Policy Briefs for 
(2020-2021)
- Price and Prejudice: Asylum Seekers and Housing Rents
Podcast interview on CEPR VoxTalks. September 2023. Link
- A Note on Possible Consumer Price Effects of the Proposed Requirement for Streaming Services to fund Swiss Content (4% Rule in “Lex Netflix”)
Policy brief, April 2022. Link
- Wealth Taxation: The Swiss Experience
Chapter in Report “Wealth Tax: Perspectives in a Post-Pandemic World”, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, December 2021. Link
- Fiscal Federalism and the Pandemic: The Case of Switzerland
presentation to Institute of Fiscal Studies & Strathclyde University, July 2021. Link
- Behavioural Responses to Personal Taxation: Evidence from Switzerland
presentation to Scottish Fiscal Commission, June 2021. Link
- Economic Development in Myanmar’s Border Regions: Evidence from Nightlights
with Mélise Jaud and Bernhard Nöbauer. Background paper for World Bank country report, September 2020. Link Part 1 Link Part 2
- How To Make Digital Proximity Tracing Work: The View from Economics
E4S Policy Brief, June 2020. Link
- The Case for Reopening Economies by Sector
Harvard Business Review, May 2020. Link
- The Economics of Wage Compensation and Corona Loans
- Introducing an Airline Ticket Tax in Switzerland: Estimated Effects on Demand
E4S Policy Brief, March 2020. Link
- Wealth Taxation: The Swiss Experience
VoxEU.org, Dec. 2019. Link
- Swiss Corporate Tax Reform and Mobile Firm Profits
presentation at University of Lugano, February 2019. Link
- Taxpayers Seek Strategies to Avoid Wealth Tax
ifo DICE Report 16(2), August 2018. Link
- Trade Integration and Spatially Balanced Development: Implications for Uganda and Rwanda
Working Paper, International Growth Centre, London School of Economics, July 2017. Link
- How Do Taxpayers Respond to Wealth Taxes?
presentation at France Stratégie, June 2017. Link
- Firm Clusters and Government: Who Taxes Whom?
VoxEU.org, June 2015. Link
- More than Copper: Toward the Diversification and Stabilization of Zambian Exports
Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank, January 2015. Link
- Firms in Clustered Industries Are Prepared to Pay Higher Taxes than those that Are not
EUROPP blog, London School of Economics, January 2013. Link and Royal Economic Society Media Briefing, September 2012.
- Economic Integration in the Lower Congo Region: Opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville Bottleneck
Africa Trade Policy Note, World Bank, May 2011. Link
- Competition for Firms: Zero-Sum or Positive-Sum Game?
IEB World Report on Fiscal Federalism, 2010. Link
- Is the New Economic Geography Passé?
VoxEU.org, January 2009. Link
- Tax Competition Tames Big Government
VoxEU.org, November 2007. Link