Alfons Weichenrieder

Alfons Wiechenrieder IRF
Asset register 100016
Chair of Public Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt
International Research Fellow

Alfons J. Weichenrieder received his doctorate in economics in 1995 from the University of Munich. He has taught in Munich, at Princeton University, and at the University of Vienna before taking up the Chair of Public Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt in October 2002. Since 2010, he has also held a guest professorship at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is a member of the Scientific Council at the German Ministry of Finance and an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. He is a research professor at Ifo Institute Munich, a CESifo Research Fellow, a member of the Norwegian Center for Taxation (NoCeT), and a member of the Scientific Council of MaTax (Mannheim). He has served as a scientific advisor of the OECD and national governments. Weichenrieder is currently managing editor of the oldest journal in public finance, FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis. His research concentrates on topics in international taxation and on the architecture of fiscal policy in Europe.

Alfons Weichenrieder has published widely in international scientific journals.

A list of selected publications includes:

  • “Pro-rich inflation in Europe: Implications for the measurement of inequality” (with E. Gürer), German Economic Review 2020.
  • “The relevance of depreciation allowances as a fiscal policy instrument: A hybrid approach to CCCTB? ” (with K. Petkova), Empirica 2019
  • "Are tax havens good? Implications of the crackdown on secrecy” (with F. Xu), Journal of Economics 127, 2019.
  • "A decentralization theorem of taxation" (with Vilen Lipatov), CESifo Economic Studies 2016.
  • "Euro membership and fiscal reaction functions" (with Jochen Zimmer), International Tax and Public Finance 2014.
  • "The taxation of passive foreign investment - Lessons from German experience" (with Martin Ruf), Canadian Journal of Economics 2012.  
  • "The effects of taxation on the location decision of multinational firms: M&A vs. Greenfield investments" (with Shafik Hebous and Martin Ruf), National Tax Journal 2011.
  • "The indirect side of direct investment. Multinational company finance and taxation” (with Jack Mintz), MIT Press, 2010.
  • "Debt financing and sharp currency depreciations: wholly vs. partially owned multinational affiliates" (with Shafik Hebous), Review of World Economics 2010.
  • “Interest income tax evasion, the EU savings directive, and capital market effects“ (with Tina Klautke), Fiscal Studies 2010.
  • "Control rights, pyramids, and the measurement of ownership concentration", (with Jeremy. S.S. Edwards), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2009.
  • "Profit shifting in the EU: Evidence from Germany", International Tax and Public Finance 2009.
  • "Delayed integration as a possible remedy for the race to the bottom" (with O. Busch), Journal of Urban Economics 2007.
  • "Tariff jumping foreign investment and capital taxation" (with Vivek. Dehejia), Journal of International Economics 2001.
  • "Foreign profits and domestic investment", Journal of Public Economics 1998.
  • "Foreign direct investment, political resentment and the privatisation process in Eastern Europe" (with Hans-Werner Sinn), Economic Policy 1997.