Miriam Kohl

Miriam Kohl is a Research Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz specializing in international economics and public policy, with active collaboration through the CESifo network including a March 2023 visiting researcher position at the ifo Institute.

Her academic foundation includes a 2019 PhD from Technische Universität Dresden, preceded by Economics studies at University of Tübingen and University College London.

Dr. Kohl's research critically examines globalization-policy interactions through:

• Distributional impacts of trade and tax reforms
• Political economy of tariff design
• Labor market consequences under progressive welfare states
• Mechanisms for equitable globalization gains

Her seminal 2021 work demonstrates unilateral tax reforms in open economies create positive terms-of-trade effects, enabling greater inequality reduction than closed economies while supporting higher optimal tax rates.

Current projects with Egger and Kreickemeier model progressive taxation within fair-wage labor markets, analyzing occupational choice dynamics and trade liberalization effects under rent-sharing mechanisms.