Head of Department of the
Public Economics Department
Head of department of Public Economics at DIW Berlin and Professor of Public Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. Ph.D in Economics with distinction (Supervisors: Prof. Viktor Steiner and Prof. Richard Blundell). Studies in Economics and Political Sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Humboldt-University Berlin and University of Toronto (degree: Diplom Volkswirt). Visiting Fellow at Paris School of Economics, Institute for Fiscal Studies und UCL London. Recent publications in Economic Journal, Journal of Health Economics and Econometrics Journal.
Selected Publikations/Working Papers:
Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Benefits in a Life-cycle model of Family Labor Supply and Savings (with Victoria Prowse), CRC-190 Discussion Paper 189, 2019, conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income (with Daniel Kemptner and Victoria Prowse), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 188, 2019, revise and resubmit, Quantitative Economics
House price expectations (with Niklas Gohl, Claus Michelsen, and Felix Weinhardt), CRC-190 Discussion Paper 313, 2022, revise and resubmit, JEBO
Non-Additivity of Subjective Expectations over Different Time Intervals (with Chen Sun, Uwe Sunde and Georg Weizsäcker, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 337, 2022, revise and resubmit, Management Science
Biased expectations and female labor supply (with Max Blesch, Philipp Eisenhauer, Boryana Ilieva, Annekatrin Schrenker and Georg Weizsäcker) submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 411, 2023
The effect of pension wealth on employment (with Sebastian Becker, Hermann Buslei and Johannes Geyer), submitted, CRC-190 Discussion Paper 363, 2022
Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles (with Adrian Santonja and Aleksander Zaklan), submitted, DIW DP 2032 (PDF, 2.98 MB)