Martin is a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. His research interest is in applied public economics.
Martin joined the Centre for Business Taxation as a Research Fellow in October 2014 after completing his PhD in Economics at the Free University Berlin in March 2013. Before starting his PhD, Martin worked as a tax policy consultant for one for the Big Four tax consulting companies. What is more, during his PhD he worked for the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin (DIW Berlin) and was a visiting researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Taxation, Bergen in 2013. His papers won the best paper by a young scholar award at the Annual Summer Symposium of the Centre for Business Taxation (2012) and the best paper award at the 5th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics (2012).
At the end of 2014, Martin was awarded a research grant (£250,000) from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to study the impact of public services and goods provision on firm behaviour as well as its incidence on profits, wages and land prices.
Martin’s current research focuses on the impact of tax policy on the competitiveness of (multinational) firms and the link between taxation of commercial properties and local economic activity.
Martin has lectured in Finance at Oxford Saïd and offered seminars in empirical tax research at the Free University Berlin.
Research
Work in progress:
- Fiscal decentralisation of property tax revenues and the size and composition of the commercial property market
- Should commercial property taxation be blamed for empty properties?
- Product-market competition and profit shifting of multinational enterprises
- Worldwide and territorial taxation and multinational firms’ competitiveness
