The Ph.D. program on "Public economics and inequality" was launched on April, 1st, 2013 and is arranged by the Hans-Böckler Foundation in collaboration with the Free University Berlin. The Graduate students are researching in following areas:

• Income inequality and redistribution over the life-cycle
• Behavioural economic analysis of social welfare systems
• Intergenerational mobility and capital taxation
• Taxation of economic elites and their resilience
• Empirical analysis of tax and social policy

Further information on the topic of the program can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Corneo is the director of the program. Co-Directors are Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb and Prof. Dr. Viktor Steiner. The entire scientific advisory board can be found here.

Upcoming events and courses can be found here.

   

Previous guests:

Andrea Brandolini Banca d'italia	Daniele Checchi Universitá degli Studi di Milano	Thomas Piketty Paris School of Economics	Johann Brunner Johannes Keppler Universität Linz	Felix Bierbrauer Universität zu Köln	Daniel Waldenström Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Till van Treeck Universität Duisburg-Essen	Rolf Aaberge Statistics Norway	Sugata Marjit Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta	Thomas Aronsson Umeå University	Miriam Beblo Universität Hamburg