Prof. Alfons Weichenrieder is a full professor of Economics and Public Finance at Goethe-University Frankfurt and a research-oriented guest professor at the WU Research Institute of International Taxation. Alfons Weichenrieder received his doctorate in economics in 1995 from the University of Munich under the supervision of Hans-Werner Sinn. He taught in Munich, at Princeton University, and at the University of Vienna before taking up the Chair of Public Finance at Goethe University in October 2002. He is a co-opted member of the Public Finance Section of the German Economic Association, an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, and a CESifo Research Fellow. Currently he serves as vice chair of the Scientific Council of the German Ministry of Finance. Alfons Weichenrieder is managing editor of FinanzArchiv (Public Finance Analysis) and an advisory board member at International Tax and Public Finance.

His research concentrates on topics in international business taxation with a strong emphasis on the interaction between institutional rules and economic outcomes. Recent projects deal with international withholding taxes, tax havens, tax treatment of R&D and optimal personal taxes.

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