Post-Phd. employment

10/2011 - Assistant professor (W1),
University of Göttingen (Germany)
10/2012 - 02/2013 Visiting lecturer,
University of Konstanz (Germany)
09/2010 - 09/2011 Post-doctoral researcher,
Department of Economics & GCGD,
University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
01/2010 - 08/2010 Post-doctoral researcher,
Department of Economics (Chair for Public Economics),
University of Heidelberg (Germany)

Research Interests

Public Economics
Public Finance
Development Economics
Political Economics

Education

10/2006 - 01/2010 Doctorate in Economics (equivalent to Ph.D.),
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Thesis: Fiscal decentralization and fiscal policy: An economic analysis
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Lars P. Feld
10/2000 - 09/2004 Diplom-Volkswirt (equivalent to M.Sc. in Economics),
Free University of Berlin (Germany)

Grants

2015 Research grant: 11.290 £ (ca. 15.500 Euro),
International Growth Center (IGC),
Project: Tax capacity and public goods in Rwanda,
(with Arne Bigsten and Pelle Ahlerup).
2014 - 2015 Research grant: ca. 125.000 Euro,
German Research Foundation (DFG),
Project: The political economy of local fiscal equalization in the German States
2012 - 2014 Research grant: 2.4 mil SEK (ca. 250.000 Euro),
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA),
Project: Fiscal capacity and democracy in developing countries,
(with Arne Bigsten and Pelle Ahlerup).

Research visits

Several visits since 2012 University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Department of Economics.
03/2014 - 04/2014 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), Department of Economics.

Selected presentations

2015 ZEW Public Finance Conference (Mannheim, Germany)
VATT Institute for Economic Research Seminar (Helsinki, Finland)
Development Economics Seminar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
2014 CESifo Workshop on Political Economy (Dresden, Germany)
DIW Berlin Applied Microeconomics Seminar (Berlin, Germany)
Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association (Hamburg, Germany)
Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association (Tolouse, France)
International Institute of Public Finance (Lugano, Switzerland)
Walter Eucken Institute "Future of Political Economy" conference (Freiburg, Germany)
ZEW Public Finance Conference (Mannheim, Germany)
Workshop on Federalism and Regional Policy (Siegen, Germany)
Royal Economic Society (Manchester, UK)
European Public Choice Society (Cambridge, UK)
Development Economics (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (Philadelphia, USA)
2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Chicago, USA)
International Institute of Public Finance (Taormina, Sicily)
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Singapore)
International Society for New Institutional Economics (Florence, Italy)
Conference on company tax integration in the EU (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Aarhus, Denmark)
European Public Choice Society (Zürich, Switzerland)
Walter Eucken Institute Seminar (Freiburg, Germany)
2012 University of Konstanz Dept. of Economics Brown Bag Seminar (Konstanz, Germany)
CESifo Workshop on Political Economy (Dresden, Germany)
European Commission DG ECFIN Workshop on Public Finance (Brussels, Belgium)
University of Kassel Dept. of Economics Seminar (Kassel, Germany)
Workshop on Federalism and Regional Policy (Siegen, Germany)
International Institute of Public Finance (Dresden, Germany)
German Economic Association (Göttingen, Germany)
Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy (Pontresina, Switzerland)
International Society for New Institutional Economics (Los Angeles, USA)
University of Mannheim Political Economy Seminar (Mannheim, Germany)
University of Kassel Public Finance Workshop (Kassel, Germany)
Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development Seminar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
2011 European Public Choice Society (Rennes, France)
Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy (Pontresina, Switzerland)
European Commission DG ECFIN Workshop on Public Finance (Brussels, Belgium)
Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet (Marseille, France)
GCGD Global Week Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Refereeing service

Peer-reviewed journals

Journal of Urban Economics
Journal of Economic Growth
American Political Science Review
Economics & Politics
Economics of Governance
Comparative Political Studies
Journal of Economic Policy Reform
Economic Modelling
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
Review of Economics and Institutions
World Development
European Journal of Political Economy
Regional Science and Urban Economics
International Tax and Public Finance
Public Choice
The Social Science Journal
Scandinavian Political Studies
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Constitutional Political Economy
Applied Economics
Economic Change and Restructuring
Publius: The Journal of Federalism
Education Economics
Bulletin of Economic Research
European Union Politics
Public Budgeting & Finance
Climate Policy
Public Administration
World Economy
Journal of Economic Geography
Journal of Common Market Studies
British Journal of Political Science

Research councils

German Research Foundation (DFG)