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German economist
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Florian Scheuer (* 1980) is a German economist. He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since 2016 and Chair of the Department of Economics since 2023.
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Education and Career
He obtained a Master of Science in Economics in 2005 after studies at the University of Konstanz (2000–2005) and the London School of Economics (2002–2003).[1] In 2010, he completed his PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Daron Acemoglu, Iván Werning, Peter Diamond and James Poterba. From 2010 to 2016, he was Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University (on leave since 2014). He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 2014 and at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. From 2015 to 2016, he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.[2]
Since 2016, he has been the UBS Professor of Economics of Institutions at the University of Zurich and became chairman of the Department of Economics in 2023.[3] He was Visiting Professor at Yale University in 2019 and at the University of Chicago in 2022.[4] In 2017, he obtained an ERC Starting Grant (1.5 Mio. EUR) and in 2023 an SNSF Consolidator Grant (1.22 Mio. CHF).[5][6] In 2021, he was awarded the Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association (awarded annually to the best economist in German-speaking countries under age 45) for his contributions to optimal tax policy.[7]
He is Director of the Review of Economic Studies, a member of the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review und was Co-Editor of Theoretical Economics from 2018 to 2022.[8][9][10] He is a Fellow of the European Economic Association and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.[11][12]
Awards
- 2010: Robert M. Solow Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology[4]
- 2017: ERC Starting Grant
- 2019: Top rank in the Handelsblatt ranking of economists under age 40[13]
- 2021: Gossen Prize[14]
- 2023: SNF Consolidator Grant
Selected Publications
- with Nick Netzer: Competitive Markets without Commitment, Journal of Political Economy (2010), doi:10.1086/658497
- with Casey Rothschild: Redistributive Taxation in the Roy Model, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2013), doi:10.1093/qje/qjs076
- with Alexander Wolitzky: Capital Taxation under Political Constraints, American Economic Review (2016), doi:10.1257/aer.20141081
- with Casey Rothschild: Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking, Review of Economic Studies (2016), doi:10.1093/restud/rdw017
- with Iván Werning: The Taxation of Superstars, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2017), doi:10.1093/qje/qjw036
- with Joel Slemrod: Taxation and the Superrich, Annual Review of Economics (2020), doi:10.1146/annurev-economics-081919-115106
- with Joel Slemrod: Taxing Our Wealth, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2021), doi:10.1257/jep.35.1.207
- with Pablo Kurlat: Signaling to Experts, Review of Economic Studies (2021), doi:10.1093/restud/rdaa068
Weblinks
- Florian Scheuer University of Zurich
- Florian Scheuer scholar.google.com