Ronnie Schöb is Professor of International Public Finance and Dean of the School of Business & Economics at Freie Universität Berlin as well as Research Professor at the ifo institute Dresden. He has studied economics at the University of Munich. His research interests include happiness, labour economics, general public economics, reforming the welfare state, optimal taxation, environmental and resource economics. His research has been published in, inter alia, the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Economics Letters, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
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