Words matter! Change the language about debt → change how people think, feel, and choose. Our new paper featured in the @faznet.bsky.social : zeitung.faz.net/fas/wirtscha... Full paper (with C. Aksoy, J. Klejdysz, @apeichl.bsky.social, @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social): www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Was, glaube ich, immer noch nicht richtig verstanden wird bei den #Zoellen von #Trump : Es geht hier gar nicht um Höhe, unfaire Handelspraktiken, etc. Es geht einzig und allein um einen weiteren Versuch (nach der Ukraine), Europa zu schwächen.

I very much enjoyed attending the inspiring International Research Workshop on Perceptions of Inequality at @lseinequalities.bsky.social. I presented my paper "How Do Perceptions of Inequalities Affect Fairness Views and Political Preferences? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment" (1/2)

Lesenswerter Beitrag in der morgigen FAS über unsere kürzlich veröffentlichte Studie, in der wir untersuchen, warum die Einschätzungen in der Bevölkerung zu Mietpreiskontrollen so stark von jenen in unserer Profession abweichen (1/2): zeitung.faz.net/fas/wirtscha...

Unser paper "Which factors affect public support for economic policies? Evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany" (mit @pschuele.bsky.social und @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social) ist in Economica veröffentlicht: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/n)

Great piece in The Economist covering our latest research on Working from Home. Despite much coverage of return-to-office mandates put out by large firms, work from home arrangements have been stable since 2023. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

What a blast! We had a wonderful, inspiring & FUN 3rd Annual Conference at ifo Fürth 🤩🤓 🥳 Fantastic keynotes by Massimo Morelli, @johannarickne.bsky.social & @michelebelot.bsky.social as well as many many great presentations and very nice poster session 🚀

It was a great honor and pleasure to give the keynote lecture at the First Workshop of the ESCB Network of Microsimulation Modelling at the Banco de Portugal! Many thanks to the organizers for inviting me and for putting together such a great program! www.bportugal.pt/evento/first...

EU econ bubble: We are hiring a senior expert on EU economic policy. All the details in the thread and the link, spread the word!

I'm delighted to share that our paper 'Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market' (with @clemensfuest.bsky.social, @ckrolage.bsky.social and Florian Neumeier) has been published in the Journal of Urban Economics. (1/3)

Great workshop in Salzburg for the next two days👇. I very much appreciate the opportunity to present a project on the new digital pension planning tool at an early stage!

Happy to share that my paper `An unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro-zone? Stabilizing and redistributive effects’ has been published in the European Eco-nomic Review (1/3): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very cool to receive this e-mail from the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers: www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Mit MDR Aktuell habe ich darüber gesprochen, wie deutsche Unternehmen die Produktivität im hybriden Homeoffice-Modell einschätzen und ob eine (vollständige) Rückkehr ins Büro zu erwarten ist. Hier zum Nachhören: www.mdr.de/mdr-aktuell-...

Majority of German companies does not believe in negative productivity effects of the hybrid working from home model. This is the result from the latest ifo Business Survey among 9,000 German companies in August: www.ifo.de/en/facts/202... #WFH #Productivity

Anlässlich der Aussage von Trigema-Chef Wolfgang Grupp, wer von zu Hause arbeiten könne sei unwichtig, habe ich mit NTV / RTL aktuell über das Thema Homeoffice gesprochen (mein Statement ab 1:10): www.n-tv.de/mediathek/vi...

Happy to share that our paper 'EU cohesion policy on the ground: Analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data' is accepted at Regional Science and Urban Economics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...