Research

I am interested in structural change of complex economic systems with heterogeneous agents. I have looked at the process of globalization with particular focus on multinational firms. More recently I work at overcoming the representative agent in general equilibrium models.

These effort focus on five aspects:

• Modeling a labor market where heterogeneous workers match to differentiated jobs
• Studying a financial market with differentiate assets and a role for financial intermediation
• Understanding the evolution of productivity as endogenous process
• Analyzing technological choices of firms which yields the observed heterogeneity
• Studying the role of commercial banks in transmission of monetary policy

Moreover, Katja Kalkschmied and I work on harnessing the Varieties-of-Capitalism approach for an analysis of the recent challenges that the EU faces.

Last but not least, I am member of the HFDT (Human Factor in Digital Transformation) group, an interdisciplinary network that works on the consequences of digitalization for our society.