Former courses
Fall 2025
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, JP Han Ye, Ph.D., Dr. Albrecht Bohne Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30 (every week)
room: L7, 3–5, P 044
Talks, fall 2025
Date Speaker Title 02.09.2025 Introductory session (Eckhard Janeba and Holger Stichnoth) Information and discussion about the junior job market in applied fields 09.09.2025 Jonathan Zhang (Duke University) Saving Lives, Improving Livelihoods? The Case of Medication for Drug Dependence (with Sarah Eichmeyer and Aljoscha Janssen) 23.09.2025 Zareh Asatryan (ZEW & University of Münster) Efficacy of Size-Based Tax Exemptions (with Vladimir Asriyan (CREi), Ruben Enikolopov (UPF) and Narek Ohanyan (AUA)) 30.09.2025 Claudio Daminato (Lund University) Financial Technology and Behavioral Barriers to Planning for Retirement 07.10.2025 Elena Bassoli (ETH Zurich) How raising the full retirement age affects women's early retirement choices: insights from the interaction of two policies 14.10.2025 Torsten Figueiredo Walter (New York University Abu Dhabi) The Missing Poor (with Niclas Moneke and Ana Radu) 21.10.2025 Lisa Windsteiger (Univ. of Salzburg) Externalities and Distrust (joint with G. Daniele, A.F.M. Martinangeli, F. Passarelli and W. Sas) 28.10.2025 Sebastian Siegloch (Univ. of Cologne) Price Passthrough without Intertemporal Substitution: Evidence from Germany’s Temporary VAT Cut
(joint with Günter W. Beck, Muzammil Hussain, Xavier Jaravel and Sebastian G. Kessing)
04.11.2025 Johannes Kochems (Univ. of Cologne) Local Tax Havens 11.11.2025 Ayman Tibi Conditional Trade Policy: The Economic Effects of QIZs in the Middle East 18.11.2025 Albrecht Bohne Guess Who’s Evading on Dinner: Experimental Evidence on the Incidence of Evasion 25.11.2025 Efi Adamopoulou The Costs of Exclusion: Refugee Camps and Local Labour Markets 02.12.2025 Yiwei Yin Unemployment Insurance and Family Labor Supply Economics of European Integration
Type: Bachelor lecture Instructor: Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon, 12:00–13:30 h; L7, 3–5 room S 031(weekly)
AND
Tue, 13:45–15:15; L7, 3–5 room 001
- 16.09.2025
- 23.09.2025
- 14.10.2025
- 28.10.2025
- 11.11.2025
- 18.11.2025
E8037 Public Economics I
Type: Ph.D. lecture Instructor: Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon 8:30 – 10:00 h; L7, 3–5 room P 043 (weekly)
AND
Wed 8:30 – 10:00 h; L7, 3–5 room P 043 (weekly)
Spring 2025
Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: 1) Wed, 12:00–13:30
A 001 Großer Hörsaal, B6 23-25 Bauteil A2) Thu, 12:00–13:30 (every two weeks starting 13 February)
Schloss Schneckenhof Nord, room SN 163Seminar Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor block seminar (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: initial meeting: 90 minutes on Zoom, during the 2nd half of January
meeting on presentation techniques: 90 minutes, February
block 1) Fri, 7.3.2025, 9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m., venue: tbd
block 2) Fri, 14.3.2025, 9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m., venue: tbd
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Typ: Ph.D.-Seminar Dozent(en): Prof. Dr. Eckhard Janeba Termine: Di., 12:00–13:30 h (wöchentlich)
Raum: L7, 3–5, P 044talks in spring 2025
Date Speaker Title 11.02.2025 Davud Rostam-Afschar Local Policy Misperceptions and Investment: Experimental Evidence from Firm Decision Makers 18.02.2025 Maximilian Todtenhaupt (Leibniz Universität Hannover) How Are Domestic Workers Affected by Foreign Tax Changes? 25.02.2025 Eckhard Janeba Does the German debt brake reduce public investment? 04.03.2025 Zhexun Mo (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, GC-CUNY) Perceptions and Preferences towards Chinese Investments: A Randomized Survey Experiment in Germany (with Katharina Kaeppel, Carsten Schröder and Li Yang) 11.03.2025 Luca Currado The role of municipal real estate sales during austerity 18.03.2025 Paul Steger The Fiscal and Economic Effects of the Biontech Shock 25.03.2025 Freya Cook Uncertainty about Uncertainty: Stochastic Insurance Markets and Quantity-Based Regulation 01.04.2025 Tania Guerra Rosero Targeting Firms for Monitoring and VAT Collection: A Machine Learning Approach in Ecuador 08.04.2025 Oscar Barrera-Rodríguez (University College Dublin), Li Yang (ZEW) Confirmation Bias and Asymmetric Political Polarization: Evidence from a Media Experiment in Germany (with Lora Pavlova and Li Yang) 29.04.2025 Emre Oral Savings between Retirement and T 06.05.2025 Timothy Goodspeed (Hunter College and Graduate Center – CUNY) Regional Fiscal Multipliers 13.05.2025 Andreas Peichl (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München) The Power of Words: Does language matter for attitudes toward private and public debt? 20.05.2025 Alexandre Gnaedinger and Tobias Kreuz How Do Businesses Bunch? Evidence on SMEs using Novel German Administrative Tax Data 27.05.2025 Presenter 1: Yiwei Yin
Presenter 2: Henning Schatz
Unemployment insurance and family labor supply
The Incidence of Beneficial Pension Contributions: Evidence from Armenia
E8038 Public Economics II
Type: Ph.D. lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: tbd
Fall 2024
Economics of European Integration
Type: Bachelor lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon, 12:00–13:30; L7, 3–5 room S031 (every week)
AND
Tue, 13:45–15:15; L7, 3–5 room S031 (every two weeks starting 3 Sep)
E8037 Public Economics I
Type: Ph.D. lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon 8:30 – 10:00 h; L7, 3–5 room P043 (every week)
and
Wed 8:30 – 10:00 h; L7, 3–5 room P043 (every two weeks starting 4 September)
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, JP Arthur Seibold, Ph.D. Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30; L7, 3–5 room P044 (every week)
Spring 2024
Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: 1) Wed, 12:00–13:30
A 001 Großer Hörsaal, B6 23-25 Bauteil A2) Thu, 12:00–13:30 (every two weeks starting 15 February)
Schloss Schneckenhof Nord, room SN 163Seminar Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor block seminar (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, Daniel Overbeck, Lukas Hack, Felix Köhler, Paul Steger, Jakob Schmidhäuser Dates: initial meeting: sometime in the 2nd half of January (90 min. on Zoom)
2. Januarhälfte via Zoom, 90 Minuten
meeting on presentation techniques: Fri, 1.3.2024, 10:15–11:45 a.m. in L9 1-2, seminar room 002
block 1) Fri, 15.3.2024, 9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m., in L7 3-5, seminar room P 043
block 2) Fri, 22.3.2024, 9:00 a.m. – 5 p.m., in L7 3-5, seminar room P 043
Syllabus
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30 (every week)
room: tbd
E8038 Public Economics II
Type: Lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, Arthur Seibold Ph.D. Dates: Mon, 15:30–17:00
room tbaFöderalismus und Steuerwettbewerb
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Tue, 8:30–10:00 h
room: tba
Fall 2023
Economics of European Integration
Type: Bachelor lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon, 12:00–13:30; L7, 3–5 room S031 (every week)
AND
Tue, 13:45–15:15; L7, 3–5 room 001 (every two weeks starting 5 Sep)
E8037 Public Economics I
Type: Ph.D. lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon 8:30 – 10:00 h; L7, 3–5 room P043 (every week)
and
Wed 8:30 – 10:00 h; L7, 3–5 room P043 (every two weeks starting 6 September)
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, JP Arthur Seibold, Ph.D. Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30; L7, 3–5 room P043 (every week)
Spring 2023
Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: 1) Wed, 12:00–13:30
A 001 Großer Hörsaal, B6 23-25 Bauteil A2) Thu, 12:00–13:30 (every two weeks starting 16 February)
Schloss Schneckenhof Nord, room SN 163Seminar Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor block seminar (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, Daniel Overbeck, Lukas Hack, Felix Köhler, Paul Steger, Jakob Schmidhäuser Dates: initial meeting: tba
1) Fri, 17.03.2023, 9:00–18:00; room tba
2) Fri, 24.03.2023, 9:00–18:00; room tba
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30 (every week)
room: tba
E8038 Public Economics II
Type: Lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, Arthur Seibold Ph.D. Dates: Mon, 15:30–17:00
room tbaFöderalismus und Steuerwettbewerb
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Tue, 8:30–10:00 h
room: tba
Fall 2022
Economics of European Integration
Type: Bachelor lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon, 12:00–13:30; L7, 3–5 room S031 (every week)
AND
Tue, 13:45–15:15; L7, 3–5 room S031 (every two weeks starting 6 Sep)
E8037 Public Economics I
Type: Ph.D. lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon 8:30 – 10:00 h; L7, 3–5 room P043 (every week)
and
Wed 8:30 – 10:00 h; L7, 3–5 room P043 (every two weeks starting 7 September)
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, JP Arthur Seibold, Ph.D. Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30; L7, 3–5 room P043 (every week)
Spring 2022
Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: 1) Wed, 12:00–13:30
B6 23-25 Bauteil A, room 0012) Thu, 12:00–13:30
Schloss Schneckenhof Nord, room SN 163E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30 (every week)
room: L9 1-2, room 009
E8038 Public Economics II
Type: Lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, Arthur Seibold Ph.D., Han Ye Ph.D. Dates: Tue, 13:45–15:15 h (weekly)
L7 3-5, Raum P 043Thu, 12:00–13:30 h
L7 3-5, Raum P 04310.03.
24.03.
07.04.
28.04.
02.06.Föderalismus und Steuerwettbewerb
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Tue, 8:30–10:00 h
L7 3-5, Raum 001
Fall 2021
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba / Prof. Dr. Siegloch Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30 (every week)
room: tba
Spring 2021
Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: 1) tbd
2) tbd
E873 Research Seminar in Public Economics
Type: Ph.D. seminar Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba / Prof. Dr. Siegloch Dates: Tue, 12:00–13:30 (every week)
room: tba
E8038 Public Economics II
Type: Lecture Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Tue, 13:45–15:15; room: tba Föderalismus und Steuerwettbewerb
Type: Bachelor lecture (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: tbd
Fall 2020
Seminar Finanzwissenschaft
Type: Bachelor block seminar (in German) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba, Sebastian Seitz
Dates: initial meeting: Wed, 30.09.2020, 13:30–15:00; room tba
1) Fri, 20.11.2020, 9:00–16:00; room tba
2) Fri, 04.12.2020, 9:00–16:00; room tba
Economics of European Integration
Type: Bachelor lecture (online) Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon, 15:30–17:00, room tbd AND
Tue, 13:45–15:15; room tbd
Note: Due to Covid19, some logistical issues relating to class will be subject to change, depending on the development of the Corona crisis. As of August 2020, lectures and exam are planned to be held online.
E504 International Trade and Tax Policy Analysis
Type: Master lecture and exercise Instructor(s): Prof. Dr. Janeba Dates: Mon, 10:15–11:45; room tba and
Tue, 8:30–10:00; room tba
Note: Due to Covid19, some logistical issues relating to class will be subject to change, depending on the development of the Corona crisis. As of August 2020, lectures and exams are planned to be held with physical presence.