Forschungschwerpunkte
Makroökonomik
- Makroökonomische Auswirkungen von Innovationen auf Wirtschaftswachstum und Beschäftigung
- Finanzkrise
- Außenwirtschaftliche Ungleichgewichte und ihrer Wirkung
Mikroökonomik
- Behavioral Economics
- Public Economics, Inequality
- Political Economy
- Behavioral Development Economics
Forschungsprojekt zum Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen
Forschende der Abteilung untersuchten in Kooperation mit dem RWI Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, wie auf gesamtwirtschaftlicher Ebene ein Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen (BGE) finanziert werden kann. In einer umfassenden Studie wurden verschiedene Ausgestaltungsmöglichkeiten eines BGE auf ihre Finanzierbarkeit und Verteilungswirkungen hin untersucht.
Publikationen Makroökonomik
2022
Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development (with Melanie Krause). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 157, 102880.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102880
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s COVID-19 economic shut-down (with Jennifer Burney, Susanne Benz, Kyle Hemes, Morgan Levy, Pascal Polonik, Katharine Ricke and Luke Sanford). Nature Sustainability.
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00856-1
What can we learn from nighttime lights for small geographies? Measurementerrors and heterogeneous elasticities (with G. McCord). Remote Sensing, Vol.14(5), 1190.
DOI: 10.3390/rs14051190
2021
The spread of COVID-19 and the BCG vaccine: A natural experiment in reunified Germany (with Maxim Pinkovskiy). Econometrics Journal, Vol. 24(3). “Editor’s choice”/Lead article.
DOI: 10.1093/ectj/utab006
Democracy and Aid Donorship (with Andreas Fuchs), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13(4): 217-238
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20180582
2020
Holding on? Ethnic divisions, political institutions and the duration of economicdeclines (with Kaj Thomsson). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 144.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102457
Fueling conflict? (De)Escalation and bilateral aid (with Martin Gassebner, PaulSchaudt and Sarah Langlotz). Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 32(2). “Top cited” and “Top downloaded” article.
DOI: 10.1002/jae.2797
Do weak institutions prolong crises? On the identification, characteristics, andduration of declines during economic slumps (with Denis de Crombruggheand Adam Szirmai). World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 34(3).
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhz015
2019
Broken Promises - Evaluating an Incomplete Cash Transfer Program (with Utz Pape
and Laura Ralston) R&R at the Journal of Public Economics
DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9016
2018
Poverty accounting (with Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai) EuropeanEconomic Review, Vol. 104.
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.03.003
2016
The dynamics of stagnation (with Denis de Crombrugghe and Adam Szirmai). Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 20(8).
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2556840
Local majorities: How administrative divisions shape comparative development(with R. Hodler and P. Schaudt). Economics Working Paper Series, No 2021-10, University of St. Gallen.
Gerrymandering in Africa, 1960–today (with R. Hodler and P. Schaudt).
Redlining and pollution disparities in U.S. cities (with J. Wichert).
Using CNNs to study the effects of settlement schemes on housing conditionsin Kenya (with L. Sanford)
The Emergency: The long-term effects of British labor camps in Kenya (withG. Asmus and T. Korn).[18]Triggering unrest? Ethnic inequality and droughts in Africa (with M. H. L.Wong).
Move on up - Electrification and Internal Migration
Perceived Relative Wealth and Contributions to an Environmental Public Good (with Anca Balietti, and Tillman Eymess)
Perceived Control and Beliefs about Health Impacts of Pollution – Evidence from an Online Experiment in India (with Anca Balietti, Tillman Eymess, and Alice Solda)
The Political Economy of Emerging Donor Aid) (with Axel Dreher)
2022-2024
Volkswagen Stiftung, Forschungskooperation Niedersachsen – Israel for “Economicand ideological causes of political violence” (total 300,000 EUR, co-PI, with Raphaël Franck and Andreas Fuchs)
2019
RTG 1723 – Globalization and Development, Universities of Göttingen and Hannover, internal pool funds, 4800 EUR (with Tobias Korn and Gerda Asmus)
2017-2021
German Research Foundation (DFG) grant for “Shining (New) Light on Regional Inequality, Convergence and Development” (share 186,400 EUR, total 569,000 EUR,co-PI, with Melanie Krause and Christian Lessmann)
2015
EC (DG DEVCO) grant (share about 25,000 EUR, total 50,000 EUR, 6 months, with Denis de Crombrugghe and Augustin Fosu)
2014
International Association of Applied Econometrics (IAAE) travel grant
Publikationen Mikroökonomik
- Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity (mit Guenther Fink und Kelsey Jack), Journal of Political Economy, Volume 130, 2862-2897, 2022. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality (mit Johanna Mollerstrom und Ricardo Perez-Truglia),
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 14, 232-268, 2022. [Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten] Berichterstattung: FAZ, Anderson Review - Inequality, Fairness and Social Capital (mit Hannes Rau, Stefan Trautmann, und Yilong Xu), European Economic Review, Volume 129, 2020. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- The Power of Sunspots: An Experimental Analysis (mit Frank Heinemann und Aniol Llorente-Saguer), Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 103, 123-136, 2019. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions (mit Matthias Sutter), Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 113, 448-460, 2019. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Equilibrium Selection in Similar Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Precedents (mit John Duffy), Experimental Economics, Volume 21, 573–600, 2018. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Exclusion in All-Pay Auctions: An Experimental Investigation (mit Julia Schmid), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 27, 326-339, 2018. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Is Increasing Inequality Harmful? Experimental Evidence, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 107, 123-134, 2018. [Anhang][Linkt zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Costly Communication and Learning from Failure in Organizational Coordination, European Economic Review, Volume 93, 106-122, 2017. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Who knows it is a game? On strategic awareness and cognitive ability (mit Steffen Huck), Experimental Economics, Volume 19, 713-726, 2016. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift]
- The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap: A Failed Replication of Plott and Zeiler (mit Rustamdjan Hakimov und Dorothea Kübler), European Economic Review, Volume 78, 120-128, 2015. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo (with Christine Binzel), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 103, 99-106, 2013. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift]
- Giving and Sorting Among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment (mit Christine Binzel), Economics Letters, Volume 121, 214-217, 2013. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift]
- Information and Beliefs in a Repeated Normal-Form Game (mit David Danz und Dorothea Kübler), Experimental Economics, Volume 15, 622-640, 2012. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Partner Selection in Public Goods Experiments (mit Giorgio Coricelli und Gerlinde Fellner), Journal of Conflict Resolution, Volume 48, 356-378, 2004. [Anhang][Link zur Zeitschrift][Daten]
- Are Risk Preferences Shaped by Status Concerns? (mit Yannick Reichlin)
- Can International Initiatives Promote Peace? Diamond Certification and Armed Conflicts in Africa (mit Christine Binzel und Andreas Link) [CEPR Discussion Paper 18450]
- Listen to Her: Gender Differences in Information Diffusion within the Household (mit Johanna Mollerstrom und Ricardo Perez-Truglia) [NBER WP], VOXeu column, Berichterstattung: The Guardian, Welt am Sonntag, Welt Online+
- Social Mobility Perceptions and Inequality Acceptance (mit Daniel Mueller und Marcel Preuss) [CESifo WP]
- The Causal Effect of Cultural Identity on Cooperation (mit Jeff Butler) [Link zu älterem CESifo WP]
- Fairness Properties of Compensation Systems (mit Hannes Rau, Stefan Trautmann, und Yilong Xu)
- Misperceiving Economic Success: Experimental Evidence on Meritocratic Beliefs and Inequality Acceptance (mit Martin Vollmann) [CESifo WP]
- Taking a Small Amount from Many or Taking a Large Amount from a Few? (mit Alexander Cappelen, Ingar Haaland, Erik Sørensen und Bertil Tungodden)
- The Endowment Effect in the General Population (mit Dorothea Kübler)