Education

2000-2004

Dr.oec.publ. (Economics), University of Zurich, Switzerland (summa cum laude)

Thesis: “Outsourcing in a Global World”

Supervisors: Josef Falkinger and Michael Pfaffermayr

1999-2000

1993-1999

Mag.rer.soc.oec. (Economics), University of Linz, Austria (summa cum laude)

1996-1997

Visiting Student, University of Vienna (Austria)

1993

Matura, Kollegium Petrinum Linz, Austria

1981 - 1993

Primary and secondary schools, Enns and Linz, Austria

Positions

Since 2010

International Research Fellow of the Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany

Since 2009

Member, Research Committee on International Economics of the German Economic Society ("Verein für Socialpolitik")

Research Fellow at CESifo, Munich, Germany

Since 4/2008

W3‐Professor of Economics, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Research Affiliate at CESifo, Munich, Germany

Since 2004

External Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

2004-2008

Senior Assistant (“Oberassistent”), University of Zurich, Switzerland

2000-2004

1999-2000

Doctoral Assistant, University of Regensburg, Germany

2/1999-3/1999

Research Assistant with Professor Wilhelm Kohler, University of Linz, Austria

1/1999

Research Assistant with Professor Rudolf Winter‐Ebmer, University of Linz, Austria

10/1998-12/1998

Student Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Linz, Austria

Honors, Awards and Grants

• Declined offers: Full professorship at the University of Muenster (2008) and the University of St. Gallen (2010).

• Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs (Horst Siebert Fellowship), June 2010.

• Invitation for a (three week) research stay at the University of Bergen and the University of Michigan, April/May 2010.

• Research fund for the project “Organization strategies of trade unions and multinational firms in an international environment” (with Carsten Eckel) financed by the German Science Foundation, 2010‐.

• Invitation for a (three week) research stay at CESifo, Munich, Germany, October 2006.

• Best Paper Award 2006 of the Socioeconomic Institute at the University of Zurich for the paper: “International Fragmentation: Boon or Bane for Domestic Employment?” (with Udo Kreickemeier).

• Award for the best PhD thesis 2003 at the Department of Economics of the University of Zurich.

• Young Economist Award 2001 of the Austrian Economic Association for the paper: “Outsourcing and Skill‐Specific Employment in a Small Economy: Austria and the Fall of the Iron Curtain” (with Peter Egger).

Current Research interests

• International Trade

• Multinational Firms

• Labor Market Imperfections

• International Taxation

• Corporate Governance

• Attention Economics