Klick, Jonathan, Stratmann, Thomas
Laws requiring minors to seek parental consent or to notify a parent prior to obtaining an abortion raise the cost of risky sex for teenagers. Assuming choices to engage in risky sex are made...
Cognate peptide-receptor ligand mapping by directed phage display (2005)
Stratmann, Thomas, Kang, Angray S
Abstract Background A rapid phage display method for the elucidation of cognate peptide specific ligand for receptors is described. The approach may be readily integrated into the interface of...
Cognate peptide-receptor ligand mapping by directed phage display (2005)
Stratmann, Thomas, Kang, Angray S.
Background: A rapid phage display method for the elucidation of cognate peptide specific ligand for receptors is described. The approach may be readily integrated into the interface of genomic and...
Zugl.: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1998.
Randall S. Kroszner, Thomas Stratmann, Tyler Cowen, W. Mark Crain, Michael Munger, Mark Ramseyer, ...
economics at the University of Chicago
LOGROLLING IN THE U.S. CONGRESS (1995)
Does exchange, i.e., vote trading, occur in legislatures? If so, is it quantitatively important or optimal? How important are political parties for the organization of logrolling...
Degree granted by Dept. of German.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maryland at College Park, 1990.
Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss., 1988 (Nur als Mikrofiche f.d. Austausch).
Thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 1988.
Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets
Thomas Stratmann, Bernardin Akitoby
This paper introduces fiscal policy in a model of sovereign risk spreads ("spreads"). Using panel data from emerging market countries, we find that reductions in public expenditure are a more...
Are Contributions Rational? Untangling Strategies of Political Action Committees.
Empirical public choice literature and casual observation suggest that the behavior of political action committees is remarkably unsophisticated, meaning that political action committees give to...
Tainted Money? Contribution Limits and the Effectiveness of Campaign Spending
Campaign expenditures are not effective in increasing candidates' vote shares if voters do not respond to the advertisement when they believe that campaign expenditures are financed with "tainted...
Susceptible MHC alleles, not background genes, select an autoimmune T cell reactivity
Stratmann, Thomas, Martin-Orozco, Natalia, Mallet-Designe, Valérie, Poirot, Laurent, McGavern, Dorian, Losyev, Grigoriy, ...
To detect and characterize autoreactive T cells in diabetes-prone NOD mice, we have developed a multimeric MHC reagent with high affinity for the BDC-2.5 T cell receptor, which is reactive against a...
Selling Favors in the Lab: Experiments on Campaign Finance Reform
Daniel Houser, Thomas Stratmann
Substantial academic interest and public policy debate centers on campaign finance reform. Campaign resources can provide benefits to constituencies if candidates use them to fund the distribution of...
Susceptible MHC alleles, not background genes, select an autoimmune T cell reactivity
Stratmann, Thomas, Martin-Orozco, Natalia, Mallet-Designe, Valérie, Poirot, Laurent, McGavern, Dorian, Losyev, Grigoriy, ...
To detect and characterize autoreactive T cells in diabetes-prone NOD mice, we have developed a multimeric MHC reagent with high affinity for the BDC-2.5 T cell receptor, which is reactive against a...
Instability of Collective Decisions? Testing for Cyclical Majorities.
The issues of cyclical majorities and instability of collective choices have been in the forefront in the discussion of social choice mechanisms. Cycling, lack of equilibria, and so called chaos...
Informative and Persuasive Campaigning.
Mueller, Dennis C, Stratmann, Thomas
In this paper we use a simple Downsian spatial model to analyze the properties of campaign contributions. We first consider campaign contributions that are intended to inform voters of candidate...
Campaign finance reform and electoral competition: Comment
Thomas Stratmann, Francisco Aparicio-Castillo
Campaign contribution limits, Competitiveness of candidate elections,
Mandatory and affordable health insurance: commentary
Insurance, Health ; Medical care
The Economic Effects of Democratic Participation
Dennis C. Mueller, Thomas Stratmann
Considerable concern has been expressed in recent years about declines in voter participation rates in the United States and in several other major democratic countries. Some feel low participation...
Stratmann, Thomas, Baur, Martin
This paper examines the importance of electoral rules for legislators' behavior. The German electoral system includes a mechanism which assigns whether legislators are elected under the...
Kroszner, Randall S, Stratmann, Thomas
The authors develop a positive theory of how interest-group competition shapes the organization of Congress and use it to explain campaign contribution patterns in financial services. Since interest...
The Effects of Logrolling on Congressional Voting.
The theoretical public-choice literature suggests that vote trading is an important determinant of congressional voting behavior. Yet empirical voting models do not allow for vote trading. These...
Judicial Selection: Politics, Biases, and Constituency Demands
Thomas Stratmann, Gared Garner
The determinants of recent U.S. district court judges and appellate court judges selection have been subject of much debate, but little systematic evidence has been presented to substantiate claims...
Some talk: Money in politics. A (partial) review of the literature
The financing of political campaigns is an area of active scholarly study. I review some of the recent literature and discuss important methodological issues that arise in empirical research on...
Competition policy for elections: Do campaign contribution limits matter?
Thomas Stratmann, Francisco J.
This paper examines whether campaign contribution restrictions have consequences for election outcomes. States are a natural laboratory to examine this issue. We analyze elections to Assemblies from...
Contribution limits and the effectiveness of campaign spending
Much work on the apparent ineffectiveness on incumbent spending in congressional elections has hypothesized that the productivity of incumbent spending is low because incumbents operate on the...
Judicial Selection: Politics, Biases, and Constituency Demands
Thomas Stratmann, Jared Garner
The determinants of recent U.S. district court judges and appellate court judges selection have been subject of much debate, but little systematic evidence has been presented to substantiate claims...
Competition among financial services political action committees: theory and evidence
Randall S. Krozner, Thomas Stratmann
Banking law ; Political science
Campaign Contributions and Congressional Voting: Does the Timing of Contributions Matter?
Theoretical and empirical studies do not address whether campaign contributions from more than one election cycle are important for congressional voting behavior. Further, they do not address whether...
Laws requiring minors to seek parental consent or to notify a parent prior to obtaining an abortion raise the cost of risky sex for teenagers. Assuming choices to engage in risky sex are made...
Congressional Committees as Reputation-building Mechanisms
Randall Kroszner, Thomas Stratmann
Interest groups cannot enforce contracts with legislators to work in their favor since fee-for-service agreements would be considered bribery. When such contracts are not available, a system of...
Logrolling in the U.S. Congress.
Does exchange, i.e., vote trading, occur in legislatures? If so, is it quantitatively important or optimal? How important are political parties for the organization of logrolling coalitions? To...
Stratmann, Thomas, Madhusudan, S., Schnetz, Karin
The yjjQ and bglJ genes encode LuxR-type transcription factors conserved in several enterobacterial species. YjjQ is a potential virulence factor in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli. BglJ...
Turned Off or Turned Out? Campaign Advertising,Information, and Voting
Daniel Houser, Rebecca Morton, Thomas Stratmann
We present results from laboratory experimental elections in which voter information is endogenously provided by candidates and voting is voluntary. We also compare advertisements that are costless...
Selling favors in the lab: experiments on campaign finance reform
Daniel Houser, Thomas Stratmann
Campaign contribution limits, Campaign finance, Public finance, Political advertising, Experiments,
Randall S. Kroszner, Thomas Stratmann
Do politicians tend to follow a strategy of ambiguity in their policy positions or a strategy of reputational development to reduce uncertainty about where they stand? Ambiguity could allow a...
Subsidizing Addiction: Do State Health Insurance Mandates Increase Alcohol Consumption?
Jonathan Klick, Thomas Stratmann
A model of addiction in which individuals are forward looking implies that as the availability of addiction treatment options grows, individuals will consume more of an addictive good. We test this...
Can Special Interests Buy Congressional Votes? Evidence from Financial Services Legislation.
The challenge in the campaign contribution literature has been to overcome the simultaneous-equation bias that is inherent in the vote-contribution relationship. This paper proposes a new method to...
The Market for Congressional Votes: Is Timing of Contributions Everything?
This study utilizes the timing of campaign contributions to identify whether the objective of Political Action Committees (PACs) is to influence congressional votes or solely to elect a preferred...
The article shows that voting in the U.S. Congress and contribution strategies of political action committees (PACs) are guided not by the median voter model but by a model that emphasizes...
Corporate Campaign Contributions, Repeat Giving, and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation
Kroszner, Randall S, Stratmann, Thomas
Are politicians who follow a strategy of reputational development rewarded with high levels of corporate campaign contributions? Reputational clarity could help to reduce uncertainty about a...
Do Spa Visits Improve Health: Evidence From German Micro Data
Jonathan Klick, Thomas Stratmann
The health benefits of spas have been hypothesized for centuries. If this hypothesis is correct, spa therapy offers a low cost alternative to more expensive and potentially more invasive medical...
Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets
Bernardin Akitoby, Thomas Stratmann
We examine the effect of fiscal policy on sovereign risk spreads and investigate whether the interaction of fiscal variables with political institutions affect financial markets. Using panel data...
Medical Malpractice Reform and Physicians in High-Risk Specialties
Jonathan Klick, Thomas Stratmann
If medical malpractice reform affects the supply of physicians, the effects will be concentrated in specialties facing high liability exposure. Many doctors are likely to be indifferent regarding...
Diabetes Treatments and Moral Hazard
Jonathan Klick, Thomas Stratmann
In the face of rising rates of diabetes, many states have passed laws requiring health insurance plans to cover medical treatments for the disease. Although supporters of the mandates expect them to...
The Value of Institutions for Financial Markets: Evidence from Emerging Markets
Thomas Stratmann, Bernardin Akitoby
This paper investigates the value of political institutions for financial markets, using panel data from emerging market countries. We test the hypothesis that changes in political institutions, such...
Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations?
Michael D. Makowsky, Thomas Stratmann
Speeding tickets are determined not only by the speed of the offender, but also by incentives faced by police officers and their vote-maximizing principals. We hypothesize that police officers issue...
How prices matter in politics: the returns to campaign advertising
Campaign advertising, Campaign spending,
Do Strict Electoral Campaign Finance Rules Limit Corruption?
Wahlkampffinanzierung, Parteienfinanzierung, Korruption, Österreich, Frankreich, Deutschland, Japan, , Vereinigte Staaten, Campaign finance, Party finance, Corruption, Austria, France, Germany,...
Reduction of Employment Protection in OECD Countries: Its Driving Forces
Wolfgang Ochel, Oliver Röhn, Anja Rohwer, Thomas Stratmann
Arbeitnehmerschutz, Arbeitslosenversicherung, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung, OECD-Staaten, Flexicurity, Employment protection legislation, Unemployment insurance, Labour market...
Does deceptive advertising reduce political participation? Theory and evidence
Daniel Houser, Sandra Ludwig, Thomas Stratmann
We examine the effect of deceptive advertising on voting decisions in elections. We model two-candidate elections in which 1) voters are uncertain about candidates' attributes; and 2) candidates can...
Do Strict Electoral Campaign Finance Rules Limit Corruption?
Wahlkampffinanzierung, Parteienfinanzierung, Korruption, Österreich, Frankreich, Deutschland, Japan, , Vereinigte Staaten, Campaign finance, Party finance, Corruption, Austria, France, Germany,...
More Tickets, Fewer Accidents: How Cash-Strapped Towns Make for Safer Roads
Michael D. Makowsky, Thomas Stratmann
Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of injury and death in the U.S. The role of traffic law enforcement in the reduction of accidents has been studied by relatively few papers and with...
Institutionalized Bailouts and Fiscal Policy: The Consequences of Soft Budget Constraints
Alexander Fink, Thomas Stratmann
States have soft budget constraints when they can expect a bailout by the federal government in the event of a financial crisis. This gives rise to incentives for unsound state fiscal policy. We test...