Niklas Potrafke

Niklas Potrafke (born May 31, 1980 in Berlin ) is a German economist and university professor of economics , especially finance , at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He is also head of the “Public Finance” department at the Ifo Institute .

Life

In 2001 Niklas Potrafke obtained his intermediate diploma in economics at the Distance University in Hagen . He received his diploma in economics from the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2004 . In 2008 he received his doctorate in economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin from Charles B. Blankart . He wrote his dissertation on the subject of “Convergence in German financial and social policy?”. The doctorate was funded by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation as part of a doctoral scholarship. Potrafke completed the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science and was a visiting scientist at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin.

Study and research stays took him to the University of California, Berkeley , the ETH Zurich and the KOF Economic Research Center as well as the University of Groningen .

From 2008 to 2012 he was assistant to Heinrich W. Ursprung's chair for political economy at the University of Konstanz .

Since April 2012 Potrafke has been Professor of Public Finance at the LMU Munich and head of the “Public Sector” department at the Munich Ifo Institute. His research interests are in political economy, finance and economic policy. In 2014 he was named by the business magazine Capital and the newspaper Die Welt as one of the top talents “Top 40 under 40” in Germany.

research

In his research, Niklas Potrafke focused on the question of the extent to which the party-political composition of governments and re-election motives of politicians influence economic policy. Important research subjects are also the effects of globalization on economic targets such as labor and product market deregulation, as well as socio-political developments such as equality between the sexes. Niklas Potrafke also examined how religion and political institutions affect socio-political developments.

The sovereign debt crisis is a new research focus at the Ifo Institute. Niklas Potrafke and his colleagues investigate a.o. a. to what extent the financial policies run by governments are sustainable in the long term.

Publications (selection)

• Minority positions in the German Council of Economic Experts: A political economic analysis . In: European Journal of Political Economy . 31, 2013, pp. 180-187. doi : 10.1016 / j.ejpoleco.2013.05.001 .
• Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: International Empirical Evidence In: Journal of Comparative Economics . 41, No. 3, 2013, pp. 829-842.
• The growth of public health expenditures in OECD countries: Do government ideology and electoral motives matter? (PDF; 421 kB) In: Journal of Health Economics . 29, No. 6, 2010, pp. 797-810. doi : 10.1016 / j.jhealeco.2010.07.008
• Does government ideology influence political alignment with the US? An empirical analysis of voting in the UN General Assembly . In: Review of International Organizations . 4, No. 3, 2009, pp. 245-268. doi : 10.1007 / s11558-009-9066-5
• Did globalization restrict partisan politics? An empirical evaluation of social expenditures in a panel of OECD countries . In: Public Choice . 140, No. 1-2, 2009, pp. 105-124. doi : 10.1007 / s11127-009-9414-2

Web links

• Profile on the website of the Ifo Institute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Niklas Potrafke. In: LMU Munich . Retrieved June 11, 2013 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Niklas Potrafke. In: Ifo Institute . Retrieved June 11, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Convergence in German financial and social policy? / Niklas Potrafke. In: German National Library . Retrieved June 14, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Alumni page of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science , accessed on June 3, 2017.