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Inequality, perceptions & redistribution
How social environments, reference groups and privilege shape beliefs about inequality and support for redistribution.
Economics · inequality · networks · macro dynamics
Jan Schulz-Gebhard
I am an economist at the Economics Institute of the University of Bamberg, where I work at the Chair of International Economics. I work at the intersection of macroeconomics and public economics, with research on inequality, social and production networks, and how heterogeneous micro-level interactions shape aggregate outcomes.
My partner Anna Gebhard is also in academia and works at the intersection of mathematics and medicine (with some joint economics projects with me on the side).
Research identity
Networked heterogeneity from micro to macro
I use analytical models, large-scale data, networks and computational methods to study how heterogeneity and interaction shape economic inequality, perceptions, market dynamics and aggregate fluctuations.
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Production networks, inflation & macroeconomics
How sectoral interdependence propagates shocks and shapes inflation, distribution and aggregate fluctuations.
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Complex systems, firms & growth
Agent-based models, network interaction, stochastic growth and the emergence of macro-level regularities.
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History, institutions & political economy
Long-run corporate data, wartime inequality, regional development and institutional political economy.
Selected research
Recent and selected work
Selected publications and current research across my main fields.
2026 · Published
Excessive White Male Privilege Biases the Measurement of Intersectional Wage Discrimination
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 13:631
inequalityintersectionalitywages
2026 · Published
Social Segregation, Misperceptions, and Emergent Cyclical Choice Patterns
Public Choice 207: 611–644
inequality perceptionsnetworksredistribution
2025 · Published
Stress Testing Inflation Exposure: Systemically Significant Prices and Asymmetric Shock Propagation in the EU
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 74: 713–724
inflationproduction networksEurope
2026 · R&R
Wealth Taxation, Capital Gains Taxation and the Inequality–Mobility Trade-Off
Manuscript · R&R at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
wealth taxationinequalitymobility
2025 · Published
Growing Differently: European Integration and Regional Cohesion
Journal of Economic Issues 59(3): 894–912
regional inequalityEuropestochastic growth
2026 · Working paper
Aggregating Microeconomic Shocks in Production Networks
Working paper · version 10 September 2026
production networksaggregationbusiness cycles
Teaching
Teaching economics across methods and disciplines
My teaching ranges from large undergraduate macroeconomics lectures to graduate inequality courses and interdisciplinary seminars on computational methods, the history of economic thought and political economy.