About me
my boring life on one page: CV.pdf (all interesting stories are of course missing in that)
Research Interests
- Heterogeneity and Aggregation, (Multisector) Growth and International Trade
- Financial Institutions, Monetary Foundations, Systemic Risk
- Identity-based Theories of Social Capital and Economic Systems
- some useful paper (hopefully coming soon)
Comments / Memos / Reviews
- Memo, "Agriculture - the Worst Mistake in Human History?" (reply to Diamond, J. "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race")
- Memo, "Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective"
- Memo, Why was "A Monetary History of the United States" by Friedman/Schwartz so important?
- Memo, The International Roots of the Great Depression
- Memo, "Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?"
(please note that all references are missing in this memo)
- Microfoundations of Development Accounting [Review and Comment:Banerjee and Duflo (2005, HEG) "Growth Theory through the Lens of Development Economics"]
Random stuff
- Why Macroeconomics (and empircal Macro) is important
- Why "Freakonomics" (or "run around and find an IV") may not be that important
- Why I am sceptical about foreign aid
- Statement on Chain-Mails (in German; only for people with a rough humor)
- Some Lessons on Modern Art (1,2)
Nostalgia
(Caution ! Undergraduate Work !!)
- Externalities and the Coase Theorem (joint with Matthias Lux; in German, 2004)
- "Quote-Driven Markets, Liquidity and Information Processing" ["German-style Seminar" Review]
(Presentation-Slides; Summer 2005)
- "Strategic R&D Spillovers in Vertically Related Markets" ["German-style Seminar" Review and short discussion: Harhoff (1996, Management Science) and Harhoff (1999)]
Presentation-Slides in German;
Fall 2005)
