Curriculum Vitae

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Current appointments

  • 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
  • 2026: At-large Member of the Administrative Board, European Economic Association
  • 2024–: Review of Economic Studies, Director
  • 2022– : Council member, European Economic Association
  • 2019– : Council member, Verein für Socialpolitik (German-speaking economic association)

Editorial service

  • 2023–: American Economic Review, Associate Editor
  • 2017–: Review of Economic Studies, Editorial Board
  • 2017–2022: Journal of the European Economic Association, Associate Editor
  • 2017–2019: Explorations in Economic History, Associate Editor

Past appointments

  • 2011–2015: Professor of Economics (W3 tenure-track), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2010–2011: Assistant Professor of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

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)

Grants, awards, stipends

Grants
  • 2023–2028: ERC Consolidator Grant 101044546, “The City Rising”
  • 2021: Investitionsfonds LMUexcellent, LMU Munich
  • 2017–2022: ERC Starting Grant 716837, “Demand for Democracy”
  • 2016–2017: Nachwuchsförderungsfonds LMUexcellent, LMU Munich
  • 2013–2015: Nachwuchsförderungsfonds LMUexcellent, LMU Munich
  • 2012–2016: 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
Participation in department-wide grant applications
  • 2017–2028: DFG Collaborative Research Center “Rationality and Competition” SFB-TRR 190 (co-PI and group leader)
  • 2013–2022: International Graduate Program “Evidence-Based Economics” (Elite Network Bavaria), co-PI
  • 2013–2022: DFG Research Training Group “Microeconomic Determinants of Labor Productivity” GRK 1928, co-PI
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, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Merit Foundation)

Seminar and conference presentations

  • 2026: CEPR Applied Micro-Economic History Conference, NUS Singapore, Bristol, Stanford, UCLA, Cologne, Tübingen, Tilburg, EIEF Rome
  • 2025: PSE-Sciences Po, Pompeu Fabra, USI Lugano
  • 2024: Oxford, Princeton, Rome Tor Vergata, Bergamo
  • 2023: Regensburg, EIEF Rome, European Public Choice Society (Hannover, keynote address), Pavia, ETH Zurich, ASREC (Milan, keynote address)
  • 2022: Göttingen, IIES Stockholm, Mannheim, CEPR International Macro History Seminar, Lisbon (Nova SBE), Turin (Carlo Alberto), ENS Lyon
  • 2021: Kyungpook National University, 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, Luxembourg (keynote address)
  • 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 Symposium, 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 for Collective Goods 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)

Service to the profession

Administrative positions
  • 2023–2025: Dean of the Faculty of Economics, LMU Munich
  • 2023–2025: Nominating Committee, European Economic Association
  • 2023–2025: Audit Committee, European Economic Association
  • 2021–2023: Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics, LMU Munich
  • 2021–2023: Director, Junior Faculty Development Program, Faculty of Economics, LMU Munich
  • 2013–2022: Placement Director, Faculty of Economics, LMU Munich
Organization of scientific meetings
  • 2023: Head of the core conference committee, annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German-speaking economic association)
  • 2019: Head of the program committee, annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German-speaking economic association)
  • 2018: Organizer of a workshop on “Understanding the Demand for Democracy” at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich
  • 2017–2020: Organizer of the department seminar (Hans Möller Seminar), LMU Munich
  • 2013–2015: Co-organizer of three workshops on “Mechanisms of Persistence” at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich
  • 2012–: Co-organizer of the Empirical Economics Seminar at LMU Munich
  • 2012–2016: Local coordinator of EDGE (European Doctoral Group in Economics)
  • 2010–2011: Organizer of the Economic History Seminar series at UPF

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
German Israeli Foundation
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 Finance
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics
Journal of Politics
Journal of Public Economics
Journal of the Economic Science Association
Journal of the European Economic Association
Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca (Italy)
Nature Human Behaviour
National Science Foundation
PNAS
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

Last updated: September 2026