Sebastian Siegloch is a professor of economics at the University of Cologne and member of the DFG Excellence Cluster ECONtribute of the universities of Cologne and Bonn. Until May 2022, he was a professor at the University of Mannheim and Head of the Research DEpartment "Inequality and Public Policy" at the ZEW-Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
His research is on the intersection of Public, Labor and Urban Economics. He is currently studying the effects of local business and property taxes on various labor market outcomes, such as wages, employment and rents. In 2021, he was awarded an ERC starting grant for the project "Housing, Inequality and Public Policies (HIPPO)".
His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association and the Journal of Public Economics among others.
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DP16702 Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation
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DP15927 Welfare Effects of Property Taxation
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Privatising disability insurance
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- Health Economics
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Higher profit taxes reduce firms’ R&D activities
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- Productivity and Innovation 
- Taxation
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Regional firm subsidies: Direct, spillover, and welfare effects
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- Industrial organisation 
- Taxation
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The role of social capital in the spread of Covid-19
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- COVID-19 
- Europe's nations and regions
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The incidence of corporate taxation and its implications for tax progressivity
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- Labour Markets 
- Taxation