Publications in refereed journals

Thomas Dengler, Britta Gehrke & Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg, 2025, Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings, The Economic Journal, doi: 10.1093/ej/ueaf083.

Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke & Ahmet Ali Taskin, 2024, Minimum Wages, Wage Dispersion and Financial Constraints in Firms, European Economic Review, Volume 163, doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104678.

Alejandro Drexler, Andre Guettler & Ahmet Ali Taskin, 2023, Competition between Arm's Length and Relational Lenders: Who Wins the Contest?, Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 137, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2023.102897.

Ahmet Ali Taskin & Firat Yirman, 2023, Credit Supply, Homeownership and Mortgage Debt, Journal of Housing Economics, Volume 61, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2023.101947. 

Britta Gehrke & Brigitte Hochmuth, 2021, Counteracting Unemployment in Crises: Non-linear Effects of Short-time Work Policy, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 123, Issue 1, pp. 144-183, doi: 10.1111/sjoe.12395.

Britta Gehrke, 2019, Fiscal Rules and Unemployment, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Volume 23, Nummer 8, pp. 3293–3326, doi: 10.1017/S1365100518000044.

Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler & Christian Merkl, 2019, The German Labor Market during the Great Recession: Shocks and Institutions, Economic Modelling, Volume 78, doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2018.09.022.

Britta Gehrke & Enzo Weber, 2018, Identifying Asymmetric Effects of Labor Market Reforms, European Economic Review, Volume 110, pp. 18–40, doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.07.006.

Britta Gehrke & Fang Yao, 2017, Are Supply Shocks Important for Real Exchange Rates? A Fresh View from the Frequency-Domain, Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 79C, pp. 99–114, doi: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.09.008.

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke & Christian Merkl, 2017, Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle in Germany, International Journal of Manpower, Volume 38(7), pp. 940–953, doi: 10.1108/IJM-05-2017-0100.

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler & Christian Merkl, 2016, Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis, European Economic Review, Volume 84, pp. 99–122, doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.05.007.

Book contributions 

Britta Gehrke, 2025, Short-Time Work, in "Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics", edited by Klaus F.  Zimmermann, Springer, Cham.

Britta Gehrke & Enzo Weber, 2018, Reforming the Labor Market in Good and Bad Times: Any Differences?, in “The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe,” edited by Nauro F. Campos, Paul de Grauwe, and Yuemei Ji, Oxford University Press, New York.

Working Papers 

Erik Dasenbrock & Britta Gehrke, September 2025, Unemployment Benefits and Interest Rates: The Role of Age, Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers 0074, Berlin School of Economics. https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/files/5940/BSoE_DP_0074.pdf.

Ahmet Ali Taskin & Firat Yaman, September 2025, The Effect of Branching Deregulation on Finance Wage Premium, FAU Discussion Papers in Economics, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5526207.

Martin Groiss & Nicolas Syrichas, June 2025, Monetary Policy, Property Prices and Rents: Evidence from Local Housing Markets, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5084430.

Leo Kaas, Georgi Kocharkov & Nicolas Syrichas, April 2025, Understanding Spatial House Price Dynamics in a Housing Boom, https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/publications/2024/working-paper/understanding-spatial-house-price-dynamics-housing-boom.

Sena Coskun and Hermann Gartner & Ahmet Ali Taskin, January 2025, Rent Sharing and the Gender Bargaining Gap: Evidence from the Banking Sector, IAB Discussion Paper, https://doku.iab.de/discussionpapers/2025/dp0625.pdf.

Laura Baessler, Georg Gebhardt, Reint Gropp, Andre Guettler & Ahmet Ali Taskin, 2024, Do Public Bank Guarantees Affect Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from Individual Employment and Wages, IWH Discussion Papers, https://www.iwh-halle.de/en/publications/detail/do-public-bank-guarantees-affect-labor-market-outcomes-evidence-from-individual-employment-and-wages

Nicolas Syrichas, March 2023, Occupational Inheritance in Africa, https://steg.cepr.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/WP047%20Syrichas%20OccupationalInheritanceInAfrica.pdf. 

Britta Gehrke, Ernst Maug, Stefan Obernberger & Christoph Schneider, May 2021, Post-merger Restructuring of the Labor Force, , European Corporate Governance Institute - Finance Working Paper, 753, ecgi.global/sites/default/files/working_papers/documents/gehrkemaugobernbergerschneiderfinal_1.pdf. 

Almut Balleer and Hamzeh Arabzadeh & Britta Gehrke, Dezember 2020, Uncovering the Mechanism(s): Financial Constraints and Wages, IZA Discussion Papers, 13979, https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13979/uncovering-the-mechanisms-financial-constraints-and-wages.

Policy reports and general interest activities

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke & Ahmet Ali Taskin, Mindestlohn als Stresstest: Finanzielle Spielräume entscheiden über Beschäftigungseffekte, Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, Heft 10, S. 758 - 762, https://www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/2025/heft/10/beitrag/mindestlohn-als-stresstest-finanzielle-spielraeume-entscheiden-ueber-beschaeftigungseffekte.html.

Britta Gehrke & Ahment Ali Taskin, 2025, The unexpected effects of the German minimum wage on income equality in firms, IAB-Forum, https://iab-forum.de/en/the-unexpected-effects-of-the-german-minimum-wage-on-income-equality-in-firms/.

Britta Gehrke, 2025, Arbeitslosigkeit: Stresstest für den Arbeitsmarkt, 2025, Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, Heft 5,  doi: 10.2478/wd-2025-0080.

Britta Gehrke, 2023, Kaufkraft kehrt zurück - Politische Unsicherheit hoch, Gemeinschaftsdiagnose, https://gemeinschaftsdiagnose.de/2023/09/28/gemeinschaftsdiagnose-herbst-2023-kaufkraft-kehrt-zurueck-politische-unsicherheit-hoch/.

Britta Gehrke, 2023, Arbeitsmarkt - Was für die Zukunft wichtig ist, RHI Impulse Spezial, https://www.romanherzoginstitut.de/publikationen/detail/impulse-spezial.html.

Marius Clemens, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Britta Gehrke & Claus Michelsen, 2020, Was die bisherigen Corona-Programme gebracht haben, Makronom, https://makronom.de/was-die-bisherigen-corona-programme-gebracht-haben-37433.

Marius Clemens, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Britta Gehrke & Claus Michelsen, 2020, Wie die Wirtschaftspolitik auf die zweite Infektionswelle reagieren sollte, Makronom, https://makronom.de/wie-die-wirtschaftspolitik-auf-die-zweite-infektionswelle-reagieren-sollte-37434.

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Brigitte Hochmuth & Christian Merkl, 2020, Guidelines for cost-effective use of SURE: Rule-based short-time work with workers’ consent and aligned replacement rates, Vox CEPR Policy Portal, https://voxeu.org/article/guidelines-cost-effective-use-sure.

Britta Gehrke & Enzo Weber, 2020, Kurzarbeit, Entlassungen, Neueinstellungen: Wie sich die Corona-Krise von der Finanzkrise 2009 unterscheidet, IAB-Forum, https://www.iab-forum.de/kurzarbeit-entlassungen-neueinstellungen-wie-sich-die-corona-krise-von-der-finanzkrise-2009-unterscheidet/.

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Brigitte Hochmuth & Christian Merkl, 2019, Autonomes Fahren statt Stop and Go: Vorschläge zur effektiven Gestaltung der deutschen Kurzarbeit, with, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 68(3), 252–260, https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zfwp/68/3/article-p252.xml?language=de.

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Brigitte Hochmuth & Christian Merkl, 2019, Mit Kurzarbeit erfolgreich durch die nächste Rezession?, ifo Schnelldienst 18/2019, https://www.ifo.de/DocDL/sd-2019-18-2019-09-26_1.pdf.

Britta Gehrke & Enzo Weber, 2018, Structural Labour Market Reforms in Europe: Timing Matters, LSE Business Review, June 4^th, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/90866/1/Gehrke_Structural-labour-market_Author.pdf.

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke & Christian Merkl, 2017, Überschätzte Rolle von Arbeitszeitkonten in der großen Rezession?, Ökonomenstimme, https://www.oekonomenstimme.org/artikel/2017/10/ueberschaetzte-rolle-von-arbeitszeitkonten-in-der-grossen-rezession/.

Britta Gehrke & Brigitte Hochmuth, 2017, Rettet Kurzarbeit in Rezessionen Arbeitsplätze?, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 93–116, http://wug.akwien.at/WUG_Archiv/2017_43_1/2017_43_1_0099.pdf.

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler & Christian Merkl, 2013, Short-Time Work: Does It Save Jobs?, with Almut Balleer, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Christian Merkl, VoxEU, https://voxeu.org/article/short-time-work-does-it-save-jobs.

Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Wolfgang Lechthaler & Christian Merkl, 2013, Rettet Kurzarbeit wirklich Arbeitsplätze?, Ökonomenstimme, https://www.oekonomenstimme.org/artikel/2013/09/rettet-kurzarbeit-wirklich-arbeitsplaetze/.