Research Associate Philipp Weber, M. Sc.
E-Mail: weber@eucken.de
Telefon: +49 761-790 97 14
Twitter: @we_philipp
- Fiscal rules and public investment
- Government debt and inflation
- Financial equalization schemes and local public finance
- Taxes and economic policy
Philipp Weber studied economics at Leibniz University Hannover and the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2013 to 2018, specializing in business taxation, accounting, international financial markets and public finance. During his studies, he completed internships at BDO and EY in auditing and tax consulting as well as internships abroad in Singapore, Tallinn (Estonia) and Kotka (Finland). He also spent two years as a research assistant at the Chair of Public Finance at Leibniz University in Hanover.
Since May 2019, Philipp Weber has been a research fellow at the Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg. His research focuses on empirical studies in public finance, in particular on subnational investment policies and the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level.
In addition, he is involved in numerous externally funded consultancy projects on taxation, industrial and economic policy. He has a distinct focus on public consultancy in the field of municipal fiscal equalization schemes.
Philipp Weber is a PhD Scholarship Holder from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes – German Academic Scholarship Foundation since March 2022.
Publications
2021 2. Öffentliche Investitionen und Fiskalregeln im Tiefzinsumfeld
Grundlagen für die Wirtschaftspolitik, No. 28, Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft SECO (Eds.), Bern, June 2021, 86 pages (with LARS P. FELD, CHRISTOPH A. SCHALTEGGER, LAURA ZELL, YANNICK BURY and STEFFEN ZETZMANN).
2020 3. Weitere/ergänzende wissenschaftliche Überprüfung der Einwohnergewichtung im Kommunalen Finanzausgleich in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Finanzwissenschaftliches Gutachten im Auftrag des Ministeriums für Heimat, Kommunales, Bau und Gleichstellung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, June 2020, 104 pages (with YANNICK BURY and LARS P. FELD).
2019 4. Nationale Industriestrategie 2030: Einschätzungen zur „Industriestrategie 2030“ des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie
Kurzgutachten im Auftrag der IMPULS Stiftung des Verbands Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. (VDMA), Freiburg i.Br., September 2019, 31 pages (with LARS P. FELD).
2022 1. Government Debt and Inflation. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Unpublished manuscript, Walter Eucken Institut 2022.
2020 2. Perspektiven einer Unternehmenssteuerreform in Deutschland
Working paper, 2020 (with LARS P. FELD).