Regina-Pacis-Weg 5 53113 Bonn Germany Tel. +49 (0)228 731890 E-Mail: kstaal@uni-bonn.de Ph.D. in Economics born March 17th, 1975 in Renkum, Dutch citizen married two children
Work Experience since 2011/10 Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat), University of Bonn, Germany 2004 2011 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Bonn, Germany, SFB/TR15 (Sonderforschungsbereich Transregio 15), Subproject Prof. Dr. J. von Hagen 1999 2004 Research fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1998 1999 Product consultant, software company Baan, Barneveld, Education 1999 01/2005 Ph.D. in Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dissertation title: Voting, Public Goods and Violence (supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Goyal - now: Cambridge University, Great Britain-) 1999 2001 M.Phil. in Economics, Tinbergen Institute, 1993 1998 M.Sc. in Econometrics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Lecturing 2012 Lecturer Microeconomics in Master of North American Studies, University of Bonn, Germany 2012 Seminar Microeconomics in Master of North American Studies, University of Bonn, Germany 2011 2012 Research Colloquium in Master of North American Studies, University of Bonn, Germany 2011 2012 Seminar Finance and Decisions in Master of North American Studies, University of Bonn, Germany 2010 2011 Lecturer Applied Public Economics in Master of Economics program, University of Bonn, Germany 2008 2009 Seminar in Political Economics: Public Economics: Fiscal Federalism and Fiscal Competition (with Prof. Dr. J. von Hagen), University of Bonn, Germany 2006 2011 Supervision of M.Sc. theses (with Prof. Dr. J. von Hagen), University of Bonn, Germany 2000 2004 Lecturer Statistics in Master of Maritime Economics program, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2001 2003 Lecturer Game Theory in Bachelor program Econometrics (with Prof. Dr. S. Goyal), Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1999 2001 Tutor Game Theory in Bachelor program Econometrics (with Prof. Dr. S. Goyal), Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Publications in refereed journals 2012 Size, spillovers and soft budget constraints (with Ernesto Crivelli), International Tax and Public Finance, forthcoming 2012 Centralization of public goods provision (with Janos Feidler), Economics of Governance 13, 73-93 2012 How organizational structure can reduce rent-seeking (with Johannes Münster), Public Choice 150, 579-534 2011 War with outsiders makes peace inside (with Johannes Münster), Conflict Management and Peace Science 28, 91-110 2010 Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision, Public Choice 145, 531-546 2010 Nationalizations and efficiency (mit Ernesto Crivelli), International Advances in Economic Research 16, 239-240 2008 Local Public Good Provision, municipal consolidation, and national transfers (with Robert Dur), Regional Science and Urban Economics 38, 160-173 2004 The political economy of regionalism (with Sanjeev Goyal), European Economic Review 48, 563-593 Other publications 2005 Voting, public goods and violence, Dissertation, Thela Thesis Amsterdam, 2005 Borders in Europe, FM Corporate 1(2), 8-9 1999 Regionalism and Nationalism, Medium Econometrische Toepassingen 7(4), 4-6 Submitted papers Privatizations and efficiency (mit Ernesto Crivelli), revised & resubmitted (2 nd round), Comparative Economic Studies The efficacy of ARRA spending (with Barbara Klein), The Economists Voice Current research projects Defense spending: Ratio or Logistics? On the coherence of Council votes (with Marco Fantini) Country size and publicly provided goods
Research visits 12/2008, 07/2005, 11/2004 Research Unit Market Processes and Governance, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany 05/2007 Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 10/2003 11/2003 Faculty of Economics, Essex University, Great Britain Grants and awards 2008 Participation in the application for the 2nd round of funding of the SFB/TR15 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 2007 The Stuart A. Bremer Award for the paper War with outsiders makes peace inside (with Johannes Münster) at the Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference in Amsterdam 2005 Nomination by the Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staatshuishoudkunde for the award for the best Dutch Ph.D. thesis in 2005-2006 2000 2003 Several travel grants of the Vereniging Trustfonds 2000, 2001 Two travel grants of the Econometric Society 1999 2004 Scholarship covering academic expenses, tuition fees, and living expenses Other academic activities 2010 Member of the editorial board Research in World Economy 2007 2009 Organisation of the SFB/TR15 Conferences for Young Researchers (with Oliver Gürtler and Thomas Giebe), Germany 2001 2003 Member of the Ph.D. Council, Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam / Rotterdam, Reviewer activities European Economic Review Journal of Public Economics Ph.D. Thesis (University of New South Wales) IAES Best Undergraduate Paper Award Conflict Management and Peace Science Economics of Government
European Journal of Political Economics FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis Government and Policy Journal of Economics and Statistics Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics Journal of Public Economic Theory Journal of Urban Economics Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy Public Choice Public Finance Review Review of Economic Design Invited Talks 2011 Symposium 9 11 Ten Years After, Looking Ahead, Universität Bonn, Germany 2010 Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany 2009 Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) in the Hague, 2005 Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany 2004 Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2004 Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn, Germany Presentations 2012 2 nd World Congress of the Public Choice Societies in Miami, United States of America 2011 Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference in Amsterdam, 2011 Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Meeting 2011 in Luzern, Switzerland 2011 European Public Choice Society Meeting in Rennes, France 2011 71 st International Atlantic Economic Conference in Athens, Greece 2010 Association of Public Economic Theory Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey 2010 Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Meeting 2010 in Fribourg, Switzerland 2010 European Public Choice Society Meeting in Izmir, Turkey 2009 68 th International Atlantic Economic Conference in Boston, United States of America
2009 24 th Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association in Barcelona, Spain 2009 64 th European Meeting of the Econometric Society in Barcelona, Spain 2009 65 th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Cape Town, South Africa 2009 European Public Choice Society Meeting in Athens, Greece 2009 MPI-MIP Workshop on The Provision of Public Goods in Zürich, Switzerland 2008 64 th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Maastricht, 2008 European Public Choice Society Meeting in Jena, Germany 2007 62 nd Congress of the International Institute of Economic of Public Finance in Warwick, Great Britain 2006 2009 Several presentations at SFB/TR15 conferences, Germany 2006 Association of Public Economic Theory Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam 2006 Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference in Amsterdam, 2006 21 st Annual Congress of the European Economic Association in Vienna, Austria 2006 61 st European Meeting of the Econometric Society in Vienna, Austria 2006 62 nd Congress of the International Institute of Economic of Public Finance in Paphos, Cyprus 2005 Netherlands Networks of Eonomists Research Day in Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2005 61 st Congress of the International Institute of Economic of Public Finance, Jeju Island, Korea 2004 Association of Public Economic Theory Meeting in Peking, China 2004 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society in Melbourne, Australia 2004 2010 Several presentations at the University of Bonn, Germany 2005 2006 Several presentations at the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) in Bonn, Germany 2003 18 th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association in Stockholm, Sweden 2003 58 th European Meeting of the Econometric Society in Stockholm, Sweden 2003 Association of Public Economic Theory Meeting in Durham, United States of America 2003 European Public Choice Society Meeting in Aarhus, Denmark 2002 European Public Choice Society Meeting in Belgirate, Italy
2001 16 th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association in Lausanne, Switzerland 2001 56 th European Meeting of the Econometric Society in Lausanne, Switzerland 2001 6 th Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Copenhagen, Denmark 2000 8 th World Congress Econometric Society in Seattle, United States of America 1999 2004 Several presentations at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam / Rotterdam, 1999 2004 Several presentations at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Languages English German Dutch French Russian Fluent Fluent Native Basic Basic