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 was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and UC Berkeley, as well as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He earned his PhD in Economics from MIT in 2010. Professor Scheuer's research integrates 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, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He has received multiple research grants, including a Starting Grant from the European Research Council in 2017 for the project 'Inequality: Public Policy and Political Economy' and a Consolidator Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2023 for the project 'Taxing Capital Gains'. Professor Scheuer has also held influential editorial roles, being the Director of the Review of Economic Studies and a Co-Editor for 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 and has served on the Council of the European Economic Association from 2020 to 2024. In 2021, he received the Hermann Heinrich Gossen Prize, awarded to economists in German-speaking countries under the age of 45.

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