Dr Max Löffler (M.R.)
Research projects
Max has been involved in the following third-party-funded research projects:
- Since 2024: Veni grant “Housing Markets and Inequality,” awarded by the Dutch Research Council (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NWO)
- Since 2023: Team member in the ERC Starting Grant project HIPPO at the University of Cologne (principal investigator: Sebastian Siegloch)
- 2021–2023: Co-PI and international cooperation partner in the project “The Societal Costs of Economic Decline,” granted by the German Research Foundation (with Andreas Lichter)
- 2021: Small Scale Research Grant awarded by Maastricht University's Graduate School of Business and Economics
- 2019: Junior Start-Up Grant “Housing Booms and Segregation,” granted by the Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB)
- 2016–2019: Team member in the project “Fiscal and Labour Policy Institutions and Inequality,” funded via the SEEK program of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 2014–2016: “Property Taxes and Rental Housing,” granted by Leibniz ScienceCampus MannheimTaxation
In addition, Max contributed to several policy consulting projects over the past few years, mainly at ZEW and IZA. The resulting policy reports can be viewed on UM's research information portal.
Key publications
Lichter, A., Löffler, M., Isphording, I. E., Nguyen, T.-V., Poege, F., & Siegloch, S. (2025). Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation. American Economic Journal-Economic Policy. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20220580
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Odersky, M., & Löffler, M. (2024). Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany. Journal of Economic Inequality, 22(3), 551-576. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-023-09605-6
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Doerrenberg, P., Duncan, D., & Löffler, M. (2023). Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage Changes: Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market. Labour Economics, 81, Article 102305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102305
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Lichter, A., Löffler, M., & Siegloch, S. (2021). The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany. Journal of the European Economic Association, 19(2), 741–789. Article jvaa009. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaa009
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