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I am a researcher at the department of Macroeconomics and Public Finance at the Berlin office of  RWI — Leibnitz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, where I head the research group "Microstructure of Taxes and Transfers". I am a member of the IZA network.

My main research areas are public economics, labor economics, and macroeconomics. Besides, I work on macroeconomic forecasting, tax forecasting, and microsimulation.  

I contribute to the quarterly macroeconomic forecasts at RWI and the biannual joint economic forecast of Germany's leading economic research institutes (Gemeinschaftsdiagnose). I represent the RWI in the Work­ing Par­ty on Tax Rev­enue Es­ti­mates (Arbeitskreis Steuerschätzungen) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Finance.

I completed my PhD in economics at the Free University of Berlin.

Here is a link to my RWI website in English and in German.