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Dr. Marco Sahm
Technische Universität München
Arcisstrasse 21
D-80333 München
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Personal - Publications - Presentations - Teaching
Personal
Current Positions
Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat), Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre (Prof. Dr. Robert K. Frhr. von Weizsäcker), TU München
Research Affiliate, CESifo München
Education
Former Engagements
Research Interests
Public Good Provision, Optimal (Income) Taxation, Capital Gains Taxation, Industrial Organization
Other Interests
Sports, especially Triathlon
Publications
Books
Sahm, M. (2006): "Essays in Public Economic Theory", Inaugural Dissertation, LMU München (PDF)
Articles in Refereed Journals
Bierbrauer, F., and M. Sahm (2010): "Optimal Democratic Mechanisms for Taxation and Public Good Provision", Journal of Public Economics 94 (7-8), 453-466 (August 2010)
Eichhorn, C., and M. Sahm (2010): "Ticket Underpricing and Public Support for Mega-Events", Région et Developpement 31
Eichhorn, C., and M. Sahm (2010): "Why were FIFA World Cup Tickets so Cheap?", Journal of Economic Psychology 31 (2), 212-217 (April 2010)
Sahm, M. (2009): "Imitating Accrual Taxation on a Realization Basis", Journal of Economic Surveys 23 (4), 734-61 (September 2009)
Sahm, M. (2008): "Methods of Capital Gains Taxation and the Impact on Asset Prices and Welfare", National Tax Journal 61, 743-68 (December 2008)
Working Papers
Bierbrauer, F., and M. Sahm (2012): "Optimal Public Good Provision under Democratic Constraints", Mimeo, TU Munich. (Abstract, full paper available from the authors upon request)
Greiner, T., and M. Sahm (2011): "How Effective are Advertising Bans? On the Demand for Quality in Two-Sided Media Markets", CESifo Working Paper No. 3524
Sahm, M. (2010): "The Contest Winner: Gifted or Venturesome", CESifo Working Paper No. 3285.
Bierbrauer, F., and M. Sahm (2007): "Optimal Income Taxation, Public Good Provision, and Informative Voting", Mimeo, LMU Munich. (Abstract, full paper available from the authors upon request)
Political Contributions
Eichhorn, C., and M. Sahm (2005): "Warum sind die WM-Tickets so billig? Eine Anwendung der Theorie monopolistischer Preissetzung und zweiseitiger Märkte", in WiSt (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium).
Sahm, M. (2005): "Internationaler Steuerwettbewerb und nationale Bereitstellung öffentlicher Güter", in: Globale Wirtschaft - nationale Verantwortung: Wege aus dem Druckkessel. Ein Almanach junger Wissenschaftler, Hanns Martin Schleyer-Stiftung.
Eichhorn, C., and M. Sahm (2005): "Billige WM-Tickets dank Sponsoring", in: Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik (04/2005).
Eichhorn, C., M. Sahm, and F. Westermann (2005):"Eine ökonomische Nachbetrachtung der Münchner Hochhausabstimmung", in: Ifo-Schnelldienst (01/2005).
Sahm, M. (2002):" Versicherungsaspekte einer gemeinsamen europäischen Geld- und Fiskalpolitik", in: Europa der Bürger? Ein Almanach junger Wissenschaftler, Hanns Martin Schleyer-Stiftung.
Media Coverage / Policy Feedback
Schweizer Radio DRS, Radio - Beitrag "EM Tickets" (MP3, 1,56 MB) (28.02.2007)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 4th 2006, Rubrik 28 about WiSt (07/2005) ["Weshalb WM-Tickets so billig sind" (PDF, 14 KB)]
Deutscher Bundestag, May 29th 2006, "Literaturtipp" about Wirtschaftsdienst (04/2005) ["Fußball - Literaturauswahl anlässlich der WM 2006" (PDF, 169 KB)]
Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 13th 2005, "Campus München" about Wirtschaftsdienst (04/2005) ["Die FIFA - kein Wohlfahrtsverband" (JPEG, 1,3 MB)]
Financial Times Deutschland, February 16th 2005, "Montagsidee" about Ifo-Schnelldienst (01/2005) ["Recht auf Alpenblick"]
Diploma Thesis
BWL: Regelbasierte Fuzzy-Expertensysteme
Mathematics: Lineare Optimierung und Dualitätstheorie
Presentations
Presentations at Conferences
Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), 2006 (Vienna), 2007 (Budapest)
European Economic Association (EEA), 2005 (Amsterdam), 2006 (Vienna), 2011 (Oslo)
Public Choice Society (PC), 1. World Meeting, 2007 (Amsterdam)
Society for Social Choice and Welfare (SCW), 2006 (Istanbul), 2008 (Montreal), 2010 (Moscow)
Public Economic Theory Meeting (PET), 2005 (Marseille), 2007 (Nashville, Tennessee), 2010 (Istanbul)
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), 2007 (Valencia)
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), 2005 (Geneva), 2006 (Sevilla)
Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS), 2004 (Dresden), 2006 (Bayreuth), 2007 (Munich), 2009 (Magdeburg)
Austrian Economic Association (NOeG), 2005 (Innsbruck), 2006 (Vienna)
Scottish Economic Society (SES), 2006 (Perth)
Tournaments, Contests and Relative Performance Evaluation (TC&RPE), 2011 (Raleigh, North Carolina)
10. UNC Tax Symposium, 2007 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, 2009, 2012 (Munich)
CESifo Area Conference on Applied Microeconomics, 2012 (Munich)
BGPE Conference: Incentives in Economics, 2007 (Nuremberg)
Invited Talks
MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (October 2005)
Humboldt University, Berlin (January 2006)
RWI, Essen (March 2008)
Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich (October 2009 and March 2012)
DICE, Düsseldorf (May 2010)
Uppsala University and Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (September 2010)
Awards
Award of the German Economic Association (VfS) for presenting the paper "Informative Voting and the Samuelson Rule" (joint with F. Bierbauer) at the Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM) 2006 in Vienna (Austria) (granted by Oesterreichische Nationalbank)
Award of the German Economic Association (VfS) for presenting the paper "Methods of Capital Gains Taxation and the impact on Asset Prices and Welfare" at the Annual Meeting of the European Economic Society (EEA) 2005 in Amsterdam (Netherlands) (granted by Schweizerische Nationalbank)
Technische Universität (TU) München
Principles of Economics (Grundzüge der VWL): SoSe 09, WS 09/10, SoSe 10, SoSe 11, SoSe 12
Basic Microeconomics (VWL 1): WS 08/09, WS 09/10, WS 10/11, WS 11/12
Basic Macroeconomics (VWL 2): SoSe 09
Advanced Microeconomics (VWL 3): SoSe 10, SoSe 11, WS 11/12, SoSe 12
Industrial Organization (Industrieökonomik): WS 08/09, WS 09/10, SoSe 10, WS 10/11, SoSe 11, WS 11/12, SoSe 12
Economics for Executive MBAs (!communicate!): Class of 2010
Games and Contracts (Spiele und Verträge): WS 10/11
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
VWL I Microeconomics (Grundstudium): SoSe 06
VWL II Macroeconomics (Grundstudium): SoSe 01, WS 01/02
AVWL I Microeconomics: SoSe 04
AVWL II Macroeconomics: SoSe 02, SoSe 03, WS 04/05, SoSe 05, WS 06/07
Allocation Policy: WS 05
Fiscal Policy: WS 02
Social Insurance: SoSe 07
Tax Policy: SoSe 08
Social Choice (Seminar): WS 07/08
Media Markets (Seminar): SoSe 08
Contests and Rent Seeking (Seminar): WS 08/09
Universität des Saarlandes (UdS) Saarbrücken
Theory of Financial Markets: WS 00/01
Theory of Measure and Integral: WS 99/00, WS 00/01
Derivative Financial Instruments: SoSe 99, SoSe 00
Mathematics for Economists: WS 98/99