Publikationen und Forschungspapiere

 Publications:

• The Urbanising Force of Global Warming: The Role of Climate Change in the Spatial Distribution of Population,
  joint work with David Castells-Quintana and Tom McDermott, Journal of Economic Geography, Forthcoming. Link to article. Draft version
  
  
• Population, Light, and the Size Distribution of Cities,
  joint work with Christian Düben. Journal of Regional Science 61(1), 2021, pp.189-211.
  Link to article. Online appendix
  
  
• Rising Mean Incomes for Whom?,
  joint work with Liang Frank Shao. PlosOne 15(12), 2020, e0242803. Link to article. Online appendix 1. Online appendix 2
  
  
• 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(3), 2017, pp.621-642.
  Link to article. Online appendix. Link to data archive. 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. Online appendix. Download draft version.

Working Papers:

• Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development, joint work with Richard Bluhm. CESifo Working Paper 7411, Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Development Economics.
  
  
• The Emperor's Geography - City Locations, Nature and Institutional Optimalization,
  joint work with Christian Düben. SSRN Working Paper 3713325, Revise and Resubmit at Economic Journal.
  
  
• The Geographical Determinants of Within-City Heterogeneity in Urban Density,
  joint work with André Seidel. CESifo Working Paper 8660.
  
  
• Density, Cities, and Pollution: A Global View,
  joint work with David Castells-Quintana and Elisa Dienesch. SSRN Working Paper 3735128.

Work in Progress:

• Regional Convergence at the County Level: The Role of Commuters,
  joint work with Sebastian Kripfganz.
  
  
• Growth and Spatial Inequality,
  joint work with Richard Bluhm and Christian Lessmann.

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.