Thomas Stratmann Curriculum Vitae

VITA

THOMAS STRATMANN

George Mason University
Department of Economics
Carow Hall, 1D3
Fairfax, VA 22030
(703)993- 2317
(703)993-2323(fax)
tstratma(at)gmu.edu

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park                                                                                   1990
M.A. University of Maryland, College Park                                                                                    1988
Vordiplom (B.A.) Free University of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany                                1985

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

Mercator Research Professor, German Science Foundation (DFG),
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen August 2006-July 2007

Duncan Black Award 2005

John M. Olin Visiting Professor, University of Chicago 2003 - 2004

Friedrich von Hayek Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria May 2003-June 2003

CESifo Research Fellow 2002-

Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University - not accepted                                           Summer 2001
John M. Olin Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago                                             1993-1994
Teaching Fellowship, University of Maryland                                                                               1985-1990
Department of Economics Teaching Award, University of Maryland, Spring                          1988
Fellowship of Free University of Berlin                                                                                           1985

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 1999-

Mercator Research Professor, German Science Foundation (DFG),
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen August 2006-July 2007

Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund March 2005-April 2005

Visiting Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin June 2004

John M. Olin Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of the Economy
and the State, University of Chicago, Illinois 2003-04

Friedrich von Hayek Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria May 2003-June 2003

CESifo Research Fellow 2002-

Visiting Professor, University of Munich, Center for Economic Studies                                    December 2001-January 2002
Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria                                                                          1998-99
Visiting Professor, University of Konstanz, Germany, May-July                                                1996
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics,
          Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana                                                                   1995-99
John M. Olin Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of the Economy
          and the State, University of Chicago, Illinois                                                                        1993-94
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics,
          Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana                                                                    1990-95
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Maryland                                  1985-90

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Economic Association
Public Choice Society
Royal Economic Society
Southern Economic Association

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Makowsky, Michael and Thomas Stratmann (forthcoming 2008). "Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations?" American Economic Review.

Akitoby, Bernardin and Thomas Stratmann (forthcoming 2008). "Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets." Economic Journal.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann (forthcoming 2008). "Do Spa Visits Improve Health: Evidence from German Micro Data." Eastern Economic Journal.

Houser, Daniel and Thomas Stratmann (forthcoming 2008). "Selling Favors in the Lab: Experiments on Campaign Finance Reform." Public Choice.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann (Spring 2008). "Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens: Parental Involvement Laws and Sexually Transmitted Diseases." Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann (2007). "Diabetes Treatment and Moral Hazard." Journal of Law and Economics.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann (2007). "Malpractice Reform and Physicians in High Risk Specialties." Journal of Legal Studies.

Stratmann, Thomas and Francisco J. Aparicio-Castillo (October 2007). “Campaign finance reform and electoral competition: Comment.” Public Choice.

Drazen, Allen, Nuno Limão, and Thomas Stratmann (2007). "Political Contribution Caps and Lobby Formation: Theory and Evidence." Journal of Public Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas (December 2006). "Contribution Limits and the Effectiveness of Campaign Spending." Public Choice.

Stratmann, Thomas (July 2006). "Is Spending More Potent For or Against a Proposition? Evidence From Ballot Measures." American Journal of Political Science.

Stratmann, Thomas and Francisco J. Aparicio-Castillo (April 2006). "Competition Policy for Elections: Do Campaign Contribution Limits Matter?" Public Choice.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann (January 2006). "Subsidizing Addiction: Do State Health Insurance Mandates Increase Alcohol Consumption?" Journal of Legal Studies.

Stratmann, Thomas (July 2005). "The Effectiveness of Money in Ballot Measure Campaigns." Southern California Law Review.

Kroszner, Randall S. and Thomas Stratmann (April 2005). "Corporate Campaign Contributions, Repeat Giving, and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation." Journal of Law and Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas (March 2005). "Some Talk: Money in Politics. A (partial) review of the literature." Public Choice.

Stratmann, Thomas (July 2004). "Ballot Access Restrictions and Candidate Entry in Elections." European Journal of Political Economy.

Stratmann, Thomas and Jared Garner (March 2004). "Judicial Selection: Politics, Biases, and Constituency Demands." Public Choice.

Mueller, Dennis C. and Thomas Stratmann (September 2003). "The Economic Effects of Democratic Participation." Journal of Public Economics.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann (June 2003). "The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Sexually Transmitted Diseases." Journal of Legal Studies.

Stratmann, Thomas (October 2002). "Can Special Interests Buy Congressional Votes: Evidence from Financial Services Legislation." Journal of Law and Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas and Martin Baur (July 2002). "Plurality Rule, Proportional Representation, and the German Bundestag: How incentives to Pork-barrel differ across Electoral Systems." American Journal of Political Science.

Stratmann, Thomas (September 2000). "Congressional Voting over Legislative Careers: Shifting Positions and Changing Constraints." American Political Science Review.

Kroszner, Randall S. and Thomas Stratmann (April 2000). "Congressional Committees as Reputation-building Mechanisms. Business and Politics.

Stramann, Thomas (Winter 1999). “What Do Medical Services Buy? Effects of Doctor Visits on Work Day Loss.” Eastern Economic Journal.

Kroszner, Randall S. and Thomas Stratmann (December 1998). "Interest-Group Competition and the Organization of Congress: Theory and Evidence from Financial Services' Political Action Committees." American Economic Review.

Stratmann, Thomas (April 1998). "The Market for Congressional Votes: Is Timing of Contributions Everything?" Journal of Law and Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas (October 1996). "How Reelection Constituencies Matter: Evidence from Political Action Committees' Contributions and Congressional Voting." Journal of Law and Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas. (July 1996). "Instability in Collective Decisions? A Test for Cyclical Majorities." Public Choice.

Stratmann, Thomas (July 1995). "Logrolling in the U.S. Congress." Economic Inquiry.

Stratmann, Thomas (January 1995). "Campaign Contributions and Congressional Voting: Does the Timing of Contributions Matter?" The Review of Economics and Statistics.

Mueller, Dennis C. and Thomas Stratmann (October 1994). "Informative and persuasive campaigning." Public Choice.

Stratmann, Thomas (December 1992). "The Effects of Logrolling on Congressional Voting." American Economic Review.

Stratmann, Thomas (June 1992). "Are Contributors Rational: Untangling Strategies of Political Action Committees." Journal of Political Economy.

Stratmann, Thomas (January 1991). "What Do Campaign Contributions Buy? Deciphering Causal Effects of Money and Votes." Southern Economic Journal.

Stratmann, Thomas (January 1990). "A Diagrammatic Representation of Inequality." Public Finance Quarterly.

PAPERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS:

Stratmann, Thomas (October 2007). “Mandatory and Affordable Health Insurance: Comment,” in Regional Economic Development, October 2007 Vol. 3(1), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, ed.

Stratmann, Thomas (2007). "Ballot Initiatives," in The Encyclopedia of Political Communication, SAGE Reference Project. Christina Holtz-Bacha and Lynda Kaid, eds..

Stratmann, Thomas (2006). "Party-Line Voting and Committee Assignments in the German Mixed Member System," in Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence. Roger Congleton , ed.

Stratmann, Thomas (2003). "Logrolling," in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Stratmann, Thomas (2003). "Campaign Contributions and Campaign Finance," in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Stratmann, Thomas (2001). "The Effects of Logrolling on Congressional Voting," reprinted in The Economics of Politics, Dennis C. Mueller, ed. in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics- Series, Mark Blaug, ed.

Stratmann, Thomas (2000). "The Political Economy of Superfund," in The Politics of Environmentalism, Terry Anderson, Hoover Institution, ed.

Stratmann, Thomas (1996). "Logrolling," in The Handbook of Public Choice. Dennis C. Mueller, ed. Basil Blackwell Press.

Anderson, Terry and Thomas Stratmann (1993). "The Political Economy of Public Sector Growth in the United States: A Survey," in Public Sector Growth: Theories and International Evidence. N. Gemmell and E. Elgar, eds.

OTHER ARTICLES:

Stratmann, Thomas and Jonathan Klick (2003). “First, Do No Harm…” Regulation, Spring 2003, p.9.

Stratmann, Thomas (2003). “Do Strict Electoral Campaign Finance Rules Limit Corruption?” CESinfoDICE Report, 1(1), Spring 2003, pp 24-27.

WORKING PAPERS:

http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/stratmann/recent.shtml

GRANTS AWARDED:

National Science Foundation, “Campaign Finance Laws” 2003

International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economic (IFREE) 2003

Carnegie Foundation of New York 2002

Earhart Foundation 2002

Earhart Foundation 1999

National Research Initiative, USDA, Sabbatical Award                                           1998
Trade Research Center, Bozeman, MT                                                                        1997
National Science Foundation, "The Market for Congressional Votes"                 1995
Montanans on a New Track for Science (funded by the
       National Science Foundation), "Instability in Collective Decision"              1993
Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana                                         1992

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Econometrics
Empirical Microeconomics
Public Choice
Public Finance
Current Issues in American Economic Policy
Microeconomic Theory

Intermediate Microeconomics
Macroeconomic Principles
Ökonomische Theorie der Politik (University of Konstanz, Germany)
International Economics II: Public Choice (Diplomatische Akademie Wien, Austria)
Economic Theory of Regulation (Literaturseminar, University of Wien, Austria)

REVIEWED FOR:

American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Eastern Economic Journal, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economics and Politics, Economics of Governance, European Journal of Political Economy (Member of Editorial Board 2001-2005), International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, National Science Foundation, Political Behavior, Public Choice (Member of Editorial Board 2004 - present), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Southern Economic Journal (Associate Editor, 1997-2001, 2003-2006, Co-Editor, 2001-2003).