Refereed Articles in International Journals:
“Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers” Forthcoming in the Economics of Education Review. (with Henrik Jordahl and Juha Tuomala).
“Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries” Forthcoming in the Defense and Peace Economics. (with Katarina Keller and Andreas Wagener).
“Smoking and Social Interaction” Forthcoming in the Journal of Health Economics. (with Lars Siemers).
“Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations” Forthcoming in the International Tax and Public Finance. (with Marko Koethenbuerger).
“Pareto-improving Bequest Taxation” Forthcoming in the International Tax and Public Finance. (with Volker Grossmann).
“Public and Private Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110, 591–608, 2008.
“Why is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument” Journal of Economics 94, 105–124, 2008. (with Andreas Wagener).
“On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results.” Journal of Population Economics 21, 679-684, 2008.
“Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach.” Oxford Economic Papers 60, 275–292, 2008. (with Marko Koethenbuerger and Paola Profeta).
“Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration.” Journal of Public Economics 92, 915–923, 2008. (with Amihai Glazer and Vesa Kanniainen).
“To Draft or Not to Draft? Inefficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription.” European Journal of Political Economy 23, 975-987, 2007. (with Andreas Wagener).
“Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor.” Journal of Public Economics 91, 1299–1325, 2007.
“Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship.” Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 28, 675-694, 2007. (with Vesa Kanniainen).
“Candidate Quality.” International Tax and Public Finance 14, 7-27, 2007. (with Tuomas Takalo).
”Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment.” Finnish Economic Papers 19, 16-24, 2006. (with Morten I. Lau).
”On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education.” Journal of Population Economics 19, 345-365, 2006.
“Social Security Reform and Investment in Education: Is there Scope for a Pareto-Improvement?” Economica 73, 299-319, 2006. (with Marko Köthenbürger).
“Growth in OECD Countries and Elsewhere: How Much Do Education and R&D Explain?” Economics Bulletin 15 no. 17, 1-11, 2005. (with Katarina Keller).
“Educating Europe: Should Public Education be Financed with Graduate Taxes or Income-Contingent Loans?” CESifo Economic Studies 50 (4), 663-684, 2004.
“Dynamic Costs of the Draft.” German Economic Review 5 (4), 381-406, 2004. (with Morten I. Lau and Andreas Wagener).
“Citizens Should Vote on Secession.” Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 4: Article 23, 2004. (with Essi Eerola and Niku Määttänen).
“Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules.” FinanzArchiv 60 (3), 325-358, 2004. (with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Morten I. Lau).
“Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged.” Journal of Public Economics 88, 161-174, 2003.
“Party Platforms with Endogenous Party Membership,” Public Choice 117, 79-98, 2003.
“Investment in Education and Redistributive Taxation without Pre-commitment.” FinanzArchiv 59 (2), 177-188, 2003.
“Income Redistribution and Risky Occupational Choices.” Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 2: No. 1, Article 8, 2002.
“Alternative Tax Constitutions and Risky Education in a Federation.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 31, 355-377, 2001.
“Education, Mobility of Labour and Tax Competition.” International Tax and Public Finance 7 (6), 699-719, 2000.
“Why Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment.” International Tax and Public Finance 7 (4/5), 547-562, 2000 (with Vesa Kanniainen).
Articles in General Interest Journals (Editorially refereed):
“Conscription: Economic Costs and Political Allure” (with Andreas Wagener). The Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2 (1), 6-15, 2007. http://www.epsjournal.org.uk/
Comments in International Books and Journals:
“Comments.” in S. Cnossen and H.-W. Sinn (eds.), Public Finance and Policy in the New Century, MIT Press. 2003. Pages 237-239.
“Comment on Wolfram F. Richter: Social Security and Taxation Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement.” Swedish Economic Policy Review 9, 75-78, 2002.