Refereed Journal Articles

2011

Fixed Effect Vector Decomposition. Political Analysis, (with Vera E. Troeger), forthcoming.

Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention, World Development (with Phil Keefer and Eric Neumayer), forthcoming.

Making Spatial Analysis Operational. Commands for Generating Spatial-Effect Variables in Monadic and Dyadic Data, Stata Journal 10 (with Eric Neumayer), 585-605.

Fear of Floating and de Facto Exchange-Rate Pegs with Multiple Key Currencies, International Studies Quarterly, (with Eric Neumayer), forthcoming.

Foreign Terror on Americans, Journal of Peace Research 48, (with Eric Neumayer), 3-17.

2010

The Level of Democracy during Interregnum Periods: Recoding the polity2 Score, Political Analysis 18:2 (with Eric Neumayer) 206-226.

Spatial Effects in Dyadic Data, International Organization 64 (with Eric Neumayer), 145-166.

Specification Problems in the Analysis of Spatial Dependence, European Journal of Political Research 49 (with Eric Neumayer), 418-442.

The Friend of my Enemy is my Enemy. International Alliance and International Terrorism, European Journal of Political Research 49:1 (with Eric Neumayer), 75-96.

Galton’s Problem and the Spread of Terrorism along Civilizational Lines, Conflict Management and Peace Science 27:4, (with Eric Neumayer), 308-325.

2009

Terrorism and the Clash of Civilization. Was Huntington right after all?  British Journal of Political Science 39: 4 (with Eric Neumayer), 711-734.

Famine Mortality and Rational Political Inactivity, World Development 37:1  (with Eric Neumayer), 50-61.

Why is there no Race to the Bottom in Capital Taxation? International Studies Quarterly 53:3 (with Vera E. Troeger and Hannes Winner), 761-786.

The Computation of Convergence, or: How to Chase a Black Cat in a Dark Room, Journal of European Public Policy 16:7 (with Christina Schneider), 990-1011.

2008

Fear of Floating and the External Effects of Currency Unions, American Journal of Political Science 52:3, (with Vera Troeger), 656-676.

Spatial Multiparty Competition with Abstention and Biased Voters, Electoral Studies 27, 424-441 (with Christian W. Martin).

2007

Efficient Estimation of Time-Invariant and Rarely Changing Variables in Panel Data Analysis with Unit Effects, Political Analysis 15:2 (with Vera Troeger), 124-139.

Discriminatory EU Membership and the Redistribution of Enlargement Gains, Journal of Conflict Resolution 51:4 (with Christina Schneider), 568-587.

The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97:3 (with Eric Neumayer), 551-566.

Too Much to Die, too Little to Live: Unemployment, Higher Education Policies and University Budgets in Germany, 1975-2000, Journal of European Public Policy 14:4 (with Christina Schneider), 631-653.

Academic Heavyweights. (Yet) another Ranking of Political Science Journals, European Political Science 6:1, 41-50.

Berufungsdeterminanten in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft, 1990-2004, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 48: 1 (with Frank Schimmelfennig), 97-117.

Ohne Substanz. Eine Antwort an Gross und Jungbauer-Gans, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 48:3 (with Frank Schimmelfennig)

Der deutsche akademische Arbeitsmarkt. Genderaspekte, Femina Politica (with Frank Schimmelfennig)

2006

The Unequal Burden of War: On the Effect of Conflicts on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, International Organization 60:3 (with Eric Neumayer), 723-754.

Regulatory Conditionality and Membership Selection in the EU. Evidence from a Heckman Selection Model, British Journal of Political Science 36:1 (with Christina J. Schneider and Vera E. Troeger), 17-38.

The Euro and Monetary Policy Autonomy in European Non-Euro Countries, European Union Politics 7:2 (with Vera E. Troeger), 213-234.

European Integration, Policy Autonomy and Party Competition: Introduction, European Union Politics 7:2 (with Jakob deHaan), 163-166.

Instabilität von parteipolitischen Programmen: Der Einfluss der Zahl der Parteien, Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 5 (with Christian W. Martin)

2005 *

Panel Data Analysis in Comparative Politics: Linking Method to Theory,
European Journal of Political Research, 44: 2 (with Vera E. Troeger and Philip Manow), 327-354.

Number of Parties, Endogenous Partisan Preferences and Electoral Turnout Rates: A Stochastic Equilibrium Analysis, Social Science Computer Review 23:3, (with Christian W. Martin) 347-359

2004

The Internal Value of External Options. On the Impact of EU Conditionality on Regulatory Reforms in Transition Countries, European Union Politics 5:3. (with Walter Mattli), 307-330.

Publications and Citations of Italian Political Scientists, Journal of European Public Policy (with Claudio Radaelli),

Government Spending in Democracies and Autocracies, in: Constitutional Political Economy, 15:3 (with Kjell Hausken and Christian Martin), 239-259.

Stammwähler und die opportunistische Wahl parteipolitischer Präferenzen, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 10:2 (with Christian Martin), 1-31.

2003

Democracy, Government Spending, and Economic Growth. A Political-Economic Explanation of the Barro-Effect, in: Public Choice, 117:1/2 (with Christian Martin), 27-50.

Publikationstätigkeit und Rezeptionserfolg der deutschen Politikwissenschaft in internationalen Journalen, 1990-2002, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 44:4, 529-544.

Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and Capital Controls in Transition Countries, 1993-2000, in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies 36: 2 (with Thilo Bodenstein and Gerald Schneider), 231-243.

Exploring the Dynamics of International Trade by Combining the Comparative Advantages of Multivariate Statistics and Network Analysis, in: Journal of Social Structures 4:1, (with Lothar Krempel), 1-22.

2002

The Demand-Side Politics of EU Enlargement: Democracy and the Application for EU Membership, in: Journal of European Public Policy 9:4  (with Walter Mattli), 550-574.

Containing Contagious Financial Crises: The Political Economy of Joint Intervention into the Asian Crisis, in: Public Choice 111:3/4 (with Kjell Hausken), 209-236.

2001

Export Specialization, Industrial Policy, and Economic Performance, in: Review of International Political Economy 8:4 (with Michael Graff), 661-688.

Die Politik wirtschaftlichen Wachstums in autoritären Staaten, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 42: 1, 79-100.

Regimetyp und Wirtschaftswachstum. Ein Kommentar (nicht nur) zu Herbert Obinger, Swiss Political Science Review 7:3 (with Christian Martin), 45-66.

2000

Bringing Putnam to the European Regions: On the Relevance of Social Capital for Economic Growth, in: European Urban and Regional Studies 7:4, (with Gerald Schneider and Steffen Baumann), 307-317.

1999

Steuerwettbewerb und Steuerreformen, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 40: 3, (with Günther Schulze), 445-457.

International Division of Labour and Global Economic Integration: The Case of Trade in Passenger Cars, in: Journal of World System Research 5:3, (with Lothar Krempel), 487-498.

The Impact of Actor Heterogeneity on the Provision of International Public Goods, in: International Interactions 25:1, (with Kjell Hausken), 61-94.

1998

Die Erkenntnisgrenzen der Diskursanalyse. Ein Kommentar zu Rieger und Leibfried, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 39:3, (with Philip Manow), 590-601.

1997

Hegemons, Leaders and Followers: A Game-theoretic Approach to the Post­war Dynamics of the International Political Economy, in: Journal of World System Research 3:1 (with Kjell Hausken), 35-93.

Regulatory Competition and International Cooperation, in: Journal of European Public Policy 4:4, (with Philipp Genschel), 626-642.

1996

Kommunikation und Kooperation in der internationalen Bankenregulierung, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehun­gen 3:2 (with Philipp Genschel), 225-253.

Hegemonic Decline and International Leadership, in: Politics and Society 24:3 (with Kjell Hausken), 273-295.

Souveränität im gegenwärtigen internationalen System, in: Welt­Trends 12, 147-160.

1995

Quasi-rationale Akteure und die Funktion internationaler Institutionen, in: Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen 2:1, 49-77.

1994

Die begrenzte Voraussagefähigkeit der Theorien inter­nationaler Politik, in: WeltTrends 4, 130-149.

Monographs

2010

Academic Writing, in preparation

2007

Effizient Schreiben, 2nd edition Oldenbourg Verlag, München

2003

Effizient Schreiben, Oldenbourg Verlag, München

1996

Der Wandel weltwirtschaftlicher Institutionen: Regimedynamik durch ökono­mische Prozesse, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.

Edited Volumes

2004

Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 3, VS, Wiesbaden
(Public Choice Yearbook)

2003

Politische Integration, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen.
(Political Integration)

2002

Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 2, Leske und Budrich, Opladen.
(Public Choice Yearbook)

2001

Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 1, Leske und Budrich, Opladen.

1999

Globalisierung und wirtschaftliche Integration: Beiträge zu einem populären Konzept, Nomos, Baden-Baden (co-edited by Andreas Busch).
(Globalization and Economic Integration)

1996

Lexikon der internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Oldenbourg, München.
(Dictionary of International Economic Relations)

1994

Ernst Fraenkel: Völkerrecht und Internationale Beziehungen, Oldenbourg, München (co-edited by Günther Doeker).

Special Issues

2006

European Integration and Partisan Politics at the National Level, European Union Politics 7:2

1999

Steuerwettbewerb, Vetospieler und die These der blockierten Anpassung, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 40:3 and 40:4.

1994

Wirtschaftspolitik, Initial 5:1.