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Curriculum vitae

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Current Working Papers

• The Asymmetric Incidence of Business Taxes: Survey Evidence from German Firms, revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (with F. Eble, D. Rostam-Afschar, J. Voget and R. Winter)
• Central Bank Inflation Forecasts and Firms’ Price Setting in Times of High Inflation, revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association (with F. Eble, Ch. Karlsson, D. Rostam-Afschar, B. Tödtmann and J. Voget)
• Politicians´ Social Welfare Criteria. An Experiment With German Legislators, resubmitted, Economic Journal (with S. Ambuehl, S. Blesse, Ch. Feldhaus and A. Ockenfels)
• The End of Work Feels Near. How do People Perceive the Impact of Digital Technologies and Automation? (with M. Artz and S. Blesse)
• I am a Taxpayer ... Get Me Out of Here?!? Evidence on Attitudes Towards Simplifying the Tax Jungle,  conditionally accepted, Economica (with S. Blesse and F. Buhlmann)
• Gender Discrimination against Pre-PhD Students: Evidence from a Field Experiment, reject and resubmit, Journal of Human Resources (with S. Berger, Ch. Feldhaus, R. Gerber and A. Wyss)
• How Does Group-Decision Making Affect Subsequent Individual Behavior?, revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (with Ch. Feldhaus)
• How Does Firm Tax Evasion Affect Prices?, (with D. Duncan)
• Narratives about Fiscal Policy: Are Firm Decision-Makers’ Tax Preferences Driven by Redistribution or Fiscal Consolidation Motives? (with L. Arnemann, F. Eble, D. Rostam-Afschar, J. Voget, F. Buhlmann and Ch. Karlsson)

Selected Publications

• How to Improve Small Firms' Payroll Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment, 202x, accepted for publication, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics (with Alina Pfrang and Jan Schmitz).
• Groups are more Libertarian than Individuals, 202x, accepted for publication, Management Science (with Christoph Feldhaus, Felix Kölle and Axel Ockenfels).
• The German Business Panel: Firm-Level Data for Accounting and Taxation Research, 202x, accepted for publication, European Accounting Review (with Jannis Bischof, Davud Rostam-Afschar, Dirk Simons and Johannes Voget).
• How do taxes affect the trading behavior of private investors? Evidence from individual portfolio data, 202x, accepted for publication, Management Science (with Florian Buhlmann, Benjamin Loos and Johannes Voget).
• The (in)visible hand: do workers discriminate against employers?, 202x, accepted for publication, Journal of Public Economics (with Denvil Duncan and Danyang Li).
• Asymmetric labor-supply responses to wage-rate changes: experimental evidence from an online labor market, 2022, Labour Economics (with Denvil Duncan and Max Loeffler).
• Higher taxes on less elastic goods? Evidence from German municipalities, 2019, Regional Science and Urban Economics (with Sebastian Blesse and Anna Rauch).
• Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?, 2018, Journal of Public Economics 158, 168–179 (with Mathias Dolls, Andreas Peichl and Holger Stichnoth).
• Remittances and Public Finances: Evidence from Oil-Price Shocks, 2017, Journal of Public Economics 155, 122–137 (with Zareh Asatryan and Benjamin Bittschi).
• Tax compliance and information provision -- A field experiment with small firms, 2017, Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 1(1), 47–54 (with Jan Schmitz).
• The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities, 2017, Journal of Public Economics 151, 41–55 (with Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch).
• Circumstantial Risk: Impact of future tax evasion and labor supply opportunities on risk exposure, 2015, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 109, 85–100 (with Denvil Duncan and Christopher Zeppenfeld).
• Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply, 2014, European Economic Review 68, 48–70 (with Denvil Duncan).