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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.

My research group at the University of Basel: → english, → deutsch.

News

• 09. December 2019
  Gastbeitrag von Anja Roth und Michaela Slotwinski für die Süddeutsche Zeitung zum Narrativ vom Mann als Ernährer
• 22. November 2019
  Kurt Schmidheiny presents "Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland" at the 112th Annual Conference on Taxation in Tampa, USA. The paper was discussed by Emmanuel Saez from UC Berkeley.
• 16. October 2019
  Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny diskutiert im Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) die Steuerpläne der OECD und deren Folgen für die Schweiz
• 10. October 2019
  Revised version of "Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland" (with Marius Brülhart, Jonathan Gruber, Matthias Krapf) published as CEPR working paper no. 14054
• 14. September 2019
  SRF News Beitrag "Steuerwettbewerb nimmt zu: Pokerspiel mit Verlierern" mit Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny
• 06. September 2019
  Dr. Anja Roth successfully completes her PhD thesis titled "Gender Norms, Institutions, and Labor Market Decisions", earning distinction summa cum laude
• 01. June 2019
  Kurt Schmidheiny presents paper on "Ethno-Linguistic Diversity and City Size" at the 9th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association in Amsterdam. He is also a member of the association's board and the Kraks Fond Prize committee in Amsterdam.
• 24. May 2019
  Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Kurt Schmidheiny „Wie die Schweiz den Steuerwettbewerb domestiziert und was eine globalisierte Welt davon lernen könnte” beim Symposium zur Emeritierung von Prof. Dr. Klaus Neusser, Universität Bern
• 17. May 2019
  Kurt Schmidheiny unterrichtet "Urban Economics" im MAS in Real Estate und im CAS in Urban Management der Universität Zürich
• 16. May 2019
  Referat "Die Steuer-AHV-Vorlage und der Nationale Finanzausgleich" von Prof. Dr. Kurt Schmidheiny
• 15. May 2019
  Kurt Schmidheiny participates in panel discussion on "Statistical Neutrality and Political Responsibility" at United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Conference of European Statisticians in Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• 13. April 2019
  Marius Faber wins Best Paper Award at Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE 2019)
• 11. April 2019
  Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny nimmt an Podiumsdiskussion zu "Steuern: zwischen Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz" am Wirtschaftspodium 2019 des UBS International Center of Economics in Society teil
• 18. February 2019
  Artikel in "Die Volkswirtschaft" zum NFA: "Der Finanzausgleich im Umbau" (von Kurt Schmidheiny und Marius Brülhart)
• 01. February 2019
  Wealth tax paper by Marius Brülhart, Jon Gruber, Matthias Krapf and Kurt Schmidheiny mentioned in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, NBC News, and The New Yorker
• 15. January 2019
  New working paper "On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications" (by Kurt Schmidheiny and Sebastian Siegloch)
• 11. January 2019
  Beitrag "Der grosse NFA-Frieden" im BATZ-Blog (von Kurt Schmidheiny und Marius Brülhart)
• 09. January 2019
  Studie "Der Ressourcenausgleich im Zusammenspiel von Steuervorlage 17 und Anpassung des NFA: Simulationsrechnungen" im Auftrag der NFA-Geberkantone (von Kurt Schmidheiny und Marius Brülhart)
• 21. November 2018
  Kurt Schmidheiny presents "The Elasticity of Taxable Wealth: Evidence from Switzerland" at the Applied Economics and Econometrics Seminar at the University of Mannheim
• 15. November 2018
  Publication of "Tax-induced mobility: Evidence from a foreigners' tax scheme in Switzerland" (by Kurt Schmidheiny and Michaela Slotwinski) in the Journal of Public Economics
• 13. October 2018
  Kurt Schmidheiny presents "Ethnic Diversity and City Size" (with Vernon Henderson, Ulrich Eberle and Dominic Rohner) at the 13th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association at Columbia University in New York, NY