local public finance,  business taxes, housing policy, inequality, policy evaluation

Sebastian Siegloch is a Professor of Economics at the University of Cologne and a member with the Cluster of Excellence in the Research Area Political Economy. Sieglochs research interest lie with public, labor and urban economics. He is currently working on a large scale research project titled “Housing, Inequality and Public policies (HIPPO)”, wich ist funded with an ERC starting grant. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association and the Journal of Public Economics among others. Siegloch obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in 2013. From 2014 to 2018, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. From 2018 until 2022 Siegloch was a Professor at the University of Mannheim and head of the Research Area “Inequality and Public Policy” at the ZEW-Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim.

Published papers

• Privatizing Disability Insurance

  Seibold, A., Seitz, S., & Siegloch, S. (2025). Privatizing disability insurance. Econometrica, 83 (5), 1697–1737.

• Spillover, Efficiency, and Equity Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies

  Siegloch, S., Wehrhöfer, N., & Etzel, T. (2025). Spillover, Efficiency, and Equity Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 17(1), 144-180.

• Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation

  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, 17(1), 432-463.

• On Event Studies and Distributed-Lags in Two-Way Fixed Effects Models: Identification, Equivalence, and Generalization

  Schmidheiny, K., & Siegloch, S. (2023). On Event Studies and Distributed-Lags in Two-Way Fixed Effects Models: Identification, Equivalence, and Generalization. Journal of Applied Econometrics.

• Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19: Insights from European Countries

  Bartscher, A. K., Seitz, S., Siegloch, S., Slotwinski, M., & Wehrhöfer, N. (2021). Social capital and the spread of Covid-19: Insights from European countries. Journal of Health Economics.

Discussion papers

• Welfare Effects of Property Taxation

• Spillover, Efficiency and Equity Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies

• Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation

• On Event Studies and Distributed-Lags in Two-Way Fixed Effects Models: Identification, Equivalence, and Generalization

• Privatizing Disability Insurance

• Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19: Insights from European Countries