Kurt Schmidheiny |
| PhD, Universität Bern |
| Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor |
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 Program(s): |
| MSc in Economics; MSc in Finance; MSc in International Trade, Finance, and Development; GPEFM |
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| Biography: |
| Kurt Schmidheiny is an assistant professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. |
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| Awards: |
| Kurt Schmidheiny has received research grants from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and, prior to that, the Swiss National Science Foundation. |
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| Research interests: |
| Urban economics, economic geography, public finance, tax competition, microeconometrics |
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| Selected publications: |
| - "Income Segregation and Local Progressive Taxation: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland," Journal of Public Economics, 90(3), 429-458.
- "Income Segregation from Local Income Taxation When Households Differ in Both Preferences and Incomes," Regional Science and Urban Economics 36(2), 270-299.
- "How Fiscal Decentralization Flattens Progressive Taxes" (with Roland Hodler), FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 62(2), 281-304. |
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kurt.schmidheiny@upf.edu
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