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1“...We discuss important features and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive the following main results: First, event study designs and...”
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3by Jan Eeckhout Roberto Pinheiro Kurt Schmidheiny Published in The Journal of political economy (01.06.2014)“...We investigate the role of skill complementarities in production and mobility across cities. The nature of the complementarities determines the equilibrium...”
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4“...We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do...”
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5by Marius Brülhart Mario Jametti Kurt Schmidheiny Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.09.2012)“...Recent theoretical work in economic geography has shown that agglomeration forces can mitigate 'race-to-the-bottom' tax competition, by partly or fully...”
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6“...It is well understood that the two most popular empirical models of location choice – conditional logit and Poisson – return identical coefficient estimates...”
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7“...Standard tax competition models predict a ‘race-to-the-bottom’ of corporate tax rates when firms are mobile. Recent theoretical literature shows that central...”
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8“...ABSTRACT We develop a method for estimating the rivalness of tax bases using the structures of the conditional logit, Poisson, and nested logit models. As an...”
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9“...Abstract Studies mainly from the United States provide evidence that children of divorced parents face a higher risk of divorce in their own marriages. We...”
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10Income segregation from local income taxation when households differ in both preferences and incomesby Schmidheiny, Kurt Published in Regional science and urban economics (2006)“...This paper presents a model of an urban area with local income taxes used to finance a local public good. Households differ in both incomes and their taste for...”
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11“...Using data from the June 1980 Current Population Survey, Morgan, Lye, and Condran (1988) reported that families with a daughter have a higher divorce risk than...”
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12by Eberle, Ulrich J Henderson, J Vernon Rohner, Dominic Schmidheiny, Kurt Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14.07.2020)“...This article shows that higher ethnolinguistic diversity is associated with a greater risk of social tensions and conflict, which, in turn, is a dispersion...”
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13by Yannis M. Loannides Henry G. Overman Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Kurt Schmidheiny Omer Moav Published in Economic policy (01.04.2008)“...This paper examines the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) on urban structure. Improvements in ICT may lead to changes in urban...”
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14by Schmidheiny, Kurt Published in Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (01.04.2017)“...Over the last six years, researchers collaborating through the SNF Sinergia Project have collected data on fiscal federalism in Switzerland over more than half...”
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15by Faber, Marius Published in Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (2020)“...Like most countries, the Swiss government adopted drastic measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. These measures were aimed at avoiding close physical...”
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16“...We study location choice and residential mobility responses to local income taxes exploiting a special tax regime which applies to foreign employees residing...”
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17by Schmidheiny, Kurt Published in Journal of public economics (2006)“...This study investigates spatial income segregation in fiscally decentralized urban areas. The theoretical part proposes the progressivity of local income taxes...”
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18by Jaecklin, Thomas Rohner, Peter Jacomo, Véronique Schmidheiny, Kurt Gervaix, Alain Published in European journal of pediatrics (01.01.2006)“...Bacteria increasingly resistant to antibiotics are a major treatment concern of respiratory tract pathogens in children. The aim of this study was to assess...”
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20“...We investigate the role of skill complementarities in production and mobility across cities. The nature of the complementarities determines the equilibrium...”