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I am Professor of Economics and Applied Econometrics at the University of Basel in Switzerland. I am also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and at CESifo (Munich), a member of the executive committee of the Urban Economics Association and the editorial boards of the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Economic Geography.
My research focuses on tax competition, fiscal federalism and urban economics. My work is published in the Journal of Political Economy, PNAS, American Economic Journal, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Economic Geography.
My research group at the University of Basel: → english, → deutsch.
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- 29.03.2023
Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny am Podium der Swiss Data Alliance zur Zukunft des Forschungsstandorts Schweiz → more - 17.03.2023
Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny and Research Fellow Dr. Matthias Krapf present on Corporate Taxation in Switzerland at NBER Meeting on Policy Responses to Tax Competition → more - 17.03.2023
Andrea Ghisletta presents "Self-Interest, Voter Behavior and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a Swiss Pension Reform" at the 4th Workshop of the Swiss Network on Public Economics → more - 08.03.2023
Inputreferat von Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny am Open Hearing über das Rahmengesetz zur Sekundärnutzung von Daten der Parlamentarische Gruppe Digitale Nachhaltigkeit (Parldigi) → more - 04.03.2023
Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny gibt die Vorlesung "Einführung in die Raumökonomie" im Rahmen des Kompaktkurses Immobilien Portfolio- und Assetmanagement des Center for Urban & Real Estate Management (CUREM) der Universität Zürich → more - 21.02.2023
"On Event Studies and Distributed-Lags in Two-Way Fixed Effects Models: Identification, Equivalence, and Generalization" by Kurt Schmidheiny and Sebastian Siegloch accepted in the Journal of Applied Econometrics → more - 10.02.2023
Andrea Ghisletta presents "Self-Interest, Voter Behavior and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a Swiss Pension Reform" at Georgetown University → more
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