Team
Head of Department
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars P. Feld
E-mail: wei-freiburg@eucken.de
Fon: 0761 790970
Lars P. Feld (*1966) has held the Chair of Economic Policy and Regulatory Economics at the University of Freiburg since 2010 and is Director of the Walter Eucken Institute. His research focuses on economic policy, finance, new political economy and economic analysis of law.
After studying economics at Saarland University, Lars P. Feld received his doctorate from the University of St. Gallen in 1999 and habilitated there in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he was Professor of Economics, in particular Finance, at Philipps-Universität Marburg; from 2006 to 2010 he held the chair of the same name at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Lars P. Feld is a permanent visiting professor at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim and a member of the Leopoldina (National Academy of Sciences), the Kronberger Kreis and the Mont Pèlerin Society. On 02 November 2017, Lars Feld was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lucerne.
Since 2003, Lars P. Feld has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Finance. In 2007, he was appointed as an expert for the Commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat on the Modernisation of Federal-Länder Fiscal Relations (Federalism Commission II) and participated in an advisory capacity in the new German debt brake. As of January 2020, he was appointed as a scientific member of the Minimum Wage Commission. He was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2011 to 2021, as well as Chairman in the final year, and represented the Council on the Independent Advisory Council of the Stability Council from 2013 to 2021.
Secretary
Heidrun Klotz
E-Mail: sek.feld@vwl.uni-freiburg.de
Fon: 0761 203 2317
Rempartstraße 10 (Room 01 036)
Office hours by appointment Mondays-Thursdays
Research Associates
Lilith Burgstaller, M.Sc.
E-mail: burgstaller@eucken.de
Office hours by appointment
Lilith Burgstaller studied economics at the University of Augsburg and the Universidad de Valladolid in Spain. She then completed a master's degree in Public and Non-Profit Management at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau. During her studies, she gained experience in internships and as a working student at the Bayerische Landesbank, a start-up, a disaster relief organization, and the Walter Eucken Institute.From September 2020 to August 2021, Lilith Burgstaller was a project assistant in the project "Aspiring Migrant Entrepreneurs in Germany - Potentials and Pitfalls in the Start-Up Process" at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES). She continues to be affiliated with the Institute for SME Research (ifm) at the University of Mannheim. With the start of her doctorate, she is also a research assistant at the Walter Eucken Institute and a lecturer at the Institute for the International Education of Students in Freiburg (IES).
Her research interests include experimental economics, the shadow economy and tax evasion as well as discrimination against minorities.
Joshua Hassib, M.Sc.
Fon: 0761 20369299
Rempartstraße 10 (room 01 032)
Office hours by appointment.
Joshua Hassib studied Political Science (BA) and Economics (MSc) at the University of Freiburg. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Development Theories and Development Policy and at the Walter Eucken Institute. He also completed internships at the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce, GIZ and the Walter Eucken Institut. As a working student at GIZ, he wrote his master's thesis on the question of the influence of gender equality on the resilience of tax revenues.
Joshua Hassib has been a research associate at the Walter Eucken Institute since August 2023. He is also a doctoral research assistant at the Chair of Economic Policy and Regulatory Economics at the University of Freiburg. His research interests lie in the areas of public finance, development economics and economic competitiveness.
Maximilian Langer, M.Sc.
E-mail: langer@eucken.de
Rempartstraße 10 (Room 01 034)
Office hours by appointment
Maximilian Langer studied Economics and Social Sciences (B.Sc.) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and at the University of Gadjah Mada in Indonesia. He then completed a degree in Environmental Sciences (B.Sc.) and Business Administration (M.Sc.) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. There he wrote his master's thesis on rebound effects at the Chair of Economic Policy and Regulatory Theory with a special focus on new political economy and the economics of economic policy reforms.
After studying economics and social sciences, he initially worked in an auditing firm. During his studies in Freiburg, he gained experience as a research assistant at the Institute of Geobotany and at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), where he wrote his bachelor thesis on unintended consequences of development projects in sub-Saharan Africa as part of his studies in environmental sciences.
Since March 2023, Maximilian Langer has been employed as a research officer at the Walter Eucken Institute and since 15 October 2023 he has been working here as a research assistant at the chair.
Research Assistants