominik Sachs), Journal of Public Economics, 191, 104-127, 2020.
- “Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications” (joint with Matthias Doepke), American Economic Review, 109 (9), 3264-3306, 2019.
- “Life in shackles? The quantitative implications of reforming the educational loan system” (joint with Ben Heijdra and Laurie Reijnders), Review of Economic Dynamics, 25, 37-57, 2017.
- “Families and Social Security” (joint with Hans Fehr and Manuel Kallweit), European Economic Review, 91, 30-56, 2017 .
This year, I am organizing the following conferences:
- Income Dynamics and the Family within the Barcelona Summer Forum. This is the 6th edition already.
- 3rd Bavarian Macro Day, where we want to gather researchers intersted in Macro form all Bavarian universities.
- I am also a member of the scientific committee of the 2024 IIPF annual congress in Prague.
Editorial Activity
- Associate Editor, Journal of Population Economics, since 02/2022
- Associate Editor, Public Finance Review, 02/2017 – 09/2022