Kurt Schmidheiny

Research

Research Interests

Seminar Organization

Working Papers

  1. The Effect of Agglomeration Size on Local Taxes. With Eva Luthi (KPMG). CEPR Discussion Paper 8344, CESifo Working Paper 3426.
  2. Spatial Sorting: Why New York, Los Angeles and Detroit attract the greatest minds as well as the unskilled. With Jan Eeckhout (UPF, Penn) and Roberto Pinheiro (Colorado). Version November 2010, CEPR Discussion Paper 8151, CESifo Working Paper 3274.
  3. The Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce. A Fifteen-Country Study with the Fertility and Family Survey. With Andreas Diekmann. Presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Boston 2004. Version March 31, 2008.

Publications

  1. Marius Brülhart, Mario Jametti, and Kurt Schmidheiny (2012), "Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?" The Economic Journal, forthcoming. Doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02511.x
  2. Kurt Schmidheiny and Marius Brülhart (2011), "On the Equivalence of Location Choice Models: Conditional Logit, Nested Logit and Poisson." Journal of Urban Economics 69(2), 214-222. Doi: 10.1016/j.jue.2010.09.004.
  3. Jaroslava Hlouskova, Martin Wagner and Kurt Schmidheiny (2009), "Multistep Predictions from Multivariate ARMA-GARCH Models and their Value for Portfolio Management." Journal of Empirical Finance 16, 330-336. Doi: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2008.09.002.
  4. Yannis Ioannides, Henry Overman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Kurt Schmidheiny (2008), "The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure." Economic Policy 23(54), 201–242. Doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2008.00200.x.
  5. Kurt Schmidheiny (2006), "Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland." Journal of Public Economics, 90(3), 429-458. Doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.09.003, Version October 11, 2005.
  6. Kurt Schmidheiny (2006), "Income Segregation from Local Income Taxation When Households Differ in Both Preferences and Incomes." Regional Science and Urban Economics 36(2), 270-299. Doi: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2005.10.003, Version October 26, 2005.
  7. Roland Hodler and Kurt Schmidheiny (2006), "How Fiscal Decentralization Flattens Progressive Taxes." FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 62(2), 281-304. Doi: 10.1628/001522106X120695, Version April 6, 2006.
  8. Thomas Jaecklin, Peter Rohner, Véronique Jacomo, Kurt Schmidheiny and Alain Gervaix (2006), "Trends in Antibiotic Resistance of Respiratory Tract Pathogens in Children in Geneva, Switzerland." European Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 165 (1), 3-8. Doi: 10.1007/s00431-005-1737-5.
  9. Kurt Schmidheiny (2005), "Wohnsitzwahl und lokale Einkommensbesteuerung." Swiss Political Science Review, 11(4), 97-121. Article at Ingenta, Version 4. November 2005.
  10. Andreas Diekmann and Kurt Schmidheiny (2004), "Do Parents of Girls Have a Higher Risk of Divorce? An Eighteen Country Study." Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 66 (3), 651-660. Doi: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00044.x, Version March 2004.
  11. Kurt Schmidheiny (2002), "Warum die junge Frau den Mann verlässt oder die Wichtigkeit von Replikationen in der empirischen Forschung." Kommentar zu 'Divorcer en Suisse: Effets des facteurs indivi-duels, de mise en couple et de couple' in SZS 27(2). Swiss Journal of Sociology, 28(1), 2002.
  12. Andreas Diekmann and Kurt Schmidheiny (2001), "Bildung und Ehestabilität: Eine ereignisanalytische Untersuchung schweizerischer Familienbiografien." Swiss Journal of Sociology, 27(2), 2001.
  13. Thomas Hoehn and Kurt Schmidheiny (2000), "Die Anwendung von quantitativ abgestützten Marktuntersuchungen in wettbewerbsrechtlichen Verfahren." In: Carl Baudenbacher (Hrsg.): Neueste Entwicklungen im Europäischen und Internationalen Kartellrecht. Sechstes St. Galler Internationales Kartellrechtsforum. Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn.

Policy Papers

  1. Marius Brülhart and Kurt Schmidheiny (2011) "Competition for Firms: Zero-Sum or Positive-Sum Game?" Forthcoming IEBs World Report on Fiscal Federalism '10.
  2. Kurt Schmidheiny (2010), "Kommunale Einkommenssteuern und ihre Nebenwirkungen." Okonomenstimme, 12. November, 2010.

Conference Contributions

2010: Network of Swiss Economists Abroad (Gerzensee, Co-Organizer), Urban Economics Association Annual Meeting (Denver, Program-Committe), Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (Princeton).

2009: Network of Swiss Economists Abroad (Basel, Co-Organizer), Urban Economics Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco, Program-Committe), Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting (San Francisco), European Economic Association Annual Congress (Barcelona, Program-Committee), 3rd Workshop on Fiscal Federalism "Financing Sub-Central Governments" (Barcelona).

2008: Network of Swiss Economists Abroad (Zurich, Co-Organizer), 55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (New York City), European Economic Association Annual Congress (Milan), CEPR European Research Workshop in International Trade (Appenzell), CSIC International Workshop in Economic Geography (Barcelona), Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik (Lausanne).

2007: Network of Swiss Economists Abroad (St. Gallen, Co-Organizer), Kiel Institute Workshop on Agglomeration and Growth in Knowledge-Based Societies (Kiel), 2nd Workshop on Fiscal Federalism "Competition and Cooperation among Governments" (Sevilla), 54th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (Savannah, GA).

2006: Network of Swiss Economists Abroad (Lausanne, Co-Organizer), 12th Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (Cyprus, organizing committee), 53rd North American Regional Science Association International Conference (Toronto).

2005: Econometric Society World Congress (London), 11th Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (Washingtion D.C.), Public Choice Society Annual Meeting (New Orleans), Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting (Philadelphia).

2004: European Economic Association Annual Congress (Madrid), CESifo and NBER Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (Munich), European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting (Berlin), Population Association of America Annual Meeting (Boston).

2003: 2nd HWWA-Workshop on Current Developments in Regional Research (Hamburg), Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Zürich), ZEI Workshop on Federalism and Decentralization (Bonn), Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Bern), Economics and Politics: A Dialogue (Lugano).

2002: VIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Paris), Divorce in Cross-National Perspecitve: A European Research Network (Florence).

Invited Talks

2010: Universität Basel, Universität Heidelberg.

2009: Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (Namur).

2007: Universität Bern, The London School of Economics.

2006: Universität Basel, Université de Lausanne, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virginia Tech, The George Washington University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universität Bern.

2005: University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University, McMaster University.

Refereeing

Economic Journal (2), European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Geography (2), Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Public Economics (5), Journal of Public Economic Theory (2), Journal of Urban Economics (3), , Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Eco- nomics (4), Review of Economics and Statistics, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (3), The Economics of Transition, Urban Studies, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Urban Studies.

Software

POSI 2.0. An educational Software in Modern Portfolio Theory.

WinTDA. A simple Win9x, WinNT Interface for Götz Rohwers TDA (Transition Data Analysis) version 6.2 or later. WinTDA lets you use TDA under Windows without prompting from DOS. You have to install TDA before running WinTDA. Download WinTDA (zip 165 kb)