CV & Biography
Recent rankings and awards
- FAZ Ökonomenranking 2017 has placed me among the 100 most influential economists in the German-speaking world
- Handelsblatt research ranking 2017 has placed me among the top-100 economists born in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in terms of publication performance
Selected professional activities and further affiliations
- Editor of the Journal of Regional Science
- Editorial board member at the Journal of Urban Economics
- Associate Editor of Regional Science and Urban Economics
- Research fellow at CEPR, CESifo, IAB and IZA
- Principal investigator within the DFG-Priority Programme 1764: "The German Labour Market in a Globalized World"
- Chairman of the Field Committee for Regional Economics at the German Economics Association (Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Regionaltheorie und -politik beim Verein für Socialpolitik)