Axel Prettl, M.Sc.
PhD fellow at the University of Tübingen
Contact details
E-Mail: a.prettl@student.uni-tuebingen.de
Education
Visiting Researcher (three months)
Supervisor: Michael Devereux
2017, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Visiting Researcher (six months)
Supervisor: Alan Auerbach
2016/17, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Visiting Researcher (four months)
Supervisor: Joel Slemrod
2016, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
PhD in Economics and Business Administration
since 2014, University of Tübingen, Germany.
M.Sc. (General Management) (second part)
2013, University of Tübingen, Germany.
M.Sc. (Supply Chain Management) (first part)
2012, University of Cologne, Germany.
B.Sc. (Economics and Business Administration)
2010, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Research Interests
(Corporate) Taxation
Firm Investment
Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) rules
Multinational Location Decisions
Mergers and Acquisitions
Working papers
Profit Shifting and CFC rules - The thin bridge between worldwide and territorial corporate tax systems
(Best paper award at the Oxford University CBT Doctoral Conference 2017)
Influence of Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) Rules on Cross-Border M&A Activity
(with Dominik von Hagen)
Work in progress
How to create a comparable law strenght index?
What do we know about CFC rules?
Seminar and conference presentations
| 2020 | Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association, NOeG 2020, WU, Vienna |
| 2019 | "Controlled Foreign Company Legislation" Conference, Rust Doctorate Seminar of the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, WU, Vienna |
| 2018 | Academic Symposium Oxford (Discussant) OUC Conference 2018 Leibniz Kolleg (Seminar) |
| 2017 | University of Oxford (Seminar) |
| 2016 | National Tax Association (NTA) Annual Conference (Baltimore) Stanford University (Seminar) University of California Berkeley (Seminar) International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) Annual Conference (Lake Tahoe) Ifo Institute Munich (Public Economics Research Seminar) |
| 2015 | University of Tübingen (workshop) |
Peer Review Referee Work
Journal of Public Economics (JPubE), International Tax and Public Finance (ITAX)
Participation additional to PhD program
PhD-Course "Topics in Economics and Statistics", University of Dresden, 2015
Spring School in Quantitative Methods, University of Hohenheim, 2015
IIPF Doctoral School, University of Oxford, 2014
Conference "Tax Policy and the Activities of Multinational Firms", Tübingen, 2014