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Davud Rostam-Afschar
University of Mannheim L 9,7, 68131, Mannheim, Germany Phone: +49 621 181-1645 Email: [email protected] Web: http://rostam-afschar.de/
CURRENT POSITION
since 02/2020 Assistant professor (Akademischer Rat), University of Mannheim
since 04/2016 Assistant professor (Akademischer Rat), University of Hohenheim
RESEARCH VISITS
02/2020 – 03/2020 Harvard University, invited by Stefanie Stantcheva
04/2019 – 08/2019 Queen Mary University, London, invited by Maria Koumenta 02/2018 – 09/2018 University of California, Berkeley, invited by Alan Auerbach
PAST POSITIONS
10/2015 – 03/2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
09/2015 – 03/2016 Visiting Lecturer, University of Potsdam
10/2010 – 10/2015 Predoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
EDUCATION 10/2010 – 07/2015 PhD (summa cum laude), Supervisors: Viktor Steiner (FU Berlin), Richard Blundell (UCL)
04/2005 – 04/2010 Diplom (German equiv. to M.Sc.), Economics, Freie Universität Berlin
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Refereed journals Fossen, F. M., R. Rees, D. Rostam-Afschar, V. Steiner (2020) ‘The Effects of Income Taxation on Entrepreneurial Investment: A Puzzle?’, International Tax and Public Finance, 27, 1321-1363.
Prettner, K., D. Rostam-Afschar (2020) ‘Can Taxes Raise Output and Reduce Inequality? The Case of Lobbying‘, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 67, 455-461. Rostam-Afschar, D., K. Strohmaier (2019). ‘Does Regulation Trade-Off Quality against Inequality? The Case of German Architects and Construction Engineers’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 57, 870- 893.
Jessen, R., D. Rostam-Afschar, S. Schmitz (2017) ‘How Important is Precautionary Labour Supply?’, Oxford Economic Papers, 70/3, 868– 891.
Meissner, T., D. Rostam-Afschar (2017) ‘Learning Ricardian Equivalence’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 82, 273-288. Jessen, R., D. Rostam-Afschar und V. Steiner (2017) ‘Getting the Poor to Work: Three Welfare Increasing Reforms for a Busy Germany’, FinanzArchiv, 73, 1, 1-41.
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Rostam-Afschar, D. (2014) ‘Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: A Natural Experiment in German Craftsmanship’, Empirical Economics, 47, 3, 1067-1101. Reprinted in Holtemöller, O. (ed.), ‘How Can We Boost Competition in the Services Sector?’, (2017), Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 89-133 Fossen, F. M., D. Rostam-Afschar (2013) ‘Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Savings: New Evidence form German Households’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 75, 4, 528-555.
Other publications Rostam-Afschar, D. (2020) ‘Inclusive Labor Market Policy: Facts, Challenges, and New Ideas for the Regulation of Professions’, Economics Review: Journal of Economic Policy, invited article, 69(2), 129-139. Koumenta, M., M. Pagliero, D. Rostam-Afschar (2018) ‘Effects of regulation on service quality: Evidence from six European cases’, European Commission, Directorate General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Research Report. Rostam-Afschar, D. (2015) ‘Regulatory Effects of the Amendment to the HwO in 2004 in German Craftsmanship’ European Commission, Directorate General Internal Market and Services, Research Report.
Software components Rostam-Afschar, D., R. Jessen (2014) ‘GRAPH3D: Stata Module to Draw Colored, Scalable, Rotatable 3D Plots’, Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
02/2020 – Research project member, German Research Foundation
05/2020 – 08/2020 University of Turin Fellowship
08/2020 Excellence in Reviewing Award, Labour Economics
10/2019 – 03/2020 Best Teaching Award, University of Hohenheim
04/2019 – 09/2019 Best Teaching Award, University of Hohenheim
06/2011 – 06/2013 Ph.D. Fellowship, German National Academic Foundation
03/2019 – 04/2010 Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
2020 University of Konstanz (invited), ASSA Annual Meeting, EALE 2019 University of Navarra (invited), Banca d’Italia (invited), Oslo Fiscal Studies and Statistics Norway (invited), OECD (invited), University of Maastricht (invited), University of Exeter (invited), European Association of Labour Economists, European Economic Association and Econometric Society, International Association for Applied Econometrics, Verein für Socialpolitik
2018 University of Basel (invited), Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis and Chicago (invited), University of California, Berkeley (invited), International Association for Applied Econometrics
2017 Collegio Carlo Alberto (invited), Linnaeus University, Växjö (invited), Centre for European Economic Research (invited), Mannheim Taxation, Verein für Socialpolitik, European Economic Association, ASSA Annual Meeting
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
2017 – Monthly NGE: Next Generation Economics seminar 2020 Virtual Annual Conference 2020 of the Verein für Socialpolitik 2011/2012 Weekly seminar of the Berlin Network of Labor Research Annual Berlin Network of Labor Research Lecture Series
ACADEMIC SERVICE 06/2019 – Member of the senate of the University of Hohenheim
04/2016 – 05/2020 Examination coordinator at the University of Hohenheim 06/2013 – 06/2016 Board member of the department of economics, Freie Universität Berlin
TEACHING 2015 – 2019 Public Economics University of Hohenheim, University of Potsdam 5 lectures, 7 classes, 2 seminars, about 15-30 students per semester 2016 – 2019 Microeconomics University of Hohenheim 4 classes, about 1,000-1,200 students per semester 2011 – 2015 Microeconometrics Freie Universität Berlin 2 lectures, 4 classes, about 20-30 students per semester 2010 – 2014 Macroeconomics Freie Universität Berlin 9 classes, about 500 students per semester 2013 – 2014 Certificate for university didactics Freie Universität Berlin
REFEREEING
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Business Venturing, Applied Economics, Empirical Economics, German Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Kyklos, Labour Economics, Mathematics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Risks, Small Business Economics, Social Sciences, Verein für Socialpolitik Editorial Review Board, Small Business Economics