Curriculum Vitae Maximilian von Ehrlich-Treuenstätt - KOF

02/2012
Curriculum Vitae
Maximilian von Ehrlich-Treuenstätt
ETH Zurich
Konjunkturforschungsstelle (KOF)
WEH F 9
Weinbergstrasse 35
8092 Zurich
Phone (office): +41 44 632 41 24
E-Mail: vonehrlich@kof.ethz.ch
Education:
01/2010 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Munich, Germany
Dissertation: Agglomeration and Regional Transfer Schemes
Advisors: Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn, Prof. Robert Fenge,
Prof. Andreas Haufler
05/2006 Diplom -Volkswirt (equiv. to M.Sc. in Economics), University
of Munich, Germany
08/2004 – 05/2005 Visiting Student, Columbia University, New York City, USA
10/2001 – 05/2006 Studies of Economics, University of Munich, Germany
Professional Experience:
03/2010 – present Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, ETH
Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and KOF Swiss
Economic Institute
12/2006 – 02/2010 Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant, Chair in Economics and
Public Finance (Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn), University of
Munich, Germany
02/2007 – 03/2010 Scientific Assistant to the European Economic Advisory Group
(EEAG) at CESifo
06/2007 – 06/2009 Teaching Assistant Representative at the University of Munich

2/2006 – 12/2006 Ph.D. Student and Junior Researcher at the Ifo Institute for
Economic Research (Public Finance Department), Munich,
Germany
Research Fields:
Public Economics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics, International Economics,
Economics of Growth
Papers Published in Refereed Journals:
- Too Much of a Good Thing? On the Growth Effects of the EU's Regional Policy (with
Peter H. Egger and Sascha O. Becker), European Economic Review, forthcoming.
- How Much it Pays to Work in the Financial Sector (with Peter H. Egger and Doina
Radulescu), CESifo Economic Studies, forthcoming.
- Migration and Trade (with Peter H. Egger and Douglas R. Nelson), The World Economy,
forthcoming.
- Going NUTS – The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance (joint with
Sascha O. Becker and Peter H. Egger), Journal of Public Economics 94, 2010.
- Public Input Competition and Agglomeration (joint with Robert Fenge and Matthias
Wrede), Regional Science and Urban Economics 39, 2009.
- Wachstums- und Konvergenzeffekte der Europäischen Regionalpolitk in Deutschland
(joint with Robert Fenge, Wolfgang Eggert and Günther König), Perspektiven der
Wirtschaftspolitik, Band 8, 2007.
Working Papers and Articles Submitted to Refereed Journals:
- The Taxation of Bonuses and its Effect on Executive Compensation and Risk Taking in
the Banking Sector – Evidence from the UK Experience (with Doina Radulescu), ETH
Zurich, mimeo 2012.
- Absorptive Capacity and the Growth Effects of Regional Transfers: A Regression
Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects (with Peter H. Egger and
Sascha O. Becker), CEPR Discussion Paper 8474, revise and resubmit to American
Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011.

- The Trade Effects of Endogenous Skilled versus Unskilled Migration (with Peter H. Egger
and Douglas R. Nelson), ETH Zurich, mimeo 2011.
- Agglomeration and Credit Constraints (with Tobias Seidel), mimeo ETH Zurich, 2011
(under review).
- More Similar Firms – More Similar Regions? On the Role of Firm Heterogeneity for
Agglomeration (with Tobias Seidel), mimeo ETH Zurich, 2011 (under review).
- Productivity Growth and Technology Transfer in the Geography-Industry Space (with
Harald Badinger and Peter Egger) mimeo ETH Zurich, 2009.
- Infrastructure and the Location of Business, mimeo University of Munich, 2009.
- Fiscal Competition, Convergence and Agglomeration (with Robert Fenge and Matthias
Wrede), CESifo Working Paper No. 2084, 2007.
Awards:
- Invitation to the 3 rd Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates 2008 (nominated by the Leibniz
Association)
- Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), Award for Presentation at
International Conferences 2007, 2011
- DFG (German Research Foundation), Ph.D. Scholarship from 2006-2010
- VAC Munich (University of Munich’s Alumni Club), Young Economist Award 2006
Invited Talks:
- Faculty Seminar University of Lugano, December 12, 2011, Lugano, Switzerland
- Faculty Seminar Vienna University of Economics and Business, April 6, 2011, Vienna,
Austria
- CESifo Seminar, December 6, 2010, Munich, Germany
- Faculty Seminar TU-Dresden, January 15, 2008, Dresden, Germany
Conference and Seminar Presentations:
- CEPR Conference on International Migration (2nd TEMPO Conference), November 10-
11, 2011, Vienna, Austria

- 1st European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association at the 52nd European
Congress of the European Regional Science Association, August 30 - September 3, 2011,
Barcelona, Spain
- 26th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), August 25-29,
2011, Oslo, Norway
- 67th Annual Conference of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF), August
7- 11, 2011, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), June 9-10,
2011, Lucerne, Switzerland.
- Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society, April 18-20, 2011, London, United
Kingdom
- EGIT – Economic Geography and International Trade Research Meeting, Ifo Institute,
March 25-26, 2011, Munich, Germany
- Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory (PET), July 6-8, 2010,
Istanbul, Turkey
- Annual Conference of the Scottish Economic Society, April 27-29, 2009, Perth, Scotland
- 23rd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA), August 27-31,
2008, Milan, Italy
- 64th Annual Conference of the International Institute for Public Finance (IIPF), August
22- 25, 2008, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Seventh Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics, June 9-10, 2008, Paris, France
- Annual Conference of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik),
October 9-12, 2007, Munich, Germany
- Annual Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), August 27-30,
2007, Warwick, United Kingdom
- Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory (PET), July 6-8,
Nashville, 2007, USA
- Workshop of DFG (German Research Foundation), Priority Program on Fiscal
Federalism, December 8-9, 2006, Dresden, Germany

Research Grants/Policy Projects:
Comparison of Different Compensation Components and Levels Among Different Sectors of
the Economy - Ares(2011) 550517 (with Peter Egger and Doina Radulescu), Commission
Staff Working Paper SEC(2011) 1102 final, Vol. 5, accompanying the document "Proposal
for a Council Directive on a Common System of Financial Transaction Tax and Amending
Directive 2008/7/EC", European Commission, Brussels.
Economic Analysis of the European Structural Policy for the Priority Program on Fiscal
Federalism (with Robert Fenge, Wolfgang Eggert, and Günther König), German Research
Foundation (DFG), 2006-2010.
Refereeing:
Empirical Economics, Journal of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Geography,
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Regional Studies, Economics Bulletin
Teaching Experience:
University of Munich:
- Microeconomics (Undergraduate)
- Macroeconomics (Undergraduate)
- Public Economics (Graduate)
ETH Zurich:
- Econometrics (MBA class)