Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gechert
Office
Thüringer Weg 7, Room 324
Phone
0371 / 531 - 37468
Fax
0371 / 531 - 837468
Office Hours
By appointment
Career
2008 - 2012
Research Assistant in Macroeconomics, Chemnitz University of Technology.
2012 - 2015
Research Officer in Fiscal Policy,, Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK), Düsseldorf.
2013 - 2021
Spokesperson of the Research Network “Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM)”, Berlin.
2015 - 2021
Head of Unit Macroeconomics and Income Distribution, IMK, Düsseldorf.
2020
Short-Term Consultant for “Climate Fiscal Policy During the COVID-Crisis”, The World Bank, Washington D.C.
2020 - 2021
Privatdozent (External Reader), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
Since 09/2021
Full Professor of Macroeconomics, Chemnitz University of Technology.
Education
2008
Diploma in Economics, Chemnitz University of Technology.
2014
PhD in Economics (Dr. rer pol.), Chemnitz University of Technology.
2020
Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Economics, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. „Essays on the effects and foundations of macroeconomic policies.”
Comittees
Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Surveys
Liaison lecturer of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Fellow of the „Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM)“, Berlin
Research interest
Applied Macroeconomics, in particular business cycles and crises
Fiscal policy and fiscal rules
Consumer behavior
Ecological economics and sustainability
Distribution of income and wealth
Selected Publications
Gechert, S., Heimberger, P. (2022), Do Corporate Tax Cuts Boost Economic Growth? European Economic Review 147 (open access)
Gechert, S., (2022), Reconsidering macroeconomic policy prescriptions with meta-analysis, Industrial and Corporate Change 31 (2), 576 – 590 (open access)
Gechert, S., Havránek, T., Irsova, Z., Kolcunova, D. (2022), Measuring Capital-Labor Substitution: The Importance of Method Choices and Publication Bias, Review of Economic Dynamics 45 (July), 55 - 82.
Gechert, S., Paetz, C., Villanueva, P. (2021), The Macroeconomic Effects of Social Security Contributions and Benefits, Journal of Monetary Economics 117 (January), 571 - 584 .
Gechert, S., Siebert, J. (forthcoming), Preferences Over Wealth: Experimental Evidence, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (in press).
Gechert, S., Horn, G., Paetz, C. (2019), Long-Term Effects of Fiscal Stimulus and Austerity in Europe, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 81 (3), 647 - 666.
Gechert, S., Rannenberg, A. (2018), Which Fiscal Multipliers Are Regime-Dependent? A Meta-Regression Analysis, Journal of Economic Surveys, 32 (4), 1160 - 1182.
Gechert, S. (2015), What fiscal policy is most effective? A meta regression analysis, Oxford Economic Papers 67 (3) 553 - 580.
(mehr Informationen auf der persönlichen Webseite: https://sites.google.com/site/gechertecon/research)
