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I am Professor of 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, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Economic Geography.
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I am spending the academic year 2017/18 at
- 26 May 2017: Plenary talk on "Emerging Lessons from Half a Century of Fiscal Federalism in Switzerland" at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association 2017 at Johannes Kepler University Linz.
- 20./21. Februar 2017: Vorlesung an der SeniorenUni Basel zum Thema "Publikations-Bias in der Medizinischen Forschung: Ursachen, Symptome und Therapie".
- 19. Februar 2017: Artikel in der Luzerner Zeitung zu unserer Studie zur Vermögenssteuer.
- 23. Januar 2017: Interview in 10vor10 des Fernsehen SRF zur Unternehmenssteuerreform III.
- 5 January 2017: Wealth paper updated: "The Elasticity of Taxable Wealth: Evidence from Switzerland".
- 12 November 2016: Presenting "Taxing Wealth: Evidence from Switzerland" at the 11th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association in Minneapolis, MN.
- 9. September 2016: Vorlesung "Grundlagen der Raumökonomie" am Center for Urban & Real Estate Management (CUREM) der Universität Zürich.
- 1. September 2016: Artikel mit Anja Roth in Die Volkswirtschaft zur Reform der Besteuerung von Ehepaaren: Individualbesteuerung bietet grössere Arbeitsanreize für Zweitverdiener.
- 7 July 2016: Article in the Wall Street Journal Blog about wealth paper: Wealth Taxes Make Swiss Cheese of Declared Wealth.
- 4 July 2016: New NBER working paper with Marius Brülhart (Lausanne), Jonathan Gruber (MIT) and Matthias Krapf (Lausanne) on "Taxing Wealth: Evidence from Switzerland".
- 22. und 29. Juni 2016: Interview zur "Unternehmenssteuerreform III" auf Telebasel.
- 16 June 2016: Teaching on "Taxes and Cities" at UEA/IEB Summer School in Barcelona.
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10 June 2016: Keynote lecture at the 2016 Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics in Lugano: