Public Finance and Environmental Economics
Main Research Topics
Simulation of tax effects
- Changes in income tax law (e.g. child allowances, extension of joint filing to cohabitating couples)
- Fiscal benefits for married couples who can file jointly, compared to single filers
- Amount of tax revenue due to cold progression
- Forecasts of the church tax revenue
Improvement of the data infrastructure
- Statistical exploration of the tax payer panel
- Matching of the income tax statistic to other data sources (e.g. German Socio-Economic Panel)
- Multivariate analysis based on linked environmental and economic company-level data
Environmental economics
- Theoretical analysis and empirical estimation of land use policies
- Regional implications of sustainable management of settlement areas
- Employment effects of environmental policy