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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.
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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. -
Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny diskutiert im Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) die Steuerpläne der OECD und deren Folgen für die Schweiz -
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 -
SRF News Beitrag "Steuerwettbewerb nimmt zu: Pokerspiel mit Verlierern" mit Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny -
Dr. Anja Roth successfully completes her PhD thesis titled "Gender Norms, Institutions, and Labor Market Decisions", earning distinction summa cum laude -
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. -
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 -
Kurt Schmidheiny unterrichtet "Urban Economics" im MAS in Real Estate und im CAS in Urban Management der Universität Zürich -
Referat "Die Steuer-AHV-Vorlage und der Nationale Finanzausgleich" von Prof. Dr. Kurt Schmidheiny -
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 -
Marius Faber wins Best Paper Award at Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE 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 -
Artikel in "Die Volkswirtschaft" zum NFA: "Der Finanzausgleich im Umbau" (von Kurt Schmidheiny und Marius Brülhart) -
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 -
New working paper "On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications" (by Kurt Schmidheiny and Sebastian Siegloch) -
Beitrag "Der grosse NFA-Frieden" im BATZ-Blog (von Kurt Schmidheiny und Marius Brülhart) -
Studie "Der Ressourcenausgleich im Zusammenspiel von Steuervorlage 17 und Anpassung des NFA: Simulationsrechnungen" im Auftrag der NFA-Geberkantone (von Kurt Schmidheiny und Marius Brülhart) -
Kurt Schmidheiny presents "The Elasticity of Taxable Wealth: Evidence from Switzerland" at the Applied Economics and Econometrics Seminar at the University of Mannheim -
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 -
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