Peter H. Egger

Modeling the EU Economic Geography

During his visit to CESifo, Peter Egger will work on a structural model of economic geography for the European Union, where regions are connected in three ways: goods trade, mobile capital, and mobile labor. A key element of the model is the taxation of the profits of heterogeneous firms, where the tax code is national, but, due to a heterogeneity of the composition of the tax base across sectors and countries, the profit tax code will alter the specialization pattern of regions within a country relative to a no-tax equilibrium. Moreover, Peter Egger will interact with members of the ifo Center for International Economics.

Mr Egger’s research focus is on applied and theoretical panel econometrics (time-invariant variables, long- and short-run estimates, spatial econometrics), applied and theoretical international and regional economics (outsourcing, multinational firms, trade volumes; economic integration, new economic geography) and public economics.

Peter H. Egger is Professor of Applied Economics at KOF, the Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research in the Department of Management, Technology and Economics as well as Head of the Division Structural Change and Innovation at KOF. His undergraduate and graduate education in economics was at the Johannes-Kepler University of Linz, where he received his doctorate in 2001. He was an Assistant Professor at University of Innsbruck between 2001 and 2002, where he received his Habilitation and served as Associate Professor between 2002 and 2004. He served as a Professor of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) and as Department Head at the ifo Institute between 2004 and 2009.

He is currently Scientific Consultant at WIFO in Vienna, Austria), CEPR Research Fellow (International Trade and Regional Economics Programme), Research Fellow of the CESifo Research Network, Director of Global Economy Programme at CESifo, Vice-Director of KOF, External Research Fellow at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, External Research Fellow at the Norwegian Center for Taxation (NOCET) and Research Professor at Deutsche Bundesbank. He is the editor in chief of the Review of International Economics and co-editor of the German Economic Review.