Dr. Frank Bohn Visiting Researcher at ZEW

Dr. Frank Bohn was a visiting researcher in ZEW's Research Department "Corporate Taxation and Public Finance" from July 18 to 22, 2016. He is assistant professor for Political Economy at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. His research interests focus on applied macroeconomics, public choice, public finance, fiscal policy and monetary economics. During his visit at ZEW he worked together with ZEW researchers on his model on voting behaviour and manipulation. He claims that opportunistic politicians make even more election gifts than usual in difficult economic times. This amounts to expansionary fiscal policy, which is, unintentionally, the appropriate policy to pursue during a recession. In addition, Bohn discussed a potential future collaboration on the topic of financial market contagion.