Refereed Journals

  1. Refereed Journal // 2026

    Spin city: Local externalities of wind turbines

    Wind turbines offer significant environmental benefits but also create negative local externalities, such as noise and visual pollution, which can lead to local tensions and community resistance against the…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2026

    Human capital, unequal opportunities and productivity convergence: A global historical perspective, 1800–2100

    This paper constructs a new database on public expenditure and revenue and their components, particularly education and health expenditure, covering all world regions over the 1800–2025 period. Human capital…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2026

    A Small Volume Reduction that Melts Down the Market: Auctions with Endogenous Rationing

    Auctions with endogenous rationing are motivated by the regulatory requirement of so-called proportionality of public support and are used to allocate support for renewable energy. They reduce the auctioned…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2026

    Intergenerational mobility fosters innovation in Europe

    The circumstances into which individuals are born can place fundamental constraints on their future economic opportunities, leading to a mismatch between talent, education and occupation. One major determinant…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2026

    A KISS for central bank communication in times of high inflation

    During the post-pandemic inflation surge, many central banks used communication about the inflation outlook to limit spillovers from realized to expected inflation. We present novel survey evidence showing that…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2026

    Regulated Correlations — Climate Policy and Investment Risks

    Investments in energy technologies are substantially governed by climate policy. We demonstrate analytically that price-based instruments, such as carbon-taxes, and quantity-based regulations, like emission…