Dr. Florian Scheuer

Biography

Florian Scheuer is the UBS Foundation Professor of Economics Institutions at the University of Zurich and serves as the Chairman of the Department of Economics. He previously held faculty positions at Stanford University and served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and UC Berkeley. He is a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and obtained his PhD in Economics from MIT in 2010. Professor Scheuer's research intersects public finance, economic theory, macroeconomics, and political economy, particularly focusing on the policy implications of rising inequality. His work has been published in prestigious journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies. He has received significant awards such as the Starting Grant from the European Research Council for the project “Inequality: Public Policy Political Economy” in 2017 and a Consolidator Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project “Taxing Capital Gains” in 2023. Additionally, he has served as the Director of the Review of Economic Studies and was a member of the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review, as well as a Co-Editor of Theoretical Economics from 2018 to 2022. He is a Co-Director of the Working Group on Macro Public Finance at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge and served on the Council of the European Economic Association from 2020 to 2024. In 2021, he was awarded the Hermann Heinrich Gossen Prize for economists in German-speaking countries under the age of 45.

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