Curriculum Vitae


CV as pdf

Current Appointment

  • 2015– : Professor of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2020– : Ordinary Member, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich
  • 2012– : Research Affiliate, CEPR, London
  • 2012– : Member, CESifo Research Network, Munich

Editorial board service

  • 2017–: Review of Economic Studies, Editorial Board
  • 2017–: Journal of the European Economic Association, Associate Editor

Past Appointments

  • 2017–2019: Explorations in Economic History, Associate Editor
  • 2011–2015: Professor of Economics (tenure track), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2010–2011: Assistant Professor of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
  • 2010–2011: Affiliated professor, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

Education

  • 2005–2010: Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University
  • 2003–2004: Visiting graduate student in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2000–2005: Diplom-Volkswirt in Economics, Universität Mannheim (with distinction)

Past and temporary appointments

  • 2014: Visitor, Department of Economics and Berkeley Economic History Lab, UC Berkeley
  • 2010: Visitor, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
  • 2007–2010: Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
  • 2007, 2008: Visitor, Alfred-Weber-Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  • 2005, 2006: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Department of Economics, Universität Mannheim

Grants, awards, stipends

Grants
  • 2023: ERC Consolidator Grant 101044546, "The City Rising"
  • 2021: Investitionsfonds LMUexcellent, LMU Munich
  • 2017: ERC Starting Grant 716837, "Demand for Democracy"
  • 2017: DFG Collaborative Research Center ``Rationality and Competition'' SFB-TRR 190 (co-PI)
  • 2016: Nachwuchsförderungsfonds LMUexcellent, LMU Munich
  • 2013: Nachwuchsförderungsfonds LMUexcellent, LMU Munich
  • 2012: Marie Curie Career Integration Grant
  • 2010: Programa Comença, UPF
  • 2009: Paul Warburg Fund, Harvard University (joint with Leonardo Bursztyn)
  • 2008: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Opportunity Grant
  • 2007: Paul Warburg Fund, Harvard University (joint with Leonardo Bursztyn)
  • 2007: Economic History Association, Exploratory Data and Travel Award
  • 2007: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Summer Travel Grant
Awards
  • 2021: Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
  • 2021: Schmölders Prize (best economic history article of the last three years)
  • 2019: Gossen Prize (best economist under 45 in German-speaking countries)
  • 2016: Preis für gute Lehre des Freistaats Bayern (State of Bavaria, best teaching award)
  • 2015: Excellence in Refereeing Award, Journal of the European Economic Association
  • 2009: Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
Stipends
  • 2009–2010: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • 2007–2009: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2005–2007: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, ERP Grant
  • 2005–2007: Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship
  • 2000–2005: Fellow, Studenstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Merit Foundation)

Seminar and conference presentations

  • 2022: Göttingen, IIES Stockholm, Mannheim, CEPR International Macro History Seminar, (scheduled:) EIEF Rome
  • 2021: Bocconi, Bonn, Pompeu Fabra, SMYE Bologna (keynote address), Toulouse, ECARES Brussels, Columbia, LSE, UC Irvine, British Columbia
  • 2020: Graduate Institute Geneva, UCL, Bocconi, SMYE Bologna (keynote address), CEPR Populism Workshop, IIES Stockholm, WZB Berlin, Wuppertal, MPI for European Legal History Frankfurt
  • 2019: Nuremberg, CEU, CERGE-EI, Hebrew, Herzliya, Heidelberg, EUI
  • 2018: UC Berkeley-Haas, Stockholm (SU), Fribourg, Harvard, Uppsala, Passau, PSE-Sciences Po, Heidelberg, Luxembourg (keynote)
  • 2017: MPI for Collective Goods Bonn, Milan (Catholic U), Queen Mary, Milan (U Statale, Sociology/Polisci), Frankfurt, Conference on The Long Shadow of History (Tel Aviv), Düsseldorf, Trinity College Dublin, Copenhagen, Lund, Zurich
  • 2016: Bonn, NYU Stern, Innsbruck, Bozen-Bolzano, Pompeu Fabra, CESifo Area Conference Behavioural Economics, Utrecht, UC Berkeley
  • 2015: Cologne, Bayreuth, TU Munich, Mannheim, Becker Friedman Institute Media and Communications Conference
  • 2014: UC Berkeley, UCLA-Anderson, Northwestern, Stanford, UC Davis, CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education, CEPR Economic History Meeting, Zurich
  • 2013: Hohenheim, Warwick, IIES Stockholm, Bocconi, U Southern Denmark
  • 2012: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Regensburg, Linz, Workshop on Natural Experiments and Controlled Field Studies (Holzhausen), NBER Summer Institute (POL), FU Berlin, Mannheim
  • 2011: U Barcelona, Royal Economic Society (Royal Holloway), Oxford, Paris School of Economics, Asian Development Bank Workshop on Human Capital and Economic Development (Boston), LSE
  • 2010: Pompeu Fabra, Bocconi, Brown, LMU Munich, IIES Stockholm, Harvard, VfS annual meeting (Kiel), CREI, U Autónoma Barcelona, Cologne
  • 2009: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, LMU Munich, MPI Bonn, HU Berlin, NBER Summer Institute (POL), EEA annual meeting (Barcelona), Harvard, Yale, Mannheim, Colgate-Hamilton
  • 2008: Harvard, Yale, Heidelberg, EHA annual meeting (New Haven)

Refereeing

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
American Economic Review
American Economic Review: Insights
American Journal of Political Science
American Political Science Review
China Journal
Constitutional Political Economy
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Econometrica
Economica
Economic History Review
Economic Journal
Economics of Transition
European Economic Review
European Research Council
European Review of Economic History
Explorations in Economic History
International Economic Review
Israel Science Foundation
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Journal of Comparative Economics
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Journal of Development Economics
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Journal of Economic Growth
Journal of Economic History
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Public Economics
Journal of the Economic Science Association
Journal of the European Economic Association
Nature Human Behaviour
National Science Foundation
Princeton University Press
Public Choice
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Quarterly Journal of Political Science
Review of Economics and Statistics
Review of Economic Studies
Scandinavian Economic History Review
Science
Swiss National Science Foundation