Faculty Profiles

Strumpf , Koleman

Koch Professor of Economics


334 Summerfield
University of Kansas, School of Business
1300 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7585

P: (785) 864-7485
F: (785) 864-5328
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Education Ph.D. MIT, 1995 A.B. Stanford University, 1990 B.S. Stanford University, 1990 Joined the University of Kansas in 2006.
Academic Areas Economics
Interests Professor Strumpf's research interests are in applied microeconomics with an emphasis on policy applications. His current work focuses on P2P file sharing, prediction markets (such as political wagering markets or sports betting), and the economics of criminal behavior in illegal sports bookmaking. He has also written papers on state and local economics (mainly on decentralization and the Tiebout model), health economics, and political economics. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, Science, Economist, Business Week, Rolling Stone, and Variety. He has appeared on ABC News, Nightline, CNN, CNBC, C-Span, NPR, and Bloomberg Radio
Selected Publications Coppejans, Mark, Donna Gilleskie, Holger Sieg, and Koleman Strumpf, 2007. Consumer demand under price uncertainty: empirical evidence from the market for cigarettes. Review of Economics and Statistics 89, No. 3, p. 510-521. Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Koleman Strumpf, 2007. The effect of file sharing on record sales: an empirical analysis. Journal of Political Economy 115, No. 1, p. 1-42. Akin, John, Paul Hutchinson, and Koleman Strumpf, 2005. Decentralization and government provision of public goods: the public health sector in Uganda. Published in Audibert, Mathonnat, and Roodenbeke (eds.), Journal of Development Studies 41, No. 8, p. 1417-1443. Gilleskie, Donna, and Koleman Strumpf, 2005. The behavioral dynamics of youth smoking. Journal of Human Resources 40, No. 4, p. 822-866. Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Koleman Strumpf, 2005. Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, in the Supreme Court of the United States, MGM Studios Inc., et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al. Rhode, Paul, and Koleman Strumpf, 2004. Historical presidential betting markets. Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, No. 2, p. 127-142. Akin, John, Paul Hutchinson, and Koleman Strumpf, 2003. Decentralization and government provision of public and private goods: the public health sector in Uganda. Published in Audibert, Mathonnat, and Roodenbeke (eds.), Le Financement de la Sante Dans les Pays d’Afrique et d’Asie a Faible Revenu. Rhode, Paul, and Koleman Strumpf, 2003. Assessing the importance of Tiebout sorting: local heterogeneity from 1850 to 1990. American Economic Review 93, p. 1648-1677. Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Koleman Strumpf, 2002. Endogenous policy decentralization: testing the central tenet of economic federalism. Journal of Political Economy 110, p. 1-36. Strumpf, Koleman, 2002. Does government decentralization increase policy innovation? Journal of Public Economic Theory 4, p. 207-241. Strumpf, Koleman, 2002. Strategic competition in sequential election contests. Public Choice 111, p. 377-397. Strumpf, Koleman, 2001. Government credibility and policy choice: evidence from the Pennsylvania earned income tax. Journal of Public Economics 80, p. 141-167. Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Koleman Strumpf, 1999. Local liquor control from 1934-1970. Published in Heckelman, Moorhouse, and Whaples (eds.), Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History. Phillippe, John, and Koleman Strumpf, 1999. Estimating presidential elections: the importance of state fixed effects and the role of national versus local information. Economic & Politics 11, p. 33-50. Strumpf, Koleman, 1999. Infrequent assessments distort property taxes: theory and evidence. Journal of Urban Economics 46, p. 169-199. Strumpf, Koleman, 1998. A predictive index for the flypaper effect. Journal of Public Economics 69, p. 389-412.