Christoph M. Schmidt

Video +

About

Bio

Christoph M. Schmidt is the Director of the RWI Essen and chair of the German Council of Economic Experts. Since 2013 he has been the chair of the board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich. Schmidt has been highly influential in the field of applied economics and economic policy, particularly concerning the topic of health within these fields. In his current research, Schmidt investigates the effects of financial incentives on tackling obesity and reaching target weights.