Welcome to my homepage. I am an associate professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich). I am also a research affiliate at CEPR and at CESifo.

You reach me at chris.busch.econ[at]gmail.com.

My work lies in the field of macroeconomics with inequality. I focus on questions related to the analysis of risk and inequality at the micro level, and on the role of labor markets, public policy, and the family in both mitigating individual risk and shaping the observed inequality. In order to find answers to those and related questions, I typically analyze micro data sets from various administrative and survey sources using both parametric and non-parametric empirical methods, which I combine with quantitative structural models.

You find an overview of my research here.

You can download my CV here.

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Upcoming:

Income Dynamics and the Family (8th edition) @ BSE Summer Forum; June 17–18, 2026.

Macroeconomics and Social Insurance (7th edition) @ BSE Summer Forum; June 18–19, 2026.

Recent:

LMU-NYU Workshop on Advances in Policy Analysis: Methods and Applications @ LMU Munich; December 8–9, 2025.