Research Interests
Public Economics, Economic Theory
Short Bio
Working Papers
- Pareto-improvements, welfare trade-offs and the taxation of couples, with Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl and Daniel Weishaar, December 2024
- Is a uniform price on Carbon desirable?, June 2024
- Competitive fair redistricting, with Mattias Polborn, Februar 2024
- The taxation of couples, with Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl and Daniel Weishaar, July 2023 (Longer Discussion Paper Version: CEPR, CESifo, ECONtribute)
Publications
Bierbrauer, F. J., Boyer, P. C., & Hansen, E. (2023). Pareto‐Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Econometrica, 91(3), 1077–1103. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. (2022). Nachhaltigkeitsziele und das Lieferkettengesetz. Wirtschaftsdienst, 102(5), 344–346. DOI
Bierbrauer, F., Tsyvinski, A., & Werquin, N. (2022). Taxes and Turnout: When the Decisive Voter Stays at Home. American Economic Review, 112(2), 689–719. DOI
Peichl, A., Bierbrauer, F., Sachs, D., & Weishaar, D. (2021). Mehrheitsfähige und wohlfahrtssteigernde Reformen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems: Von Entzugsraten, Mittelstands- und Wohlstandsbäuchen. Perspektiven Der Wirtschaftspolitik, 22(3), 191–202. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. (2021). Harry Potter and the Welfare of the Willfully Blinded. In Deliberate Ignorance (pp. 187–198). The MIT Press. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. J., Boyer, P. C., & Peichl, A. (2021). Politically Feasible Reforms of Nonlinear Tax Systems. American Economic Review, 111(1), 153–191. DOI
Bierbrauer, F., & Winkelmann, J. (2020). All or nothing: State capacity and optimal public goods provision. Journal of Economic Theory, 185, 104955. DOI
Bierbrauer, F., Ockenfels, A., Pollak, A., & Rückert, D. (2017). Robust mechanism design and social preferences. Journal of Public Economics, 149, 59–80. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. J., & Hellwig, M. F. (2016). Robustly Coalition-Proof Incentive Mechanisms for Public Good Provision are Voting Mechanisms and Vice Versa: TABLE 1. The Review of Economic Studies, 83(4), 1440–1464. DOI
Bierbrauer, F., & Netzer, N. (2016). Mechanism design and intentions. Journal of Economic Theory, 163, 557–603. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. J. (2016). Effizienz oder Gerechtigkeit? Perspektiven Der Wirtschaftspolitik, 17(1), 2–24. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. J., & Boyer, P. C. (2015). Efficiency, Welfare, and Political Competition *. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131(1), 461–518. DOI
Bierbrauer, & Boyer. (2014). The Pareto-Frontier in a Simple Mirrleesian Model of Income Taxation. Annals of Economics and Statistics, 113/114, 185. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. (2014). Tax incidence for fragile financial markets. Journal of Public Economics, 120, 107–125. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. J. (2014). Optimal Tax and Expenditure Policy with Aggregate Uncertainty. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6(1), 205–257. DOI
Bierbrauer, F., Brett, C., & Weymark, J. A. (2013). Strategic nonlinear income tax competition with perfect labor mobility. Games and Economic Behavior, 82, 292–311. DOI
Bierbrauer, F. J., & Boyer, P. C. (2013). Political competition and Mirrleesian income taxation: A first pass. Journal of Public Economics, 103, 1–14. DOI
Publications in German
- Nachhaltigkeitsziele und das Lieferkettengesetz, Wirtschaftsdienst, vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 344-346, 2022.
- Mehrheitsfähige und wohlfahrtssteigernde Reformen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems: Von Entzugsraten, Mittelstands- und Wohlstandsbäuchen, mit Andreas Peichl, Dominik Sachs und Daniel Weisshaar, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 191-202, 2021.
- Effizienz oder Gerechtigkeit: Ungleiche Einkommen, ungleiche Vermögen und optimale Steuern, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Ausgabe 17(1), pp. 2-24, 2016.
Contributions to Policy Blogs
- Fantastic tax cuts and where to find them, with Pierre Boyer and Emanuel Hansen, VoxEUcolumn, July 2023
- The road to individual taxation, with Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl and Daniel Weishaar, VoxEU column, June 2023
- Tax reforms and politcal feasibility, with Pierre C. Boyer, Andrew Lonsdale and Andreas Peichl, IPP Policy Brief n°74, September 2021
- Towards politically feasible and welfare-improving tax reforms, with Pierre Boyer and Andreas Peichl, VoxEU column, October 2020
- Steuervermeidung vermeiden. Sollen wir das wollen? Ifo Schnelldienst, Ausgabe 11/2013.
- Die Wirkung einer Finanztransaktionssteuer auf ein instabiles Finanzsystem, Ökonomenstimme, September 2012.
Miscellaneous
- An interview of John Weymark, with Claude d’Aspremont in Marc Fleurbaey and Maurice Salles, Eds., Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory – Vol. 1, 2021
- Essays on Public Goods Provision and Income Taxation, Dissertation, University of Mannheim, 2006
Unpublished manuscripts
- Public-Good Provision in Large Economies 1: Linear Payment and Provision Cost Functions, with Martin Hellwig, March 2016
- Boring Banks and Taxes, with Rafael Aigner, April 2015
- On the legitimacy of coercion for the financing of public goods, December 2011
- Political Blockades and Election Timing, with Lydia Mechtenberg, September 2010