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Research Associate Philipp Weber, M. Sc.

E-Mail: weber@eucken.de

Telefon: +49 761-790 97 14

X: @we_philipp

Research focus:
  • 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

2023 1. Überprüfung der differenzierten Normierung von Realsteuerhebesätzen zwischen kreisangehörigen und kreisfreien Gemeinden

Scientific Report in the matter of VerfGH NRW 115/22 (GFG 2022), charged by the Ministry of Regional Identity, Local Government, Building and Digitalization of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, November 2023, 42 pages (with LARS P. FELD and MAXIMILIAN LANGER).

2023 2. Überprüfung der Systematik der Gemeindeschlüsselzuweisungen und der bestehenden Sonderlastenausgleiche im kommunalen Finanzausgleich des Landes Baden-Württemberg

Scientific Report for the Treasury of Baden-Württemberg State, Stuttgart, October 2023, 70 pages (with LARS P. FELD, PARTICK HIRSCH, MAXIMILIAN LANGER and DANIEL NIENTIEDT).

2022 3. Government Debt and Inflation – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Interim Report for Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Arlington (VA), December 2022 (with LARS P. FELD).

2021 4. Fiskalische Einordnung der Programme zur Bundestagswahl 2021

Report for the Economic Counci of the CDU (Wirtschaftsrat der CDU e.V.), Berlin, August 2021, 50 Pages (with DÉSIRÉE I. CHRISTOFZIK and LARS P. FELD).

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2021 5. Öffentliche Investitionen und Fiskalregeln im Tiefzinsumfeld

Grundlagen für die Wirtschaftspolitik, No. 28, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO (Ed.), Bern, June 2021, 86 Pages (with LARS P. FELD, CHRISTOPH A. SCHALTEGGER, LAURA ZELL, YANNICK BURY and STEFFEN ZETZMANN).

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2020 6. Weitere/ergänzende wissenschaftliche Überprüfung der Einwohnergewichtung im Kommunalen Finanzausgleich in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Scientific Report for the Ministry for Regional Identity, Local Government, Construction and Digitalization of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf, June 2020, 104 Pages (with YANNICK BURY and LARS P. FELD).

2019 7. Nationale Industriestrategie 2030: Einschätzungen zur „Industriestrategie 2030“ des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie

Report for IMPULS Foundation, Verbands Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V. (VDMA), Freiburg i.Br., September 2019, 31 Pages (with LARS P. FELD).

2024 1. Die Tücken der Ungleichheitsmessung: Rezeption einer aktuellen Debatte

Wirtschaftsdienst, 104 (7), p. 485–489 (with LILITH BURGSTALLER, JOSHUA HASSIB und W. BENEDIKT SCHMAL).

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2022 2. In dieser Krise ist gute Wirtschaftspolitik Angebotspolitik

ifo Schnelldienst 75 (11), 2022, pp. 13 – 16 (with LARS P. FELD).

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2021 3. Trotz Schuldenbremse: Die öffentliche Hand nutzt die Tiefzinsphase

Die Volkswirtschaft (94), No. 8–9, 2021 (with LARS P. FELD, CHRISTOPH A. SCHALTEGGER, LAURA ZELL and YANNICK BURY).

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2024 1. Government Debt and Inflation: A Cross Country Investigation of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

unpublished working paper, 2024 (with LARS P. FELD).

2024 2. Public Investment and Fiscal Rules in a Low-Interest Rate Environment

unpublished working paper, 2024 (with LARS P. FELD, CHRISTOPH A. SCHALTEGGER and LAURA ZELL).

2024 3. A New Fiscal Rule Index for Swiss Cantons,

unpublished working paper, 2024.

2023 4. Perspektiven einer Unternehmenssteuerreform in Deutschland

unpublished working paper, 2023 (with LARS P. FELD).

Qualification

since March 2022 Scholarship Holder from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes – German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2018 MSc. Accounting and Taxation, Leibniz University Hannover

2017 BSc. Economics and Business Administration, Leibniz University Hannover

09/2015 – 02/2016 Study abroad at Chinese University of Hong Kong (Leibniz Promos scholarship)

Academic positions and work experience

since 05/2019 Research associate at the Walter Eucken Institut

12/2016 – 09/2018 Research Assistant, Chair of Public Finance, Leibniz University of Hannover

08/2017 – 10/2017 Internship: Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

02/2016 – 04/2016 Internship: BDO AG – Wirtschaftsprüfergesellschaft

09/2014 – 10/2014 Internship: UNITI – Federal Association of Medium-sized Oil Companies e.V.

08/2012 – 07/2013 Internship: Oiltanking Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG