Center for Economic Studies
University of Munich
Schackstrasse 4
D-80539 Munich
Germany
Fax....: ++49 (89) 397 303
Email: uebelmesser(at)lmu.de
Chair in Public Finance, University of Munich
Wissenschaftliche Assistentin
(Assistant Professor),
Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich
Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich, 1999-2003
Università Bocconi
Visiting Ph.D. student, September 2002 - February 2003
Academic
Co-ordinator,
Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich
Diplom-Volkswirtin ( M.A. in Economics), University of Munich, 1999
Affiliation / Memberships
CESifo Research Affiliate
Verein für Socialpolitik
European Economic Association (EEA)
International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF)
Monograph
Unfunded Pension
Systems: Ageing and Migration, Contributions to
Economic Analysis 264, North-Holland: Amsterdam,..., 2004
For further information, please go to the North-Holland
site.
→ See also Journal of Economic Literature
"Voting on Labour-Market Integration and Education Policy when Citizens Differ in Mobility and Ability", Public Finance Management (special issue: Heterogeneity, Spatial Voting and Public Policy), forthcoming (joint with Alexander Haupt).
"The Provision of Higher Education in a Global World - Analysis and Policy Implications”, CESifo Economic Studies, 2008, pp. 248-276 (joint with Gabrielle Demange und Robert Fenge).
"Staatsverschuldungsunterschiede im internationalen Vergleich und Schlussfolgerungen für Deutschland", Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 8, 2007, pp. 309-334 (joint with Heiner Mikosch).
"Migration and the Welfare State: The Economic Power of the Non-Voter?", International Tax and Public Finance 14, 2007, pp. 93-111 (joint with Kira Boerner).
"On the Optimal Timing of Implicit Social Security Taxes Over the Life Cycle", FinanzArchiv 62, 2006, pp. 68-107 (joint with Robert Fenge and Martin Werding).
"To Go or not to Go: Emigration from Germany", German Economic Review 7, 2006, pp. 211-231.
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"Harmonisation of Old-Age Security Within the European Union", CESifo Economic Studies 50, 2004, pp. 717-743.
"Political Feasibility of Pension Reforms", Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 4, 2004, Article 20.
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"Mobility and the Role of Education as a Commitment Device", International Tax and Public Finance 10, 2003, pp. 549-564 (joint with Claudio Thum).
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"Pensions and the Path to Gerontocracy in Germany", European Journal of Political Economy 19, 2002, pp. 153-158 (joint with Hans-Werner Sinn).
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"International Migration, Human Capital Formation, and the Setting of Migration-Control Policies: Mapping the Gains", in: János Kornai, László Mátyás, and Gérard Roland (eds.): Corruption, Development and Institutional Design, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009, 169-186 (joint with Alessandra Casarico, Carlo Devillanova and Oded Stark).
"An Optimal Selective Migration Policy when Information is Asymmetric and Incentives Count", in: János Kornai, László Mátyás, and Gérard Roland (eds.): Corruption, Development and Institutional Design, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009, 152-168 (joint with Alessandra Casarico and Oded Stark).
"Modernisierung der Sozialsysteme und Europäisierung der Sozialpolitik in Zeiten der Globalisierung“ (Modernization of Social Security Systems and Europeanization of Social Policy in a Globale World), in: Linzback, Christoph, Uwe Lübking, Stephanie Scholz, Bernd Schulte (Hrsg.): Globalisierung und Europäisches Sozialmodell, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2007, 167-187.
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"Rentenreform, strategische Mehrheit und demographische Entwicklung: Wann kippt Deutschland um?", ifo Schnelldienst 28-29, 2000, pp. 20-25 (joint with Hans-Werner Sinn).
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"Old-Age Provision in Ageing Societies: Equity, Efficiency, and Sustainablility", Study commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Tokyo, January 2002 (joint with Robert Fenge and Martin Werding).
Abstract (Deutsch)
"Book Review: Yoshida, C., and Woodland, D.: The Economics of Illegal Immigration", Journal of Economics 89, 2006, pp. 192-195.
"Financing Higher Education and Mobility", CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2362, 2008, Munich (joint with Gabrielle Demange und Robert Fenge).
"How the Design of Tax as a Selection Instrument of Skilled Migrants is Shaped by Skill Formation Responses at Origin", mimeo, University of Munich, 2008, Munich (Alessandra Casarico and Oded Stark).
"Which migration policies emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield policy-formation power?", mimeo, University of Munich, 2008, Muncih (with Alessandra Casarico, Carlo Devillanova and Oded Stark).
"How Do Migrants Choose Their Destination Country? An Analysis of Institutional Determinants", CESifo Working Paper Series Nr. 2506, 2008, Munich (joint with Wido Geis und Martin Werding).
"Health Fund Competition in Germany - the Role of Advertising", mimeo, Universität München, 2007, Munich (joint with Bettina Becker).
"The Impact of Print Media Advertising on Public Health Insurance Switching in Germany", mimeo, University of Munich München, 2007, München (joint with Bettina Becker).
"The Relation Between Mobility, Human Capital Formation, and Agglomeration", mimeo, University of Munich, 2007, Munich (joint with Alexander Haupt).
"Delayed (or Accelerated) Integration as a Counterforce to Gerontocracy", mimeo, University of Munich, 2006, Munich.
"Brain Gain and the Transferability of Skills", mimeo, University of Munich, 2000, Munich (joint with Claudio Thum).
2009 CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, Germany
Annual Conference of the European Economic Association (EEA), Barcelona, Spain
Annual Meeting of Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), Magdeburg, Germany
2008 Annual Meeting of Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), Graz, Austria
2007 CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, Germany
Annual Conference of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA),
Copenhagen, Denmark
Annual Conference of the
International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Warwick, UK
Annual Meeting of Verein für
Socialpolitik (German
Economic Association), Munich, Germany
2006 Annual Meeting of
the European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Turku,
Finland
CESifo Employment and Social
Protection Area Conference, Munich, Germany
European Conference on Health
Economics (ECHE), Budapest, Ungarn
Annual Conference of the
International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Paphos, Cyprus
Annual Conference of the European
Economic Association (EEA), Vienna, Austria
Annual Conference of the European
Association of Labor Economics (EALE), Prague, Czech Republic
Annual Meeting of Verein für Socialpolitik (German
Economic Association), Bayreuth, Germany
2005 CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Munich, Germany
Annual Meeting of the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE), Paris, France
Annual Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Jeju, South Korea
World Congress of the International Economic Association (IEA), Marrakech, Marocco
Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Annual Meeting of Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), Bonn, Germany
2004 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Berlin, Germany
Annual Meeting of the Scottish Economic Society, Perth, UK
Annual Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Milan, Italy
Conference on "Advanced Perspectives of Migration and Mobility", Bonn, Germany
2003 CESifo Conference on "Migration and the Welfare State"
Annual Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF), Prague, Czech Rebublic
2002 Conference on “Welfare and the labour market in the EU”, CEPII, Marseilles, France
Annual Meeting of Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), Innsbruck, Austria
Annual Meeting of the Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany
Conference on "Old-Age Security", VDR, Bensheim, Germany
2001 Conference on "Ageing, Skills and Labour Markets", CEPII, Nantes, France
Conference on "The International Mobility of Highly Skilled Workers", IZA, Bonn, Germany
Università Bocconi, Milan, 2002; Free University Berlin, 2005; Technical University Dresden, 2005; University of Konstanz, 2005; University of Augsburg, 2006; University of Linz, 2007; University of Aachen, 2007; University of Heidelberg, 2007; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC, Barcelona, 2007, University of Tübingen, 2007; WZB, Berlin, 2008; Bundeswehr University, Munich, 2008, University of Osnabrück, 2008
Bocconi Università, Milan,
September 2003
Visiting Fellow, European University Institute Florence, September/October 2007
International Tax and Public Finance, The Economic Journal, FinanzArchiv, CESifo Economic Studies, Metroeconomica, European Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, International Migration, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Common Market Studies
Courses
Microeconomics, Summer 2000, Summer 2001, Winter 2001/02, Summer 2003 (teaching assistant)
intermediate level
Macroeconomics, Winter 1999/00 (teaching assistant)
Courses
Social Policy and Social Security (Sozialstaat und Sozialversicherung), Summer 2006
Distribution Theory and Politics (Verteilungstheorie- uns politik), Summer 2004
Health Economics (Gesundheitsökonomie), Winter 2003/04, Summer 2005, Winter 2006/07
Allocation Theory and Policy - Seminar (Schwerpunktseminar Allokation), Summer 2002 (teaching assistant)
Allocation Theory and Policy (Staatliche Allokationspolitik), Winter 2000/01 (teaching assistant)
Courses
Political Economics, Summer 2007, Summer 2009
PhD / Master level
Intergenerational Economics, Winter 2005/06, Winter 2009/10
(in English)
Systems Competition, Winter 2004/05
Resource Allocation and Economic Policy (Resourcenallokation und Wirtschaftspolitik), Winter 2009/10
For more information, please see here.
At University of Tübingen
Health Economics - Seminar (Hauptseminar Gesundheitsökonomie), Summer 2007