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Sebastian Kessing was at the Free University Berlin from 2000-2005, and at the University of Warwick from 2005-2006. He has been an associated research fellow at the WZB since 2001 and, in April 2006, joined MPG as a senior research fellow. From November 2007 until March 2009 he was working for the European Commissioner. In April 2009 he joined the Economics Department at the University of Siegen to assume a position as professor of economics (with tenure).

• Globalization and Decentralization
• Optimal Taxation
• Governance and the Welfare State
• Labour Market Institutions
• Public Goods and Externalities
• Health Economics

• Federalism, weak institutions and the competition for foreign direct investment (with Kai A. Konrad and Christos Kotsogiannis), 2009, International Tax and Public Finance, 16(1), 105-123.
   
• Time consistency and bureaucratic budget competition (with Kai A. Konrad), 2008, Economic Journal, 118(January), 1-15.  An earlier version appeared as CESifo Working Paper No. 1791, 2006.
   
• FDI and the dark side of decentralisation (with Kai A. Konrad and Christos Kotsogiannis), 2007, Economic Policy, 49, 5-70. 
   
• Strategic complementarity in the dynamic private provision of a discrete public good, 2007, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 9(4), 699-710.
   
• Monopoly Pricing with Negative Network Effects: The Case of Vaccines (with Robert Nuscheler), 2006, European Economic Review, 50(4), 1061-1069.  An earlier version appeared as WZB Working paper No. SP II 2003-06. 
   
• Employment protection and product market competition, 2006, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 108(2), 339-352. An earlier version appeared as WZB working paper No. FS IV 02-31.
   
• Federal tax autonomy and the limits of cooperation (with Kai A. Konrad and Christos Kotsogiannis), 2006, Journal of Urban Economics, 59, 317-329. An earlier version appeared as WZB Working paper No SP II 2005-18.
   
• Union strategy and optimal direct taxation (with Kai A. Konrad), 2006, Journal of Public Economics, 90 (2), 393-402. An earlier, more extended version appeared as IZA discussion paper No. 1545 under the title “Union strategy and optimal income taxation”.
   
• A note on the determinants of labour share movements, 2003, Economics Letters, 81 (1), 9-12. An earlier Version appeared as WZB working paper No. FS IV 02-30.

Working Papers

• Decentralisation and international trade (with Margarita Kalamova).

Contributions to collected volumes

• Reforming the business environment in Afghanistan: Institutional reforms first (with Reinhard Palm, Shafik Gavhari, and Suleman Fatimies), in: Kurz, Sonja and Alena Fröde (Eds.): Promoting the business and investment climate, GTZ, Eschborn.

Publications in applied journals

• Arbeitszeit und Umverteilung – Gewerkschaftsstrategie im Wohlfahrtsstaat (with Kai A. Konrad), 2005, WZB-Mitteilungen, 109, 21-25.
   
• Konkunkturpolitik kann Strukturreformen nicht ersetzen (with Kai A. Konrad), 2005, Welttrends - Zeitschrift für internationale Politik und vergleichende Studien, 13(47), 111-114.
   
• Die Strategie des Impfens (with Robert Nuscheler), 2004, WZB-Mitteilungen, 103, 29-31.
   
• Kündigungsschutz und Strategische Interaktion im Wettbewerb, 2004, WZB-Mitteilungen, 104, 36-38.