Chair of Public Economics ('Juniorprofessur')

Research interests

• Public Economics


• Political Economics


• Development Economics

Selected publications

• Election cycles and electricity provision: evidence from a quasi-experiment with Indian special elections,
  Journal of Public Economics, accepted (with Yogesh Uppal and Brian Min).


• Identifying local tax mimicking with administrative borders and a policy reform,
  Journal of Public Economics, 118, p. 41-51, 2014.



• Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational borrowing: evidence from the German States, 1975-2005,
  Journal of Urban Economics 71, p. 114-127, 2012.

You can find a full publication list here .


Prof. Baskaran accepted an appointment as professor for applied microeconomics at the University of Siegen beginning in the winter semester 2015/ 2016.