Dr. Cornelius Schneider

Cornelius Schneider is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics and manages the mLab. He obtained his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn in collaboration with the University of Cologne.

His research interests center around questions of optimal taxation and public economics, specifically using methods from experimental and behavioral economics. Currently, he explores potentially positive welfare implications of evasion opportunities in tax regimes. For this research agenda (joint with Prof. Wladislaw Mill) Dr. Schneider was granted the DAAD Prime fellowship. He was a visiting researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Taxation (NoCeT) at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) from fall 2021 to fall 2022. Another line of his research addresses how personal preferences, (mis)perceptions and norms can inform optimal tax policies.