Forthcoming and Published Papers

Behavioral Responses to Inheritance and Gift Taxation: Evidence from Germany, 2021.
Journal of Public Economics, 193.
Awarded the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award, CESifo Public Sector Economics.
Awarded the Reinhard Selten Award, German Economic Association.
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Rent Extraction and Prosocial Behavior, 2019.
with Tobias Cagala, Amanda Tuset Cueva, Veronika Grimm, and Johannes Rincke.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 166, 709-723.
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Public Goods Provision with Rent-Extracting Administrators, 2019,
with Tobias Cagala, Veronika Grimm, and Johannes Rincke,
The Economic Journal, 129(620), 1593-1617.
Awarded the Hermann Gutmann Award, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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A Field Experiment on Intertemporal Enforcement Spillovers, 2014,
with Tobias Cagala and Johannes Rincke,
Economics Letters, 125(2), 171-174.
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Discussion Papers

Optimal Targeting in Fundraising: A Machine-Learning Approach, 2021.
with Tobias Cagala, Johannes Rincke, and Anthony Strittmatter.
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Does Commitment to a No-Cheating Rule Affect Academic Cheating?, 2020.
with Tobias Cagala and Johannes Rincke.
Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Human Resources.
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Content Matters: The Effects of Commitment Requests on Truth-Telling, 2019.
with Tobias Cagala and Johannes Rincke.
Reject & Resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior.
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How Effective Are Social Distancing Policies? Evidence on the Fight Against COVID-19 from Germany, 2020.
with Emanuel Hansen and Simeon Schächtele.
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Leverage, Corporate Taxes and Debt Shifting of Multinationals: The Impact of Firm-specific Risk, 2010.
with Matthias Dischinger and Marcus Strobel.
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Work in Progress

Child Penalties, Family Policies, and Gender Norms in Germany,
with Timm Bönke, Emanuel Hansen, Holger Lüthen, Dominik Sachs.
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Racial Discrimination in Seeking Advice,
with Vojta Bartoš and Johannes Rincke.

Efficiency Concerns with Non-monetary Incentives,
with Tobias Cagala, Veronika Grimm, Christian Maihöfner, and Alec Sproten.