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Office |
Department
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Farimagsgade 5 1353 Copenhagen K DENMARK Office: 26-140
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Fields of Interest |
Taxation,
Fiscal Federalism, Social Security, Political Economy |
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Academic Degrees |
Diplom-Volkswirt
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Habilitation |
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Current
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Associate
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Refereed Journals |
Tax Competition and Fiscal Equalization, 2002,
International Tax and Public Finance, 9, 391-408. |
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Tax
Competition in a Fiscal |
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Leviathans, Federal Transfers, and the Cartelization Hypothesis, 2005, Public Choice, 122, 449-465. [pdf] |
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Social Security and Investment in Education: Is There Scope for a Pareto-Improvement? (with Panu Poutvaara), 2006, Economica, 73, 299-319. [pdf] |
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Ex-Post Redistribution in a Federation: Implications for Corrective Policy, 2007, Journal of Public Economics, 91, 481-496. CESifo WP # 1754 [pdf] |
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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] |
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Federal
Tax-Transfer Policy and Intergovernmental Pre-Commitment, 2008, Regional
Science and Urban Economics, 38,
16-31 [pdf] |
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Revisiting
the "Decentralization Theorem" - On the Role of Externalities,
2008, Journal of Urban Economics, 64,
116–122. [pdf] |
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Efficiency-Enhancing
Taxation in Two-Sided Markets (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup),
2008, Journal of Public Economics, 92, 1531-1539. [pdf] |
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Rent
Taxation and its Intertemporal Welfare Effects in a Small Open Economy (with
Panu Poutvaara), 2009, International
Tax and Public Finance, 16, 697-709. [pdf] |
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Welfare-
and Revenue-Dominance of Ad Valorem Taxation in Two-Sided Markets (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup),
2009, Economics Letters,
104,86-88.[pdf] |
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Does
Tax Competition Really Promote Growth? (with Ben Lockwood), 2010, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,
34, 191-206. [pdf] |
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Tax
Incentives in Fiscal Federalism - An Integrated Perspective, (with Christian
Kelders) 2010, Canadian Journal of
Economics, 43, 683-703. [pdf] |
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Do
Fiscal Transfers Alleviate Business Tax Competition? Evidence from |
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Tax
Responses by Platform Industries (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm
Schjelderup), 2010, Oxford Economic
Papers, 62, 764-783.
[pdf]
- a previous version circulates under the title "Do Consumers Buy Less
of a Taxed Good?, 2005" CESifo WP # 1635, Munich 2005 [pdf]
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Government Spending and Legislative Organization: Quasi-Experimental
Evidence from Germany (with Peter Egger), 2010, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2, 200-212. [pdf] |
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How
Do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs.
Expenditure Optimization, 2011, Journal
of Public Economics, 95, 1516-1522. [pdf] |
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Volume Editor |
European
Monetary Integration, MIT Press, 2004 (with H.W. Sinn and M. Widgrén): link MIT Press |
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Privatization Experiences in the EU, MIT
Press, 2006 (with H.W. Sinn and J. Whalley) link MIT Press |
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Contributions to Edited Volumes |
(with
B. Rahmann): Taxing Electronic Commerce, in: T. Gries and L. Suhl: Economic
Aspects of Digital Information Technologies, 1999, |
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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. |
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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] |
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Policy Contributions |
Das "Lemons"-Problem und der Verbraucherschutz (The Lemons Problem and Consumer Protection), 2001, ifo Schnelldienst, 54. |
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A
Study on EU Spending (jointly with Rigmar Osterkamp and ECORYS, Rotterdam) -
Report commissioned by the EC, 2008. |
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Electoral
Rules and Fiscal Equalization (with Peter Egger and Michael Smart), in: IEB’s
World Report on Fiscal Federalism ’10, IEB, Barcelona, 2010, forthcoming. |
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Working Papers |
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in Fiscal Federalism |
Electoral
Rules and Incentive Effects of Fiscal Transfers – Evidence from Germany (with
Peter Egger and Michael Smart) 2011 [pdf] |
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Competition for Migrants in a
Federation: Tax or Transfer Competition?, 2012 [pdf] |
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in Political Economy |
Do Political Parties
curb Pork-Barrel Spending? Municipality-Level Evidence (with Peter Egger),
2011 |
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Political
Economy of Social Security in an Aging Society (with Panu Poutvaara), 2008 |
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Disproportionate
Influence? Special-Interest Politics under Proportional and Majoritarian
Electoral Systems (with Peter Egger and Michael Smart), 2010 |
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in Taxation |
Transfer-Pricing and Agency Costs
in MNE, 2010 |
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Corporate Deductibility Provisions
and Managerial Incentives (with Michael Stimmelmayr), 2011 [pdf]; a previous version circulates under the title
"Corporate Taxation and Corporate Governance”, CESifo WP No 2881, 2008 [pdf] |
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Advertising and Newspaper
Differentiation: On the Role of Readers’ Advertising Taste (with Hans Jarle Kind
and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2007 |
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Media Firm Strategy and Advertising Taxes? (with
Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2011 [pdf] |
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Horizontal
Firm Integration and the Taxation of Profits (with P. Egger), 2008 |
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Work in Progress |
Taxation
in Two-Sided Markets, Political Economy, Fiscal Federalism |
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Scientific Activities |
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Refereeing |
American
Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Canadian
Journal of Economics, 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 |
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Departmental Seminars |
University of Stockholm 2010, 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 |
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Research Visits |
IEB, University of Barcelona –
June 2010 |
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Conference
Organization |
7th
Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics, November 4/5 2011 – see programme |
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Teaching |
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Current Teaching |
Tax Policy (Master) |
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