Research Focus

Economic Theory, Public Economics

Current and Past Positions

• since 09/2010: Replacement chair, Public Economics, University of Mannheim, Germany
• since 06/2006: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
• 09/2006 – 3/2007: Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
• 2004 – 2006: Research assistant, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
• 2002 – 2006: Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics and Management (CDSEM), Mannheim University
• 2002 – 2004: Research and teaching assistant for Professor Martin Hellwig, University of Mannheim, Germany

Publications

Bierbrauer F., Incomplete contracts and excludable public goods, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95, no. 7-8, pp. 553-569, 2011.

Bierbrauer F., Hellwig M., Mechanism Design and Voting for Public-Good Provision, issue 2011/31, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2011. Abstract Full text

Bierbrauer F., An incomplete contracts perspective on the provision and pricing of excludable public goods, issue 2010/01, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010. Abstract Full text

Bierbrauer F., On the optimality of optimal income taxation, issue 2010/14, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010. Abstract Full text

Bierbrauer F., Sahm M., Optimal Democratic Mechanisms for Taxation and Public Good Provision, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 94, pp. 453-466, 2010.

Bierbrauer F., Optimal Income Taxation and Public-Goods Provision with Preference and Productivity Shocks, issue 2010/18, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010. Abstract Full text

Bierbrauer F., Boyer P. C., The Pareto-Frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation, issue 2010/16, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010. Abstract Full text

Bierbrauer F., Boyer P. C., Political competition and Mirrleesian income taxation: A first pass, issue 2010/45, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010. Abstract Full text

Bierbrauer F., Hellwig M., Public-Good Provision in a Large Economy, issue 2010/02, Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, 2010. Abstract Full text

Bierbrauer F., A Note on Optimal Income Taxation, Public Goods Provision and Robust Mechanism Design, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 93, pp. 667-670, 2009. Preprint

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