Alfons J. Weichenrieder

 

Present Positions
since 2002 Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main).
since 2010 Guest Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business

---

Previous Positions
2001–2002 Professor, University of Vienna.
1997–2001 Senior Lecturer, University of Munich.
1996–1997 Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
1995–1996 Senior Lecturer, University of Munich.

---

Other Activities

Conference Organization and Services
IIPF Vice-President, 2011-2014; IIPF Board member 2005-2011; member of the IIPF scientific committee 2009, 2011, 2012.
Scientific Co-Chairman, IIPF, 59th Annual Meeting, Prague, 2003 and 72nd Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, 2016.
Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 2009-2011.
Commissary for Young Academics of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), 2011-2014.
Organizer (chairman), Contributed Papers Section of the 2006 Conference of the German Economic Association.
Organizer, CESifo/FUCaM Conference, Corporate Capital Income Taxation in the European Union: The ‘Ruding II’ Report and Beyond, December 2001.

Editorial Activities
Managing Editor, FinanzArchiv (Public Finance Analysis), since 2009.
Editor, FinanzArchiv (Public Finance Analysis), 2005-2009.
Associate Editor, International Tax and Public Finance, 2005-2016.
Editorial Advisory Board, International Tax and Public Finance, since 2016.

---

Selected Publications

"Toward a mutualization of European unemployment insurance? On limiting the downsides of a fiscal transfer system for the Eurozone" (with Shafik Hebous), CESifo Economic Studies 62, 376-395, 2016.

"A decentralization theorem of taxation" (with V. Lipatov), CESifo Economic Studies 62, 289-300, 2016.

"Welfare and labor supply implications of tax competition for mobile labor" (with V. Lipatov), Social Choice and Welfare 45, 457-477, 2015.

"Trust in government and fiscal adjustments" (with D. Bursian and Jochen Zimmer), International Tax and Public Finance 22, 663-682, 2015.

"Euro membership and fiscal reaction functions" (with J. Zimmer), International Tax and Public Finance 21, 598-613, 2014.

"The taxation of passive foreign investment – Lessons from German experience" (with M. Ruf), Canadian Journal of Economics 45, 1504-1528, 2012.

"The effects of taxation on the location decision of multinational firms: M&A vs. Greenfield investments" (with S. Hebous and M. Ruf), National Tax Journal 64, 817–838, 2011.

The indirect side of direct investment. Multinational company finance and taxation (with J. Mintz), Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, IX + 191 pp, 2010.

"Debt financing and sharp currency depreciations: wholly s. partially owned multinational affiliates" (with S.Hebous), Review of World Economics 146, 281-302, 2010.

"Interest income tax evasion, the EU savings directive, and capital market effects" (with T. Klautke), Fiscal Studies 31, 151-170, 2010.

"Control rights, pyramids, and the measurement of ownership concentration", (with J.S. Edwards), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 72, 489-508, 2009.

"Profit shifting in the EU: Evidence from Germany", International Tax and Public Finance 16, 281-297, 2009.

"When taxation changes the course of the year: Fiscal year adjustments and the German tax reform of 2000-01" (with F. Blasch), Fiscal Studies 28, 367-377, 2007.

"Delayed integration as a possible remedy for the race to the bottom" (with O. Busch), Journal of Urban Economics 61, 565-575, 2007.

"Taxes and the financial structure of German inbound FDI" (with F. Ramb), Review of World Economics 141, 670-692, 2005.

"Ownership concentration and share valuation" (with J.S. Edwards), German Economic Review 5, 143-171, 2004.

"Tariff jumping foreign investment and capital taxation" (with V. Dehejia), Journal of International Economics 53, 223-230, 2001.

"Tax competition and transfer pricing disputes" (with K. Mansori), Finanzarchiv 58, 1-11, 2001. "Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation", Regional Science and Urban Economics 31, 339-353, 2001.

"The distributional impact of public goods provision: A veil of ignorance approach" (with C. Thum), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 102, 737-746, 2000.

"Trade, multinationals, and transfer pricing regulations" (with G. Schjelderup), Canadian Journal of Economics 32, 817-834, 1999.

"Public goods, club goods and the measurement of crowding" (with M. Reiter), Journal of Urban Economics 46, 69-79, 1999.

"Foreign profits and domestic investment", Journal of Public Economics 69, 451-463, 1998.

"Are public goods public? A critical survey of the demand estimates for local public services" (with M. Reiter), Finanzarchiv 54, 374-408, 1997.

"Dinkies and housewives: The regulation of shopping hours" (with M. Thum), Kyklos 50, 539-559, 1997.

"Foreign direct investment, political resentment and the privatisation process in Eastern Europe" (with H.-W. Sinn), Economic Policy 24, 179-210, 1997.

"Transfer pricing, double taxation, and the cost of capitalv, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 98, 445-452, 1996.

"Anti-tax-avoidance provisions and the size of foreign direct investmentv, International Tax and Public Finance 3, 67-81, 1996.

"Fighting international tax avoidance: The case of Germany", Fiscal Studies 17, 37-58, 1996.