Philipp Grübener

Philipp Grübener is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). He previously served as a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt. His personal website can be found at philippgruebener.com.

Education:

• Bachelor's in Economics from University of Münster
• Master's in Money and Finance from Goethe University Frankfurt
• PhD in Economics from the European University Institute

Research interests focus on Quantitative Macroeconomics with emphasis on labor market dynamics and public finance. Key topics include earnings risk mitigation, household insurance mechanisms, tax-transfer system optimization, and policy analysis using dynamic equilibrium models. His work integrates microeconomic data to evaluate macroeconomic policies, particularly exploring how spousal labor supply decisions and firm-worker interactions influence economic outcomes.

His recent articles analyze spousal labor responses to unemployment and optimal fiscal policy design. The 2025 paper in Journal of Monetary Economics examines age-dependent labor supply adjustments, while the 2023 Journal of Political Economy contribution evaluates transfer programs and tax progressivity in redistributive frameworks.

Grübener is actively involved in computational economics tool development, contributing to projects like HARK and the Sequence-Space Jacobian Toolkit. These open-source initiatives support heterogeneous-agent model estimation and policy analysis.

No scientific awards or formal advisees are listed in available materials. He advises students through scheduled office hours at WashU's Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 381.