Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wiegard is full professor of economics at the University of Regensburg. Since 1999 he is managing editor of Finanzarchiv, the leading public finance journal in Germany. In 1990 he became member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the Minister of Finance. Since March 2001, he is a member of the German Council of Economic Advisors. His academic research focuses on applied general equilibrium models, dealing with efficiency as well as redistributive effects of fiscal policy reforms, both in a static and dynamic framework.
Recent work includes analysis of green tax reforms, deficit reduction and capital income taxation.
Dr. Stefan Boeters studied economics, sociology and philosophy in Marburg. His dissertation thesis is about the labour market effects of tax reforms. He joined the ZEW Department of Environmental and Resource Economics in January 2001. He is currently involved in a research project that aims at a detailed model of the German labour market in order to analyse labour market and tax policies. Currently he is engaged in the modelling of labour markets within an AGE-model.