Annika Havlik is a researcher in ZEW’s Research Department “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance”. Since September 2015, she has been a doctoral student in the Taxation Track of the Center for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB) at the Mannheim Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences (GESS). Her research interests are empirical public finance and political economy.
Annika Havlik obtained a Bachelor of Science in “International Economics and European Studies” from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She received her Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Geneva.
Selected Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
Asatryan, Zareh and Annika Havlik (2020), The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions, The Review of International Organizations 15, 707-740. Download
Asatryan, Zareh, Annika Havlik, Friedrich Heinemann and Justus Nover (2020), Biases in Fiscal Multiplier Estimates, European Journal of Political Economy 63, 101861. Download
Blesse, Sebastian, Annika Havlik and Friedrich Heinemann (2020), Euro Area Reform Preferences of Central and Eastern European Economic Experts, Empirica, Journal of European Economics. Download
Asatryan, Zareh, Annika Havlik and Frank Streif (2017), Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do: evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives, Public Choice 172, 525-544. Download
Articles in Non-Refereed Journals
Havlik, Annika (2019), Europa und das Desintegrationsparadoxon, integration 3/2019, 235-243.
Monographs, Contributions to Edited Volumes
Havlik, Annika and Friedrich Heinemann (2019), Europäische Investitionsbank, in: Werner Weidenfeld, Wolfgang Wessels, Funda Tekin Wiesbaden,. Download
Discussion and Working Papers
Havlik, Annika and Friedrich Heinemann (2020), Magnitudes and Capital Key Divergence of the Eurosystem’s PSPP/PEPP Purchases – Update December 2020, ZEW expert brief No. 20-16, Mannheim. Download
Havlik, Annika (2020), Political Budget Cycles in European Public Procurement, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-069, Mannheim. Download
Havlik, Annika and Friedrich Heinemann (2020), Sliding Down the Slippery Slope? Trends in the Rules and Country Allocations of the Eurosystem´s PSPP and PEPP, Study with support from the Brigitte Strube Foundation, ZEW expert brief No. 20-11, Mannheim. Download
Asatryan, Zareh, Annika Havlik, Friedrich Heinemann and Justus Nover (2020), Why net operating balances are a distorted indicator of a Member State’s benefit from the EU budget, Briefing, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, Policy Department for Budgetary Affairs, European Parliament, Brussels. Download
Asatryan, Zareh, Annika Havlik, Friedrich Heinemann, Justus Nover and Marta Pilati (2020), The net operating balances: Variants, emerging numbers and history, Briefing, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, Policy Department for Budgetary Affairs, European Parliament, Brussels. Download
Asatryan, Zareh and Annika Havlik (2019), The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions, EconPol Working Paper 35. Download
Asatryan, Zareh and Annika Havlik (2019), The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions, VA: AidData at William & Mary AidData Working Paper #90, Williamsburg. Download
Blesse, Sebastian, Annika Havlik and Friedrich Heinemann (2019), Euro Area Reform Preferences of Central and Eastern European Economic Experts, EconPol Working Paper 37, München. Download
Dolls, Mathias, Annika Havlik, Friedrich Heinemann and Carla Krolage (2019), Policy Instruments for a Crisis-Proof European Union, Leibniz Research Alliance - Crises in a Globalised World Working Paper No. 4. Download
Asatryan, Zareh and Annika Havlik (2019), The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-046, Mannheim. Download
Asatryan, Zareh, Annika Havlik, Friedrich Heinemann and Justus Nover (2019), Biases in Fiscal Multiplier Estimates, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-025, Mannheim. Download
Asatryan, Zareh, Xavier Debrun, Annika Havlik, Friedrich Heinemann, Martin G. Kocher and Roberto Tamborini (2018), Which Role for a European Minister of Economy and Finance in a European Fiscal Union?, EconPol Policy Report 6, München. Download
Expertises
Havlik, Annika, Daniela Steinbrenner, Nikolas Wölfing, Julia Braun, Christoph Harendt, Bernhard Koldert, Tobias Müller, Michael Thöne, Julia Gruber, Kathrin Gunkelmann, Carsten Hänisch, Jonas Klos, Regina Kühne, Raoul Peter, Luca Rebeggiani, Mirko Seithe and Sven Stöwhase (2019), Evaluierung von Steuervergünstigungen II - Teilbericht A, Bundesministerium der Finanzen, Berlin. Download
Blesse, Sebastian, Annika Havlik and Friedrich Heinemann (2019), Searching for a Euro Reform Consensus: The Perspective from Central and Eastern Europe, Brigitte Strube Stiftung, Mannheim. Download
Projects
Current Projects
- Project Duration 01.05.2020 - 31.01.2021Options for the Post-COVID-19 Stabilization of the Eurozone
- Project Duration 01.01.2019 - 31.03.2021SEEK - Political Biases in EU Spending: Mechanisms, Extent and Counter-Measures
- Project Duration 01.06.2018 - 30.11.2022Market Design by Public Authorities
- Project Duration 01.05.2017 - 31.03.2021European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research
Finished Projects
- Project Duration 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2020Public Procurement and Firm Innovation
- Project Duration 01.07.2018 - 30.06.2019Policy instruments for a Crisis-proof European Union?
- Project Duration 17.04.2018 - 30.06.2019Development of a model for the Euro reform debate
- Project Duration 01.12.2017 - 31.05.2019The German Real Estate Transfer Tax and Local Government Revenues
- Project Duration 01.04.2017 - 28.02.2019Evaluation of Tax Incentives 2017
- Project Duration 01.04.2016 - 31.03.2019SEEK Project 2016: European Network on Better Institutions – ZEW ENBI
More Information
Organisation of Academic Conferences and Workshops
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Annika Havlik,
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ZEW Public Finance Konferenz 2019 - The Political Economy of European (Dis)Integration,
ZEW Mannheim, Germany, 2019 -
Dr. Zareh Asatryan,
Leonardo Maria Giuffrida,
Annika Havlik,
Workshop on Empirical Public Procurement Research,
ZEW Mannheim, Germany, 2018
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Annika Havlik,
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ZEW Public Finance Konferenz 2019 - The Political Economy of European (Dis)Integration,
Referee-Reports for Scientific Journals, Public Trusts etc.
- 01.2020: Zeitschrift "European Journal of Political Economy"
- 08.2019: Zeitschrift "Public Performance & Management Review"
- 06.2019: Zeitschrift "Eastern European Economics"
- 09.2018: Zeitschrift "Regional Science and Urban Economics"
Lectures
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2020:
Unbiased researchers or national advocates? European economists and their EMU reform preferences,
Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik,
via Zoom, Deutschland -
2019:
The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions,
Analysing the European Investment Bank,
Universität Luxemburg, Luxemburg -
2019:
Political Budget Cycles in European Public Procurement,
European Public Choice Society 2019,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel -
2019:
The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions,
ASSA Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) -
2018:
The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions,
The 74th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance,
Tampere, Finnland -
2018:
Are Fiscal Multiplier Estimates Politically Biased?,
The 2018 Meeting of the European Public Choice Society,
Rom, Italien -
2018:
The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions,
1st CESifo EconPol Europe PhD Workshop,
München, ifo Institut, Deutschland -
2018:
The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions,
11th Annual Conference on The Political Economy of International Organizations,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) -
2018:
The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions,
8th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics,
ifo Dresden, Deutschland -
2017:
Multilateral Lending to European Regions: who gets the funds and what are the effects?,
RSIT Conference 2017,
Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Deutschland -
2017:
Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do: evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives,
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE),
Halle (Saale), Deutschland -
2017:
Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do: evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives,
Annual Meeting of the Royal Economic Society,
University of Bristol, Vereinigtes Königreich -
2017:
Multilateral Lending to European Regions: who gets the funds and what are the effects?,
110th Annual Conference on Taxation,
Philadelphia, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) -
2017:
Multilateral Lending to European Regions: who gets the funds and what are the effects?,
Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2017,
Universität Wien, Österreich
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2020:
Unbiased researchers or national advocates? European economists and their EMU reform preferences,
Department

Function
Researcher
Memberships
- 2017 - until now: German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), Berlin, Germany