Dr. Dr. Armin Steinbach

Research Affiliate

Research Focus

Law & Economics; International, European and Constitutional Law; Economic Policy

Since 2020: Head of Fiscal Policy Division, German Ministry of Finance, Berlin
2017-2020: Head of Economic Policy Division, German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin
2014-2020: Gwilym Gibbon Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University

2014-2017: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
2012-2013: Economic policy adviser to Frank-Walter Steinmeier, current German Federal President
2012-2013: Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA)
Since 2009: Official of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin
2008-2009: Attorney-at-law, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Brussels
2008: Dispute Settlement Lawyer, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva

2017: Habilitation, University of Bonn
2013: Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.), University Erfurt
2008: Second Legal State Board Examination, admission to the bar
2007: Ph.D. in Law (Dr. iur.), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, scholar German National Academic Foundation
2004: M.Sc. in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt), Humboldt-University Berlin
2004: LL.M. in Comparative and International Law, Free University Brussels, scholar German Academic Exchange Service
2003: First Legal State Board Examination

Compliance effects of sovereign debt cuts, International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 60, no. 105854 (2019) (with Eckhard Janeba)
CO2-orientierte Bepreisung der Energieträger, DICE Ordnungspolitische Perspektiven, no. 100 (with Matthias Valta)
Ökonomische Analyse des Europa- und Völkerrechts, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2019) (with Anne van Aaken)
Fiscal Rules and Structural Reforms, International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 58 (2019), 34-42 (with Rana Sajedi)
EU economic governance after the crisis: revisiting the accountability shift in EU economic governance, Journal of European Public Policy (2018)
Economic Sanctions and Human Rights: Quantifying the Legal Proportionality Principle, University of Trier Research Papers in Economics, no. 02-2018 (with Jerg Gutmann, Florian Neumeier and Matthias Neuenkirch)