📣 Early-career researchers interested in quantitative spatial and #UrbanEcon should not miss the Quantitative Spatial Economics Junior Workshop on May 6-7 2021 by @IESPrinceton 👉 qsejunior.info

🚨We're hiring! 🚨 #internship #EconTwitter Econ RA Listings Economics at Zurich We're looking for an intern for the research project #COVID19 and the Swiss labor market”. Start ASAP, latest mid-July. Max duration 4 months. Apply here 👇, review process starts May 15! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_…

🚨Seminar alert🚨 Max Löffler (Maastricht University) will present his new paper "Welfare Effects of Property Taxation" (about the incidence of municipal taxes; with @Sigginho) on Friday 21 May, 12:15-13:30 via Zoom HEC Lausanne Open to all, details here: agenda.unil.ch/display/161717…

🫕💰🇨🇭💰🫕 Eine Moitié-Moitié-Lösung für die Corona-Schulden der Schweiz batz.ch/2021/05/eine-m…

🚨We offer a course in 'Spatial methods for economists using Python' (Aug 31st to Sep 3rd) taught by Olivier Schöni from FSA ULaval open to all PhD and advanced master students interested in spatial methods for economists! Info: t1p.de/p3w2 and t1p.de/idxa

Very proud of our network members anja roth and Michaela Slotwinski to have won the Young Economists Award at the 77th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF - International Institute of Public Finance).

Nice blog post by Raphaël Parchet and Frederic Robert-Nicoud on their research forthcoming in The Economic Journal 👇 My take: Expansion of the 🇨🇭 highway network has facilitated urban sprawl, mainly by allowing high earners to commute from larger homes in the suburbs. 1/3 voxeu.org/article/how-hi…

📣 Today in Lugano: great line-up of papers on local public finance and regional economics 👉 fiscalfederalism.ch

Congratulations to our our founding member Mario Jametti on his appointment as the new Director of the Institute for Economic Research Istituto di Ricerche Economiche at USI University! 🎉 usi.ch/en/feeds/17950

#Steuern in den #Gemeinden der 🇨🇭: tolle Datenvisualisierung heute in der NZZ Schweiz 👇 Möglich dank der akribischen Datenaufbereitung durch Raphaël Parchet (USI University) und Kurt Schmidheiny (Universität Basel) in Zusammenarbeit mit der #ESTV EFD_DFF 💪 swiss fiscal federalism

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 What? ➡️ 4th Swiss Workshop on Local Public Finance and Regional Economics Where, when? ➡️ Bern, October 21st Deadline? ➡️ September 9th Link? ➡️bit.ly/3Oh74UX We are looking forward to welcoming you Universität Bern!

📢Our Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) postdoctoral researcher Enrico Rubolino @enrico_rubolino has won the #AIEL Young Labour Economist Award 2022 🏆🎉. He does fascinating work in empirical public and labour economics. Congratulations, Enrico! 👉aiel.it/Home/Prize_Win… HEC Lausanne Université de Lausanne swiss fiscal federalism

W/ Jonathan Gruber, Matthias Krapf & Kurt Schmidheiny we have our #WealthTax paper out in AEA Journals AEJ: Economic Policy today: "Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland". pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10… 1/2

Watch this NBER conference on Tax Competition! Owen Zidar Presentations by Don Bruce Cailin Slattery Teemu Lyytikäinen Stefanie Stantcheva Marius Brülhart Kurt Schmidheiny Matthias Krapf Jeffrey P. Clemens Stan Veuger Brian Knight Program & YouTube live link nber.org/conferences/po…

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 What? ▶️5th Swiss Workshop on Local Public Finance and Regional Economics Where, when? ▶ Lugano, October (12-) 13, 2023 Deadline ▶️ September 1 (paper or extended abstract) Link ▶️ fiscalfederalism.ch/workshops/

📢Academic job openings📢 Two tenure-track Assistant Professorships, in - Public Economics 👉unil-selectus.frentix.com/positiondetail… - Macroeconomics 👉unil-selectus.frentix.com/positiondetail… ...within an active and collegial department, at one of the nicest places on 🌍. HEC Lausanne | Department of Economics HEC Lausanne Université de Lausanne

Join us as a Post-Doc Economics at Zurich to work at the frontier of tax policy research! Funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation Consolidator Grant (Swiss replacement for European Research Council (ERC)), no teaching, flexible start date and duration: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

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New WP on #CorporateTax in 🇨🇭: Does the history of decentralized taxation in the Swiss cantons hold lessons for international tax coordination? No and yes. Some (personal and subjective) highlights in a 🧵 👉bit.ly/3QAyYys 1/

#Steuerwettbewerb zwischen den Kantonen nimmt zu: Seit 2020 schränkt der #Finanzausgleich diesen weniger ein. Marius Brülhart (HEC Lausanne) und Kurt Schmidheiny (Universität Basel). dievolkswirtschaft.ch/de/2024/04/int…