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Contact and Vita 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office

 CES

Center for Economic Studies
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Schackstr. 4, 80539 Munich (Germany)
Tel. +49 (89) 2180-3021, Fax +49 (89) 39 73 03
Email: mkoethen (at) ces.vwl.uni-muenchen.de

 

 

 

 

 

CESifo
Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich (Germany)
Tel. +49 (89) 9224-1237, Fax +49 (89) 9224 1409
Email: mkoethen (at) ces.vwl.uni-muenchen.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fields of Interest

Tax Competition, Fiscal Federalism, Social Security

 

 

 

 

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) 

 

 

 

 

Previous Positions

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter 
Department of Economics, University of Paderborn (1996-2000) 

 

 

 

 

Current Position

Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (Assistant Professor)
Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Director CESifo

 

 

 

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), forthcoming Oxford Economic Papers, CESifo WP # 1397, Munich 2005. latest version [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Federal Tax-Transfer Policy and Intergovernmental Pre-Commitment, 2007, forthcoming Regional Science and Urban Economics [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Revisiting the "Decentralization Theorem" - On the Role of Externalities, 2007, forthcoming Journal of Urban Economics [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Efficiency-Enhancing Taxation in Two-Sided Markets (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2007, forthcoming Journal of Public Economics [pdf]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working Papers

 

 

 

 

   in Fiscal Federalism

Do Fiscal Transfers Alleviate Business Tax Competition? Evidence from Germany, (with Peter Egger and Michael Smart), CESifo WP 1955, Munich, 2007 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Tax Incentives in Fiscal Federalism - An Integrated Perspective, 2005 (with Christian Kelders) [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Does Tax Competition Really Promote Growth?, (with Ben Lockwood), 2007 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

Do Local Governments Optimize over Taxes or Expenditures in Fiscal Federalism?, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   in Political Economy

Council Size and Public Expenditure Policy, 2008 (with Peter Egger)

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   in Taxation

Taxation in Two-Sided Markets (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup), 2006 [pdf] - a previous version circulates under the title "Do Consumers Buy Less of a Taxed Good?, 2005" CESifo WP # 1635, Munich 2005 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Revenue-Dominance of Ad Valorem Taxation in Two-Sided Markets, 2008 (with Hans Jarle Kind and Guttorm Schjelderup)

 

 

 

 

Rent Taxation and its Intertemporal Welfare Effects in a Small Open Economy, (with Panu Poutvaara), 2007 [pdf]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Public Choice, Regional Science and Urban Economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Departmental Seminars

Hamburg (HSU), 2008, Bocconi University 2007, University of Konstanz 2007, University of Florence 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

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

 

 

Teaching 

 

 

 

At the University of Paderborn 

 

 

 

Advanced

Public Economics: Fall 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
Theory of Public Expenditures: Spring 1997
Theory of Taxation: Summer 1998, Spring 1999
Public Debt: Spring 1998, Spring 1999 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the University of Munich 

 

 

 

Intermediate

Microeconomics: Fall 2000, Spring 2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advanced

Political Economics: Fall 2001
Social Policy and Social Security Systems: Spring 2002
Graduate Microeconomics (for MBA Students): Fall 2002
Political Economics (Master and PhD course): Spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Capital Income Taxation (Master and PhD course): Fall 2004
Systems Competition (Master and PhD course): Fall 2003, Fall 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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