Short curriculum vitae - Martin Kocher

Personal Birthday: 13 September 1973 Marital status: married to Natalie (...even more important than economics!) Citizenship: Austrian

Natalie

University Education

1993 - 1998: Study of Economics and Political Sciences at University of Innsbruck
1998: Master in Economics (Magister der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften)
2002: Ph.D. in Economics (Doktor der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften)
2007: Venia docendi in Economics

Academic appointments

1998 - 2002: Research and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Public Finance, U Innsbruck
2002 - 2007: Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Finance, U Innsbruck
2007 - date: Professor, Department of Economics, U Munich

Research visits

08/1997 - 09/1997: Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge/Massachusetts (for master's thesis)
05/2003 - 08/2003: TMR-Scholar at the Max-Planck Institute of Economics, Jena and the Humboldt-University, Berlin
10/2005 - 06/2007: Experienced Researcher under the ENABLE-Network at CREED, University of Amsterdam
03/2008: Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
07-08/2008: Visiting Researcher at the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim

Awards and academic honors

1998: Förderungspreis der Vertretung der Europäischen Kommission in Österreich
2000: NOEG-Award of the Austrian Economic Association - Nationalökon. Gesellschaft
2003: Preis des Fürstentums Liechtenstein für die wissenschaftliche Forschung
2003: Beste Dissertation der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Innsbruck 2001/02
2003: Preis der Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck für die wissenschaftliche Forschung
2008: Handelsblatt-Ranking of most active economists in terms of publications under the age of 40 in the German speaking countries: rank 24

Languages and Hobbies

English, French (sufficiently), Dutch (basics), Russian (basics), Hebrew (basics)

Chess, sports (running, hiking, cross-country skiing, basketball), reading