Robert Nuscheler joined the WZB in May 2001. He was primarily working on incentives, competition and regulation in health care systems. His research included theoretical as well as empirical work. From July 2006 until June 2008 he was on research leave, spending the time as a postdoctoral fellow at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and as  an assistance professor at the University of Waterloo. In September 2008 he joined the Economics Department at the University of Augsburg to assume a position as professor of economics (with tenure).

Research interests: Health Economics, Public Economics, Public Finance, Industrial Organization, and applied Microeconometrics