“Authority and Screening in a Principal Agent Model,”
mimeo, December 2021.
“Voluntary
Equity, Project Risk, and Capital Requirements” (with Adreas
Haufler), mimeo, May 2022.
“Public
and Private Provision of Collective Goods in Democracy”, mimeo,
2020.
Selected
Publications
“Strategic
Defection in Bilateral Trade”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol
123, 1293-1313, 2021.
“Reforming
an Asymmetric Union: On the Virtues of Dual Tier Capital Competition”, with Andreas Haufler,
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 125, 116-127, 2015.
“The
Architecture of Federations: Constitutions, Bargaining, and Moral Hazard”, with Anke Kessler and Gordon Myers,
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 124, 18-29,
2015.
“Two-Tier Public Provision: Comparing Public
Systems,” with Gordon Myers,
Journal of Public Economics, Vol.
95 (11-12), 1263-1271, 2011.
“The
Theory of Human Capital Revisited: On the Interaction of General and Specific
Investments”,,
with Anke Kessler, Economic
Journal, Vol. 116, 903-923, 2006.
“Wealth
Constraints an Option Contracts in Models with Sequential Investments”,
RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 36, 753-770, 2005.
“Enogenous Punishments I gency
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.
”Bilateral Bargaining, Unverifiable Quality, and Options to Return”, with Anke 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.