Christoph
Luelfesmann
Christoph
Luelfesmann
Current Working Papers
“The Architecture of Federations: Constitutions, Bargaining, and Moral Hazard”,
with Anke Kessler and Gordon Myers, November 2009.
“Collective and Private Provision of Public Goods in Democracy”, June 2008.
“Strategic Defection in Bilateral Trade”, revision invited by Games and Economic Behavior.
“Two-Tier Public Provision: Comparing Public Systems,” with Gordon Myers,
May 2010, forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics.
“Holdups, Quality Choice, and the Achilles' Heel in Government Contracting”,
with Dieter Bös, 2001.
Journal Publications
“On the Virtues of Privatization when Government is Benevolent”,
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 64(1), 17-34, 2007.
“The Theory of Human Capital Revisited: On the Interaction of General and Specific Investments'',
with Anke Kessler, The Economic Journal, Vol. 116, 903-923, 2006.
“Wealth Constraints and Option Contracts in Models with Sequential Investments”,
RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 36, 753-770, 2005.
“Endogenous Punishments in Agency with Verifiable Ex Post Information”,
with Anke Kessler and Patrick Schmitz, International Economic Review, Vol. 46, 1207-1231, 2005.
“Tiebout and Redistribution in a Model of Residential and Political Choice”,
with Anke Kessler, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 89, 501-528, 2005.
“Research Collaborations with Sequential Investments”,
Economica, Vol. 71(2), 241-259, 2004.
”Bilateral Bargaining, Unverifiable
Quality, and Options to Return”,
with Anke S. Kessler, Economic Theory, Vol. 23(2), 395-410, 2004.
“Economic vs. Political Symmetry and the Welfare Concern w/ Market Integration and Tax Competition”,
with Anke S. Kessler and Gordon Myers, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 87(5-6), 847-867, 2003.
``Fiscal Competition, Redistribution, and the Politics of Economic Integration”
with Anke Kessler and Gordon Myers, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 69(4), 899-923, 2002.
“Central Governance or Subsidiarity: A Property Rights Approach to Federalism'',
European Economic Review, Vol. 46(8), 1379-1397, 2002. (pdf discussion paper).
“Partial Monitoring, Adverse Selection, and the Productive Efficiency of the Firm”,
International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 20(8), 1097-1118, 2002.
“Monitoring and Productive Efficiency in Public and Private Firms”, with Anke Kessler,
FinanzArchiv, Vol. 58(2), 167-187, 2002 (pdf discussion paper version).
“Team Production, Sequential Investments, and Stochastic Payoffs”,
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 157(3), 430-442, 2001.
“Incomplete Contracts, Non-Contractible Quality, and Renegotiation”,
Contributions to Theoretical Economics, Vol. 1 (1), Article 2, 2001,
http://www.bepress.com/bejte, 46 pages.
``The Hold-up Problem in Government Contracting'', with Dieter Bös,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 98(1), 53-74, 1996.
In Preparation
”Contracting and Hold-up in the NFL: Theory
and Evidence”, with Darren King and Simon Woodcock
“Preference Alignment, Authority, and Incentives”
“Delegation in an Agency Model with Asymmetric Information”, with Anke S. Kessler.
“Explicit and Implicit Incentives in a Theory of Ownership and Authority”, coming soon.
``Mirrlees, Tax Evasion, and Audits: On the Optimality of Progressive Income Taxation'',
with Thomas Gaube and Anke S. Kessler
``Fiscal Competition in Models of Residential and
Political Choice'', with Anke S. Kessler