PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
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Election Methods and Political Polarization
Mathematical Social Sciences 135 (2025), p. 102417.
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On the Prevalence of Condorcet's Paradox (joint with Anna-Sophie Kurella).
Public Choice (2025)
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Autonomy and Accountability: Strategic Behaviour of German State Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic (joint with Reyn van Ewijk and Julia M. Rode).
Public Choice (2025) (in Press)
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Wie sollten wir unseren Bundestag wählen?
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik (2025) (in Press, online available.)
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What explains German Länder governments' stances towards federalism? (joint with Julia M. Rode)
Publius. The Journal of Federalism 55 (2025), p. 325–352.
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Intergovernmental Earmarking Grants: Insights from the German Higher-Education Pact.
State and Local Government Review 57 (2025), p. 64–82.
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A Health Economics Inquiry into Regulatory Constraints on the European Tobacco Market (joint with Nathalie Neu-Yanders and Nina König).
Forum for Health Economics and Policy 27 (2024), p. 1–27.
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Condorcet Method, Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives, and the Size of the Bundestag (joint with Anna Specht),
German Politics 33 (2024), p. 611–639.
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Rethinking Germany’s Debt Brake: The Amortization of Emergency Loans.
FinanzArchiv / European Journal of Public Finance 80 (2024), p. 350–358.
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Plurality Rule, Majority Principle, and Indeterminacy in German Elections (joint with Nils D. Steiner),
FinanzArchiv 79 (2023), p. 64–91.
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Price-shifting fungibility.
Regional Studies, Regional Science 9 (2022), p. 93–109.
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Das Mehrheitsprinzip im Wahlrecht (joint with Joachim Wieland),
RW Rechtswissenschaft 12 (2021, 4), p. 440–451.
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Shilling, Squeezing, Sniping. A further explanation for late bidding in online second-price auctions (joint with Bernd Bracht),
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 31 (2021), p. 100553.
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On the dispensability of run-off elections.
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft / Journal of Political Science 31 (2021), p. 71–82.
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Voting on income tax exemptions (joint with Jens Südekum),
Public Choice 138 (2009), p. 239–253.
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Subsidies to higher education and income-tax progression.
Public Finance and Management 7 (2007), p. 23–52.
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Reforming a complicated income tax system: The political economy perspective(joint with Jens Südekum),
European Journal of Political Economy 22 (2006), p. 41–59.
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The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education – Empirical Evidence from Germany.
Finanzarchiv 59 (2003), p. 458–478.
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Word Length Distribution in Italian Letters by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 7 (2000), p. 115–120.
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Papers under review
Dichotomous Preferences: Concepts, Measurement, and Evidence (joint with Anna-Sophie Kurella). RR-Status
Electoral outcomes versus voters' preferences: On the different tales the data can tell (joint with Anna-Sophie Kurella and Maike Roth). RR-Status
Other Publications, mostly policy-advising journals
Zwischen Vergeblichkeitsfalle und Eigenverantwortung: Eine empirische Sicht auf Verschuldung und Entschuldung. Festschrift in Honor of Martin Junkernheinreich, ed. by D. Frankenberg et. al. [Schriften zur öffentlichen Verwaltung und öffentlichen Wirtschaft 261, Berlin 2024], p. 105 - 119.
Die Besteuerung gesundheitsschädlicher Produkte (On the taxation on unhealthy products) List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik 2024. . An extended abstract in English is available here (.pdf)
Die schleichende Aushöhlung der Schuldenbremse - Die Tilgungspläne des Bundes und der Länder. Jahrbuch für öffentliche Finanzen 2022, p. 73 - 85.
Impfpflicht: In einer liberalen Gesellschaft. Wirtschaftsdienst 12/21.
Die Reform des Bundeswahlrechts. Fiasko droht. Wirtschaftsdienst 07/20.
Die Reform der Erbschaftsteuer - Eine erste Bewertung (joint with Denis Alt). Wirtschaftsdienst 11/2007, p. 728 - 731.
Steuerreformen aus politökonomischer Sicht (joint with Silke Rath). Statistik und Wissenschaft 7, p.221 - 233.
Mitnahmeeffekte durch die öffentliche Hochschulfinanzierung. Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 1/2007, p. 45-56.
Neuere Entwicklungen in der Bildungsökonomie. List Forum 29, p. 237 - 248.
Recent reviewer activities
Finanzarchiv / European Journal of Public Finance
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
Journal of Politics
Public Choice
Publius. The Journal of Federalism
Theory and Decision