Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Martin Kolmar Current Position: Chair for

Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Martin Kolmar
Current Position:
Chair for Applied Microeconomics
Director, Institute of Economics
Address:
School of Economics and Political Science
University of St. Gallen
Varnbüelstrasse 19
CH-9000 St.Gallen
Switzerland
Tel
0041 71 224 2535
Fax
0041 71 224 2670
E-Mail
[email protected]
Personal Information:
Date of Birth:
Mai 03, 1967
Place of Birth:
Arnsberg, Germany
Marital Status:
married to Claudia Fichtner; one child
Education:
University of Konstanz, Habilitation 2002, “Essays on the Economics of Conflict”
University of Konstanz, PhD. 1997, Dissertation: “Social Policy in the European Union”
University of Bonn, Diploma 1993, exchange student at the University of Berkeley, California (one year)
Employment:
2011
Sabbatical, San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley
2006-
Professor, Chair for Applied Microeconomics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2003-2006
Professor, Chair for Economic Theory, University of Mainz, Germany
2002-2003
Professor, Chair for Social Policy, University of Göttingen, Germany
2002
Sabbatical, Brown University
2000-2002
Assistant Professor, University of Konstanz
1998-2000
Assistant Professor, University of Bonn
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Honors, Awards, Volunteering:
Knut-Wicksell Award, European Public Choice Society
European Investment Bank Award (Essays on European Economic Integration)
Schiesser-Allweiler Award, best Dissertation, University of Konstanz
Fellowship, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service
Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Fellowship, Swiss National Fond
Ausschuss für Sozialpolitik, Verein für Socialpolitik
Ausschuss für Wirtschaftsethik, Verein für Socialpolitik
Vertrauensdozent, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Vice Dean, University of St. Gallen (2011-today)
Research Interests
Institutional Economics
Public Economics, especially in Open Economies
Behavioral Economics, especially endogenous Identities and Status
Theory of Contests and endogenous Institutions
Theories of Justice, Justice between Generations
Referred Journals
To Fight or not to Fight: An Analysis of Submission, Struggle, and the Design of Contests, Public Choice
88, 1996, 381-392 (with Achim Körber).
Intergenerational Redistribution in a Small Open Economy with Endogenous Fertility, Journal of
Population Economics 10, 1997, 335-356.
Optimal Intergenerational Redistribution in a Two-Country Model with Endogenous Fertility, Public
Choice 106, 2001, 23-51.
On the Efficiency of National Social Security Systems in the European Union, European Investment
Bank Papers 2, 1997, 55-67.
Constitutions as Commitment or Coordination Device? Comment on C. Azariadis and V. Galasso,
Constitutional "Rules" and Intergenerational Fiscal Policy, Constitutional Political Economy 11,
371-374.
Soziale Mindeststandards für Europa?, Schmollers Jahrbuch 1, 2001, 207-237.
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Are National Pension Systems Efficient if Labor is (Im-) Perfectly Mobile?, Journal of Public
Economics 83, 3, 347-374 (with Friedrich Breyer).
Tax Differentials and the Allocation of Labor in a Spatial Model with Restricted Mobility, Regional
Science and Urban Economics 32, 447-473 (with Patrik Guggenberger und Ashok Kaul).
Capital Tax Competition under Asymmetric Information: Why Information is Voluntarily Exchanged and
Why it is not, International Tax and Public Finance 4, 2002, 465-482 (with Wolfgang Eggert).
Anarchy, Efficiency, and Redistribution, Journal of Public Economics 87, 2003, 2431-2457 (with Dieter
Bös).
Income Redistribution in an Economic Union: Does Asymmetric Information Legitimize Centralization?,
International Tax and Public Finance 10, 2003, 169-186.
An Analysis of Institutional Change in the European Union, European Journal of Law and Economics
16, 2003, 303-326.
Self-Correcting Mechanisms in Public Procurement: Why Awarding the Contract and Actual Contracting
should be Separated, Finanzarchiv 59, 2003, 425-442 (with Dieter Bös).
The Taxation of Financial Capital under Asymmetric Information and the Tax-Competition Paradox,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106, 2004, 83-106 (with Wolfgang Eggert).
Goods or Resource Contests?, Public Choice 131, 2007, 491-499.
Beveridge versus Bismarck Public-Pension Systems in Integrated Markets, Regional Science and Urban
Economics, 2007, 649-669.
Contests with Size Effects, European Journal of Political Economy 22, 2006, pp. 989-1008 (with
Wolfgang Eggert).
Poverty, Taxation, and Governance, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 15,
2006, 325-33 (with Sugata Marjit, Vivekananda Mukherjee).
The Scientific Work of Herschel Grossman, European Journal of Political Economy, 21, 2005, 802-14.
A Theory of User-Fee Competition, Journal of Public Economics, 91, 2007, 497-509 (with Clemens
Fuest).
Perfectly Secure Property Rights, Incentives, and the Shadow of Appropriation, Southern Economic
Journal, 75, 2008, 441-456.
Do Parachutes Discipline Managers? An Analysis of Takeover Battles, forthcoming: International
Review of Law and Economics 32, 2012, 224-232 (with Oliver Fabel).
Decentralized Financing of Spillover Goods by Means of User Fees, forthcoming: International Tax
and Public Finance (with Clemens Fuest).
Contests and the Private Production of Public Goods, Southern Economic Journal Vol. 79 (1), 2012,
161-179 (with Andreas Wagener).
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Intra-Generational Externalities and Inter-Generational Redistribution, Journal of Pension Economics
and Finance 11(4), 2012, 531 – 548 (with Volker Meier)
Inefficiency as a Strategic Device in Group Contests Against Dominant Opponents, Economic Inquiry,
Article first published online: 3 April 2013 (with Andreas Wagener).
The State's Enforcement Monopoly and the Private Protection of Property, forthcoming: Journal of
Institutional and Theoretical Economics (with Kristoffel Grechenig).
Contests with Group-Specific Public Goods and Complementarities in Efforts, Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization 89, 2013, 9-22 (with Hendrik Rommeswinkel).
On the Endogenous Determination of Private and Common-Pool and Club- and Public Goods with
Costly Exclusion, forthcoming: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.
Intention-Based Fairness Preferences in Two-Player Contests, forthcoming: Economics Letters (with
Magnus Hoffmann).
Currently under Revision
Multi-Prize Contests as Incentive Mechanisms for the Provision of Public Goods with Heterogenous
Agents, revise and resubmit: Social Choice and Welfare (with Dana Sisak).
Determinants of the Group-Size Paradox (with Hendrik Rommeswinkel).
Distributional Preferences in Share and Probability Contests (with Magnus Hoffmann).
On General Arguments about the Cluelessness Objection (with Hendrik Rommeswinkel).
Cluelessness and Rationality in Consequentialism.
Books
Optimale Ansiedlung Sozialpolitischer Entscheidungskompetenzen in der Europäischen Union, J.C.B.
Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen 1999.
Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen, first edition 2001, second
edition 2005, third edition 2010 (with Friedrich Breyer, fourth edition is in the making).
Telefonauskünfte im Internet. Eine ökonomisch-juristische Fallstudie zur kostenlosen Internetauskunft,
Lit Verlag, Münster 2003 (with Heinrich Wilms, Georg Jochum).
Eine Steuerreform für Deutschland, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen 2010 (with Christian
Keuschnigg and Mirela Keuschnigg).
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Working Papers
Tax Competition with Formula Apportionment: The Interaction between Tax Base and Sharing
Mechanism (with Andreas Wagener).
Intergenerational Justice and Imperfect Knowlegde.
Group Identities in Conflicts (with Andreas Wagener).
Work in Progress
Locating Responsibility: A Multi-Level Approach towards Economic Ethics (with Thomas Beschorner).
Globalization, Mobility, and Social Identities (with Johann Bauer).
Buddhism and Consequentialism: The Teaching of No-Self and the Argument from Demandingness.
An Economic Theory of Symbolic Capital.
Insurance with Status Preferences.
Sequential Insurance of Weakest-Link Technologies.
Dysfunctional Personality Traits (with Andreas Wagener).
Articles in Books and Non-Referred Journals
Social Policy in a Common Market: Labour Mobility, Social Arbitrage, and Public Finance, in: R.
Holzmann (Hrsg.): Maastricht: Monetary Constitution without a Fiscal Constitution?, Nomos,
Baden-Baden 1996, 129-152 (with Friedrich Breyer).
Sozialpolitik und Verteilung: Ist Äquivalenz effizient, effektiv und stabil?, in: B. Gahlen, H. Hesse and
H.J. Ramser (Eds.): Verteilungsprobleme der Gegenwart, Diagnose und Therapie, J.C.B. Mohr
(Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1998 (mit Friedrich Breyer).
Marktintegration und die Struktur von Sozialversicherungssystemen in der Europäischen Union, in: C.
Smekal und J. Starbatty (Eds.): Der Aufbruch ist möglich, Veröffentlichungen der Hanns Martin
Schleyer-Stiftung, Band 52, 1998.
Decentralized Social-Security Systems in Integrated Labor Markets: Theory and Application to the
European Union, in H.J. Vosgerau (Ed.): Institutional Arrangements for Global Economic
Integration, Macmillan Press, New York, London 2000.
Politische Ökonomie des Sozialstaats im Zeitalter der Globalisierung: Reformbedarf versus
Durchsetzbarkeit, in: D. Aufderheide and M. Dabrowski (Ed): Internationaler Wettbewerbnationale Sozialpolitik?, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000.
Vertikale Integration von Sozialversicherungssystemen in der Europäischen Union: Ein
Transaktionskostenansatz, in: H. Schneider (Ed.): Europas Zukunft als Sozialstaat, Nomos-Verlag
Baden Baden 2000.
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Aggressiveness and Redistribution, in: M. Ahlheim, H.D. Wenzel und W. Wiegard (Ed.):
Steuerpolitik- Von der Theorie zur Praxis, 2003, 15-36 (with Dieter Bös).
Rent Seeking in Public Procurement, in: C. Seidl,U. Schmidt, S. Traub (Eds.): Advances in public
economics: utility, choice and welfare, 2005 (with Dieter Bös).
Markets versus Contests for the Provision of Information Goods, in: M. Albert, D. Schmidtchen, S.
Voigt (Eds.): Scientific Competition. Conferences on New Political Economy Vol. 24, 2008.
Medizin und Ökonomie, in: A.Gethmann-Siefert, F. Thiele (Eds.): Ökonomie und Medizinethik,
Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn (2008).
Mechanism Design WIST 01, 2008.
Warum sind Institutionen wichtig?, Orientierungen, Zeitschrift der Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung (2010).
Die Schweiz im internationalen Steuerwettbewerb, in: AvenirSuisse: Die Souveränität der Schweiz: eine
Standortbestimmung, 2010 (with Christian Keuschnigg)
Reviews
The Strategic Constitution by Robert Cooter, Journal of Economics 2001.
Refereeing
Journals: Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Theory, Economics Bulletin, Economics Letters,
Economics of Governance, European Economic Review, European Journal of Law and Economics,
European Journal of Political Economy, Finanzarchiv, German Economic Review, International
Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften,
Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Cultural Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of
Economics, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of International Economics,
Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Journal of
Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Population Economics, Public Choice,
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Statistik, Social
Choice and Welfare
Institutions: Schweizer Nationalfonds, Thyssen-Humboldt Stiftung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Volkswagen-Stiftung
Consultancy
Economic policy, especially regulation and tax policy (representative client list: Telegate AG,
Treuhandverband Liechtenstein, Swiss National Bank, Finanzdepartement St. Gallen)
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Teaching
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Microeconomics (Undergraduate, Graduate, PhD)
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Principles of Economics (Undergraduate, Executive Education)
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Game Theory (Graduate)
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Institutional Economics (Graduate)
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Public Economics (Graduate, Executive Education)
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Theories of Justice (Graduate)
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Incentive Theory (PhD)
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Mechanism and Market Design (Executive Education)
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Managerial Economics (Graduate, Executive Education)
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Economic Policy (Undergraduate, Graduate)
Supervision
More than 80 Diploma, Bachelor, Master, and PhD Theses over the years, former PhD Students and
Postdocs:
Dr. Dorothee Schmitz
Dr. Salvatore Barbaro, Staastsekretär im Finanzministerium Rheinland Pfalz
Dr. Peter Schwarz, Assistant Professor, Jacobs University, Bremen
Dr. Philipp Denter, Assistant Professor, University of St. Gallen
Dr. Dana Sisak, Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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