Publications in refereed journals

• Revenue decentralization and inflation: a re-evaluation, Economics Letters, forthcoming.
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• Creative destruction and fiscal institutions: A long-run case study of three regions, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, forthcoming (with Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach).
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• Tax decentralization and public deficits in OECD countries, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, forthcoming.
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• Public education spending in a globalized world: is there a shift in priorities across educational stages?, International Tax and Public Finance, forthcoming (with Zohal Hessami).
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• Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: evidence from the German States, 1975-2005, Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.
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• Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector, European Journal of Political Economy, 27(3), 2011.
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• The Heckscher-Ohlin Model and the network structure of international trade, International Review of Economics and Finance, 20(2), 2011 (with Florian Blöchl, Tilman Brück, and Fabian Theis).
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• Federalism, budget deficits and public debt: On the reform of Germany's fiscal constitution, Review of Law and Economics, 4(3), 2010 (with Lars P. Feld).
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• On the link between fiscal decentralization and public debt in OECD countries, Public Choice, 145(3), 2010.
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• Supranational integration and national reorganization: On the Maastricht treaty's impact on fiscal decentralization in EU countries, Constitutional Political Economy, 21(4), 2010.
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• Did the Maastricht treaty matter for macroeconomic performance?, Kyklos, 62(3), 2009.
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Working Papers

• A tale of five PIIGS: Soft budget constraints and the EMU sovereign debt crises, Mimeo, University of Göttingen and Konstanz, 2011 (with Zohal Hessami).
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• Public debt and the survival of political unions, Mimeo, University of Gothenburg, 2011.



• Fiscal capacity and government accountability in sub-Saharan Africa, Mimeo, University of Gothenburg, 2011 (with Arne Bigsten).
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• Tax non-compliance, deterrence and social norms: Survey evidence from Germany, Mimeo, Universities of Heidelberg and Linz, 2010 (with Lars P. Feld and Friedrich Schneider).



• Fiscal decentralization and economic growth in OECD countries: Is there a relationship?, Mimeo, University of Heidelberg, 2009, (with Lars P. Feld).
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• Decentralization and economic performance in a cooperative federation - evidence from Germany, Mimeo, University of Heidelberg, 2009 (with Lars P. Feld and Sarah Necker).



• On the interaction between fiscal federalism and regional structural change, Mimeo, University of Heidelberg, 2009 (with Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach).



• Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth: A Meta-Analysis, Mimeo, University of Heidelberg, 2008 (with Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach)

Book chapters

• La II Comisión del Federalismo: reformas recientes de las relaciones financieras entre la federación y los Länder en Alemania, in: J. L. Laborda, M. Kölling and F. Knüpling (eds.), La reforma del sistema de financiación de las Communidades Autónomas -- Perspectivas internacionales, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid 2010 (with Lars P. Feld).



• Zur Reform der deutschen Finanzverfassung, in: G.G. Schulze (eds.), Reformen für Deutschland - die wichtigsten Handlungsfelder aus ökonomischer Sicht, Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart 2009 (with Lars P. Feld).



• The Swiss System of Fiscal Federalism: Lessons for the German Reform Discussion, in: Ralf Thomas Baus, Raoul Blindenbacher und Ulrich Karpen (eds.), Competition vs. Cooperation: German Fiscal Federalism in Need of Reform - A Comparative Perspective, Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, S. 298-320 (with Lars P. Feld).



• Das Schweizer Modell des fiskalischen Föderalismus: Lehren für die deutsche Reformdiskussion, in: Kai. A. Konrad und Beate Jochimsen (eds.), Der Föderalstaat nach dem Berlin-Urteil, Peter Lang, Frankfurt et al. 2007, S. 105-133 (with Lars P. Feld).

Miscellanea

• Die deutsche Schuldenbremse -- ein institutioneller Fortschritt?, WIST 38(10), 2009 (with Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach).



• (Extreme) Haushaltsnotlage in Bremen?, Finanzwissenschaftliches Gutachten im Auftrag der Länder Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Sachsen, Juni 2007 (with Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach).