Mareike Weiß

Mareike Weiß has been a researcher in ZEW's unit “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” since September 2026. Her research interests lie in the political economy of taxation, local tax policy, and the effects of mandatory profit sharing.

She completed her bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. She then earned a master's degree in Public Economics from the University of Konstanz and a master's degree in Economics from the University of Essex as part of a double degree programme. After her master's degree, she worked as a Carlo Schmid Fellow at the United Nations in Fiji. Since September 2025, she has been pursuing her doctorate in the Taxation Track of the Center for Doctoral Studies in Business (CDSB) at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim.