Tätigkeitsprofil:
Background: The candidate is expected to contribute to our existing research agenda on tax clubs and jurisdictional reward funds that is described here. This agenda aims to work out optimized proposals for new international mechanisms that could increase global welfare by mitigating harmful tax competition and raise money to reward countries for policies for climate change mitigation, pandemic prevention and other global public goods. To design and evaluate the proposals, we have developed a range of empirically calibrated economic models.
Key responsibilities:
- solve economic models (analytically and numerically)
- visualize and clearly communicate results
- contribute to academic publications and policy briefs
- refine and further develop existing models
- support empirical calibration efforts
- develop new models and proposals for policy evaluation
- collaborate closely with other researchers
- contribute to impact-oriented research
Anforderungsprofil:
Requirements:
- strong programming and mathematical skills (or strong willingness to learning them)
- experience with Mathematica and Python
- work with models in public economics (e. g. optimal taxation, tax competition, tax incidence, welfare economics)
- apply concepts from international trade theory (e. g. monopolistic competition, Nash equilibrium vs cooperative trade policy)
- use game theory and mechanism desin theory
Prior knowledge of any of these fields is valuable but can also be acquired effectively in the course of the analytical and numerical work with our models, through selected readings suggested by other team members and through extensive discussions within our team.
Further valuable skills:
- contribute to academic publications, presentations and policy briefs
- apply strong writing and presentation skills
- engage with rich empiricial data to support research communication (now greatly facilitated by LLMs)
- translate research findings into ongoing academic and policy debates
- distill essential aspects into new economic models
- support policy design and evaluation through model development