Universität zu Köln

CV

Curriculum Vitae, June 2020

Working Papers

• "Competitive Gerrymandering and the Popular Vote", with Mattias Polborn, October 2020
• "Pareto-improving tax reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit", with Pierre Boyer and Emanuel Hansen, June 2020 (Revise and Resubmit, Econometrica)
• "Taxes and Turnout", with Aleh Tsyvinski and Nicolas Werquin, July 2019 (Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review)
• "Public-Good Provision in Large Economies 1: Linear Payment and Provision Cost Functions", with Martin Hellwig, March 2016
• "Boring Banks and Taxes", with Rafael Aigner, April 2015
• "On the legitimacy of coercion for the financing of public goods", revised December 2011, Supplementary Material (download)
• "Political Blockades and Election Timing", with Lydia Mechtenberg, revised September 2010

Publications

• "Politically Feasible Reforms of Nonlinear Tax Systems", with Pierre Boyer and Andreas Peichl, Supplementary Material (download), American Economic Review, vol.111, pp.153-91, 2021.
• "Harry Potter and the welfare of the willfully blinded", In: Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing not to know, edited by R. Hertwig and C. Engel. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol 29, J.R. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT press, 2021.
• "All or nothing: State capacity and optimal public goods provision", with Justus Winkelmann, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 185, pp. 1049-55, 2020.
• "Robust Mechanism Design and Social Preferences", with Axel Ockenfels, Andreas Pollak and Désirée Rückert, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 149, pp. 59-80, 2017.
• "Mechanism Design and Intentions", with Nick Netzer, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 163, pp. 557-603, 2016.
• "Robustly Coalition-Proof Incentive Mechanisms for Public Good Provision are Voting Mechanisms and Vice Versa", with Martin Hellwig, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 83, pp. 1440-1464, 2016.
• "Efficiency, Welfare and Political Competition", with Pierre Boyer, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 131, pp. 461-518, 2016.
• "Tax incidence for fragile financial markets", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 120, pp. 107-125, 2014.
• "The Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation", with Pierre Boyer, Annals of Economics and Statistics, vol. 113/114, pp. 185-206, 2014.
• "Optimal tax and expenditure policy with aggregate uncertainty", American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 6, pp. 205-257, 2014.
• "Strategic Nonlinear Income Tax Competition with Perfect Labor Mobility", with Craig Brett and John A. Weymark, Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 82, pp. 292-311, 2013.
• "Political competition and Mirrleesian income taxation: A first pass", with Pierre Boyer, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 103, pp 1-14 (lead article), 2013.
• "Distortionary Taxation and the Free-Rider Problem", International Tax and Public Finance, vol. 19, pp. 732-752, 2012.
• "On the optimality of optimal income taxation", Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 146, pp. 2105-2116, 2011.
• "Incomplete contracts and excludable public goods", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95, pp. 553-569, 2011.
• "Optimal democratic mechanisms for taxation and public-good provision", with Marco Sahm, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 94, pp. 453-466, 2010.
• "A Note on Optimal Income Taxation, Public Goods Provision and Robust Mechanism Design", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 93, pp. 667-670, 2009.
• "Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision with Endogenous Interest Groups", Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 311-342, 2009.

Publications in German (not peer-reviewed):

• "Ungleiche Einkommen, ungleiche Vermögen und optimale Steuern", Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Ausgabe 17(1), S. 2-24, 2016. 
• "Steuervermeidung vermeiden. Sollen wir das wollen?", Ifo Schnelldienst, Ausgabe 11/2013.
• "Die Wirkung einer Finanztransaktionssteuer auf ein instabiles Finanzsystem", Ökonomenstimme, September 2012.