MAIN ARTICLES BY RESEARCH AREA

•  Inequality, Taxation & Redistribution
•  Social Status & Symbolic Values
•  Socialism
•  Labor Market
•  Growth Theory
•  Industrial Organization
•  International Relations

(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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• Narratives as separating equilibria: On the origins of the Ukraine war, forthcoming Journal of Conflict Resolution (2026).
• Economic growth and imperialism, European Journal of Political Economy 93 (2026), 102823.
• The European Union and achieving peace in Ukraine, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (2023), 289-299.

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