Prof. Dr. Alexander Ludwig

Prof. Dr. Alexander Ludwig

Program Area:

Macro Finance

Position:

Senior Researcher, SAFE Fellow

Institution:

Goethe University Frankfurt

Selected Publications

Author/s	Title	Program Area	Published
Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs Journal of Economic Theory	Household Finance, Macro Finance	2016
Alexander Ludwig, Matthias Schön	Endogenous Grids in Higher Dimensions: Delaunay Interpolation and Hybrid Methods Computational Economics (Springer)	Household Finance, Macro Finance	2018
Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Sergio Villalvazo	Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risk Journal of Public Economics	Macro Finance	2021
Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	Biased Bayesian Learning with an Application to the Risk-Free Rate Puzzle Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control	Macro Finance	2014
Axel Börsch-Supan, Alexander Ludwig	Aging in Europe: Reforms, International Diversification, and Behavioral Reactions American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings	Macro Finance	2014
Daniel Harenberg, Alexander Ludwig	Social Security in an Analytically Tractable Overlapping Generations Model with Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk International Tax and Public Finance	Household Finance, Macro Finance	2015
Axel Börsch-Supan, Alexander Ludwig, Edgar Vogel	Aging and Pension Reform: Extending the Retirement Age and Human Capital Formation Journal of Pension Economics & Finance	Household Finance, Macro Finance	2017
Daniel Harenberg, Alexander Ludwig	Idiosyncratic Risk, Aggregate Risk, and the Welfare Effects of Social Security International Economic Review	Household Finance, Macro Finance	2019

SAFE Working Papers

No.	Author/s	Title	Program Area
59	Daniel Harenberg, Alexander Ludwig	Idiosyncratic Risk, Aggregate Risk, and the Welfare Effects of Social Security	Household Finance, Macro Finance
73	Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs	Household Finance, Macro Finance
72	Alexander Ludwig, Matthias Schön	Endogenous Grids in Higher Dimensions: Delaunay Interpolation and Hybrid Methods	Household Finance, Macro Finance
71	Daniel Harenberg, Alexander Ludwig	Social Security in an Analytically Tractable Overlapping Generations Model with Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk	Household Finance, Macro Finance
82	Axel Börsch-Supan, Alexander Ludwig, Edgar Vogel	Aging and Pension Reform: Extending the Retirement Age and Human Capital Formation	Household Finance, Macro Finance
221	Axel Börsch-Supan, Duarte Nuno Leite, Alexander Ludwig	Endogenous Retirement Behavior of Heterogeneous Households Under Pension Reforms	Macro Finance
294	Christian Alemán, Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig, Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis	Evaluating the Effectiveness of Policies Against a Pandemic	Macro Finance
169	Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	Who Saves More, the Naive or the Sophisticated Agent?	Household Finance, Macro Finance
110	Dirk Krueger, Philipp Krüger, Alexander Ludwig	On the Optimal Provision of Social Insurance	Macro Finance
201	Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig	Optimal Taxes on Capital in the OLG Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Income Risk	Macro Finance
200	Nils Grevenbrock, Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs	Macro Finance
290	Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Irina Popova	The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures	Macro Finance
274	Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig	Higher-Order Income Risk over the Business Cycle: A Parametric Approach	Macro Finance
145	Raphael Abiry, Christian Geppert, Alexander Ludwig	Secular Stagnation? Growth, Asset Returns and Welfare in the Next Decades: First Results	Macro Finance

SAFE Policy Publications

Author	Title	Published
Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig, Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis	Emerging Evidence of a Silver Lining: A Ridge Walk to Avoid an Economic Catastrophe in Italy and Spain White Paper No. 67	2020
Alexander Ludwig	Demographischer Wandel: Kapitalrenditen, Löhne und Verteilungswirkungen White Paper No. 38	2016
Alexander Ludwig	Das Deutsche Rentensystem: Thesen zur derzeitigen Diskussion um „Umkehr“-Reformen White Paper No. 40	2016

Ongoing Projects

Researcher	Project	Funded by	Status	Project Duration	Publication Count
Martin Götz, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Christian Schlag, Ctirad Slavik, Faisal Sohail	Financial Frictions and Inequality	LOEWE	Ongoing	2016	1
Besart Avdiu, Patrick Blank, Matthias Goldmann, Eren Gürer, Johannes Kasinger, Alexander Ludwig, Farah Tohme, Alfons J. Weichenrieder	Fiscal Institutions & Debt in Europe	SAFE	Ongoing	2020	1
Alexander Ludwig, Jochen Mankart, Jorge Alejandro Quintana, Nathanael Vellekoop, Mirko Wiederholt	On the Interactions Between Monetary Policy, Distributions and General Equilibrium	LOEWE	Ongoing	2017	1
Fabian Becker, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Zhao Jin, Chiara Lacava, Alexander Ludwig, Irina Popova, Paul Reimers, Hitoshi Tsujiyama	Trends in Inequality: Sources and Policy (TRISP)	DFG	Ongoing	2018	1
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Zhao Jin, Alexander Ludwig	Inequality and Assortative Matching	LOEWE	Ongoing	2016	1

Completed Projects

Researcher	Project	Funded by	Status	Project Duration	Publication Count
Raphael Abiry, Christian Geppert, Dirk Krueger, Philipp Krüger, Alexander Ludwig	Secular Stagnation? Growth, Asset Returns and Welfare in the Next Decades	LOEWE	Completed	2016	1
Fabian Becker, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Faisal Sohail	Optimal Taxation and Education Subsidies	LOEWE	Completed	2016	1
Nils Grevenbrock, Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	Subjective Survival Beliefs and Savings Decisions	LOEWE	Completed	2014	1
Helge Braun, Christopher Busch, Christian Geppert, Nils Grevenbrock, Daniel Harenberg, Alexander Ludwig	The Welfare Effects of Social Security with Individual and Aggregate Risk: A Macroeconomic Analysis	DFG	Completed	2015	1

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