Research Interests

Public Economics, Political Economy, Normative Economics

Short Bio

• Since 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics, University of Cologne
• 2025: Ph.D. (Dr. oec. publ.), LMU Munich
• 2023: Visiting Student Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
• 2022: Visiting Student Scholar, Columbia University, New York
• 2019–2025: Doctoral Student, Center for Economic Studies, LMU Munich

Working Papers

Hufe, P., and D. Weishaar (2025). “Just Cheap Talk? Investigating Fairness Preferences in Hypothetical Scenarios”. IZA Discussion Paper 17629.

Johannesen, N., J. Miethe, and D. Weishaar (2024). “Homes Incorporated: Offshore Ownership of Real Estate in the U.K.” Oxford CBT Working Paper 24/14.

Bierbrauer, F. J., P. Boyer, A. Peichl, and D. Weishaar (2024). “Pareto-improvements, welfare trade-offs and the taxation of couples”. CEPR Discussion Paper 19750.

Selected Publications

Almås, I., P. Hufe, and D. Weishaar (2025). “Experimental Evidence on Attitudes Toward Inequality and Fairness”. Annual Review of Economics 17. pp. 721–746.

Hufe, P., A. Peichl, and D. Weishaar (2022). “Lower and Upper Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity for Emerging Economies”. Social Choice and Welfare 58 (3), pp. 395–427.