Jan Schumacher's Personal Homepage Research Assistant at the University of Regensburg

• Public Economics and Redistribution: Cash versus In-Kind Transfers, Public Provision of Private Goods

• Political Economy of the Welfare State
  

• Environmental Economics
  

Work in Progress

• Redistribution Under Asymmetric Information: When Quality Laws and the Public Provision of Private Goods Have Identical Effects (May 2007)

• The tragedy (or virtue?) of in-kind redistribution: How the poor pays for the rich's status concerns (BGPE Discussion Paper No. 39)

• Discounting and Welfare Analysis Over Time: Choosing the 'eta' (CESifo Working Paper No. 2230, joint with Wolfgang Buchholz)
  
  
• Discounting the Long-Distant Future: A Simple Explanation for the Weitzman-Gollier-Puzzle (CESifo Working Paper No. 2357, joint with Wolfgang Buchholz)

Publications

• Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 426-444 (joint with Bruno Amable and Donatella Gatti), 2006