Dr Peter Eppinger has been appointed Professor of International Economics at the Department of Business Administration, Economics, and Law. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tübingen.
Peter Eppinger studied economics at the Universities of Tübingen and Munich and completed his doctorate at the University of Tübingen in 2018. For his dissertation, he was awarded the Roman Herzog Research Prize for the Social Market Economy by the Roman Herzog Institute. He undertook research visits at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (all in the U.S.) and Tsinghua University in Beijing (China). He is a member of the CESifo Research Network of the ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich.
Peter Eppinger’s teaching and research activities lie in the field of international economics. His work focuses on issues of foreign trade and investment, such as the impact of international trade on workers, the organisation of multinational companies, and the impact of financial crises on world trade. In current research projects, he is investigating the resilience of global supply chains, the protection of intellectual property in emerging economies, and the economic effects of trade conflicts.