Research Interests
Short Bio
Working Papers
- Pareto-improvements, welfare trade-offs and the taxation of couples, with Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl and Daniel Weishaar, December 2024
- Is a uniform price on Carbon desirable?, June 2024
- Competitive fair redistricting, with Mattias Polborn, Februar 2024
- The taxation of couples, with Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl and Daniel Weishaar, July 2023 (Longer Discussion Paper Version: CEPR, CESifo, ECONtribute)
Publications
Publications in German
- Nachhaltigkeitsziele und das Lieferkettengesetz, Wirtschaftsdienst, vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 344-346, 2022.
- Mehrheitsfähige und wohlfahrtssteigernde Reformen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems: Von Entzugsraten, Mittelstands- und Wohlstandsbäuchen, mit Andreas Peichl, Dominik Sachs und Daniel Weisshaar, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 191-202, 2021.
- Effizienz oder Gerechtigkeit: Ungleiche Einkommen, ungleiche Vermögen und optimale Steuern, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Ausgabe 17(1), pp. 2-24, 2016.
Contributions to Policy Blogs
- Fantastic tax cuts and where to find them, with Pierre Boyer and Emanuel Hansen, VoxEUcolumn, July 2023
- The road to individual taxation, with Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl and Daniel Weishaar, VoxEU column, June 2023
- Tax reforms and politcal feasibility, with Pierre C. Boyer, Andrew Lonsdale and Andreas Peichl, IPP Policy Brief n°74, September 2021
- Towards politically feasible and welfare-improving tax reforms, with Pierre Boyer and Andreas Peichl, VoxEU column, October 2020
- Steuervermeidung vermeiden. Sollen wir das wollen? Ifo Schnelldienst, Ausgabe 11/2013.
- Die Wirkung einer Finanztransaktionssteuer auf ein instabiles Finanzsystem, Ökonomenstimme, September 2012.
Miscellaneous
- An interview of John Weymark, with Claude d’Aspremont in Marc Fleurbaey and Maurice Salles, Eds., Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory – Vol. 1, 2021
- Essays on Public Goods Provision and Income Taxation, Dissertation, University of Mannheim, 2006
Unpublished manuscripts
- Public-Good Provision in Large Economies 1: Linear Payment and Provision Cost Functions, with Martin Hellwig, March 2016
- Boring Banks and Taxes, with Rafael Aigner, April 2015
- On the legitimacy of coercion for the financing of public goods, December 2011
- Political Blockades and Election Timing, with Lydia Mechtenberg, September 2010