Harald Tauchmann

Harald Tauchmann (born in 1971) studied economics, political science and sociology at Heidelberg University and the University of Manchester, UK. After graduating in 1998, he worked as a research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Environment Economics (University of Heidelberg), where he completed his doctoral degree in 2003. Harald Tauchmann was a research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (RWI) in Essen from 2003 to 2012, before he became head of a junior research group at the National Research Center for Health Economics (CINCH, University of Duisburg-Essen). He has been professor of health economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) since 2013.

Professor Tauchmann’s research focuses on empirical health economics, with particular emphasis on issues related to choosing a health insurance provider, competition among health insurance providers and individual health-related behavior. He has also conducted research on methodology and environmental economics.