Research Focus

• Industrial Economics, Regulation
• Applied Microeconometrics
• Growth, Innovation, and Labor Economics

Academic Career

• since 2010: Professor of Economics, esp. Industrial Economics and Applied Microeconometrics, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
• since 2010: Director, Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR), University of Cologne
• 09-12/2009: Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA)
• 2009-2010: Senior Research Fellow (W2), MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
• 09-10/2006: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK
• 2004-2009: Research Fellow, Research Area: Markets and Politics, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
• 2002-2003: Marie Curie-Researcher, Dept. of Economics, University College London, UK
• 2002-2003: Assistant Professor (C1), Dept. of Economics, University of Mannheim (partly on leave)
• 2002 Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Mannheim
• 1996-2002: Research and Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Economics, University of Mannheim
• 1995 M.Sc. in Economics (Diplom, VWL), University of Mannheim (studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, University of Mannheim, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium))

Publications

Prantl S., The Impact of Firm Entry Regulation on Long-living Entrants, Small Business Economics, In Press. Preprint

Prantl S., Entry Regulation and Firm Entry: Evidence from German Reunification, Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Audretsch D. B., Falck O., Heblich S., Lederer A., (Eds.), Northampton, Edward Elgar, pp. 74-87, 2011.

Prantl S., The Impact of Firm Entry Regulation on Long-living Entrants, issue 2010/30, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010. Abstract Full text

Nöth M., Prantl S., Regulierung und Insolvenz von Banken, Bankaufsichtsrecht – Entwicklungen und Perspektiven, Grieser S. G., Heemann M., (Eds.), Frankfurt a. M., Frankfurt School Verlag, pp. 229-246, 2010.

Aghion P., Blundell R., Griffith R., Howitt P., Prantl S., The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 20-32, 2009.

Prantl S., Spitz-Oener A., How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-employment and Occupational Mobility?, Economics of Transition, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 769-802, 2009.

Prantl S., Almus M., Egeln J., Engel D., Lending Decisions of Cooperative Banks, Private Credit Banks and Savings Banks (in German), Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch - Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften), vol. 129, no. 1, pp. 83-132, 2009.

Prantl S., Evaluation of State Aid in the European Union (in German), WZB Mitteilungen, vol. 119 March, pp. 38-40, 2008.

Aghion P., Blundell R., Griffith R., Howitt P., Prantl S., Entry and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data, Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 2, no. 2-3, pp. 265-276, 2004.

Almus M., Engel D., Prantl S., The Firm Panels of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), New Firm Formation in Germany, Fritsch M., Grotz R., (Eds.), Heidelberg, Physika, pp. 79-102, 2002.

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