Post-Phd. employment |
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| 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 |
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| • | Public Economics |
| • | Public Finance |
| • | Development Economics |
| • | Political Economics |
Education |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Peer-reviewed journals |
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| • | 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 |
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| German Research Foundation (DFG) | |