Publikationen und Forschungspapiere

 Publications:

• Convergence vs. The Middle Income Trap: The Case of Global Soccer,
  joint work with Stefan Szymanski. Applied Economics 51(27), 2019, pp.2980-2999.
  Link to article. Online appendix. Working Paper version.
  
  
• The Millennium Peak in Club Convergence - A New Look at Distributional Changes in the Wealth of Nations. Journal of Applied Econometrics 32, 2017,  pp.621-642. Link to article.  Download online appendix. Link to data archive. Download draft version.

• Parametric Lorenz Curves and the Modality of the Income Density Function, Review of Income and Wealth 60, 2014, pp.905-929.  Link to article. Download draft version.

Working Papers:

• Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development, joint work with Richard Bluhm. CESifo Working Paper 7411.
• Population, Light, and the Size Distribution of Cities, joint work with Christian Düben. ECINEQ Working Paper 2019-488.
• Rising Mean Incomes for Whom?, joint work with Liang Frank Shao. LIS Working Paper 753.

Work in Progress:

• Regional Convergence at the County Level: The Role of Commuters, joint work with Sebastian Kripfganz.
• Geography, Institutions and Cities - Insights from Chinese Dynasties,
  joint work with Christian Düben.
• Density, City Structure, and Pollution: A Global View,
  joint work with David Castells-Quintana and Elisa Dienesch.
• Climate Change and the Spatial Distribution of Population and Economic Activity,
  joint work with David Castells-Quintana and Tom McDermott
• Growth and Spatial Inequality, joint work with Richard Bluhm and Christian Lessmann.
• When is Inequality Detrimental to Growth? - Perspectives from a Novel Cross-Country Approach, joint work with Michael Binder.

Smaller Notes:

•  Corrigendum to "Elliptical Lorenz Curves" [J. Econom. 40 (1989) 327 - 338], Journal of Econometrics 174, 2013, p.44. Link to article. Download draft version.