Martin Simmler is a Research Fellow at the Thünen Institute for Rural Economics.
Prior to that, Martin was a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation.
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 has lectured in Finance at Oxford Saïd and offered seminars in empirical tax research at the Free University Berlin.
Martin's current research focuses on spatial distribution of economic activity, regional economics and spatial interaction.
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