Research interests

Political and Public Economics, Economics of Political Selection

Publications

Determinants of Employment in the Ministerial Bureaucracy. WWZ Discussion Paper 01/12. [paper]

Selection of Public Servants into Politics. WWZ Discussion Paper 06/11. (with Alois Stutzer) [paper]

Political Selection of Public Servants and Parliamentary Oversight. WWZ Discussion Paper 08/10. (with Alois Stutzer) [paper]

Public Servants in Parliament: Theory and Evidence on Its Determinants in Germany. Public Choice 145, 2010, pp. 223-252. (with Alois Stutzer) [paper]

A Dilemma in the Separation of Powers: Public Servants as Legislators. Forthcoming in:  Anne Peters and Lukas Handschin(eds.). Conflict of Interest in Goverance - An Interdisciplinary Outlook on the Global, Public, Corporate and Financial Sphere. Cambridge University Press, 2012. (with Alois Stutzer)

Education

April 2008 -
Doctoral studies in Economics, University of Basel

Visiting Fellow (short-term, in 2011), Institute for Microeconomics and Public Economics (MecoP), Lugano, Switzerland

Visiting Fellow (in 2010), Ettore Bocconi Department of Economics and IGIER, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Visiting Fellow (short-term, in 2010), Centre for the Study of Political Change, CIRCaP, University of Siena, Italy

March 2008
Master of Science in Business and Economics, Major in Markets and Institutions, University of Basel

September 2005
Bachelor of Arts in Business and Economics, University of Basel

Exchanges

In 2006
University of Lugano                                                                                                 
In 2003 & 2004
University of Freiburg

Teaching and work experience

September 2007 -
Department of Business & Economics, University of Basel                    
Teaching assistance (to Prof. Dr. Stutzer) for the courses:
Public Choice and Public Economics (BA), Political Economics (MA), Seminar in Public Finance and Public Economics (MA), Seminar in Economics of Political Selection (MA)

In 2005
Internship at the Parliamentary Consultation Service in the field of fiscal and economic policy, Baden-Württemberg Parliament, Germany                         

Internship at the Department of Industry and Transport, Chamber of Industry and Commerce Stuttgart, Germany             

Awards

Young Scientist Award 2008 of the Basel private bankers for the master thesis: "Eine politökonomische Analyse des Beamtenabgeordneten: Anreize und Selektionseffekte"       

Hobbies

Tennis & foreign languages