Publications
MAIN ARTICLES BY RESEARCH AREA
- Inequality, Taxation & Redistribution
- Social Status & Symbolic Values
- Socialism
- Labor Market
- Growth Theory
- Industrial Organization
(see the homepage in German for the complete publication list)
INEQUALITY, TAXATION & REDISTRIBUTION
- Assortative mating and couple taxation, European Journal of Public Finance 81 (2025), 85-101.
- Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants (with G. Neidhöfer), Journal of Public Economics 198 (2021), 104420.
- Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts (with C. Schröder and J. König), FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 74 (4) (2018), 415-445 (31).
- Erbschaft und Eigenleistung im Vermögen der Deutschen: Eine Verteilungsanalyse (with T. Bönke and C. Westermeier), Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 17 (1) (2016), 35-53.
- Democratic redistribution and rule of the majority (with F. Neher), European Journal of Political Economy 40 (2015), 96-109.
- Lifetime earnings inequality in Germany (with T. Bönke and H. Lüthen), Journal of Labor Economics 33 (2015), 171-208.
- Work norms, social insurance and the allocation of talent, Journal of Public Economics 107 (2013), 79-92.
- Effective taxation of top incomes in Germany (with S. Bach and V. Steiner), German Economic Review 14 (2013), 115-137.
- A note on the taxation of couples under income uncertainty, FinanzArchiv 69 (2013), 129-134.
- Optimal top marginal tax rates under income splitting for couples (with S. Bach and V. Steiner), European Economic Review 56 (2012), 1055-1069.
- From bottom to top: The entire income distribution in Germany, 1992-2003, (with S. Bach and V. Steiner), Review of Income and Wealth 55 (2009), 303- 330.
- What's the monetary value of distributive justice? (with C. Fong), Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008), 289-308.
- Media capture in a democracy: The role of wealth concentration, Journal of Public Economics 90 (2006), 37-58.
- Capital taxation may survive in open economies (with M. Braulke), Annals of Economics and Finance 5 (2004), 237-244.
- The efficient side of progressive income taxation, European Economic Review 46 (2002), 1359-1368.
- Individual preferences for political redistribution (with H. P. Grüner), Journal of Public Economics 83 (2002), 83-107.
- Inequality and the State: Comparing U.S. and German preferences Annales d’Economie et de Statistique 63-64 (2001), 283-296.
- Social limits to redistribution (with H. P. Grüner), American Economic Review 90 (2000), 1491-1507.
- Conspicuous consumption, snobbism and conformism (with O. Jeanne), Journal of Public Economics 66 (1997), 55-71.
SOCIAL STATUS & SYMBOLIC VALUES
- Work norms, social insurance and the allocation of talent, Journal of Public Economics 107 (2013), 79-92.
- Nationalism, cognitive ability, and interpersonal relations, International Review of Economics 57 (2010), 119-141.
- Symbolic values, occupational choice, and economic development, (with O. Jeanne), European Economic Review 54 (2010), 237-251.
- A theory of tolerance, (with O. Jeanne), Journal of Public Economics 93 (2009), 691-702.
- Status, the distribution of wealth, and growth (with O. Jeanne), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 103 (2001), 283-293.
- Pecuniary emulation, inequality and growth (with O. Jeanne), European Economic Review 43 (1999), 1665-1678.
- Social organization, status, and savings behavior (with O. Jeanne), Journal of Public Economics 70 (1998), 37-51.
- Conspicuous consumption, snobbism and conformism (with O. Jeanne), Journal of Public Economics 66 (1997), 55-71.
- On relative wealth effects and the optimality of growth (with O. Jeanne), Economics Letters 54 (1997), 87-92.
SOCIALISM
- Progressive sovereign wealth funds, Journal of Government and Economics 5 (2022), 100033.
- Some institutional design for shareholder socialism, Review of Social Economy 77 (2019), 33-55.
- Job rights and labor productivity in a soviet-type economy, Journal of Comparative Economics 17 (1993), 113-128.
LABOR MARKET
- Time-poor, working, super-rich, European Economic Review 101 (2018), 1-19.
- Lifetime earnings inequality in Germany (with T. Bönke and H. Lüthen), Journal of Labor Economics 33 (2015), 171-208.
- Work and television, European Journal of Political Economy 21 (2005), 99-113.
- Wage formation under union threat effects: Theory and empirical evidence (with C. Lucifora), Labour Economics 4 (1997), 265-292.
- The theory of the open shop trade union reconsidered, Labour Economics 4 (1997), 71-84.
- Distributional implications of a shorter working week: An unpleasant note, Journal of Economics 62 (1995), 25-31.
- Social custom, management opposition and trade union membership, European Economic Review 39 (1995), 275-292.
- National wage bargaining in an internationally integrated product market, European Journal of Political Economy 11 (1995), 107-116.
GROWTH THEORY
- Economic Growth and imperialism, European Journal of Political Economy 93 (2026), 102823.
- Symbolic values, occupational choice, and economic development, (with O. Jeanne), European Economic Review 54 (2010), 237-251.
- On relative-wealth effects and long-run growth (with O. Jeanne), Research in Economics 55 (2001), 349-358.
- Status, the distribution of wealth, and growth (with O. Jeanne), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 103 (2001), 283-293.
- Public pensions, unemployment insurance, and growth (with M. Marquardt), Journal of Public Economics 75 (2000), 293-311.
- Pecuniary emulation, inequality and growth (with O. Jeanne), European Economic Review 43 (1999), 1665-1678.
- Social organization in an endogenous growth model (with O. Jeanne), International Economic Review 40 (1999), 711-725.
- On relative wealth effects and the optimality of growth (with O. Jeanne), Economics Letters 54 (1997), 87-92.
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
- Working in public and private firms (with R. Rob), Journal of Public Economics 87 (2003), 1335-1352.
- Segmented communication and fashionable behavior (with O. Jeanne), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 39 (1999), 371-385.
- Taxpayer-consumers and public pricing, Economics Letters 57 (1997), 235-240.
- Snobs, bandwagons, and the origin of social customs in consumer behavior (with O. Jeanne), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 32 (1997), 333-348.
- Oligopole mixte dans un marché commun (with O. Jeanne), Annales d’Economie et de Statistique 33 (1994), 73-90.


