Research

Beyond knowledge: Confidence and the gender gap in financial literacy (with Rob Alessie and Tabea Bucher-Koenen). Draft available as ZEW Discussion Paper.

Households’ Financial Fragility during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany. Draft available via SSRN.

Attraktive Finanzbildung für junge Menschen mit CashCoach (Making Financial Education Attractive for Adolescents with CashCoach), 2024, with Manuel Vogler and a team of students we advised for YES! Young Economic Solutions. Published in Wirtschaftsdienst 103(12), 850-855.

Wie haben sich Coronakrise und Preissteigerungen auf die Altersvorsorge ausgewirkt? (How did the Corona-crisis and price hikes affect pension provision?), 2023. Policy Brief (in German) available as ZEW-Kurzexpertise 23-03.

Multiple Facetten der Resilienz von vulnerablen Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern im Umgang mit finanziellen Schocks: Erkenntnisse aus der Corona-Pandemie (Multiple facets of vulnerable consumers' resilience in dealing with financial shocks: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic), 2023, with Carmela Aprea, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Donya Gilan and Max Lohner. Published as a chapter in Verbraucherresilienz: Risikofaktoren, Vulnerabilitäten und Interventionen (ed. Anja Achtziger and Peter Kenning, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2023)

Finanzielle Vulnerabilität in der Coronakrise (Financial vulnerability during the COVID-19 crisis), 2022, with Carmela Aprea, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Donya Gilan, Omar Hahad and Max Lohner. Policy Brief (in German) available as DIFIS-Impuls 6/2022.

Finanzielle Verluste und sozialpolitische Unterstützung von Haushalten in der Corona-Krise (Households' financial losses and social policy support during COVID-19), 2021, with Carmela Aprea, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, and Donya Gilan. Policy Brief (in German) available as ZEW-Kurzexpertise 21-14