Research
Working Papers and Work in Progress
"The Greener, the Higher: Labor Demand of Automotive Firms during the Green Transformation" (with Oliver Falck, Moritz Goldbeck, Fabian Hans and Annina Hering)
CESifo Working Paper No. 11160 , June 2024 (Summary)
"Productivity Spillovers among Knowledge Workers in Agglomerations: Evidence from GitHub" (with Lena Abou El-Komboz and Moritz Goldbeck)
CESifo Working Paper No. 11277 , August 2024
(previous version: CRC TRR 190 Discussion Paper No. 399, May 2023)
"Defying Gravity: What Drives Productivity in Remote Teams?" (with Michael Hofmann and Nadzeya Laurentsyeva)
CRC TRR 190 Discussion Paper No. 427, September 2023
"The Value of Connectivity: High-Speed Broadband Internet and Real Estate Prices" (with Oliver Falck and Simon Krause)
"Small Steps or Giant Leaps? Competition and the Size of Innovations"
(2017 version in Chapter 2 of my dissertation)
Publications
"How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree"
(with Martin Watzinger, Markus Nagler and Monika Schnitzer)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12.4 (2020): 328-59.
AEJ Economic Policy Best Paper Award 2021
VoxEU, NY Times article citing the paper
“Knowledge Remittances: Does Emigration Foster Innovation?”
(with Yvonne Giesing and Nadzeya Laurentsyeva)
Research Policy 49.9 (2020): 103863.
"New Region, New Chances: Does Moving Regionally for University Shape Later Job Mobility?"
(with Felix Ehrenfried and Valentin Lindlacher)
Regional Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2119217 (2022)
Reports and Other Projects
"Je grüner, desto höher: Die Arbeitsnachfrage von Unternehmen im Strukturwandel zur Elektromobilität" (German article based on "The Greener, the Higher: Labor Demand of Automotive Firms during the Green Transformation")
ifo Schnelldienst 06/2024
"Digital Technology Adoption by German Firms: Uncovering the Metadata of the ifo Business Index"
Blog of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), 2021
German version: "Was sagen Metadaten des ifo Geschäftsklimaindex über die Digitalisierung deutscher Unternehmen?", ifo Schnelldienst, Munich, 03/2022
"Wie lässt sich die Mobilität von Hochschulabsolvent*innen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt erhöhen?" (German policy report based on "New Region, New Chances: Does Moving Regionally for University Shape Later Job Mobility?")
ifo Schnelldienst 10/2022
"Patentschutz: Zwischen Forschungsanreiz und Hindernis für Nachfolgeinnovationen" (German article, "Patent Protection: Between Research Incentive and Obstacle to Follow-on Innovations")
ifo Schnelldienst 08/2021
"Gravity in Online Collaborations: Evidence from GitHub"
CESifo Forum 21 (3), 15-20
"Examination of companies for their importance for Bavaria as a business location" (2020 - 2021)
"Digital Competencies – Is the German Manufacturing Sector Ready for the Future?"
PDF (in German)
"Impact of Digitalisation on the Labor Market", Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria
PDF (in German)