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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, 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.

Aktuell

Projekt zu Auswirkungen der Coronamassnahmen auf die Erwerbstätigkeit in der Schweiz
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News

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• 08.12.2020
  Blogeintrag auf Ökonomenstimme "Ein Lockdown-Index, um die Auswirkungen des Coronavirus auf die Erwerbstätigkeit abzuschätzen" von Marius Faber, Andrea Ghisletta und Kurt Schmidheiny
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• 19.11.2020
  SAGW Bericht zu "Data Access und Linking in der Schweiz" unter Mitwirkung von Kurt Schmidheiny
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• 02.09.2020
  "Robots and Reshoring: Evidence from Mexican Labor Markets" by Marius Faber published in the Journal of International Economics
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• 03.08.2020
  "A Lockdown Index to Assess the Economic Impact of the Coronavirus" by Marius Faber, Andrea Ghisletta and Kurt Schmidheiny accepted at Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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• 10.07.2020
  Interview with Andrea Ghisletta in LaRegione about impact of coronavirus on employment in Switzerland
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• 08.07.2020
  Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny zum Thema "Abbau des internationalen Steuerwettbewerbs" in SRF Börse
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• 29.06.2020
  Publication of "Ethno-Linguistic Diversity and Urban Agglomeration" by Ulrich Eberle, Vernon Henderson, Dominic Rohner and Kurt Schmidheiny in PNAS
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• 16.06.2020
  Artikel in "Die Volkswirtschaft" zum "Abbau des internationalen Steuerwettbewerbs nach Schweizer Vorbild" von Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny
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• 11.06.2020
  Kurt Schmidheiny co-organizes UEA online lecture series "2020 Lectures on Urban Economics"
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• 28.04.2020
  Blogeintrag auf BATZ.ch: "Wo das Interesse an Kurzarbeit am grössten ist" von Marius Faber, Andrea Ghisletta und Kurt Schmidheiny
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