skip to content

Faculty of Management, Economics and Social SciencesCenter for Economic Research (CER)

Executive Director CER

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Siegloch

SSC (Building 102)
Universitätsstraße 22a, 4th Floor
50923 Köln

Email: sieglochSpamProtectionwiso.uni-koeln.de
Phone: +49 221 470 3553

Personal Website | ECONTribute | FiFo 

Office: shared-office-2SpamProtectionwiso.uni-koeln.de
Office hours by appointment

Research Focus

Public Finance, Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Economic Policy, and Housing Policy

Affiliations

Research Fellow at CEPR, CESifo, CReAM, and IZA; Research Associate at ZEW

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2022 Professor of Economics at University of Cologne and ECONtribute
  • 2018-2022 Head of Research Department “Inequality and Public Policy” at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
  • 2018-2022 Full Professor of Economics at University of Mannheim
  • 2017-2018 Visiting Scholar University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University
  • 2014-2017 Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Mannheim
  • 2013 Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Cologne

Selected Publications

  • Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany, American Economic Review, 2018, Vol. 108(2), pp. 393-418 (with C. Fuest and A. Peichl)
  • The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, Vol. 19(2), pp. 741-789 (with A. Lichter and M. Löffler)
  • On Event Studies and Distributed-Lags in Two-Way Fixed Effects Models: Identification, Equivalence, and Generalization, Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming (with K. Schmidheiny)
  • The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities, Journal of Public Economics, 2017, Vol. 151, pp. 41-55 (with P. Doerrenberg and A. Peichl)
  • Social capital and the Spread of Covid-19: Insights from European countries, Journal of Health Economics, 2021, Vol. 80 (with A. K. Bartscher, S. Seitz, M. Slotwinski, N. Wehrhöfer)
  • The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis, European Economic Review, 2015, Vol. 80, pp.94-119 (with A. Lichter and A. Peichl)

Selected Media Publications

  • Süddeutsche Zeitung, 7.12.2021: „Neue Bundesregierung: Wer von der Ampel finanziell profitiert“,
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22.11.2021: "Der Volkswirt: Die Makel der Minijobs" (link)
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 03.11.2021: "Wie der Staat die Forschung in Unternehmen zurückdrängt"
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17.10.2021: "Neue Wege für die Wohnungspolitik von morgen"
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung, 7. Juli 2021: “Wahlprogramme: Wer profitiert, wer verliert“ (link)
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, April 2021: „Der Sonntagsökonom: Wer zahlt die Grundsteuer?“
  • Die Welt, 06.08.2015: „Wie die Stasi Ostdeutschland bis heute prägt“ (link)
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 2013: "Gewerbesteuer trifft Mitarbeiter der Unternehmen" (link)