Prof of Concept — my own podcast
Prof of Concept
In German — discussions of current business and economics issues, including recent reforms, tailored to a young audience. With co-hosts Chris Wieland and Niklas Schab.
Media & Insights
Podcasts, interviews, and accessible summaries of my research — for practitioners, policymakers, and anyone curious about how taxes and transparency shape firm behaviour.
Regulation, reporting, and the value question: ESG in a shifting landscape
Think Ahead Podcast
With Katharina Neureiter (Co-Head of Global Sustainability, The Carlyle Group), hosted by Sergei Guriev (Dean, London Business School) — on how new rules, from ESG disclosures to tax incentives, are reshaping corporate behaviour and investor expectations.
Research summary: Value-added taxation and multinational firms in the digital age
YouTube
Video summary of joint work with Lisa De Simone (UT Austin) on how multinational companies respond to destination-based taxes.
Global Tax Policy, Private Equity, and Sustainability
Conversations on Climate
Hour-long conversation with Chris Caldwell on how disclosure regulation and tax policy can change corporate behaviour, and the role of the private equity industry.
Carbon Taxes and Carbon Leakage
Tax Chats
With hosts Jeff Hoopes (UNC) and Scott Dyreng (Duke), joined by Daniel Klein (Heidelberg Materials) — on carbon taxes, their impact on European firms, and evidence on carbon leakage.
Can taxes make businesses more sustainable?
The Why Podcast (London Business School)
Conversation with Alenka Turnsek (EY EMEIA Sustainability Tax Leader) on international business tax policy and environmental taxation.
Research summary: The Global Minimum Tax — the world's most historic corporate tax reform
YouTube
Findings from the Review of Financial Studies paper with Roberto Gomez-Cram on how the proposed 15% global corporate minimum tax affected US firms' stock market valuations.
Research summaries by the Wheeler Institute
Wheeler Institute for Business and Development
Collection of research summaries, including spillover effects of European corporate tax reforms on investment in Africa and carbon leakage to developing countries.
Interview: ESG Disclosures in the Private Equity Industry
Faculti
On how private equity firms disclose their ESG investing strategies — and whether more ESG talk in the PE industry also means more walk. On average, it does.
Taxing times: a new era of political economy
LBS Think
With Roberto Gomez-Cram — analysing the changes to global corporate profit taxation.
Keeping an eye on private equity and ESG
LBS Think
Do private equity firms merely make ESG claims, or do claims translate into better portfolio company performance?