Thomas Stratmann, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University

Vordiplom (B.A.) Free University of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, 1985

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

Senior Fellowship, Forum Basiliense, University of Basel, May 2024 - June 2024

Member of the Public Choice Society Board of Directors, 2022 – present

Property and Environmental Research Center Senior Fellow 2019 - present

Check last 8 years or so of my faculty evaluation report 

Plenary speaker at the Public Choice Conference, Louisville, KY, in 2019

Property and Environmental Research Center – Lone Mountain Fellowship, Summer 2016

Property and Environmental Research Center – Julian Simon Fellow, Summers 2014 - 2015

Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Lab Fellow at Harvard University, 2013-2015

Duncan Black Prize for How Prices Matter in Politics: The Returns to Campaign Advertising, 2010

Mercator Research Professor, German Science Foundation (DFG), University of Munich, Germany, August 2006 - July 2007

Duncan Black Prize for Prize for Judicial Selection: Politics, Biases, and Constituency Demands, 2005

John M. Olin Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, Summer 2003 – Summer 2004

Friedrich von Hayek Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria, May 2003 - June 2003

CESifo Research Fellow, 2002 - present

Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University - not accepted, Summer 2001

John M. Olin Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Summer 1993 – Summer 1994

Teaching Fellowship, University of Maryland, 1985-1990

Department of Economics Teaching Award, University of Maryland, Spring 1988

Fellowship of Free University of Berlin, 1985

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Law, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2010 - present

Faculty Member – Center for Micro-Economic Policy Research, GMU, 2013 - present

Research Fellow - The Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University, 2010 - present

Research Professor - Ifo Institut, Munich, Germany, 2009 - present

Research Fellow - The Center for Public Choice, George Mason University, 1999 - present

Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 1999 - 2010

Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, December 2009 - January 2010

Mercator Research Professor, German Science Foundation (DFG), University of Munich, Germany, August 2006 - July 2007

Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, March 2005 - April 2005

Visiting Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany, June 2004

John M. Olin Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, University of Chicago, Summer 2003 - Summer 2004

Friedrich von Hayek Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria CESifo Research Fellow, May 2003 - June 2003

CESifo Research Fellow, 2002 – present

Visiting Professor, Center for Economic Studies, University of Munich, Germany, December 2001 - January 2002

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 1999 - 2010

Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria, Summer 1998 – Summer 1999

Visiting Professor, University of Munich Center for Economic Studies

Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria, 1998 - 1999

Visiting Professor, University of Konstanz, Germany, May 1996 - July 1996

Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 1995 - 1999

Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 1990 - 1995

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, 1985 - 1990 

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

Stratmann, Thomas. (2023).  A Reservation Economic Freedom Index. Public Choice.

Dwyer, Kevin and Thomas Stratmann. (2023). Effect of Campaign Contributions on Legislator Behavior Intra Dairy Industry Interest Group Competition. Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.

Crepelle, Adam and Thomas Stratmann. (2023).  Does Expanding Tribal Jurisdiction Improve Tribal Economies? Lessons from Arizona. Arizona Law Review.

Kling, Daniel and Thomas Stratmann. (2022). Large-Scale Evidence for the Effectiveness of Partisan GOTV Robo Calls Journal of Experimental Political Science. Journal of Experimental Political Science.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2022). The Effects of Certificate-of-Need Laws on the Quality of Hospital Medical Services. Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

Mitchell, Matt and Thomas Stratmann. (2022). Certificate-of-Need Regulation and Hospital Bed Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

Doran, Colin and Thomas Stratmann. (2021). The Effects of Neighboring Parties on the Value of Rights: Evidence from Timber Harvests. Southern Economic Journal.

Baker, Matthew C. and Thomas Stratmann (2021). Barriers to entry in the healthcare markets: Winners and Losers from certificate-of-need laws. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 

Yang, Tony and Thomas Stratmann, and Drishti Pillai. (2021). Effects of State Preemption of Local Smoke-Free Restrictions on U.S. Adult Cigarette Smoking Prevalence, 1997 to 2017. Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Doran, Colin and Thomas Stratmann, T. (2021). How does liability affect prices? Railroad sparks and timber. International Review of Law & Economics. 

Doran, Colin and Thomas Stratmann. (2020). The Relationship between Economic Freedom and Poverty Rates: Cross-Country Evidence. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2019). Testing for the Effect of Campaign Expenditure Limits. Supreme Court Economic Review.

Makowsky, Michael D., Thomas Stratmann and Alex Tabarrok. (2019). To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement. Journal of Legal Studies.

Kling, Dan and Thomas Stratmann. (2019). Repeated Treatment in a GOTV Field Experiment: Distinguishing between Intensive and Extensive Margin Effects. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Asatryan, Zareh, César Castellón and Thomas Stratmann. (2018). Balanced Budget Rules and Fiscal Outcomes: Evidence from Historical Constitutions. Journal of Public Economics. Volume 167, November, pp. 105-119. 

Maaser, Nicola and Thomas Stratmann. (2018). Election rules, legislators' incentives, and policy outcomes: Evidence from the mixed member system in Germany. European Journal of Political Economy. Volume 54, September, pp. 227-239. 

Litman, Cheryl and Thomas Stratmann. (2018). Judging on thin ice: the effects of group membership on evaluation. Oxford Economic Papers. Volume 70, Issue 3, July, pp. 763–783.

Aimone, Jason A., Luigi Butera, Thomas Stratmann. (2018). Altruistic punishment in elections. European Journal of Political Economy. Volume 53, July, pp. 149-160.

Armor, David J., Chenna Reddy Cotla, Thomas Stratmann. (2017). Spurious relationships arising from aggregate variables in linear regression. Quality & Quantity. Volume 51, Issue 3, May, pp. 1359–1379.

Stratmann, Thomas (2017) The political economy of sales taxes and sales tax exemptions. Public Choice. Volume 171, Issue 1–2, April, pp. 207–221.

Makowsky, Michael D., Thomas Stratmann, and Alex Tabarrok. (2016). To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement. Journal of Legal Studies.

Russ, Jacob W. and Thomas Stratmann. (forthcoming). Divided Interests: The Increasing Detrimental Fractionation of Indian Land Ownership  Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations. Ed. Terry L. Anderson. Lexington Books.

Stratmann, Thomas and John W. Welborn. (2016). Informed Short Selling, Fails-to-Deliver, and Abnormal Returns. Journal of Empirical Finance.

Maaser, Nicola and Thomas Stratmann. (2016). Distributional Consequences of Political Representation. European Economic Review.

Houser, Daniel, Sandra Ludwig, Thomas Stratmann. (2016). Deception and Political Participation: Theory and Laboratory Evidence. Economic Inquiry. Volume 54, Issue 1, January, pp. 464-484.

Hendergren, Dave and Thomas Stratmann. (2016). Is There Adverse Selection in Life Insurance Markets? Economic Inquiry.

Mitchell, Matthew and Thomas Stratmann. (2016). A Tragedy of the Anticommons: Local Option Taxation and Cell Phone Tax Bills. Public Choice.

Leive, Adam and Thomas Stratmann. (2015). Cancer Screening Guidelines and Mortality. Journal of Population Economics.

Leive, Adam and Thomas Stratmann. (2015). Cancer Screening Guidelines and Mortality. Journal of Population Economics.

Fink, Alexander and Thomas Stratmann. (2015). U.S. Housing Prices and the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: To Update, or Not to Update, that is the Question. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Stratmann, Thomas and J.W. Verret. (2015). How Does Corporate Political Activity by Citizens United v. FEC Affect Shareholder Wealth? Journal of Law and Economics.

Makowsky, Mike and Thomas Stratmann (2014). Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law. Public Choice.

Nye, John, Ila Rainer, and Thomas Stratmann. (2014). Do Black Mayors Improve Black Relative to White Employment Outcomes? Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2013). The Effects of Earmarks on the Likelihood of Reelection. European Journal of Political Economy.

Stratmann Thomas and John Welborn. (2013). The Option Market Makers Exception to Regulation SHO. Journal of Financial Markets.

Klick, Jon, Sven Neelsen, and Thomas Stratmann. (2012) The Effect of Abortion Liberalization on Sexual Behavior: International Evidence. American Law and Economics Review.

Stratmann, Thomas and J. W. Verret. (2012). Does Shareholder Proxy Access Damage Share Value in Small Publicly Traded Companies? Stanford Law Review.

Houser, Daniel and Thomas Stratmann. (2012). Gordon Tullock and Experimental Economics. Public Choice.

Neelsen, Sven and Thomas Stratmann. (2012). Long-Run Effects of Fetal Influenza Exposure: Evidence from Switzerland. Social Science and Medicine.

Makowsky, Michael D. and Thomas Stratmann. (2011). More Tickets, Fewer Accidents: How Cash- Strapped Towns make for Safer Roads. Journal of Law and Economics.

Houser, Daniel, Rebecca B. Morton, and Thomas Stratmann. (2011). Turned On or Turned Out? Campaign Advertising, Information, and Voting. Journal of European Political Economy.

Fink, Alexander and Thomas Stratmann. (2011). Institutionalized Bailouts and Fiscal Policy: The Political Economy of Soft Budget Constraints. Kyklos International Review for Social Sciences.

Neelsen, Sven and Thomas Stratmann. (2011). Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine. Journal of Health Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2010). Do Low Contribution Limits Insulate Incumbents from Competition? Election Law Journal. (Correction 2011)

Akitoby, Bernardin and Thomas Stratmann. (2010). The Value of Institutions for Financial Markets: Evidence from Emerging Markets. Review of World Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2009). How Prices Matter in Politics: The Returns from Campaign Advertising. Public Choice.

Makowsky, Michael and Thomas Stratmann. (2009). Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations? American Economic Review.

Akitoby, Bernardin and Thomas Stratmann. (2008). Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets. Economic Journal.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann. (2008). Do Spa Visits Improve Health: Evidence from German Micro Data. Eastern Economic Journal.

Houser, Daniel and Thomas Stratmann. (2008). Selling Favors in the Lab: Experiments on Campaign Finance Reform. Public Choice.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann. (2008). Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens: Parental Involvement Laws and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann. (2007). Diabetes Treatments and Moral Hazard. Journal of Law and Economics.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann. (2007). Malpractice Reform and Physicians in High Risk Specialties. Journal of Legal Studies.

Stratmann, Thomas and Francisco J. Aparicio-Castillo. (2007). Campaign Finance Reform and Electoral Competition: Comment. Public Choice.

Drazen, Allen, Nuno Limão, and Thomas Stratmann. (2007). Political Contribution Caps and Lobby Formation: Theory and Evidence. Journal of Public Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2006). Contribution Limits and the Effectiveness of Campaign Spending. Public Choice.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2006). Is Spending More Potent For or Against a Proposition? Evidence From Ballot Measures. American Journal of Political Science.

Stratmann, Thomas and Francisco J. Aparicio-Castillo. (2006). Competition Policy for Elections: Do Campaign Contribution Limits Matter? Public Choice.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann. (2006). Subsidizing Addiction: Do State Health Insurance Mandates Increase Alcohol Consumption? Journal of Legal Studies.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2005). The Effectiveness of Money in Ballot Measure Campaigns. Southern California Law Review.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2005). Ballot Access Restrictions and Candidate Entry in Elections. European Journal of Political Economy.

Kroszner, Randall S. and Thomas Stratmann. (2005). Corporate Campaign Contributions, Repeat Giving, and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation. Journal of Law and Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2005). Some Talk: Money in Politics. A (partial) review of the literature. Public Choice.

Stratmann, Thomas and Jared Garner. (2004). Judicial Selection: Politics, Biases, and Constituency Demands. Public Choice.

Mueller, Dennis C. and Thomas Stratmann. (2003). The Economic Effects of Democratic Participation. Journal of Public Economics.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann. (2003). The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Journal of Legal Studies.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2002). Can Special Interests Buy Congressional Votes: Evidence from Financial Services Legislation. Journal of Law and Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas and Martin Baur. (2002). Plurality Rule, Proportional Representation, and the German Bundestag: How Incentives to Pork-barrel Differ across Electoral Systems. American Journal of Political Science.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2000). Congressional Voting over Legislative Careers: Shifting Positions and Changing Constraints. American Political Science Review.

Kroszner, Randall S. and Thomas Stratmann. (2000). Congressional Committees as Reputation-building Mechanisms. Business and Politics.

Stramann, Thomas. (1999). What Do Medical Services Buy? Effects of Doctor Visits on Work DayLoss. Eastern Economic Journal.

Kroszner, Randall S. and Thomas Stratmann. (1998). Interest-Group Competition and the Organization of Congress: Theory and Evidence from Financial Services' Political Action Committees. American Economic Review.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1998). The Market for Congressional Votes: Is Timing of Contributions Everything? Journal of Law and Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1996). How Reelection Constituencies Matter: Evidence from Political Action Committees' Contributions and Congressional Voting. Journal of Law and Economics.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1996). Instability of Collective Decisions? Testing for Cyclical Majorities. Public Choice.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1995). Logrolling in the U.S. Congress. Economic Inquiry.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1995). Campaign Contributions and Congressional Voting: Does the Timing ofContributions Matter? The Review of Economics and Statistics.

Mueller, Dennis C. and Thomas Stratmann. (1994). Informative and persuasive campaigning. Public Choice. 

Stratmann, Thomas. (1992). The Effects of Logrolling on Congressional Voting. American Economic Review.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1992). Are Contributors Rational: Untangling Strategies of Political Action Committees. Journal of Political Economy.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1991). What Do Campaign Contributions Buy? Deciphering Causal Effects ofMoney and Votes. Southern Economic Journal.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1990). A Diagrammatic Representation of Inequality. Public Finance Quarterly.

PAPERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS:

Stratmann, Thomas and Amberly Dozier. (2023). Lobbying in the United States. The Political Economy of Lobbying. Karsten Mause and Andreas Polk, eds. Springer.

Stratmann, Thomas and Amberly Dozier. (2022). Lobbyismus in den USA. Handbuch Lobbyismus. Karsten Mause and Andreas Polk, eds. Springer.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2019). Campaign Finance. In: The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice. Volume 2, Chapter 21. Editors: Roger D. Congleton, Bernard N. Grofman, and Stefan Voigt. Publisher: Oxford University Press.

Neelsen, Sven and Thomas Stratmann. (2017). The Greek Famine of 1941–1942 and Its Impact. In: Preedy, V., Patel, V. (eds) Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation. Springer, Cham.

Russ, Jacob W. and Thomas Stratmann. 2016.“ Divided Interests: The Increasing Detrimental Fractionation of Indian Land Ownership ” Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations. Ed. Terry L. Anderson. Lexington Books.

Neelsen, Sven and Thomas Stratmann. (2012). Early-Life Famine Exposure and Later-Life: Outcomes: Evidence from Survivors of the Greek Famine, in Early-Life Famine and Adult Health. Editor: Alexander Vaiserman.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2012). Campaign Finance, in The Elgar Companion to Public Choice.

Klick, Jonathan, John MacDonald and Thomas Stratmann. (2012). Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link. Handbook of Law and Economics: Criminal Law. Editor: Keith Hylton

Akitoby, Bernardin and Thomas Stratmann. (2011). Sovereign Debt: From Safety to Default. Editor: Robert Kolb.

Klick, Jonathan and Thomas Stratmann. (2011). Abortion Access and Risky Sex, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Family Law. Editors: Lloyd Cohen and Joshua Wright.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2009). Campaign Spending and Ballot Measures, Financing Referendum Campaigns. Editor: Simon Hug. Palgrave.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2007). Mandatory and Affordable Health Insurance: Comment, in Regional Economic Development, October 2007. Vol. 3(1). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, ed.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2007). Ballot Initiatives, in The Encyclopedia of Political Communication, SAGE Reference Project. Christina Holtz-Bacha and Lynda Kaid, eds..

Stratmann, Thomas. (2006). Party-Line Voting and Committee Assignments in the German Mixed Member System, in Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence. Roger Congleton, ed.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2003). Logrolling, in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2003). Campaign Contributions and Campaign Finance, in The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Charles K. Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2001). The Effects of Logrolling on Congressional Voting, reprinted in The Economics of Politics, Dennis C. Mueller, ed. in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics- Series, Mark Blaug, ed.

Stratmann, Thomas. (2000). The Political Economy of Superfund, in The Politics of Environmentalism, Terry Anderson, Hoover Institution, ed.

Stratmann, Thomas. (1996). Logrolling, in The Handbook of Public Choice. Dennis C. Mueller, ed. Basil Blackwell Press.

Anderson, Terry and Thomas Stratmann. (1993). The Political Economy of Public Sector Growth in the United States: A Survey, in Public Sector Growth: Theories and International Evidence. N. Gemmell and E. Elgar, eds.