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Prof. Dr. Kurt Schmidheiny

Faculty of Business and Economics
Profiles & Affiliations

I am Professor of Economics and Applied Econometrics at the University of Basel in Switzerland. I am also a Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and at CESifo (Munich), a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Economic Geography. I currently serve as president of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics. 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.

Selected Publications

Schmidheiny, Kurt, & Siegloch, Sebastian. (2023). On event studies and distributed-lags in two-way fixed effects models: Identification, equivalence, and generalization. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 38(5), 695–713. https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2971

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Brülhart, Marius, Gruber, Jonathan, Krapf, Matthias, & Schmidheiny, Kurt. (2022). Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(4), 111–150. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20200258

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Eberle, Ulrich J., Henderson, J. Vernon, Rohner, Dominic, & Schmidheiny, Kurt. (2020). Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Urban Agglomeration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(28), 16250–16257. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002148117

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Brülhart, Marius, Bucovetsky, Sam, & Schmidheiny, Kurt. (2015). Taxes in Cities. In Duranton, G.; Henderson, J. V.; Strange, W. (Ed.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Vol. 5B, pp. 1123–1196). North Holland. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-59531-7.00017-x

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Eeckhout, Jan, Pinheiro, Roberto, & Schmidheiny, Kurt. (2014). Spatial Sorting. Journal of Political Economy, 122(3), 554–620. https://doi.org/10.1086/676141

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