RESEARCH

RESEARCH INTERESTS

General Interests focus on applied Microeconomics, especially information economics, contract and organization theory as well as Industrial Organization and Public Economics. Current Research deals with the fundamental economic mechanisms underlying strategic Corporate Social Responsibility, the potential interaction between public policy/incentive design and strategic firm behavior in the context of (social or environmental) public goods provision as well as issues related to competition policy and market structure.

CSR is defined as the corporate provision of some social or environmental public good (including the reduction of social bad or negative externalities) above levels required by law and regulation. In view of increasing evidence of market driven, strategic CSR, it is especially important for policy makers and regulators to re-evaluate, and if necessary, redefine scope and necessity (occasion) of public policy/market intervention. 

Economic Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility [Thesis Title]

• Economics and Corporate Social Responsibility (EUI Working Paper ECO 2008-37)  PDF

• last version titled "Economic Perspectives on CSR" (under revision; revise and resubmit JEL)

• Incentives and Corporate Provision of Public Goods (Working Paper 2008)  PDF

Work in Progress

• International Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Policy (Prelim. Working Paper 2009)

• CSR, Lobbying and Competition (joint with Tom Lyon)

PREVIOUS WORK  Here you can find some of the work I have done before 2005.

International Outsourcing of Services: A new challenge for international trade theory?

(Policy Paper: PDF) Contribution to "The EU Economy: 2005 Review" ;

Part III - Subsection 3 "International Outsourcing in the Services Sector"

EUROPEAN ECONOMY No 6. 2005. Office for Official Publications of the EC. Luxembourg.

Housing Prices and Monetary Policy: Central Banks in face of Boom and Bust

[Master Thesis - College of Europe Dept. of Economics 2004] PDF

Supervisor: Prof. S. Eijffinger (CentER Tilburg University)

EC Structural Funds and Regional Convergence in Southern Europe

[Master Thesis - University Innsbruck Dept. of Economics 2003]

Supervisor: Prof. M. Pfaffermayr (Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck and WIFO)

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