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Prof. Dr. Eckhard Janeba

 

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University of Mannheim
Department of Economics
L 7, 3 - 5
68131 Mannheim
Germany

Office: L 7, 3-5, 229
Office Hour: Tuesday, 09.00 - 10.30

Tel: + 49-621-181-1795 /6
Fax: +49-621-181-1794

Mail: janeba@uni-mannheim.de

CV

Present Position

Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim, since 9/2004

 

Previous Positions

Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, 2003 - 2004 (Assistant Professor 1999 - 2003).

Assistant Professor of Economics, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA, 1994 - 1999.

 

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D. in Economics ("Dr. rer. pol."), Magna cum laude, University of Bonn, Germany, 1994;
Dissertation Title: International Tax Competition

Diploma Degree in Economics ("Diplom-Volkswirt"), University of Bonn, Germany, 1990.

 

Other Positions

Research Fellow CESifo (since 1999)

Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder (since 2006)

International Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation (since 2007)

Associate Editor, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition

Faculty Research Fellow NBER (1999-2005)

Associate Editor "International Tax and Public Finance" (since 2004)

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Curriculum Vitae


Research

Fields of Interest

Public Economics (Tax Competition, Fiscal Federalism, Income Redistribution, Political Economy)

International Economics (Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Income Inequality, Globalization)

Select Publications

Working Papers

"Exports, Unemployment, and the Welfare State"

"Studiengebühren in Deutschland: Drei Thesen und ihr empirischer Gehalt" forthcoming in : Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik

"International Trade and Consumption Network Externalities" (former title: "International Trade and Cultural Identity"), forthcoming in: European Economic Review

"The Welfare Effects of Tax Competition Reconsidered: Politicians and Political Institutions" (former title: "Why Europe Should Love Tax Competition - and the U.S. Even More So" (with G. Schjelderup).

"Optimal Fiscal Federalism in the Presence of Tax Competition" , (with John D. Wilson)

"Education, Redistribution and the Threat of Brain Drain" , (with Alexander Haupt).

Refereed Journals

"Corporate Income Tax Competition, Double Taxation Treaties, and Foreign Direct Investment" , Journal of Public Economics 56, 1995, 311-325.

"Tax Competition in Imperfectly Competitive Markets" , Journal of International Economics 44, 1998, 135-153.

"Tax Evasion, Tax Competition and the Gains from Non-Discrimination: The Case of Interest Taxation in Europe" , Economic Journal 109, January 1999, 93-101 (with W. Peters).

"Why Poor Countries Rely Mostly on Redistribution In-Kind" , Journal of Public Economics 75, March 2000, 463-482 (with P. Bearse and G. Glomm).

"Tax Competition when Governments Lack Commitment: Excess Capacity as a Countervailing Threat" , American Economic Review 90, December 2000, 1508-1519.

"Attracting FDI in a Politically Risky World" , International Economic Review 43, November 2002, 1127-1155.

"Is Targeted Tax Competition Less Harmful Than Its Remedies?" , International Tax and Public Finance 10, May 2003, 259-280 (with Michael Smart).

"Global Corporations and Local Politics: Income Redistribution vs. FDI Subsidies" , Journal of Development Economics 74, August 2004, 367-391.

"Taxation and Evasion in the Presence of Extortion by Organized Crime" , Journal of Comparative Economics 32, September 2004, 375-387 (with M. Alexeev and S. Osborne).

"Taxes or Fees? The Political Economy of Providing Excludable Public Goods" , Journal of Public Economic Theory 7, 2005, 405-426 (with Kurtis J. Swope).

"Decentralization and international tax competition" , Journal of Public Economics 89, July 2005, 1211-1229 (with John D. Wilson).

"Moral Federalism" , The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 5, Issue 1, 2006, Article 32.

Books

"International Tax Competition", J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1997.

 

Teaching

FS 07

Finanzwissenschaft II

International Trade

Seminar: Kontroverse Themen der Finanzwissenschaft

HWS 06/07

Finanzwissenschaft für Betriebswirte

Föderalismus und Steuerwettbewerb

Finanzwissenschaftliches Doktorandenseminar

CDSEM -Seminar

SS 06

Finanzwissenschaft II

Comparative Public Finance and Globalization

Seminar: Kultur und Staatliche Kulturpolitik

WS 05/06

Sabbatical

SS 05

Finanzwissenschaft II

Comparative Public Finance and Globalization

Seminar: Föderalismus und Steuerwettbewerb

International Trade

WS 04/05

Föderalismus und Steuerwettbewerb

Seminar: Korruption, Schattenwirtschaft und der öffentliche Sektor

Finanzwissenschaft für Betriebswirte