Egger, Peter, Prof. Dr.

ETH Zürich
Prof. Dr. Peter Egger
Professur f. Applied Economics
WEH E 6
Weinbergstrasse 35
8092 Zuerich

Phone: +41 44 632 41 08
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Curriculum Vitae

Date of birth September 23, 1969.
Nationality: Austrian.
Marital status: Married to Elisabeth Egger, three daughters: Judith (born: 1989); Sophie (born: 1993); Marie (born: 2002).
Current position: Professor of Economics (W 3), Faculty of Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany.
Research interests: Applied and theoretical panel econometrics (time-invariant variables; long and short run estimates; spatial econometrics); applied and theoretical international and regional economics (outsourcing; multinational firms; trade volumes; economic integration; new economic geography); industrial organization and multinational firms.

EDUCATION

1980-1988 Gymnasium (Bischöfliches Gymnasium Kollegium Petrinum, Linz, Austria)
1996 Master in Economics (University of Linz, Altenberger Strasse 69, A-4040, Linz, Austria)
2001 PhD in Economics (University of Linz; supervisors: Wilhelm Kohler and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer)
2002 Habilitation, University of Innsbruck

EMPLOYMENT RECORD AND AFFILIATIONS

1996 Project Assistant, University of Linz
1996-1997 Researcher, Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW)
1997-2001 Researcher, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
1997-2001 Lecturer – Macroeconomics and Microeconomics (University of Linz)
2001-2002 Assistant Professor (University of Innsbruck)
2001- Research consultant at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
2002-2004 Associate Professor (University of Innsbruck)
2003-2004 Visiting Scholar (Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, USA)
2004- External Research Fellow at the Center for Globalisation and Economic Policy (University of Nottingham, UK)
2004- Professor of Economics (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
2004-2008 Head of the Department of Environmental, Regional and Transport Economics (ifo-Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany)
2004- CESifo Research Fellow (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
2007- External Research Fellow at the Center for Taxation Said Business School (University of Oxford, UK)
2008-2009 Head of the Department of Foreign Direct Investment and International Trade (ifo-Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany)
2008- Scientific Consultant (WIFO-Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Vienna, Austria)
2009- CEPR Research Fellow (International Trade and Regional Economics Programme)
2009- Professor of Applied Economics: Innovation and Internationalization at ETH Zürich
2009- Head of Section 3 – Structural Change at KOF, ETH Zürich

MEMBERSHIP

American Economic Association, Austrian Economic Association, Canadian Economic Association, Econometric Society, European Economic Association, German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), Royal Economic Society.

REFEREE FOR

American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, American Journal of Political Science, Annals of Regional Science, Canadian Journal of Economics, Comparative Economic Studies, Eastern Economic Journal, Economic Journal, Economics E-Journal, Economics Letters, Economica, Economic Inquiry, Empirica, Empirical Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review (old and new), European Integration online Papers, European Journal of Political Economy, Fiscal Studies, German Economic Review, International Economic Journal, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Tax and Public Finance, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution and Peace Management, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Papers in Regional Science, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Regional Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, The World Economy, World Development, Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung.

Elsevier, Kluwer Academic Publishers, MIT Press.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Fond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank, National Science Foundation (NSF), The Leverhulme Trust.

EDITORSHIP

European Issue Editor of The World Economy (since 2007)
Associate Editor of Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences (since 2007)
Associate Editor of Annals of Regional Science (since 2007)
Associate Editor of Empirica (since 2008)
Associate Editor of Empirical Economics (since 2008)
Associate Editor of European Journal of Political Economy (since 2009)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Winter term 1997/98 Macroeconomics I (Univ. Linz)
Summer term 1998 Macroeconomics I (Univ. Linz)
Winter term 1998/99 Macroeconomics I (Univ. Linz)
Summer term 1999 Macroeconomics I (Univ. Linz)
Winter term 1999/2000 Macroeconomics I (Univ. Linz)
Summer term 2000 Macroeconomics I (Univ. Linz)
Winter term 2000/2001 Macroeconomics I (Univ. Linz)
Summer term 2001 Microeconomics I (Univ. Linz)
Winter term 2001/2002 International Economics I (Univ. Innsbruck)
International Economics I (Univ. Innsbruck)
Summer term 2002 International Economics II (Univ. Innsbruck)
Econometrics II (Univ. Innsbruck)
Winter term 2002/2003 International Economics I (Univ. Innsbruck)
Econometrics III (Univ. Innsbruck)
Summer term 2003 International Economics II (Univ. Innsbruck)
Econometrics II (Univ. Innsbruck)
Winter term 2004/2005 Econometrics III (Univ. Innsbruck)
Summer term 2005 Microeconometrics (Univ. Munich)
Winter term 2005/2006 International Economics (Univ. Munich)
Summer term 2006 Advanced International Economics (Univ. Munich)
Winter term 2006/2007 Advanced International Economics (Univ. Munich)
Advanced Econometrics (Univ. Munich)
Panel Data Econometrics (Univ. Paderborn)
Summer term 2007 Macroeconomics II (Univ. Munich)
Advanced International Economics for PhDs (Univ. Zurich)
Summer term 2008 Advanced International Economics (Univ. Munich)
Summer term 2009 Short PhD course in Spatial Econometrics (Graduate Institute of Geneva)
Short PhD course in Spatial Econometrics (KU Leuven/Strike/Core; Labastide, France)

LANGUAGES

English, French, German (native), Italian, Spanish (basic knowledge), Russian.

ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS

Vienna Workshop in International Economics at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (October 2001).

University of Innsbruck Workshop on International Outsourcing (June 2003; co-organized with Sven Arndt and Michael Pfaffermayr).

CESifo Venice Summer Institute; Workshop on Trade Regionalism (July 2006; co-organized with John Whalley).

Munich Tübingen Workshop in International Economics, (Munich October 2006)

CESifo Global Economy Area Conference (April 2007; co-organized with John Whalley).

CESifo Venice Summer Institute; Workshop on Heterogeneous Firms (July 2007; co-organized with David Greenaway).

CESifo Workshop on Multinational Firms (September 2007).

CESifo Conference on Taxation in the Global Economy (December 2007).

CESifo Global Economy Area Conference (January 2008; co-organized with John Whalley).

CESifo-Delphi Conference on Institutions (Munich, May 2008; co-organized with George Economides and Thomas Moutos).

CESifo Venice Summer Institute Conference on Europe and Global Environmental Issues (July 2008; co-organized with John Whalley).

CESifo Venice Summer Institute Conference on Taxation and Multinational Firms (July 2008; co-organized with Michael Devereux).

Munich Tübingen Workshop in International Economics, (Munich October 2008)

CESifo Venice Summer Institute Conference on Heterogeneous Firms and Trade (July 2009; co-organized with Stephen Redding and John Whalley).

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2001 Young Economist Award from the Austrian Economic Association.

2003-04 Erwin Schrödinger Scholarship from the Austrian Science Fund.

2005-06 Grant for the Project Foreign Aid and Multinational Firms financed by the Jubiläumsfonds of the Austrian National Bank (50,000 Euros).

2006-07 Grant for the Project Multinational Investment at Home and Abroad financed by the Hans Böckler Stiftung (about 10,000 Euros).

2006-08 Grant for the Project Homebias with Multinational Firms financed by the Austrian Science Fund through grant # P17713-G05 (about 270,000 Euros).

2008 Award of the Society for the Funding of Economic Research (Gesellschaft zur Förderung derwissenschaftlichen Forschung – Freunde des Ifo Instituts e.V.).

SHORTER RESEARCH VISITS

University of Kiel (October 2004; one week)

GEP at the University of Nottingham (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007; one week each)

Mendoza School of Business at the University of Notre Dame (November 2005, two weeks; October 2006, September 2007, one week)

University of Paderborn (July 2004; January 2005; July 2006; one week each)

University of Oxford (October/November 2007; one month)

INVITED LECTURES, TALKS AND ADDRESSES

• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Linz, September 2000.
• Keynote delivered at the 2002 Summer Meeting of the European Regional Science Association in Eksjö, Jönköping University, Sweden.
• Fall 2003 Seminar Series in Economics and Finance at the University of Notre Dame, USA, October 2003.
• Invited talk at the Economics Department of the University of Essen-Duisburg, February 2004.
• Seminar Series of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA, March 2004.
• Seminar Series of the Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, USA, April 2004.
• Seminar Series of the Department of Economics, University of Oregon, USA, April 2004.
• Seminar Series of the Department of Economics, Oregon State University, USA, April 2004.
• Invited talk at the Ifo-Institute, Munich, May 2004.
• Invited talk at the Economics Department of the University of Innsbruck, June 2004.
• Invited talk at the DIW-Institute, Berlin, June 2004.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, October 2004.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Tübingen, December 2004.
• Invited talk at the Economics Department of the University of Linz, June 2005.
• Invited talk at the GEP Research Retreat of the Economics Department of the University of Nottingham, April 2005.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Paderborn, July 2005.
• ECB-CFS-Bundesbank Joint Lunchtime Seminar Series, ECB Frankfurt, August 2005.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Regensburg, October 2005.
• Seminar Series in Econometrics at the University of Maryland, November 2005.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Mainz, November 2005.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Paderborn, January 2006.
• Workshop on Policy Analysis in Econometrics at Rice University, Houston, April 2006.
• Invited talk at the GEP Research Retreat of the Economics Department of the University of Nottingham, May 2006.
• Workshop on Frontiers in International Economics at the University of Nottingham, May 2006.
• Seminar Series in Economics at Pennsylvania State University, October 2006.
• Workshop on Globalization Effects on Firms and Workers at the University of Nottingham, November 2006.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Cologne, January 2007.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of St. Gallen, February 2007.
• Seminar at the Département d’Économie Politique of the University of Geneva, March 2007.
• Seminar at the University of Ghent, April 2007.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Zurich, April 2007.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the University of Stockholm, April 2007.
• Seminar Series at the Stockholm School of Economics, April 2007.
• Seminar Series in Economics at the IUI Stockholm, April 2007.
• Seminar Series in Economics at Tilburg University, May 2007.
• Seminar Series in Economics at University of Konstanz, May 2007.
• Symposium on Taxation at the Said Business School, Oxford University, June 2007.
• Seminar Series in Public Finance at Oxford University, November 2007.
• Seminar Series in International Economics at Oxford University, November 2007.
• Seminar Series in Economics at Tulane University, New Orleans, November 2007.
• Seminar Series in Economics at University of Kiel, December 2007.
• Inaugural conference of the Leverhulme Center for Globalization and Economic Policy at University of Nottingham’s Malaysia Campus, January 2008.
• Tinbergen Institute Seminar Series in Economics at University of Rotterdam, February 2008.
• Invited Talk at the Research Retreat of the Center for Globalization and Economic Policy at University of Nottingham, May 2008.
• Seminar Series at Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich, May 2008.
• Seminar Series in Economics at University of Stirling, May 2008.
• Conference on Spatial Economics and Trade, University of Strathclyde, June 2008.
• GEP Offshoring Conference, Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, June 2008.
• Seminar Series in Economics at University of Munich, June 2008.
• Munich-Tübingen Workshop in International Economics, October 2008.
• NORFACE Conference on FDI and the Globalization of European Labor Markets, ifo Institute Munich, October 2008.
• Conference on China and The World Economy, University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus, China, November 2008.
• OECD Conference on Trade in Services, OECD Paris, December 2008.
• Seminar Series in Economics at University College Dublin, December 2008.
• Merton Seminar in International Economics at Oxford University, March 2009.
• Seminar Series in Econometrics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, April 2009.
• Workshop on Trade Regionalism at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, May 2009.
• Seminar Series at the European Central Bank, October 2009.

PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Tax Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Stealing versus Production-Stealing Effects (with Ronald B. Davies and Hartmut Egger), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

Firm-specific Forward-looking Effective Tax Rates (with Simon Loretz, Michael Pfaffermayr, and Hannes Winner), International Tax and Public Finance, forthcoming.

Endogenous Product versus Process Innovation and a Firm’s Propensity to Export (with Sascha Becker), Empirical Economics, forthcoming.

Endogenous Bank Mergers and Their Impact on Banking Performance. Some Evidence from Austria (with Franz R. Hahn), International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.

Bilateral FDI Potentials for Austria, Empirica, forthcoming.

Corporate Taxation, and the Capital Structure of Domestically and Foreign-Owned Firms (with Wolfgang Eggert, Christian Keuschnigg, and Hannes Winner), European Economic Review, forthcoming.

Beschäftigungseffekte von Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen bei Exporteuren und Nicht-Exporteuren (with Sascha Becker), Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, forthcoming.

Taxation and the Globalization Process – Editorial Introduction, The World Economy, forthcoming.

The Influence of Labor Taxes on the Migration of Skilled Workers (with Doina Radulescu), The World Economy, forthcoming.

Small Sample Properties of Maximum Likelihood versus Generalised Method of Moments Based Tests for Spatially Autocorrelated Residuals (with Mario Larch, Michael Pfaffermayr, and Janette Walde), Regional Science and Urban Economics, forthcoming.

Effective Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment (with Simon Loretz, Michael Pfaffermayr, and Hannes Winner), International Tax and Public Finance, 2008, forthcoming.

The Law of One Price: A New Econometric Approach and Evidence from Disaggregated Data (with Stephan Gruber and Michael Pfaffermayr), Applied Economics, 2009, forthcoming.

The role of institutions in economic outcomes: Editorial introduction (with George Economides), European Journal of Political Economy 25(3), 2009, 277-279.

Common political culture: Evidence on regional corruption contagion (with Sascha O. Becker and Tobias Seidel), European Journal of Political Economy 25(3), 2009, 300-310.

On Testing Conditional Sigma-Convergence (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 71(4), 2009, 453-473.

Pretest Estimation of a Generalized Spatial Panel Data Model Against its Alternatives (with Badi H. Baltagi and Michael Pfaffermayr), Annales d’Économie et de Statistique 87-88, 2008, 11-38.

The Determinants of GATS Commitment Coverage (with Rainer Lanz), The World Economy 31(12), 2008, 1666-1694.

Estimating Regional Trade Agreement Effects on FDI in an Interdependent World (with Badi H. Baltagi and Michael Pfaffermayr), Journal of Econometrics 145(1-2), 2008, 194-208.

Interdependent Regional Trade Agreement Memberships: An Empirical Analysis (with Mario Larch), Journal of International Economics 76(2), 2008, 384-399.

Do Economic Integration Agreements Actually Work? Issues in Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Regionalism (with Scott L. Baier, Jeffrey H. Bergstrand, and Patrick A. McLaughlin), The World Economy 31(4), 2008, 461-497.

On the Role of Distance for Bilateral Trade, The World Economy 31(5) 2008, 653-662.

Trade Liberalization With Multinational Firms: Effects on Welfare and Intra-Industry Trade (with Hartmut Egger and David Greenaway), Journal of International Economics 74(2), 2008, 278-298.

On the Role of Distance for Outward FDI, Annals of Regional Science 42(2), 2008, 375-389.

De Facto Exchange Rate Arrangement Tightness and Bilateral Trade Flows, Economics Letters 99(2), 2008, 228-232.

The EU’s Attitude Towards Eastern Enlargement in Space, (with Mario Larch, Michael Pfaffermayr, and Janette Walde), Journal of Comparative Economics 36(1), 2008, 142-156.

Agglomeration and Fair Wages (with Tobias Seidel), Canadian Journal of Economics 41(1), 2008, 271-291.

Intra-Industry Trade with Multinational Firms: Theory, Measurement and Determinants (with Hartmut Egger and David Greenaway), European Economic Review 51(8), 2007, 1959-1984.

A Knowledge-and-Physical-Capital Model of International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Foreign Affiliate Sales: Developed Countries (with Jeffrey H. Bergstrand), Journal of International Economics 73(2), 2007, 278-308.

Knowledge Capital Meets New Economic Geography (with Stefan Gruber, Mario Larch, and Michael Pfaffermayr), Annals of Regional Science 41(4), 2007, 857-875.

Estimating Models of Complex FDI: Are There Third-Country Effects? (with Badi H. Baltagi and Michael Pfaffermayr), Journal of Econometrics 140(1), 2007, 260-281.

Fragmentation and Trade in a Spatial World (with Hartmut Egger), Journal of Urban Economics 62(3), 2007, 441-470.

The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on FDI: Dynamics (with Valeria Merlo), The World Economy 30(10), 2007, 1536-1549.

Sectoral Adjustment of Employment to Shifts in Outsourcing and Trade: Evidence from a Dynamic Fixed Effects Multinomial Logit Model (with Michael Pfaffermayr and Andrea Weber), Journal of Applied Econometrics 22(3), 2007, 559-580.

Bilateral versus Multilateral Trade and Investment Liberalization (with Mario Larch and Michael Pfaffermayr), The World Economy 30(4), 2007, 567-596.

On the Welfare Effects of Trade and Investment Liberalization (with Mario Larch and Michael Pfaffermayr), European Economic Review 51(3), 2007, 669-694.

What Happened to Trade in Western and Eastern Europe in the Aftermath of COMECON? (with Michael Pfaffermayr and Roland Schmidt), Oxford Economic Papers 59(1), 2007, 102-126.

Intermediate Goods Trade and International Wage Convergence in Central Europe, Empirica, 33(4), 2006, 181-192.

Does Capital Mobility Promote Economic Growth? The Link to Education (with Hartmut Egger and Volker Grossman), Journal of Financial Transformation 17(August), 28-31.

Trade Costs and Intra-Industry Trade (with Jeffrey H. Bergstrand), Review of World Economics 142(3), 2006, 433-458.

Spatial Convergence (with Michael Pfaffermayr) Papers in Regional Science 85(2), 2006, 199-216.

The Impact of Endogenous Tax Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Empirical Evidence (with Mario Larch, Michael Pfaffermayr, and Hannes Winner), Canadian Journal of Economics 39(3), 2006, 901-931.

Public Export Guarantees and Foreign Trade Structure (with Thomas Url), The World Economy 29(4), 2006, 399-418.

How Corruption Influences FDI: A Panel Data Study (with Hannes Winner), Economic Development and Cultural Change 54(2), 2006, 459-486.

International Outsourcing and the Productivity of Low-skilled Labor in the EU (with Hartmut Egger), Economic Inquiry 44(1), 2006, 98-108.

The Determinants of Intra-Firm Trade: In Search for Export-Import Magnification Effects (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Review of World Economics 141(4), 2005, 648-669.

On the Short Run and Long Run Effects of Corruption on Foreign Direct Investment (with Hannes Winner), European Journal of Political Economy 21(4), 2005, 932-952.

Alternative Techniques for Estimation of Cross-Section Gravity Models, Review of International Economics 31(5), 2005, 881-891.

Environmental Standards and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence for Germany (with Tilmann Rave and Ursula Triebswetter), Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2005, 83-106.

Trade, Multinational Sales, and FDI in a Three-Factors Model (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Review of International Economics 13(4), 2005, 659-675.

Labour Market Effects of Outsourcing under Industrial Interdependence (with Hartmut Egger), International Review of Economics and Finance 14(3), 2005, 349-363.

Commodity Taxation in a ‘Linear’ World: A Spatial Panel Data Approach (with Michael Pfaffermayr and Hannes Winner), Regional Science and Urban Economics 35(5), 2005, 527-541.

An Unbalanced Spatial Panel Data Approach to US State Tax Competition (with Michael Pfaffermayr and Hannes Winner), Economics Letters 88(3), 2005, 329-335.

A Note on Export Openness and Regional Disparity in Central and Eastern Europe (with Peter Huber and Michael Pfaffermayr), Annals of Regional Science 39(1), 2005, 63-71.

The Determinants of EU Processing Trade (with Hartmut Egger), The World Economy 28(2), 2005, 147-168.

Transport Costs in A Multilateral World, Southern Economic Journal 71(3), 2005, 592-606.

The Effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties on FDI (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Journal of Comparative Economics 32(4), 2004, 788-804.

Concentration and Multinationality in European Manufacturing: What Effect on Productivity? (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Empirica 31(4), 2004, 325-332.

Market Power, Multinationality and Intra-EU Industry Exports in the 90s, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 51(5), 2004, 626-640.

Two Dimensions of Convergence: National and International Wage Adjustment Effects of Cross-Border Outsourcing in Europe (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Review of International Economics 12(5), 2004, 833-843.

International Outsourcing and Price-Cost Margins in the EU (with Hartmut Egger), Review of Industrial Organization 25(1), 2004, 45-69.

Estimating Short Run and Long Run Effects in Static Panel Models (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Econometric Reviews 23(3), 2004, 199-214.

Multilateral Trade and Investment Liberalization: Effects on Welfare and GDP per Capita Convergence (with Mario Larch and Michael Pfaffermayr), Economics Letters 84(1), 2004, 133-140.

Estimating Trading Bloc Effects With Panel Data, Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 140(1), 2004, 151-166.

Distance, Trade and FDI: A SUR Hausman-Taylor Approach (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Journal of Applied Econometrics 19(2), 2004, 227-246.

Economic Freedom and Taxation: Is There a Trade-off in the Locational Competition Between Countries? (with Hannes Winner), Public Choice 118(3-4), 2004, 271-288.

On the Problem of Endogenous Unobserved Effects in the Estimation of Gravity Models, Journal of Economic Integration 19(1), 2004, 182-191.

Foreign Direct Investment and European Integration in the 90s (with Michael Pfaffermayr), The World Economy 27(1), 2004, 99-110.

Outsourcing and Skill-specific Employment in a Small Economy: Austria and the Fall of the Iron Curtain (with Hartmut Egger), Oxford Economic Papers 55(4), 2003, 625-643.

On Market Concentration and International Outsourcing (with Hartmut Egger), Applied Economics Quarterly 49(1), 2003, 49-64.

A Generalized Design for Bilateral Trade Flow Models (with Badi H. Baltagi and Michael Pfaffermayr), Economics Letters 80(3), 2003, 391-397.

The Proper Panel Econometric Specification of the Gravity Equation: A Three-Way Model with Bilateral Interaction Effects (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Empirical Economics 28(3), 2003, 571-580.

Does Contract Risk Impede Foreign Direct Investment? (with Hannes Winner), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 139(2), 2003, 155-172.

A Tale on Competition Between Eastern and Southern Europe (with Kurt Kratena), Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 139(1), 2003, 114-130.

International Outsourcing and the Skill-Specific Wage Bill in Eastern Europe (with Robert Stehrer), The World Economy 26(1), 2003, 61-72.

How International Outsourcing Drives Up Wages in Eastern Europe? (with Hartmut Egger), Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 138(1), 2002, 83-96.

An Econometric View on the Estimation of Gravity Models and the Calculation of Trade Potentials, The World Economy 25(2), 2002, 297-312.

The Impact of Agenda 2000's Structural Policy Reform on FDI in the EU (with Fritz Breuss and Michael Pfaffermayr), Journal of Policy Modeling 23(7), 2001, 811-824.

Cross Border Sourcing and Outward Processing in EU Manufacturing (with Hartmut Egger), North American Journal of Economics and Finance 12(3), 2001, 243-256.

The International Fragmentation of the Value Added Chain: The Effects of Outsourcing to Eastern Europe on Productivity and Wages in Austrian Manufacturing (with Michael Pfaffermayr and Yvonne Wolfmayr-Schnitzer), North American Journal of Economics and Finance 12(3), 2001, 257-272.

European Exports and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach, Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 137(3), 2001, 427-449.

A Note on Labor Productivity and Foreign Inward Direct Investment (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Applied Economics Letters 8(4), 2001, 229-232.

Economic Integration in Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Dynamic Considerations of Potential and Adjustment, Journal of International Relations and Development 3(2), 2000, 173-183.

A Note on the Proper Econometric Specification of the Gravity Equation, Economics Letters 66(1), 2000, 25-31.

How Reliable Are Estimations of East-West Trade Potentials Based on Cross-Section Gravity Analyses? (with Fritz Breuss), Empirica 26(2), 1999, 81-94.

ARTICLES IN NONREFEREED JOURNALS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

A General Equilibrium Theory for Estimating Gravity Equations of Bilateral FDI, Final Goods, and Intermediate Goods Trade Flows (with Jeffrey H. Bergstrand), in Steven Brakman and Peter van Bergijk (eds.), The Gravity Model in International Trade: Advances and Applications, 2009, forthcoming.

Do Stricter Migration Policies Deter FDI? (with Doina Radulescu), forthcoming in a collected volume, Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2009.

Sicherung privater Investitionen – ein geeignetes Instrument der Entwicklungshilfe?, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 57(3), 2008, 287-294.

The New Regionalism: Causes and Consequences (with Scott L. Baier and Jeffrey H. Bergstrand), Integration and Trade 26, 2007, forthcoming. Reprinted in: Économie Internationale 109(1), 2007, 9-29.

Die Rolle von bilateralen Investitionsschutzabkommen für Österreichs Direktinvestitionen, Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 52(1), 2005, 169-175.

Comment on ‘Globalization, North-South Uneven Development, and International Institutions’ (A.K. Dutt), in: John-ren Chen (ed.), The Role of International Institutions in Globalisation, Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2003, 134-139.

Die Auswirkungen der Reform der Strukturpolitik in der Agenda 2000 auf die Verteilung der passiven Direktinvestitionen in der EU (with Fritz Breuss and Michael Pfaffermayr), Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 49, 2002, 91-98.

Österreichs aktive und passive Direktinvestitionen (with Michael Pfaffermayr), in: Österreichs Außenwirtschaft 2001/2002, Austrian Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Vienna, 2002, 108-115.

Die Auswirkungen der EU-Osterweiterung auf die europäische Wertschöpfungskette, in: Österreichs Außenwirtschaft 2000/2001, Austrian Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Vienna, 2001, 190-204.

The Impact of (Changes in) Corporate Structure on Price Dispersion, Productivity and Profits in EU Manufacturing (with Michael Pfaffermayr), in: I. De Voldere, J. Reynaerts, K. Rommens, L. Sleuwaegen, R. Veugelers (coordinators), Determinants of Industrial Concentration, Market Integration and Efficiency in the European Union, Study for DG Economic & Financial Affairs, April 2001, forthcoming as European Economy, 103-111.

European Integration in Trade and FDI: A Dynamic Perspective, CESifo Forum 2(2), 2001, 30-35.

Outsourcing of Austrian Manufacturing to Eastern Countries: Effects on Productivity and the Labor Market (with Rene Dell'mour, Klaus Gugler, Michael Pfaffermayr and Yvonne Wolfmayr-Schnitzer), in: Eastern Enlargement: The Sooner, The Better?, Austrian Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Vienna, 2000, 249-302.

Theoretische Grundlagen der Globalisierungsdiskussion - Teil 2 (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2/1999, 41-69.

Theoretische Grundlagen der Globalisierungsdiskussion - Teil 1 (with Michael Pfaffermayr), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 1/1999, 183-199.

UNDER REVISION

SUR Estimation of Error Components Models With AR(1) Disturbances and Unobserved Endogenous Effects.

An Assessment of the Europe Agreements’ Effects on Bilateral Trade, GDP, and Welfare (with Mario Larch).

The Pure Effects of European Integration on Intra-EU Core and Periphery Trade (with Michael Pfaffermayr).

Public Infrastructure, International Transfers, and Net Migration with Multinational Firms (with Wolfgang Eggert and Mario Larch).

A Generalized Spatial Panel Data Model with Random Effects (with Badi H. Baltagi and Michael Pfaffermayr).

Structural Policy Reform and the Distribution of FDI in Europe (with Fritz Breuss and Michael Pfaffermayr).

Taxation and Multinational Activity (with Simon Loretz, Michael Pfaffermayr, and Hannes Winner).

Do Fiscal Transfers Alleviate Business Tax Competition? Evidence from Germany, (with Marko Köthenbürger and Michael Smart), CESifo WP 1955.

Saving Taxes Through Foreign Plant Ownership (with Wolfgang Eggert and Hannes Winner), CESifo Working Paper #1887.

Horizontal versus Vertical Interdependence in Multinational Activity (with Harald Badinger).

Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective (with Harald Badinger).

Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance, (with Sascha O. Becker and Maximilian von Ehrlich).

Government Spending and Legislative Organization: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Germany (with Marko Köthenbürger).

Labour Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment (with Doina Radulescu).

How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters: Municipality-Level Evidence from Germany (with Sascha O. Becker and Valeria Merlo).

Estimation of Spatial Autoregressive M-way error component Panel Data Models (with Harald Badinger).

Gravity Redux (with Jeffrey H. Bergstrand and Mario Larch).

The Trade and Welfare Effects of Mergers in Space (with Hartmut Egger).

COMPLETED PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Taxation and Incorporation: Theory and Firm-level Evidence (with Cristian Keuschnigg and Hannes Winner), unpublished manuscript.

Horizontal Firm Integration and the Taxation of Profits (with Marko Köthenbürger), unpublished manuscript.

GM Estimation of Higher Order Spatial Autoregressive Processes in Panel Data Error Component Models (with Harald Badinger), CESifo Working paper, 2008.

Outsourcing: Measurement, Determinants, and Consequences of International Trade Flows in Intermediate Goods (with Jeffrey H. Bergstrand), unpublished manuscript.

Shouldn’t Physical Capital Also Matter in a World Economy with Multinational Enterprises? (with Jeffrey H. Bergstrand), unpublished manuscript.

Corporate Taxation, Debt Financing, and Foreign Plant Ownership (with Wolfgang Eggert and Hannes Winner), unpublished manuscript.

Road and Railway Transport Infrastructure Effects on Bilateral Trade (with Mario Larch), mimeo.

How Innovation Triggers Employment Growth (with Sascha Becker), mimeo.

How Bad is Antidumping?: Evidence from Panel Data (with Doug Nelson), mimeo.

Structural Operations and Net Migration Flows in the European Union (with Wolfgang Eggert and Mario Larch), mimeo.

Capital Market Integration, Education and Growth under Capital-Skill Complementarity (with Hartmut Egger, Josef Falkinger, and Volker Grossmann), CESifo Working Paper No. 1630.

Exchange Rate Effects on Multinational Activity: Theory and Evidence (with Hartmut Egger and Michael Ryan), mimeo.

On Tariff-Setting With Horizontal Multinationals (with Hartmut Egger and David Greenaway), mimeo.

The Counterfactual to Investing Abroad: An Endogenous Treatment Approach of Foreign Affiliate Activity (with Michael Pfaffermayr), mimeo.

Market Concentration, Multinationality and Price Convergence in the EU (with Michael Pfaffermayr), mimeo. [Paper presented at the EUNIP conference, Vienna].

DIPLOMA AND DOCTORAL THESES SUPERVISION; THESIS EXAMINATION

Tanja Manhardt (diploma; University of Munich, 2005)
Sascha Heinrich (diploma, University of Munich, 2006)
Julia Lichtenberg (diploma, University of Munich, 2006)
Christine Sailer (diploma, University of Munich, 2006)
Rui Li (diploma, University of Munich, 2006)
Hauke Sievers (diploma, University of Munich, 2006)

Zhihong Yu (PhD; external examiner; University of Nottingham, 2006)
Désirée Nilsson (PhD; external examiner; Jönköping International Business School, 2006)
Laura Gariup (PhD, main supervisor, University of Munich, 2007)
Markus Zimmer (PhD, main supervisor, University of Munich, 2007)
Ingo Borchert (PhD; external examiner; University of St. Gallen, 2008)
Julia Lichtenberg (PhD, main supervisor, University of Munich, 2009)

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Austrian Economic Association (Graz 2001, Klagenfurt 2003, Vienna 2008)
Canadian Economic Association (Montreal 2001, Toronto 2004, Montreal 2006)
CESifo Global Economy Area Conference (Munich 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Conference on Panel Data (Geneva 2000, Berlin 2002, Cambridge 2006)
Econometric Society European Meeting (Madrid 2004, Vienna 2006, Budapest 2007, Barcelona 2009)
Empirical Investigations in International Trade (Tokyo 2007; Boulder 2008)
European Association of Research in Industrial Economics (Valencia 2007)
European Economic Association (Madrid 2004, Amsterdam 2005, Vienna 2006, Budapest 2007, Milano 2008, Barcelona 2009)
European Trade Study Group (Glasgow 2002, Brussels 2003, Kiel 2004, Dublin 2005, Vienna 2006, Athens 2007, Rome 2009)
International institute for Public Finance (Milano 2004, Jeju Island 2005, Paphos 2006, Warwick 2007, Cape Town 2009)
Midwest International Economics Meetings (Evanston, Spring 2002; Bloomington, Fall 2003; Indianapolis, Spring 2004; Nashville, Spring 2005; Ann Arbor, Fall 2007; Urbana Champaign, Spring 2008)
Royal Economic Society (Nottingham 2006)
Verein für Socialpolitik - German Economic Association (Innsbruck 2002, Dresden 2003, Bonn 2005, Bayreuth 2006, Munich 2007, Graz 2008)
Western Economic Association (San Diego 2006, Beijing Pacific Rim Conference, 2007)