1. "Public Policies against Global Warming: a supply side approach“, International Tax and Public Finance 15 (4), 2008, pp. 360-394; (Download, 413 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 2087, August 2007; (Download, 397 KB).

2. "The New Systems Competition", Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 5, 2004, pp. 23-38; (Download, 130 KB). German version: "Der neue Systemwettbewerb", Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 3, 2002, pp. 391- 407; (Download, 154 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 623, December 2001; NBER Working Paper No. 8747, January 2002.

3. "The Selection Principle and Market Failure in Systems Competition", Journal of Public Economics 66, 1997, pp. 247-274; (Download, 1.28 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 103, 1996; NBER Working Paper No. 5411, March 1999.

4. "Target loans, current account balances and capital flows: the ECB’s rescue facility" (together with Timo Wollmershäuser), International Tax and Public Finance 19 (4), 2012, pp. 468-508 (Download, 2.3 MB); (updated version of CESifo Working Paper No. 3500, June 2011, (Download, 1.3 MB), and NBER Working Paper 17626, November 2011); (Download, 931 KB).

5. "Tax Harmonization and Tax Competition in Europe", European Economic Review 34, 1990, Papers & Proceedings, pp. 489-504; (Download, 969 KB); NBER Working Paper No. 3248, January 1991; (Download, 191 KB).

6. "A Theory of the Welfare State", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 97, 1995, pp. 495-526; (Download, 893 KB); CESifo Working Paper Nr. 65, 1994; NBER Working Paper No. 4856, April 1996.

7. BOOK: Capital Income Taxation and Resource Allocation, North Holland: Amsterdam etc. 1987, 411 pages. (Translation of Kapitaleinkommensbesteuerung, Mohr: Tübingen 1985).

8. BOOK: The Euro Trap. On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets and Beliefs, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2014, 416 pages. Korean edition, Hantee Media Publishing, Seoul, Korea, 2015.

9. BOOK: The Green Paradox, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2012, 288 pages. (Revised and updated translation of Das grüne Paradoxon).

10. "Why a Funded Pension System is Useful and Why It is Not Useful", International Tax and Public Finance 7, 2000, pp. 389-410; (Download, 154 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 195, 1999; NBER Working Paper No. 7592, March 2000.

11. "Social Insurance, Incentives and Risk Taking", International Tax and Public Finance 3, 1996, pp. 259-280; (Download, 1.3 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 102, 1996; (Download, 2.58 MB); NBER Working Paper No. 5335, November 1995; (Download, 465 KB).

12. BOOK: Economic Decisions under Uncertainty, North Holland: Amsterdam, New York und Oxford 1983, 359 pages. (Translation of Ökonomische Entscheidungen bei Ungewißheit). Second English edition: Physica: Heidelberg 1989.

13. "Social Insurance, Incentives and Risk Taking", International Tax and Public Finance 3, 1996, pp. 259-280; (Download, 1.3 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 102, 1996; (Download, 2.58 MB); NBER Working Paper No. 5335, November 1995; (Download, 465 KB).

14. BOOK: Jumpstart. The Economic Unification of Germany, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., and London 1992, 238 pages, with Gerlinde Sinn. (Revised translation of Kaltstart). Second English edition: MIT Press, 1993. Korean, French and Russian editions 1994. Chinese edition 2012.

15. "The Minimum Inflation Rate for Euroland"; (with M. Reutter), CESifo Working Paper No. 377, December 2000; (Download, 145 KB); NBER Working Paper Nr. 8085, 2001.

16. "Germany's Economic Unification. An Assessment After Ten Years", Review of International Economics 10, 2002, pp. 113-128; (Download, 108 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 247, February 2000; NBER Working Paper No. 7586, March 2000.

17. "How much Europe? Subsidiarity, Centralization and Fiscal Competition", Scottish Journal of Political Economy 41, 1994, pp. 85-107; (Download, 929 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 39, 1993. German translation: "Wieviel Brüssel braucht Europa?", Staatswissenschaften und Staatspraxis 2, 1994, pp. 155-186.

18. "Taxation and the Cost of Capital: The 'Old' View, the 'New' View, and Another View", in: D. Bradford, ed., Tax Policy and the Economy 5, 1991, National Bureau of Economic Research, pp. 25-54; (Download, 950 KB); NBER Working Paper No. 3501, December 1991; (Download, 373 KB); Woodrow Wilson School Discussion Paper No. 59, Princeton, 1990.

19. BOOK: Casino Capitalism. How the Financial Crisis Came about and What Needs to Be Done Now, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, 400 pages, second edition (Paperback) 2012. Korean edition, Ecopia, Korea, 2010, 421 pages. (Revised and updated translation of Kasino-Kapitalismus).

20. "The Pay-as-you-go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device", Journal of Public Economics 88, 2004, pp. 1335- 1357; (Download, 190 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 154, 1998; NBER Working Paper No. 6610, June 1998.

21. "Pensions and the Path to Gerontocracy in Germany" (together with S. Übelmesser), European Journal of Political Economy 19, 2002, pp. 153-158; (Download, 104 KB); "When will the Germans Get Trapped in their Pension System?" (together with Silke Uebelmesser), CESifo Working Paper No. 561, September 2001; NBER Working Paper No. 8503, October 2001.

22. "Austerity, Growth and Inflation: Remarks on the Eurozone’s Unresolved Competitiveness Problem", The World Economy 37 (1), 2014, pp. 1-13 (Download, 271 KB), CESifo Working Paper No. 4086, January 2013 (Download, 207 KB).

23. "Foreign Direct Investment, Political Resentment and the Privatization Process in Eastern Europe" (together with A. Weichenrieder), Economic Policy 24, 1997, pp. 179-210; (Download, 1.2 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 129, 1997.

24. "EU Enlargement and the Future of the Welfare State", Stevenson Citizenship Lectures, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 49, 2002, pp. 104-115; (Download, 130 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 307, June 2000; Working Paper No. 2001_5, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow.

25. "The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect. How to Solve the German Puzzle", The World Economy 29 (9), 2006, pp. 1157-1175; (Download, 299 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 1708, April 2006; (Download, 190 KB).

26. „Buffering Volatility: A Study on the Limits of Germany's Energy Revolution“, European Economic Review 99, October 2017, pp. 130-150; CESifo Working Paper Nr. 5950, June 2016 and NBER Working Paper, No. 22467, July 2016.

27. "The Vanishing Harberger Triangle", Journal of Public Economics 45, 1991, pp. 271-300; (Download, 1.7 MB); NBER Working Paper No. 3225, October 1991; (Download 407 KB).

28. "Why a Funded Pension System is Useful and Why It is Not Useful", International Tax and Public Finance 7, 2000, pp. 389-410; (Download, 154 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 195, 1999; NBER Working Paper No. 7592, March 2000.

29. "Two Mezzogiornos" (together with F. Westermann), Rivista di diritto finanziario e scienza delle finanze 60, 2001, pp. 29-54; also in: M. Bordignon, D. da Empoli, eds., "Politica fiscale, flessibilità dei mercati e crescita“, Franco Angeli: Milan, pp. 43-66; CESifo Working Paper No. 378, December 2000; NBER Working Paper No. 8125, February 2001.

30. "EU Enlargement, Migration, and Lessons from German Unification", German Economic Review 1, 2000, pp. 299-314; (Download, 1.1 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 182, 1999.

31. "Taxation and the Birth of Foreign Subsidiaries", in: H. Herberg and N.V. Long, eds., Trade, Welfare, and Economic Policies, Essays in Honour of Murray C. Kemp, University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor 1993, pp. 325-352 (Download, 1.3 MB); NBER Working Paper No. 3519, November 1990.

32. "Eurowinners and Eurolosers: The Distribution of Seignorage Wealth in EMU" (together with H. Feist), European Journal of Political Economy 13, 1997, pp. 665- 689; (Download, 1.08 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 134, 1997; NBER Working Paper No. 6072, May 1999.

33. "The ECB’s Stealth Bailout", VOX, www.voxeu.org, June 1st, 2011.

34. "Rescuing Europe", CESifo Forum 11 (Special Issue August 2010), 2010, pp. 1-22; (Download, 3.77 MB).

35. "Risk Taking, Limited Liability and the Competition of Bank Regulators", Finanzarchiv 59 (3), 2003, pp. 305-329; (Download, 4.6 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 603, 2001; NBER Working Paper No. 8669, 2001.

36. "Social Union, Convergence and Migration" (together with W. Ochel), Journal of Common Market Studies 41, 2003, pp. 869-896; (Download, 701 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 961, June 2003.

37. "The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-as- you-go Pension System: A Proposal for a Transition to a Funded System", ifo Studien 47 (1), 2001, pp. 77-94; (Download, 3.9 MB); CESifo Working PaperNo. 141, 1997; NBER Working Paper No. 6229, October 1997.

38. "Pollution, Factor Taxation and Unemployment" (together with E. Koskela and R. Schöb), International Tax and Public Finance 5, 1998, pp. 379-396; (Download, 163 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 151, 1998; (Download, 139 KB).

39. "Common Property Resources, Storage Facilities and Ownership Structures: A Cournot Model of the Oil Market", Economica 51, 1984, pp. 235-252; (Download, 364 KB).

40. "European Integration and the Future of the Welfare State", Swedish Economic Policy Review 5, 1998, pp. 113-132; (Download, 6.57 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 153, 1998.

41. BOOK: Can Germany be Saved? The Malaise of the World’s First Welfare State, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2007, 356 pages. (Revised and updated translation of Ist Deutschland noch zu retten?).

42. "Europe’s Demographic Deficit. A Plea for a Child Pension System", De Economist 153, 2005, pp. 1-45;(Download, 1 MB); Authorised Abstract (Download, 9 KB); Tinbergen Lectures, (Download Preliminary Version, 224 KB).

43. "A Rehabilitation of the Principle of Insufficient Reason", Quarterly Journal of Economics 94, 1980, pp. 493-506; (Download, 326 KB).

44. "The Green Paradox: A Supply-side View of the Climate Problem", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 9 (2), 2015, pp. 239-245 (Download, 1.73 MB), CESifo Working Paper No. 5385, June 2015 (Download, 108 KB).

45. "Macroeconomic Aspects of German Unification", in: P.J. Welfens, ed., Economic Aspects of German Unification, Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York etc. 1992, pp. 79-133 (Download, 1.3 MB); NBER Working Paper No. 3596, January 1991.

46. "Kinked Utility and the Demand for Human Wealth and Liability Insurance", European Economic Review 17, 1982, pp. 149-162; (Download, 750 KB).

47. "Expected Utility, μ-σ Preferences, and Linear Distribution Classes: A Further Result", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 3, 1990, pp. 277-281; (Download, 280 KB); NBER Working Paper No. 1491, January 1991.

48. "Green Tax Reform and Competitiveness" (together with E. Koskela and R. Schöb), German Economic Review 2, 2001, pp. 19-30; (Download, 1.5 MB).

49. "The European Balance of Payments Crisis: An Introduction", CESifo Forum 13 (Special Issue January 2012), 2012, pp. 3-10; (Download, 368 KB).

50. "EU Enlargement, Migration and the New Constitution", CESifo Economic Studies 50, 2004, pp. 685-707.

51. "Social Dumping in the Transformation Process?", in: E. Helpman and E. Sadka, eds., Economic Policy in the International Economy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2003, pp. 405-430 (Download, 1.1 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 508, June 2001; NBER Working Paper No. 8364, July 2001.

55. "The Crisis in Germany’s Pension Insurance System and How it Can be Resolved“, in: S. Cnossen and H.-W. Sinn, eds., Public Finance and Public Policy in the New Century, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. 2003, pp. 269-292 (Download, 2.8 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 191, 1999; NBER Working Paper No. 7304, August 1999.

56. "Surprise Price Shifts, Tax Changes and the Supply Behaviour of Resource Extracting Firms", (together with N.V. Long), Australian Economic Papers 24, 1985, pp. 278-289; (Download, 494 KB).

57. The German State Banks. Global Players in the International Financial Markets, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1999, 140 pages. (English translation of Der Staat im Bankwesen....)

58. "Immigration Following EU Eastern Enlargement", (with Martin Werding), CESifo Forum 2 (2), 2001, pp. 40-47; (Download, 925 KB).

59. "U.S. Tax Reform 1981 and 1986: Impact on International Capital Markets and Capital Flows“, National Tax Journal 41, 1988, pp. 327-340 (background paper for World Development Report, World Bank, 1988); (Download, 3.52 MB).

60. "Migration and Social Replacement Incomes. How to Protect Low-income Workers in the Industrialized Countries Against the Forces of Globalization and Market Integration", International Tax and Public Finance 12, 2005, pp. 375-393; (Download, 252 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 1265, August 2004; NBER Working Paper No. 10798, September 2004.

61. "Staggering Along. Wages Policy and Investment Support in East Germany", The Economics of Transition 3, 1995, pp. 403-426; (Download, 813 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 67, 1994.

62. "Weber's Law and the Biological Evolution of Risk Preferences: The Selective Dominance of the Logarithmic Utility Function, 2002 Geneva Risk Lecture", The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory 28, 2003, pp. 87-100; (Download, 85 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 770, September 2002.

63. "Privatization in East Germany", in: P. Pestieau, Hrsg., Public Finance in a World of Transition (IIPF congress St. Petersburg 1991), Public Finance, Supplement to Vol. 47, 1992, pp. 152-171; (Download, 730 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 8, 1991; NBER Working Paper No. 3998, February 1992.

64. "The Limits to Competition between Economic Regimes" (Inaugural Lecture, University of Vienna), Empirica 17, 1990, pp. 3-14; (Download, 694 KB).

65. "The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization", Zelle Jijlstra Lecture 5, Wassenaar 2006, pp. 20; CESifo Working Paper No. 1925, 2007; (Download, 140 KB); NBER Working Paper No. w12946, March 2007.

66. "Oligopolistic Extraction of a Common Property Resource: Dynamic Equilibria" (together with J. McMillan), in: M. C. Kemp and N. V. Long, eds., Essays in the Economics of Exhaustible Resources, North Holland: Amsterdam and New York 1984, pp. 199-214 (Download, 575 KB).

67. "Gradual Reforms of Capital Income Taxation" (together with P. Howitt), American Economic Review 79, 1989, pp. 106-124; (Download, 449 KB).

68. "Target Losses in Case of a Euro Breakup", CESifo Forum 13 (4), 2012, pp. 51-58; (Download, 214 KB). 

69. "The ECB's Fiscal Policy", International Tax and Public Finance 25(6), June 2018, pp. 1404-1433; NBER Working Paper No. 24613, May 2018; CESifo Working Paper No. 7019, April 2018.

70. Köthenbürger, M., H.-W. Sinn and J. Whalley, eds., Privatization Experiences in the European Union, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2006, 424 pages. (Editorship)

71. “Why has the Euro been falling? An investigation into the determinants of the exchange rate" (together with F. Westermann), NBER Working Paper No. 8352, July 2001.

72. "International Implications of German Unification", in: A. Razin and E. Sadka, eds., The Economics of Globalization, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1999, pp. 33-58 (Download, 1.78 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 117, 1996; NBER Working Paper No. 5839, November 1996.

73. "The Laggard of Europe", CESifo Forum Vol. 4 (Special Issue No. 1), ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, 2003, pp. 1-32; (Download, 4.42 MB).

74. "Pareto Optimality in the Extraction of Fossil Fuels and the Greenhouse Effect: A Note", CESifo Working Paper No. 2083, 2007; (Download, 279 KB), NBER Working Paper No. 13453, 2007.

75. "Privatization, Risk-Taking, and the Communist Firm" (jointly with D. Demougin), Journal of Public Economics 55, 1994, pp. 203-231; (Download, 1.6 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 16, 1992; (Download, 13.7 MB); NBER Working Paper No. 4205, March 1995; (Download, 403 KB).

76. "Vacant Land and the Role of Government Intervention", Regional Science and Urban Economics 16, 1986, pp. 353-385; (Download, 1.82 MB).

77. “Target Balances and the German Financial Account in Light of the European Balance-of-Payments Crisis”, CESifo Working Paper No. 4051, December 2012. (Translation of “Target-Salden und die deutsche Kapitalbilanz im Zeichen der europäischen Zahlungsbilanzkrise”, published in Kredit und Kapital 45 (4), 2012, pp. 465–487, (Download, 411 KB); ifo Working Paper No. 149, December 2012.)

78. "The ECB’s Secret Bailout Strategy", (ref. Project Syndicate April 2011), Les Echos (Mali), Caijing Magazine (China), China Daily (China), The Japan Times (Japan), The Korea Herald (Korea South),Wyborcza.Biz (Poland), Wyborcza.Pl (Poland), Finance (Slovenia), The Guatemala Times (Guatemala),Al Jarida (Kuwait), Al Eqtisadiah (Saudi Arabia), The International Economy (United States), Die Presse(Austria), DeTijd (Belgium), L'echo (Belgium), Borsen (Denmark), La Tribune (France), Il Sole - 24 Ore(Italy), Expansion (Spain), L'agefi (Switzerland), European Ceo (United Kingdom).

79. "The Policy of Tax-cut-cum-base-broadening: Implications for International Capital Movements", in: M. Neumann and Karl Roskamp, eds., Public Finance and Performance of Enterprises, 34th Congress und Semicentennial of the International Institute of Public Finance, Paris, 24th - 28th August 1987, Paris 1987, Wayne State University Press: Detroit 1989, pp. 153-176 (Download, 1.4 MB); NBER Working Paper No. 1448, September 1990.

80. "Fed versus ECB: How Target debts can be repaid", VOX, www.voxeu.org, March 10th, 2012.

81. "Why Taxes Matter. A Comment on Reagan's Tax Reforms and the US-Trade Deficit", Economic Policy 1, 1985, pp. 239-250; (Download, 254 KB).

82. "The Greek Tragedy", CESifo Forum 16, Special Issue 2015 (June), 2015, pp. 5-35; (Download, 1.4 MB).

83. "Two-moment Decision Models and Expected Utility Maximization", comment on J. Meyer, American Economic Review 79, 1989, pp. 601-602 (Download, 105 KB).

84. "The Ifo Institute’s Model for Reducing VAT Fraud: Payment First, Refund Later", (with Andrea Gebauer and Rüdiger Parsche), CESifo Forum 5 (2), 2004, pp. 30 - 34; (Download, 111 KB).

85. "Seignorage Wealth in the Eurosystem: Eurowinners and Eurolosers Revisited" (together with H. Feist), in: M. Köthenbürger, H.-W. Sinn und M. Widgren, eds., European Monetary Integration, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass. 2004, pp. 121-136 (Download, 3 MB); CESifo Working Paper No. 353, November 2000.

86. "Psychophysical Laws in Risk Theory", Journal of Economic Psychology 6, 1985, pp. 185-206.(Download, 1.4 MB).

87. "The Threat to the German Welfare State", Atlantic Economic Journal 28, 2000, pp. 279-294; (Download, 932 KB); CESifo Working Paper No. 320, July 2000.

88. "Trade Imbalances - Causes, Consequences and Policy Measures: Ifo's Statement for the Camdessus Commission" (with Teresa Buchen and Timo Wollmershäuser), CESifo Forum 12 (1), 2011, pp. 47-58; (Download, 151 MB).

89. Cnossen, S., and H.-W. Sinn, eds., Public Finance and Public Policy in the New Century, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2003, 535 pages. (Editorship)

90. "The Green Paradox", CESifo Forum 10 (3), 2009, pp. 10-13; (Download, 198 KB).

91. "Taxation, Growth, and Resource Extraction: A General Equilibrium Approach", European Economic Review 19, 1982, pp. 357-386; (Download, 1.97 MB).

92. "European Imbalances" (with Akos Valentinyi), VOX, www.voxeu.org, March 9th, 2013.

93. BOOK: Can Germany be Saved? The Malaise of the World’s First Welfare State, MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2007, 356 pages. (Revised and updated translation of Ist Deutschland noch zu retten?).

94. "The Sahel Problem", Kyklos 41, 1988, pp. 187-213; (Download, 638 KB).

95. BOOK: Redesigning the Welfare State: Germany’s Current Agenda for an Activating Social Assistance (together with Martin Werding et al.), Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK; Northhampton, USA, 2006, 204 pages.

96. "The Dilemma of Globalisation: A German Perspective", Economie Internationale 100, 2004, pp. 111-120; (Download, 168 KB).

97. "The Euro, Interest Rates and European Economic Growth", (with Robert Koll), CESifo Forum 1 (3), 2000, pp. 30-31; (Download, 192 KB). 

98. "The Competition Between Competition Rules", CESifo Working Paper No. 192, June 1999; NBER Working Paper No. 7273, July 1999; CEPR Discussion Papers No. 2214, August 1999.

99. "Capital Income Taxation, Depreciation Allowances and Economic Growth: A Perfect-Foresight General Equilibrium Model", Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie 41, 1981, pp. 295-305; (Download, 534 KB).

100. “Target Risks without Euro Exits”, CESifo Forum 19 (4), December 2018, pp. 36-48.

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