Alfons J. Weichenrieder
Present Position
Since 2002, Professor, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Past 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:
Organizer (chairman), Contributed Papers Section of the 2006 Conference
of the German Economic Association;
Scientific Chairman, International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF),
59th Annual Meeting, Prague, 2003;
Organizer, CESifo/FUCaM Conference, Corporate Capital Income Taxation
in the European Union: The ‘Ruding II’ Report and Beyond,
December 2001 Organizer, CESifo/ISPE Conference, Labour Market Institutions
and Public Regulation, October 2001.
Editorial Activities:
Associate Editor, International Tax and Public Finance;
Ad hoc referee for: Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic
Systems, European Economic Review, Finanzarchiv, German Economic Review,
Ifo Studien, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International
Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economic Integration, Journal
of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban
Economics, Kyklos, National Tax Journal, Open Economies Review, Public
Choice, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Development Economics,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Small Business Economics
Selected Publications
“Taxes and the financial structure of German inbound FDI”
(with F. Ramb), Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv),
forthcoming;
“Ownership concentration and share valuation” (with J.S. Edwards),
German Economic Review 5, 143-171, 2004;
“Second degree price discrimination and natural monopoly”,
Bulletin of Economic Research 56, 189-200, 2004;
“Tax competition and profit shifting: On the relationship between
personal and corporate tax rates” (with C. Fuest), IFO-Studien 48,
611-632, 2002;
“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(3), 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 capital”,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 98, 445-452, 1996;
“Anti-tax-avoidance provisions and the size of foreign direct investment”,
International Tax and Public Finance 3, 67-81, 1996;
“Fighting international tax avoidance: The case of Germany”,
Fiscal Studies 17, 37-58, 1996