Interregional Redistribution and Mobility in Federations: A Positive Approach, Review of Economic Studies, October 2011,Vol. 78(4), pp. 1345--1378 (with N. Hansen and C. Lessmann)

The Theory of Human Capital Revisited: On the Interaction of General and Specific Investments, Economic Journal, October 2006, Vol. 116 (514), pp.903-923 (with C. Lülfesmann)

Endogenous Punishments in Agency with Verifiable Ex Post Information“,International Economic Review, November 2005, Vol. 46 (4), pp. 1207-1231 (with C. Lülfesmann and P. Schmitz)

Tiebout and Redistribution in a Model of Residential and Political Choice, Journal of Public Economics, February 2005, Vol 89(2-3), pp. 501-528 (with C. Lülfesmann).

Optimal Auditing in Hierarchical Relationships, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, June 2004, Vol. 160(2), pp. 210-231.

Representative versus Direct Democracy: The Role of Informational Asymmetries, Public Choice, January 2005, Vol. 122(1-2), pp. 9-38.

Bilateral Bargaining under Non-verifiable Information,Economic Theory, January 2004, Vol.23(2), pp. 395-410 (with C. Lülfesmann).

Economic versus Political Symmetry and the Welfare Concern with Market Integration and Tax Competition, Journal of Public Economics, May 2003, Vol. 87(5-6), pp. 847-1334. (with C. Lülfesmann and G. Myers)

Fiscal Competition, Redistribution, and the Politics of Economic Integration, Review of Economics Studies, October 2002, Vol 69(4). (with C. Lülfesmann and G. Myers)

Monitoring and Productive Efficiency in Public and Private Firms, Finanzarchiv, February 2002, Vol. 58(2), pp.167-187 (with C. Lülfesmann).

(Non-)Existence of Equilibria in Multi-Community Models,Journal of Urban Economics, November 2001, Vol. 50(3), pp. 418-435. (with N. Hansen).

The Political Economy of Tax H(e)avens and Tax Hells,American Economic Review, September 2001, Vol. 91(4), pp. 1103-1115. (with N. Hansen).

Revisiting the Lemons Market, International Economic Review, February 2001, Vol. 42(1), pp. 25-41.

On Monitoring and Collusion in Hierarchies, Journal of Economic Theory, April 2000, Vol. 91, pp. 280-292.

The Value of Ignorance, Rand Journal of Economics, Summer 1998, Vol. 29(2), pp. 339-354.