Dr. Sebastian Garmann, Bundesrechnungshof (German Supreme Audit Institution)

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Research

Publications in peer-reviewed journals:

Political Efficacy and the Persistence of Turnout Shocks (2020), Economics and Politics, 32(3), 411-429.

Voter Turnout and Public Sector Employment Policy (2020), Review of International Organizations, 15(4), 845-868.

Political Budget Cycles and Divided Government (2018), Regional Studies, 52(3), 444-456.

God Save the Queen, God Save us All? Monarchies and Institutional Quality (2018), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 65(2), 186-204.

Political Budget Cycles and Fiscally Conservative Voters (2017), Economics Letters, 155, 72-75.

The Effect of a Reduction in the Opening Hours of Polling Stations on Turnout (2017), Public Choice, 171, 99-117.

Election Frequency, Choice Fatigue, and Voter Turnout (2017), European Journal of Political Economy, 47, 19-35. 

Electoral Cycles in Public Administration Decisions - Evidence from German Municipalities (2017), Regional Studies, 51, 712-723.

Concurrent Elections and Turnout: Causal Estimates from a German Quasi-Experiment (2016), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 126(A), 167-178.

Elected or Appointed? How the Nomination Scheme of the City Managers Influences the Effects of Government Fragmentation (2015), Journal of Urban Economics, 86, 26-42.

The Causal Effect of Coalition Governments on Fiscal Policies? Evidence from a Regression Kink Design (2014), Applied Economics, 46(36), 4490-4507.

Does Globalization Influence Protectionism? Empirical Evidence from Agricultural Support (2014), Food Policy, 49(1), 281-293.

Do Government Ideology and Fragmentation Matter for Reducing CO2-Emissions? Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries (2014), Ecological Economics, 105, 1-10.

A Note on Electoral Competition and Turnout in Run-off Electoral Systems: Taking into Account Both Endogeneity and Attenuation Bias (2014), Electoral Studies, 34, 261-265.

On the Influence of Autocorrelation and GARCH-Effects on Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Copulas (2013), European Journal of Finance, 19(1), 75-88 (joint with Peter Grundke).

Policy Reports

EU Debt Instruments and Fiscal Transparency: The Case of the EU Recovery Fund (2024), The Economists' Voice, forthcoming (joint with Ahmed Demir)

Konjunkturanalyse: Prognose 2020 / 2021. Im Bann des Coronavirus - Rezession in Europa und der Schweiz wahrscheinlich (with J.-E. Sturm, Y. Abrahamsen, K. Abberger, M. Anderes, F.  Eckert, A. K. Funk, M. Graff, F. Hälg, P. Kronenberg, H. Mikosch, N. Mühlebach, S. Neuwirth, A. Rathke, S. Sarferaz, P. Seiler, S. Streicher and M. Siegenthaler), KOF Analysen, vol. 2020: no. 1, pp. 1-​62, Zurich: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.

Konjunkturanalyse: Prognose 2020 / 2021. Schwächephase hält an (with K. Abberger, Y. Abrahamsen, M. Anderes, J. Bamert, F. Eckert, A. K. Funk, M. Graff, F. Hälg, F. Kohler, H. Mikosch, N. Mühlebach, S. Neuwirth, A. Rathke, S. Sarferaz, P. Seiler, M. Siegenthaler, S. Streicher and J.-​E. Sturm), KOF Analysen, vol. 2019: no. 4, pp. 1-​28, Zurich: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.

Konjunkturanalyse: Prognose 2020/2021. Abschwung der Weltwirtschaft dämpft Schweizer Konjunktur (with J.-​E. Sturm, Y. Abrahamsen, M. Anderes, F. Eckert, A. K. Funk, M. Graff, F. Hälg, P. Kronenberg, H. Mikosch, N. Mühlebach, S. Neuwirth, A. Rathke, S. Sarferaz, P. Seiler, M. Siegenthaler and S. Streicher), KOF Analysen, vol. 2019: no. 3, pp. 1-​80, Zurich: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.