Research focuses

Public Economics, Political Economy, Information Economics

Curriculum vitae

• Since 2016: Juniorprofessor in Economics, University of Cologne
• 2014 – 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Macroeconomic Research, University of Cologne
• 2014: PhD in Economics, Bonn Graduate School of Economics, University of Bonn and European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics
• 2010 – 2011: Visiting research student, London School of Economics
• 2008: Magister Artium in Political Science (equiv. Master), University of Mainz
• 2007: Diploma in Economics (equiv. Master), University of Mainz

Selected publications

• Political Selection and the Optimal Concentration of Political Power, with Andreas Grunewald and Gert Pönitzsch, Economic Theory 70, 273-311 (2020).

• Optimal Income Taxation with Labor Supply Responses at Two Margins: When is an Earned Income Tax Credit Optimal?, Journal of Public Economics 195, 104365 (2021).

• Political Competition with Endogenous Party Formation and Citizen Activists (2021). Forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

• How Effective Are Social Distancing Policies? Evidence on the Fight Against COVID-19, with Ulrich Glogowsky and Simeon Schächtele, PLoS ONE 16(9), e0257363 (2021).

• Pareto-Improving Tax Reforms and The Earned Income Tax Credit, CESifo Working Paper 8358, with Felix Bierbrauer and Pierre Boyer, August 2021. Revised and Resubmitted to Econometrica.