Professor

Personal Data

Birth: 1968 in Basle

Citizenship: German

Marital Status: married, two children

Education

Privatdozent (Habilitation in Economics), University of Mannheim, 2005, Thesis: Unemployment and the Welfare Effects of Immigration

Dr. rer.pol (equiv. Ph.D. in Economics), University of Mannheim, 2000, Dissertation: Bildungspolitik in alternden Gesellschaften (Population Aging and Education Policy)

Diplom-Volkswirt (equiv. M.A. in Economics), University of Bonn, 1993

Appointments

Professor, Technische Universität Dresden, Chair for Economic Policy and Economic Research, since 2006

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, 2000-2006

Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, 1995-2000

Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Halle-Wittenberg, 1993-1995

Memberships

• Research Fellow, CESifo Research Network (since 2008)
• American Economic Association
• International Institute of Public Finance
• Verein für Socialpolitik (Sections for Education Economics, Public Economics, and Social Policy)

Administration (selected)

Director, School of International Studies at TU Dresden, 2016-2019

Dean of Studies, School of International Studies at TU Dresden, since 2019

Dean of Studies, Faculty of Business & Economics, 2013-2016

Fields of Interest

• Education Economics
• Economics of the Welfare State (Public Pensions, Unemployment)
• Population Economics (Demographic Change, Economics of the Family, Migration)
• Economic Growth
• Industrial Economics
• Political Economy

Publications

Books

• Immigration, Unemployment and Domestic Welfare, Beiträge zur Finanzwissenschaft 22, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2006
• Bildungspolitik in alternden Gesellschaften (Population Aging and Education Policy), Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2000

Refereed Journals (selected)

• Globalization, Inequality and Economic Policy. Economics and Business Review, 5,  3-11, 2019 (w U Broll and V Mukherjee)
• Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 117, 220-247, 2015 (w M Thum)
• A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition, German Economic Review, 14, 432-448, 2013 
• Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration, International Tax and Public Finance 16, 560-570, 2009
• Can Immigrant Employment Alleviate the Demographic Burden? The Role of Union Centralization, Economics Letters 99, 123-126, 2008
• University Funding Reform, Competition and Teaching Quality, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 163, 356-378, 2007
• Studiengebühren in Deutschland: Drei Thesen und ihr empirischer Gehalt, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 8, 184-205, 2007 (w N Erhart and E Janeba)
• Immigration as a Commitment Device, Journal of Population Economics, 19, 299-313, 2006
• Unemployment Insurance, Immigrants‘ Skills, and Native Earnings, FinanzArchiv, 60, 111-139, 2004
• Immigration, Unemployment, and Pensions, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 105, 31-47, 2003
• Price Ceilings and Quality Competition, Economics Bulletin, 4, 20, 1-9, 2003 (w C Hemmasi)
• Endogenous Growth and the Gains from Immigration, Economics Letters, 72, 215-218, 2001
• Growth and Social Security: The Role of Human Capital, European Journal of Political Economy,16, 673-683, 2000 (w B Wigger)
• Social Security, Public Education, and Growth in a Representative Democracy, Journal of Population Economics,13, 443-462, 2000
• Demographic Structure and the Political Economy of Education Subsidies, Public Choice, 101, 235-249, 1999

Presentations (selected)

Seminars:

Antwerp, Augsburg, Bolzano, Bonn, Cologne, Constance, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dresden, Hamburg (Armed Forces), Hannover, Halle-Wittenberg, HU Berlin, Freiburg, Leipzig, Mainz, LMU Munich, Munich (Armed Forces), Nuremberg, Potsdam, Siegen, Trieste, WZB Berlin

Conferences:

Association of Public Economic Theory, European Association of Labor Economists, European Economic Association, European Public Choice Society, European Society for Population Economics, International Economic Association, International Institute of Public Finance, Royal Economic Society, Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Verein für Socialpolitik

Research Visits

Athens University of Economics and Business, CESifo Munich, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Universidad de Girona

Conference and Workshop Organisation

68th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Dresden, 2012 (w M Thum and G Milbradt)

ifo-Workshop Labor Economics and Social Policy, Dresden, annually since 2011

Refereeing

B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, Bulletin of Economic Research, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, European Journal of Political Economy, Economics of Governance, Education Economics, Education Sciences, FinanzArchiv, German Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Economics, Journal on Frontiers in Finance and Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, List Forum, ORDO, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Public Choice, Public Finance, Public Finance Review, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Research in Economics, Review of Development Economics, Review of Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scientometrics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Social Choice and Welfare, Southern Economic Journal, Studies in Higher Education

Bachelor

Microeconomics, Economic Growth, Income Distribution, Bachelor Seminars on various topics (Technology, Growth and Distribution, Economic Policy and Globalisation, Education, Innovation, and Growth, Development Economics)

Master

Economics of Migration, Education Economics, Family Economics,  Master Seminars on various topics (Education Economics, Health and Development  Economics of Democracy and Dictatorship, Economic Policy and Globalisation, Structural Transformation)

Research Grant, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, „Publikationen und Effizienter Einsatz von Ressourcen in der Universitären Wissens-Produktion (Publications and Efficient Use of Resources in University Knowledge Production)“, 2018-2020

Research Grant, German Science Foundation: “Überlappende Kompetenzen und dezentraler Wettbewerb im tertiären Bildungsbereich (Overlapping Competences and Decentralized Competition in Tertiary Education)”, (DFG-Priority Programme 1142: Institutional Design of Federal Systems: Theory and Empirical Evidence), 2005-2009 (w E Janeba)

Südwestmetallpreis, Prize awarded by the Association of Metal and Electrical Industry Baden-Württemberg for Habilitation Thesis, 2005

Teaching Excellence Award, University of Mannheim, 2002