Dr Max Löffler (M.R.)

Max Löffler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics at Maastricht University's School of Business and Economics. His research is funded by a Veni career grant titled “Housing Markets and Inequality,” awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Max specializes in public and urban economics, focusing particularly on the effects of taxes and the study of inequality. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cologne in 2018 and is affiliated with CESifo, Housing Lab, IZA, and ZEW.

Current Projects

• “Supporting Young Homebuyers,” with Jonas Wogh, December 2025.
• “Welfare Effects of Property Taxation,” with Sebastian Siegloch, ECONtribute Discussion Paper, No. 331, July 2024.
• “The Sensitivity of Structural Labor Supply Estimations to Modeling Assumptions,” with Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch, IZA Discussion Paper, No. 11425, March 2018.
• “Housing Booms, Labor Mobility, Misallocation, and Segregation,” with Moritz Drechsel-Grau & Katrin Hohmeyer
• “The Role of Comparative Advantage in Shaping Economic Geography: Evidence from East Germany,” with Katharina Erhardt & Andreas Lichter

Publications

• “Strategies and Consequences of Local Fiscal Consolidation: Evidence from Germany,” with Melinda Fremerey and Andreas Lichter, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 149, Article No. 103792, September 2025 (online appendix, replication files).
• “Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation,” with Andreas Lichter, Ingo Isphording, Felix Poege, Thu-Van Nguyen, and Sebastian Siegloch, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 17 (1), pp. 432–463, February 2025 (online appendix, replication files).
• “Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany,” with Moritz Odersky, Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 22 (3), pp. 551–576, September 2024 (online appendix, replication files).
• “Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage Changes: Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market,” with Philipp Doerrenberg and Denvil Duncan, Labour Economics, Vol. 81, Article No. 102305, April 2023 (online appendix, replication files).
• “The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany,” with Andreas Lichter and Sebastian Siegloch, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 19 (2), pp. 741–789, April 2021 (online appendix and slides, replication files).
• “Why Did Income Inequality in Germany Not Increase Further After 2005?” with Martin Biewen and Martin Ungerer, German Economic Review, Vol. 20 (4), pp. 471–504, November 2019.
• “German Public Finances through the Financial Crisis,” with Maximilian Blömer, Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, and Andreas Peichl, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 36 (4), pp. 453–474, December 2015.