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.

Overview

• Curriculum Vitae
• Associate Editor, The Journal of Prediction Market
• Acting career
  • a five second appearance at the end a TV ad I did with my family when I was five years old (in fairness I was a SAG member)
  • the proof: Tang ad version 1 (2 April 1974), version 2 (aired 20 December 1974). Both aired on ABC Evening News, and the second has better video but audio is out of sync.

Papers

• Industrial Organization
  • Intellectual property: file sharing, file sharing and copyright
  • Organization of illegal enterprises: illegal sports bookmaking
  • Pricing of addictive goods: cigarette prices
  
  
• Public Economics
  • Prediction markets: manipulating political stock markets, corporate prediction 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