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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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• 04.11.2022
  Referat zur Bedeutung von Steuerdaten für die Forschung von Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny am LUSTAT Meeting 2022 → more
• 04.11.2022
  Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny talks about the OECD's two-pillar tax reform at the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC) Delegation trip to Switzerland → more
• 04.11.2022
  "Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland" by Marius Brülhart, Jonathan Gruber, Matthias Krapf and Kurt Schmidheiny published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14 (4), 2022 → more
• 20.10.2022
  Inputreferat von Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny am Forum Raumwissenschaften 2022 → more
• 14.10.2022
  Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny presents research on event studies at the University of Calgary → more
• 14.09.2022
  Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny in Panel zu "Datenzugang für die Forschung" an der Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik in Basel → more
• 25.08.2022
  Research Fellow Dr. Anja Roth zur Nutzung des Vaterschaftsurlaubs in der Tagesschau → more

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