Koleman Strumpf

I am the Koch Professor of Economics at University of Kansas School of Business. My research interests are in applied microeconomics, particularly public economics and industrial organization. Links to some of my papers (and their media or policy coverage) are listed below:

• Industrial Organization
  • Intellectual property: file sharing
  • Organization of illegal enterprises: illegal sports bookmaking
  • Pricing of addictive goods: cigarette prices
  
  
• Public Economics
  • Prediction markets: manipulating political stock markets
  • Historical political stock markets: U.S., International
  • Decentralization: Tiebout sorting, policy innovation, public good provision
  • Political institutions: endogenous institutions
  • Political economics: sequential elections, estimating election outcomes
  • Local government policy choice: government credibility, flypaper effect, property assessment
  • Health economics: smoking