Max Risch

Max Risch is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, where he holds the BP Junior Faculty Chair. He is also an affiliate with the CESifo Network. Professor Risch received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2019 and completed a postdoctoral research associateship at Princeton University before joining Carnegie Mellon in 2020.

His research addresses topics in public finance, tax and inequality using novel administrative datasets to analyze the relationship between public policies and the distribution of income. His research areas include investigating how public policies influence firm-worker relationships, the role of tax evasion and tax enforcement for real and measured income inequality, and intergenerational mobility in the U.S.