Research at our department focuses on the question of when and how the state should intervene in markets.
We are particularly interested in how individuals or companies respond to incentives,
institutions and legal regulations (e.g. tax incentives, smoking bans). Understanding these
behavioural changes and making them quantifiable is necessary in order to assess the efficiency and allocation effects of government
intervention. To estimate these effects,
we use the latest microeconometric methods for causal inference, which we typically apply to large microdata sets (e.g. tax data).
The chair currently has three main research areas:
The chair currently has three main areas of research:

• Policy evaluation in the field of education and health
• Tax avoidance and tax evasion
• International taxation and the behaviour of multinational corporations

Please take a look at our publications or our current research projects.
You can also find more information on the personal homepages of our researchers.