CV
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Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University, 2019 - present
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University, 2011 - present
Parental leave, August 2014 - April 2015 and January 2016 - September 2016
Education
PhD, Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, 2011
M.A. Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, 2007 (formally awarded 2010)
M.A. Sociology and Political Science, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2006 (formally awarded 2007)
M.Sc. Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2004 (formally awarded 2005)
Vordiplom, Business Administration, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, 2002.
Publications
Optimal Tax Policy and Endogenous Growth through Innovation (with Paul Klein), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 209, May 2022, 104645
Dynamic Capital Tax Competition under the Source Principle (with Paul Klein and Miltiadis Makris), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 14, No. 3, July 2022, pp. 365-410
Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Transfer Union, Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 42, October 2021, pp. 194-238
Residence-based capital taxation in open economies with infinitely-lived dynasties (with Paul Klein and Miltiadis Makris), Journal of International Economics, Volume 127, November 2020
Sequential versus Simultaneous Trust (with Maros Servatka and Radovan Vadovic), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 176, No 3, September 2020, pp. 446-472
Unemployment and Income-distribution Effects of Economic Growth: A Minimum-Wage Analysis with Optimal Saving (with Richard Brecher), International Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 16, No 3, September 2020, pp. 243-259
Temporary Foreign Workers and Firms: Theory and Canadian Evidence (with Pierre Brochu and Christopher Worswick), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 53, No 3, August 2020, pp. 871-915
A Minimum-Wage Model of Unemployment and Growth: The Case of a Backward-Bending Demand Curve for Labor (with Richard Brecher), International Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 15, No 3, September 2019, pp. 297-309
Employment Gains from Minimum-Wage Hikes under Perfect Competition: A Simple General-Equilibrium Analysis (with Richard Brecher), Review of International Economics, Vol. 26, Issue 1, February 2018, pp. 165-170
Merit Pay and Wage Compression with Productivity Differences and Uncertainty (with Gary Charness & Christopher Guo), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 117 (2015), pp. 233-247
Equilibrium capital taxation in open economies under commitment, European Economic Review 70 (2014), pp. 75-87
Working Papers
Innovation-driven growth in a multi-country world
On the relevance of tax competition when it is optimal to tax capital income in the long run
Capital Taxation, Intermediate Goods, and Production Efficiency
Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade (with Stéphane Verani)
Grants, Awards, and Honors
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2025
FPA Research Teams Grant (with Mehdi Ammi, William Hogg, and Radovan Vadovic), Carleton University, 2020-2022
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2017-2020
Research grant for "Strategic Investment: Do Executives Exploit the Market?'' (with Radovan Vadovic), Institute for Research in Experimental Economics, 2014
Teaching Assistant of the Year, UCSB, 2009/10
Preliminary examinations passed with distinction, UCSB, 2007
Chancellor’s fellowship, UCSB, 2006-2011
2nd prize for the best master’s thesis in economics, UQAM, 2003/04
Research scholarship, CIRPÉE (UQAM), 2003/04
Research scholarship, CIRPÉE (UQAM), 2003
Exchange stipend to UQAM, U. Magdeburg, 2002
e-fellow for excellent achievements in the Vordiplom, U. Magdeburg, 2002
Teaching Experience
Graduate Optimal Taxation, ECON 5402, Carleton University: Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Winter 2014, Fall 2015, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2021
Graduate Microeconomics (Master’s), ECON 5020, Carleton University: Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2022
Intermediate Microeconomics I: Production, ECON 2020, Carleton University: Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2021
Intermediate Microeconomics II: Consumption, ECON 2030, Carleton University: Winter 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2022
TA, PhD macroeconomics core sequence, Econ 204 a,b,c, UCSB, 2009/10
TA, Introductory micro, Santa Barbara City College, Fall 2008
TA, Intermediate micro and macro, Econ 100 a,b & 101, UCSB, 2007/08
TA, Decision theory and cost theory, U. Magdeburg, 2001/02
Conferences and Seminar Presentations
Canadian Public Economics Group, Annual Conference, 10/25-26/2019
Canadian Economic Association, Annual Conference, 5/30-6/2/2019
Midwest Macro Meetings, 5/17-19/2019
Canadian Economic Association, Annual Conference, 6/1-3/2018
Third Annual Carleton Macro Finance Workshop, 5/26/2018
Canadian Economic Association, Annual Conference, 6/2-4/2017
Société canadienne de science économique, Annual Conference, 5/10-12/2017
Canadian Public Economics Group, Annual Conference, 11/4-5/2016
Ryerson University, 9/27/2016
International Institute of Public Finance, Annual Conference, 8/9-11/2016
University of Windsor, 10/30/2015
Canadian Economic Association, Annual Conference, 5/29-31/2015
Queen's University, 10/8/2014
Canadian Economic Association, Annual Conference, 5/29-6/1/2014
Association for Public Economic Theory, Annual Conference, 7/5-7/2013
Canadian Economic Association, Annual Conference, 5/30-6/2/2013
Midwest Macro Meetings, 5/16-19/2013
Bank of Canada, 5/10/2013
Université du Québec a Montreal, 3/15/2013
University of Ottawa, 11/8/2012
Society for Computational Economics, 6/27/29/2012
Canadian Economic Association, Annual Conference, 6/7-10/2012
Société canadienne de science économique, 5/9-11/2012
UC Santa Barbara, 4/17/2012
Bank of Canada, 10/14/2011
City University of Hong Kong, 2/17/2011
New Economic School Moscow, 2/14/2011
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2/11/2011
Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, 1/28/2011
Carleton University, 1/21/2011
University of Connecticut, 1/18/2011
University of Bielefeld, 12/16/2010
UC Irvine, 11/16/2010
LEEX Summer School in Experimental Macroeconomics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Summer 2009 (participant)
Referee Activities
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (x3), European Economic Review (x2), Macroeconomic Dynamics, Economic Modelling, Canadian Journal of Economics (x2), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (x4), Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Review of Behavioral Economics, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Public Economic Theory, International Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy
Other
Languages: German, English, French, basic Spanish, basic Portuguese, Latin & Ancient Greek at school
Alternative Civil Service, La Force, France, 07/1999 - 07/2000; Student Exchange, Harare, Zimbabwe, 08/1996 - 07/1997
Traineeship at Deloitte Business Consulting, Berlin, 04-08/2004
Harvard Business School e-learning: Management Essentials & Leadership Essentials, 2004