Marko Koethenbuerger

 

 


 

 

 

 

Contact and Vita 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office

Department of Economics

University of Copenhagen

Øster Farimagsgade 5

1353 Copenhagen K

DENMARK

Office: 26-140


Phone: +45 35324417, Fax:
+45 35323000
Email: marko.koethenbuerger (at) econ.ku.dk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fields of Interest

Taxation, Fiscal Federalism, Social Security, Political Economy

 

 

 

 

Academic Degrees

Diplom-Volkswirt (equiv. M.A. in Economics),
University of Paderborn (1996) 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. rer. pol. (equiv. Ph.D. in Economics) 
University of Paderborn (2000) ) 

 

 

 

 

 

Habilitation, University of Munich (2008) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Position

Associate Professor of Economics
 

 

 

 

Research 

 

 

Refereed Journals

Tax Competition and Fiscal Equalization, 2002, International Tax and Public Finance, 9, 391-408.

 

 

 

 

Tax Competition in a Fiscal Union with Decentralized Leadership, 2004, Journal of Urban Economics, 55, 498-513. [latest version pdf];

 

 

 

 

Leviathans, Federal Transfers, and the Cartelization Hypothesis, 2005, Public Choice, 122, 449-465. [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Social Security and Investment in Education: Is There Scope for a Pareto-Improvement? (with Panu Poutvaara), 2006, Economica, 73, 299-319. [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Ex-Post Redistribution in a Federation: Implications for Corrective Policy, 2007, Journal of Public Economics, 91, 481-496. CESifo WP # 1754 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach (with Panu Poutvaara and Paola Profeta), 2008, Oxford Economic Papers, 60, 275–292. [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Federal Tax-Transfer Policy and Intergovernmental Pre-Commitment, 2008, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38, 16-31 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Revisiting the "Decentralization Theorem" - On the Role of Externalities, 2008, Journal of Urban Economics, 64, 116–122. [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Efficiency-Enhancing Taxation in Two-Sided Markets (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2008, Journal of Public Economics, 92, 1531-1539. [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Rent Taxation and its Intertemporal Welfare Effects in a Small Open Economy (with Panu Poutvaara), 2008, forthcoming International Tax and Public Finance [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Welfare- and Revenue-Dominance of Ad Valorem Taxation in Two-Sided Markets (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2008, forthcoming Economics Letters [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Does Tax Competition Really Promote Growth? (with Ben Lockwood), 2009, forthcoming Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Tax Incentives in Fiscal Federalism - An Integrated Perspective, (with Christian Kelders) 2009, forthcoming Canadian Journal of Economics [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Do Fiscal Transfers Alleviate Business Tax Competition? Evidence from Germany, (with Peter Egger and Michael Smart), CESifo WP 1955, Munich, 2007 [pdf] – latest version 2009 [pdf], forthcoming Journal of Public Economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume Editor

European Monetary Integration, MIT Press, 2004 (with H.W. Sinn and M. Widgrén): link MIT Press

 

 

 

 

Privatization Experiences in the EU, MIT Press, 2006 (with H.W. Sinn and J. Whalley) link MIT Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contributions to Edited Volumes

(with B. Rahmann): Taxing Electronic Commerce, in: T. Gries and L. Suhl: Economic Aspects of Digital Information Technologies, 1999, Wiesbaden[pdf]

 

 

 

 

Comment on: Fiscal Federalism and Risk-Sharing in Germany: The Role of Size Differences by Kai Konrad and Helmut Seitz, in: Sijbren Cnossen and Hans-Werner Sinn (eds.), Public Finance and Public Policy in the New Century,  MIT Press, 491-493, 2003.

 

 

 

 

Der Einfluss des Kommunalen Finanzausgleichs auf die Hebesatzpolitik der Kommunen, in: H.G. Napp (ed.), Finanzwissenschaft im Wandel (Festschrift für Bernd Rahmann), Frankfurt, 171-185, 2005. [pdf]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Policy Contributions

Das "Lemons"-Problem und der Verbraucherschutz (The Lemons Problem and Consumer Protection), 2001, ifo Schnelldienst, 54.

 

 

 

 

A Study on EU Spending (jointly with Rigmar Osterkamp and ECORYS, Rotterdam) - Report commissioned by the EC, 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working Papers

 

 

 

 

   in Fiscal Federalism

Fiscal Equalization and Electoral Rules (with Peter Egger and Michael Smart) 2009

 

 

 

 

How Do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs. Expenditure Optimization, 2008 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   in Political Economy

Government Spending and Legislative Organization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany (with Peter Egger), 2008 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Political Economy of Social Security in an Aging Society (with Panu Poutvaara), 2008

 

 

 

 

Disproportionate Influence? Special-Interest Politics under Proportional and Majoritarian Electoral Systems (with Peter Egger and Michael Smart), 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   in Taxation

Tax Responses by Platform Industries (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2008 [pdf] - a previous version circulates under the title "Do Consumers Buy Less of a Taxed Good?, 2005" CESifo WP # 1635, Munich 2005 [pdf] – see also CESifo Newsletter [htm].

 

 

 

 

Corporate Taxation and Corporate Governance (with Michael Stimmelmayr), 2008

 

 

 

 

Advertising and Newspaper Differentiation: On the Role of Readers’ Advertising Taste (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2007

 

 

 

 

Should Utility-Reducing Media Advertising be Taxed? (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2009 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Horizontal Firm Integration and the Taxation of Profits (with P. Egger), 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work in Progress

Taxation in Two-Sided Markets, Political Economy, Fiscal Federalism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scientific Activities

 

 

Refereeing

American Economic Review, Economica, Economics of Governance, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, FinanzArchiv, German Economic Review, International Economic Journal, International Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Public Choice, Regional Science and Urban Economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Departmental Seminars

Linz 2008, Vienna (WU) 2008, Dresden 2008, Hamburg (HSU) 2008, Bocconi University 2007, University of Konstanz 2007, University of Florence 2006, University of Nottingham 2006, University of Helsinki (HECER) 2006, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) 2006, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) 2006, University of Mannheim 2005, Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), Copenhagen 2004, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg 2004, University of Dortmund 2004, Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), Copenhagen 2003, University of St. Gallen 2002, University of Helsinki 2002, University of Bonn 2002, European University Viadrina (Frankfurt) 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Visits

Oxford University Center for Business Taxation - August 2007
European University Institute, Florence, September 2006 - March 2007
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen, September - October 2004
Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), Copenhagen, March 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Organization

6th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics, November 13/14 2009
5th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics, November 23/24 2007- see programme
CESifo/HECER/RUESG conference on International Outsourcing, June 2006 - see
programme
CEBR-CESifo conference on Pension Reform, June 11/12 2005 - see
programme

 

 

 

Teaching 

 

 

Current Teaching

Macroeconomics II (Bachelor, 2nd year)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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