Teaching

• Markt und Wettbewerb (in German), Bachelor, fall 2019.

• Public Finance I: Taxation and Redistribution, Bachelor, spring 2020.

• Public Finance II: Role of the Government, Bachelor, fall 2019.

• Law and Economics, Master, fall 2019.

• Advances in Public Economics & Political Economy, PhD, spring 2020.

Contact

Department of Economics
TU Dortmund University
44221 Dortmund
Germany

+49 231 755 3146

galina.zudenkova@tu-dortmund.de

Research Interests

• Political Economy

• Public Economics

• Applied Theory

Publications

• Electoral Accountability and Interdistrict Competition, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics10 (2018), 143-176.

• Party Discipline and Government Spending: Theory and Evidence with Marta Curto-Grau, Journal of Public Economics164 (2018), 139-152.

• Electoral Competition under Costly Policy Implementation with Dimitrios Xefteris, Social Choice and Welfare50 (2018), 721-739.

• Lobbying as a Guard against Extremism, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy17 (2017), 1-17.

• Non-Monotonic Group-Size Effect in Repeated Provision of Public Goods with Chengsi Wang, European Economic Review89 (2016), 116-128.

• Political Cronyism,Social Choice and Welfare44 (2015), 473-492.

• The Welfare Effects of Location and Quality in Oligopolywith Luis C. Corchón,B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & PolicyTopics 13 (2013), 1143-1178.

• A Political Agency Model of Coattail Voting,Journal of Public Economics95 (2011), 1652-1660.

• Computing Welfare Losses from Data under Imperfect Competition with Heterogeneous Goods with Luis C. Corchón,International Journal of Industrial Organization27 (2009), 646-654.

Survey Articles

• "Introduction to the Special Issue Political Games: Strategy, Persuasion, and Learning" with Gabriele Gratton, Games (2020) 11, 10.

Working Papers

• Incumbents' Performance and Political Polarization with Marina Dodlova.

• Information and Communication Technologies, Protests, and Censorship with Maxim Ananyev, Dimitrios Xefteris, and Maria Petrova.

• "Social Class and (Un)ethical Behavior: Causal versus Correlational Evidence" with Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Daniel Müller, Samuel Müller, and Stefan T. Trautmann.

Work in Progress

• "Paid Parental Leave and Paternity Acknowledgement" with Anna Raute and Andrea Weber.

• "Prime-Ministers' Role in Legislative Policymaking" with Thomas König.

• "Economic Voting of the Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth" with Hélia Costa and Zoe Kuehn.

• "Coalition Governance and the Dynamics of Bill Initiation" with Thomas König, Nick Lin, Xiao Lu, Thiago N. Silva, and Nikoleta Yordanova.

Media

• Podcast on Social Media and the Survival of Autocracies, 2019.