Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und Öffentliche Finanzen

Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und Öffentliche Finanzen
founded in the year	2011
acronym	MPI
City	München
Country	Germany
Website	http://www.tax.mpg.de/de/startseite.html
Legal form	e.V.
address	Marstallplatz 1 80539 München
founder	Kai A. Konrad, Wolfgang Schön
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Last revision	30.05.2017

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Marstallplatz 1 80539 München

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Kai A. Konrad, Director; Department of Public Economics

• Wolfgang Schön, Director; Department of Business and Tax Law

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Alexander Wu, Ph.D. Student

• Harald Lang, Ph.D. Student

• Arne Sven Simon, Ph.D. Student

• Tim Stopler, Ph.D. Student

• Raisa Sherif, Ph.D. Student

• Luisa Herbst, Ph.D. Student

• Kai Brückerhoff, Ph.D. Student

Experts

Experts are not permanently employed at the Think Tank. They are paid for contract research when their expertise is needed. Some Think Tanks call a database of hundred or even more experts their own.

• Fabian Pagels, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

• Julian Pröbstl, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

• Gabriella Schwarz, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

• Yasmin Holm, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

• Marco Serena, Senior Research Fellow

• Caroline Heber, Wissenschaftliche Referentin

• Aart Gerritsen, Senior Research Fellow

• Jana Cahlikova, Senior Research Fellow

• Deborah Fries, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

• Marika Öry, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

• Erik Röder, Wissenschaftlicher Referent

• Mariana Lopes da Fonseca Lopes da Fonseca, Senior Research Fellow

• Christian Groeneveld, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

• Christian Sternberg, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

• Patrick Hell, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

• Selina Reif, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

• Leopoldo Parada, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

• Christine Osterloh-Konrad, Wissenschaftliche Referentin

• Birke Häcker, Wissenschaftliche Referentin

• Alexander Hellgardt, Wissenschaftlicher Referent

Working mode, goals

"Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, an interdisciplinary research center focusing on national and international taxation from a legal and an economic perspective. The Institute is part of the Max Planck Society, Germany’s foremost provider of basic research in science and humanities, funded largely from public resources.

The Institute consists of two equally large departments each headed by a director. One department carries out research on different aspects of business law and taxation, the other department carries out research in public finance and public economics. There are close connections with the University of Munich.

The Institute is not a teaching institution but a pure research unit, carrying out mid-term and long-term research projects in its respective fields. The Institute offers positions for PhD students and post-docs and welcomes visitors from all over the world for short- or long-term research periods. It has an excellent interdisciplinary library and hosts international and interdisciplinary conferences, workshops, seminars and guest lecture series."

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

• Financial Policy
• Public Finances
• Public Debt
• Taxation
• Business