Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

January 2014

Seminar for Economic Policy University of Munich

Homepage: http://www.ecpol.vwl.uni-muenchen.de born 14 February 1961 in Stuttgart

married, two children

1. Education and Professional Experience

since 2002 W 3/C 4- Professor for Economic Policy, LMU Munich

2009-2012 Dean and Head of the Department of Economics, LMU Munich

1999-2002 C 3- Professor for Public Finance and Social Policy, University of G¨ottingen 1998 Habilitation, University of Konstanz

1993 - 1998 Academic Assistant, University of Konstanz

(Chair of Public Finance, Professor Bernd Genser)

1993 - 1994 Visiting Scholar, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada 1992 Dissertation (Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude), University of Konstanz 1987 - 1988 Postgraduate Degree (Lizentiat) “International Economic Relations”,

University of Konstanz

1985 - 1986 Master Degree in Economics and Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.A.

1983 - 1985 Intermediate Degree (Vordiplom) in Economics and Politiocal Science, University of Freiburg, Germany

1980 - 1981 Studium Generale, Leibniz-Kolleg, T¨ubingen 1980 Abitur (university entrance diploma), Stuttgart

International Research Visits

June 2013 Strathclyde University, Glasgow

May 2013 Oxford University Centre of Business Taxation Jan.-Feb. 2009 Institute for Industrial Economics, Stockholm Sept.-Oct. 2008 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada March 2006 Strathclyde University, Glasgow

June 2004 York University, Toronto, Canada

September 2001 Economic Policy Research Unit, Copenhagen

September 1997 Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administ., Bergen August 1996 Economic Policy Research Unit, Copenhagen

2. Publications

• Taxation in a Global Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2001 [340 p.] Reviews in:

Journal of Economic Literature 42, 2004, 193-194 (James R. Hines)

National Tax Journal 57, 2004, 349-352 (Timothy Goodspeed)

Review of World Economics 139, 2003, 179-180 (Oliver Lorz)

Journal of Economics 79, 2003, 107-112 (Clemens Fuest)

The World Economy 25, 2002, 753-754 (Kimberley Clausing)

• Commodity Tax Harmonization in the European Community. A General Equi-librium Analysis of Tax Policy Options in the Internal Market. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1993 [216 p.]

Reviews in:Finanzarchiv 51, 1994, 410-415 (Wilhelm Kohler)

2.2 Publications in Refereed Journals

1. Economic Integration and the Optimal Corporate Tax Structure with Het-erogeneous Firms (with Christian Bauer and Ronald B. Davies), Journal of

2. Tax Competition in a Simple Model with Heterogeneous Firms: How Larger Markets Reduce Profit Taxes (with Frank St¨ahler), International Economic Review 54(2), 2013, 665-692.

3. Firms’ Financial Choices and Thin Capitalization Rules under Corporate Tax Competition (with Marco Runkel), European Economic Review 56(6), 2012, 1087-1103.

4. Unionisation Triggers Tax Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (with Fer-dinand Mittermaier), The Economic Journal 121(4), 2011, 793-818.

5. Merger Policy and Tax Competition (with Christian Schulte), International Tax and Public Finance 18(2), 2011, 121-145.

6. Competition for Firms in an Oligopolistic Industry: The Impact of Economic Integration (mit Ian Wooton),Journal of International Economics 80(2), 2010, 239-248.

7. Wer tr¨agt bei der Jahrestagung des Vereins f¨ur Socialpolitik vor? Eine em-pirische Analyse (with Johannes Rincke), Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspoli-tik 10(2), 2009, 123-145.

8. Economic Integration and the Relationship between Profit and Wage Taxes (with Guttorm Schjelderup and Alexander Klemm),Public Choice 138, 2009, 423-446.

9. Tax Competition when Firms Choose their Organizational Form: Should Tax Loopholes for Multinationals be Closed? (with Sam Bucovetsky), Journal of International Economics 74(1), 2008, 188-201.

10. Merger Policy to Promote ‘Global Players’ ? A Simple Model (with Søren Bo Nielsen),Oxford Economic Papers 60(3), 2008, 517-545.

11. Redistributive Taxation, Multinational Enterprises, and Economic Integration (with Alexander Klemm and Guttorm Schjelderup), European Journal of Po-litical Economy 24(1), 2008, 249-255.

12. Preferential Tax Regimes with Asymmetric Countries (with Sam Bucovetsky),

13. International Oligopoly and the Taxation of Commerce with Revenue Con-strained Governments (with Michael Pfl¨uger), Economica 74, 2007, 451-473. 14. Company Tax Coordination cum Tax Rate Competition in the European

Union (with Wolfgang Eggert), Finanzarchiv 62(4), 2006, 579-601.

15. The Effects of Regional Tax and Subsidy Coordination on Foreign Direct In-vestment (with Ian Wooton),European Economic Review 50(2), 2006, 285-305. 16. Barriers to Trade and Imperfect Competition: The Choice of Commodity Tax Base (with Guttorm Schjelderup and Frank St¨ahler), International Tax and Public Finance 12(2), 2005, 281-300.

17. Tacit Collusion and International Commodity Taxation (with Guttorm Schjelderup), Journal of Public Economics 88 (3/4), 2004, 577-600.

18. Welche Vorteile bringt eine Pauschalpr¨amie f¨ur die Finanzierung des Gesund-heitswesens?,Schmollers Jahrbuch 124(4), 2004, 539-556.

19. International Commodity Taxation under Monopolistic Competition (with Michael Pfl¨uger),Journal of Public Economic Theory 6(3), 2004, 445-470. 20. Corporate Tax Systems and Cross-Country Profit Shifting (with Guttorm

Schjelderup), Oxford Economic Papers 52(2), 2000, 306-325.

21. Health Care Reform: Separating Insurance from Income Redistribution (with Friedrich Breyer),International Tax and Public Finance 7(4/5), 2000, 445-461. 22. Country Size and Tax Competition for Foreign Direct Investment (with Ian

Wooton),Journal of Public Economics 71(1), 1999, 121-139.

23. Corporate Taxation, Profit Shifting and the Efficiency of Public Input Provi-sion (with Guttorm Schjelderup),Finanzarchiv 56(3/4), 1999, 481-499. 24. Capital Taxation and Production Efficiency in an Open Economy (with

Wolf-gang Eggert),Economics Letters 62(1), 1999, 85-90.

25. Harmonization of Corporate Income Taxation in the EU (with Bernd Genser),

26. Prospects for Co-ordination of Corporate Taxation and Taxation of Interest Income in the EU,Fiscal Studies 20(2), 1999, 133-153.

27. When do Small Countries Win Tax Wars? (with Wolfgang Eggert), Public Finance Review 26(4), 1998, 327-361.

28. Asymmetric Commodity Tax Competition - Comment on de Crombrugghe and Tulkens, Journal of Public Economics 67(1), 1998, 135-144.

29. Factor Taxation, Income Distribution, and Capital Market Integration, Scan-dinavian Journal of Economics 99(3), 1997, 425-446.

30. Dynamic Effects of an Anticipated Switch from Destination- to Origin-Based Commodity Taxation (with Søren Bo Nielsen),Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift f¨ur National¨okonomie 66(1), 1997, 43-69.

31. On the Optimal Tax Policy Mix when Consumers and Firms are Imperfectly Mobile (with Bernd Genser),Finanzarchiv 53(3/4), 1996, 411-433.

32. Optimal Factor and Commodity Taxation in a Small Open Economy,

International Tax and Public Finance 3(3), 1996, 425-442.

33. Tax Differentials and External Tariffs in a Trade Deflection Model, Finanz-archiv 53(1), 1996, 47-67.

34. Tax Competition, Tax Coordination, and Tax Harmonization: The Effects of EMU (with Bernd Genser),Empirica 23(1), 1996, 59-89.

35. Tax Coordination with Different Preferences for Public Goods: Conflict or Harmony of Interest?,International Tax and Public Finance 3(1), 1996, 5-28. 36. Indirect Taxation in an Integrated Europe: Is there a Way of Avoiding Trade Distortions without Sacrificing National Tax Autonomy? (with Bernd Genser and Peter B. Sørensen),Journal of Economic Integration 10(2), 1995, 170-205. 37. Unilateral Tax Reform under the Restricted Origin Principle, European

2.3 Submitted Discussion Papers

• Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation (with Pehr-Johan Norb¨ack and Lars Persson), revised and resubmitted to theJournal of Public Economics, January 2014.

• Reforming an Asymmetric Union: On the Virtues of Dual Tier Capital Tax-ation (with Christoph L¨ulfesmann), CESifo Working Paper No. 4076, Januar 2013, invited for resubmission at theJournal of Public Economics.

• Cross-Border Loss Offset can Fuel Tax Competition (with Mohammed Mar-dan),Oxford University Centre of Business Taxation WP 13/10, October 2013

• Should Tax Policy Favor High- or Low-Productivity Firms? (with Dominika Langenmayr and Christian Bauer),Oxford University Centre of Business Tax-ation WP 13/10, September 2013

2.4 Interviews and Articles in the Press

• “Plenum der ¨Okonomen: Stellungnahme zur Europ¨aischen Bankenunion” (with Bernd Lucke, Monika Merz and Wolfram Richter), ¨Okonomenstimme, 21.09.2012

• TV Interview on the EU ‘Banking Union’ Summit, Phoenix, 06.07.2012

• “Ist die Forderung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen kontraproduktiv?” ¨

Okonomenstimme, 8.12.2011

• “Ausweg aus der Euro-Krise? ¨Okonomen bleiben skeptisch” (with Volker Grossman, Bernd Lucke, Manfred Neumann and Hans-Werner Sinn), Eurac-tiv.de, 28.10.2011

• “Why are unionised countries often successful in attracting foreign direct in-vestment?” (with Ferdinand Mittermaier), VoxEU, 25.10.2011

• “Der ESM ist nicht alternativlos”, Euractiv.de, 23.03.2011

• “The Plenum of German Economists on the European Debt Crisis” (with Bernd Lucke, Monika Merz and Wolfram Richter), VoxEU, 24.02.2011

3. Editorial Services and Refereeing

• Editor-in-Chief, International Tax and Public Finance (since 2013; Associate Editor (2004-2013)

• Associate Editor, Finnish Economic Papers (seit 2007)

• Associate Editor, Fiscal Studies (2010-2013)

• Reviewer for:

American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, CESifo nomic Studies, Economic Journal, Economics of Governance, Empirical Eco-nomics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, Finanzarchiv, Fiscal Studies, International Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Jahrb¨ucher f¨ur National¨okonomie und Statistik, Jour-nal of Economics, JourJour-nal of InternatioJour-nal Economics, JourJour-nal of Public Eco-nomic Theory, Journal of Public EcoEco-nomics, Journal of Urban EcoEco-nomics, Konjunkturpolitik, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Public Choice, Re-gional Science and Urban Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, Scan-dinavian Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy

4. Memberships and Doctoral Training Programs

• President, Plenum der ¨Okonomen, since 2012 (Board Member since 2010)

• Research Affiliate, Norwegian Center for Taxation, Bergen (Director: Guttorm Schjelderup), since 2012

• International Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation (Director: Michael Devereux), since 2006

• Extended Board of the Verein f¨ur Socialpolitik, 2009-2012

• Committee of Public Finance at the Vereins f¨ur Socialpolitik

• CESifo Research Fellow

• Research Training Group “Markets, Institutions, and the Scope of Govern-ment”, Department of Economics (University of Munich), 2002-2012

• Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE), Member of the Organi-zational Committee, 2006-2009

• European Doctoral Group in Economics (EDGE), Training Network of the Universities of Munich, Copenhagen, Milan (Bocconi), Dublin, Cambridge; Coordinator for LMU Munich, 2003-2009

• Interdisciplinary Research Training Group “The Future of the European Social Model”, University of G¨ottingen (1999-2002)

5. Research Funding

• “Firms with Heterogeneous Profitability: An Argument for pick-the-winner

Strategies in Tax and Industrial Policies?”, German Research Foundation (in-dividual grants program), 2010-2013

• “Alternative Systems of Taxation of Multinational Enterprises in Europe”, joint with Marco Runkel (Munich/Magdeburg), German Research Foundation (individual grants program), 2007-2010

• “Behavioral Economics and the Theory of Fiscal Federalism: Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance”, Priority Program ”Institutional Design of Federal Systems: Theory and Empirical Evidence” of the German Research Foundation (SPP 1142; Speakers: J¨urgen von Hagen and Helmut Seitz), 2005-2007

• “Fiscal Federalism: Political Economy Aspects vs. the Principle of the Welfare State”, joint with Heinrich Ursprung (Konstanz), German Research Founda-tion (individual grants program), 2001-2004