Affiliated Fellow Philipp Weber, M. Sc.
E-Mail: weber@eucken.de
Telefon: +49 761-790 97 14
X: @we_philipp
- Fiscal rules and public investment
- Government debt and inflation
- Financial equalization schemes and local public finance
- Taxes and economic policy
From 2013 to 2018, Philipp Weber studied Economics and Business Administration (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) at Leibniz University Hannover and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in taxation, accounting, international financial markets, and public finance.
In May 2019, he began his doctoral studies in Economics at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg. From 2019 to 2025, he worked as research fellow at the Walter Eucken Institute. In addition to his dissertation research – empirical analyses of subnational investment policy and studies on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level – he led numerous third-party funded and consulting projects on tax, industrial, and economic policy, as well as on the fiscal design of intergovernmental transfer systems. From March 2022 until the submission of his dissertation in July 2025, his doctoral studies were supported by a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
Since August 2025, Philipp Weber has been working as an economist in the office of Dr. Y. Bury, Member of the German Bundestag (CDU/CSU). His main areas of focus include the fiscal implications of pension and social policy, European public finances, and rule-based fiscal policy.
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 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).
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).