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Sebastian Findeisen

sebastian-findeisen.com

findeisen@uni-mannheim.de

February 2018

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2018 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Opportunity and Inclusive

Growth Institute

2014 - present Assistant Professor, University of Mannheim (on leave 2017 –

2018)

2013 Postdoc, UC Berkeley

EDUCATION

2009 - 2013 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Zurich

2008 - 2009 MRes Economics, European University Institute

2003 - 2008 M.Sc., with Distinction, Economics, University of Konstanz

AFFILIATIONS

2014 – present Research Affiliate, CEPR

2014 – present Research Affiliate, CESifo

2014 – present Research Affiliate, ZEW

2015 – present Research Affiliate, IZA

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

“Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany”, w/ Wolfgang Dauth and Jens Suedekum,

American Economic Review Papers P&P, 2017, 107 (5), 337-342.

“Efficient Labor and Capital Income Taxation over the Life Cycle”, w/ Dominik Sachs,

Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 58-78.

“Education Policies and Taxation without Commitment”, w/ Dominik Sachs,

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

“Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation: The Role of Income-Contingent Student

Loans”, w/ Dominik Sachs, Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 138, 1-21.

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“The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration”,

w/ Wolfgang Dauth and Jens Suedekum, Journal of the European Economic

Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1643-1675.

“Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany”, w/Jens

Suedekum, Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 64 (2): 326-339.

“Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid”, w/ Dominik Sachs. (Revise and Resubmit at

Journal of Political Economy).

“City Size, Wages, and Assortative Matching“, w/ Wolfgang Dauth, Enrico Moretti, and

Jens Suedekum.

“German Robots – The Impact of Industrial Robots on Workers“, w/ Wolfgang Dauth,

Jens Suedekum, and Nicole Wössner.

“Adjusting to Globalization in Germany” w/ Wolfgang Dauth and Jens Suedekum.

POLICY WRITING

“Verlierer(-regionen) der Globalisierung in Deutschland: Wer? Warum? Was tun?”, w/

Wolfgang Dauth and Jens Suedekum, 2017, Wirtschaftsdienst, 97:1.

Contributor to VoxEU (3 articles)

TEACHING

PhD: Public Economics

Master: Electives on Inequality

Undergraduate: Intermediate Macroeconomics

Nominated by Economics Department for university teaching price (2017)

AWARDS AND SELECTED GRANTS

2017 - 2020 Principal Investigator – German National Science Foundation (DFG),

w/ Wolfgang Dauth and Jens Suedekum.

2017 - 2020 Principal Investigator – Joachim Herz Stiftung, w/ Dominik Sachs.

2017 - 2018 Modigliani Research Grant, UniCredit.

2014 - 2017 Principal Investigator – German National Science Foundation (DFG),

w/ Wolfgang Dauth and Jens Suedekum.

2012 Reinhard-Selten-Award, German Economic Association.

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ORGANIZATION OF SEMINAR SERIES AND WORKSHOPS

2017 CEPR Public Economics Symposium, Mannheim.

2016 - present Applied Micro Seminar Mannheim.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Married with one child

German Citizen