Research Focus
- Public Economics: Tax Evasion, Fiscal Federalism, Interregional Redistribution
- Law and Economics: Economics of Crime, Law Enforcement
- Behavioral Economics: Social Norms, Fairness, Reference Groups
Academic Career
- since 09|2011 Professor of Economics, University of Marburg
- 12|2007 – 08|2011 Senior Researcher, MPI
- 03|2009 – 06|2009 Visiting Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 06|2007 – 12|2007 Post Doc, CREED, University of Amsterdam
- 04|2006 – 06|2007 Research Fellow, Seminar for Economic Policy, University of Munich
- 03|2006 PhD in Economics (summa cum laude), University of Munich
- 11|2004 – 05|2005 Visiting Fellow, CREED, University of Amsterdam
- 10|2002 – 03|2006 PhD Student, Munich Graduate School of Economics, University of Munich
- 10|1995 – 10|2001 Undergraduate Student in Economics , University of Vienna and Carlos III de Madrid
Published & Forthcoming Papers
- Majority Voting and the Welfare Implications of Tax Avoidance, July 2011, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
An earlier version is available as Working Paper 2009-22, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.
- Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information (with Gerlinde Fellner and Rupert Sausgruber), June 2011, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming. (This paper is a substantially revised version of Working Paper 2009-31, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.)
- Enforcement Spillovers (with Johannes Rincke), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
An earlier version was titled Deterrence through Word of Mouth, MPI Working Paper 2009-04
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Norms, moods and free lunch: Longitudinal evidence on payments from a Pay-What-You-Want restaurant (with Gerhard Rienner), Journal of Socio-Economics, forthcoming.
- Optimal Observability in a Linear Income Tax (with Joel Slemrod), Economics Letters, 2010, Vol.108(2), 105-108.
- The Interaction of Legal and Social Norm Enforcement (with Sebastian Kube), Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming.
- Social Norms and the Indirect Evolution of Conditional Cooperation (with Mathias Spichtig, University of Amsterdam), Journal of Economics, 2011, Vol. 102 (3), p. 237-262.
- Social Norms and Conditional Cooperative Taxpayers, European Journal of Political Economy, 2010, Vol. 26, 89-103.
- Reserve prices as reference points – Evidence from auctions for football players at hattrick.org (with Stefan Trautmann), Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, Vol.31(2), p.230-240.
- Voting over Taxes: The Case of Tax Evasion, Public Choice, 2009, Vol. 140(1), 43-58.
- Tax Evasion and Auditing in a Federal Economy (with Sven Stöwhase), International Tax and Public Finance, 2005, Vol. 12 (4), 515-531.
Working Papers
Work in Progress
- Panel evidence on the causal effect of alcohol on crime for Prussia, 1882-1913 (with Carsten Burhop)
- Income Taxation, Tax Enforcement and Occupational Choice (with Rainald Borck)
- Interest Group Formation, Information Transmission and Political Convergence – An Experiment (with Ernesto Reuben and Frans van Winden)
- The Dynamics of Legal and Social Norm Enforcement (with Sebastian Kube)
Workshops and Seminars
The Bonn & Paris Workshop on Law and Economics
Law&Econ Workshop, University of Bonn