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Dr. Tim Sofke

Research Assistant

Profilfoto Tim Sofke

Former Research Assistant

Mail: t.sofke@tu-braunschweig.de

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Technische Universität Braunschweig
Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

Spielmannstraße 9                 Postfach: 3329
38106 Braunschweig              38023 Braunschweig

Research Fields

  • Theory of Taxation,
  • International Tax Competition in Tax Rates and Information Exchange and
  • Joint Fight and Initiatives Against Tax Havens.
  • Synthetic Control Methods (SCM)

Conference Participations

  • 76th Annual Congress of the IIPF on Public Finance, Natural Ressources and Climate Change
  • FDIBA Conference on Digitalization, TU Sofia, 2019
  • 11th Workshop on political Economy, ifo Dresden, 2017

Publications in Refereed Journals

  • Fabian, Marius, Christian Lessmann, and Tim Sofke. "Natural disasters and regional development – the case of earthquakes." Environment and Development Economics (2019): 1-27.

Publications in Non-Refereed Journals

  • Sofke, Tim. "Digitization in Tax Enforcement – a Guns vs. Butter Approach" FDIBA Conference Proceedings (2019): 33-36.

More recent Teachings

  • Einführungskurs in die Statistiksoftware R (SoSe22)
  • Englischsprachiges Seminar zu Issues in Taxation (WiSe21/22)
  • Einführungskurs in die Statistiksoftware R (WiSe21/22)
  • Einführungskurs in die Statistiksoftware R (SoSe21)
  • Repetitorium zu den Grundlagen der Mathematik online (SoSe21)
    unterstützende Lehrveranstaltung zu den Grundlagen der VWL
  • Einführung in die Finanzwissenschaft online (WiSe20/21)
    Vorlesung und Übung online im Stud.IP
  • Einmaliges Repetitorium zur Versicherungsökonomik online (WiSe20/21)
  • Steuertheorie und -politik online (SoSe20) 
  • Versicherungsökonomie und Sozialstaat (WiSe19/20)
  • Masterseminar Topics in Taxation (WiSe19/20)
  • Steuertheorie und -politik (SoSe19)
  • Versicherungsökonomie und Sozialstaat (WiSe18/19)
  • Steuertheorie und -politik (Übung und Vorlesungs-Vertretung für Prof. Dr. Leßmann) (SoSe18)
  • Grundlagen der Volkswirtschaftslehre - Mikroökonomik (WiSe17/18)
  • Versicherungsökonomie und Sozialstaat (WiSe17/18)
  • Master-Seminar Empirical MacroEconomics 
    in cooperation with Deutsche Bundesbank (WiSe17/18)
  • Steuertheorie und -politik (SoSe17)

 

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