Short Biography

Current Position

Since 2019: Full Professor of Economics, University of Innsbruck

Other Affiliations

CESifo Research Network Fellow

Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich

Past Positions

2016 – 2019: Professor of Economics (W2), Goethe University Frankfurt

2009 – 2016: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich

2011 – 2012: Visiting Professor, Columbia University

2006 – 2009: Research Fellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

2007 – 2009: Research Fellow, Free University of Berlin, project “Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems” (DFG, SFB/TR 15)

Education

2010: Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), Free University of Berlin

2005: Diplom (equiv. M.Sc.) in Industrial Engineering, University of Karlsruhe