Prof. Dr. Alexander Ludwig

• Selected SAFE Publications

  Author/s	Title	Area	Published
  Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Irina Popova	The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures The Economic Journal	Macro Finance	2022
  Nils Grevenbrock, Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs International Economic Review	Macro Finance	2021
  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
  Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs Journal of Economic Theory	Household Finance, Macro Finance	2016
  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	Area
  432	Alexander Ludwig, Jochen Mankart, Jorge Alejandro Quintana, Mirko Wiederholt	Heterogeneity in Expectations and House Price Dynamics	Macro Finance
  404	Christian Alemán-Pericón, Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig, Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis	Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects	Macro Finance
  396	Nils Grevenbrock, Alexander Ludwig, Nawid Siassi	Homeownership Rates, Housing Policies, and Co-Residence Decisions	Macro Finance
  376	Raphael Abiry, Marien Ferdinandusse, Alexander Ludwig, Carolin Nerlich	Climate Change Mitigation: How Effective is Green Quantitative Easing?	Macro Finance
  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-Pericón, 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

• Completed Projects

  Researcher	Project	Funded by
  Raphael Abiry, Christian Geppert, Dirk Krueger, Philipp Krüger, Alexander Ludwig	Secular Stagnation? Growth, Asset Returns and Welfare in the Next Decades	LOEWE
  Besart Avdiu, Patrick Blank, Matthias Goldmann, Eren Gürer, Johannes Kasinger, Alexander Ludwig, Farah Tohme, Alfons J. Weichenrieder	Fiscal Institutions & Debt in Europe	SAFE
  Fabian Becker, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, Faisal Sohail	Optimal Taxation and Education Subsidies	LOEWE
  Nils Grevenbrock, Max Groneck, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Zimper	Subjective Survival Beliefs and Savings Decisions	LOEWE
  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
  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