Research

Current manuscripts: (click on title for abstract)

• Fiscal Federalism in the 21st Century

  with David R. Agrawal and Jan K. Brueckner. Commissioned by Annual Review of Economics, 2024. See manuscript

• Competition, harmonization and redistribution: Corporate taxes in Switzerland

  with Marko Köthenbürger, Matthias Krapf, Raphaël Parchet, Kurt Schmidheiny and David Staubli. NBER WP #31830, Nov. 2023. See manuscript

• Price and Prejudice: Housing Rents Reveal Racial Animus

  with Gian-Paolo Klinke, Andrea Marcucci, Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig, See manuscript

• Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes?

  with Jayson Danton, Raphaël Parchet and Jörg Schläpfer. Conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. See manuscript

• And There Was Light: Trade and the Development of Border Regions

  with Barthélémy Bonadio, Olivier Cadot and Guillaume Rais (March 2023 version), See manuscript

• On Nesting Location Choice Models Correctly: A Reply

  with Kurt Schmidheiny. See manuscript

Peer-reviewed publications: (click on title for abstract and replication files)

• Young people’s mental and social distress in times of international crisis: evidence from helpline calls, 2019–2022

  with Valentin Klotzbücher and Rafael Lalive. Scientific Reports, 13(11858), 2023. See publication

• Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland

  with Jonathan Gruber, Matthias Krapf and Kurt Schmidheiny, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(4): 111–150, 2022. See publication (supplementary materials)

• Mental Health Concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic as Revealed by Helpline Calls

  with Valentin Klotzbücher, Rafael Lalive and Stephanie Reich, Nature. 2021. See publication (commentary; news post)

• The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential

  with Klaus Desmet and Gian-Paolo Klinke, Journal of Development Economics, 147, 2020. See publication

• Covid-19 Financial Support to Small Businesses in Switzerland: Evaluation and Outlook

  with Rafael Lalive, Tobias Lehmann and Michael Siegenthaler. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. 156(15). 2020. See publication

• Does Tax Competition Tame the Leviathan ?

  with Mario Jametti, Journal of Public Economics, 177, 2019. See publication

• Trade and Towns: Heterogeneous Adjustment to a Border Shock

  with Céline Carrère and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, Journal of Urban Economics, 105: 162-175, 2018. See publication

• Agglomeration Economies, Taxable Rents, And Government Capture: Evidence From A Place-Based Policy

  with Helen Simpson, Journal of Economic Geography, 18(2): 319-353, 2018. See publication / Article in VoxEU

• Inheritance Flows in Switzerland, 1911–2011

  with Didier Dupertuis and Elodie Moreau, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 154(8), 2018. See publication

• Taxes in Cities

  with Sam Bucovetsky and Kurt Schmidheiny, in: G. Duranton, J. V. Henderson, W. Strange (eds.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 5B: 1123-1196, 2015. See publication

• Estimating The Rivalness Of State-Level Inward FDI

  with Kurt Schmidheiny, Journal of Regional Science, 55(1): 139-148, 2015. See publication

• Alleged Tax Competition: The Mysterious Death of Bequest Taxes in Switzerland

  with Raphaël Parchet, Journal of Public Economics, 111: 63-78, 2014. See publication

• Progressive Taxes and Firm Births

  with Hans Ulrich Bacher, International Tax and Public Finance, 20(1): 129-168, 2013. See publication

• Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?

  with Mario Jametti and Kurt Schmidheiny, Economic Journal, 122(563): 1069-1093, 2012. See publication

• How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria

  with Céline Carrère and Federico Trionfetti, Journal of International Economics, 86(1): 68-81, 2012. See publication

• Does the Trust Game Measure Trust?

  with Jean-Claude Usunier, Economics Letters, 115(1): 20-23, 2012. See publication / Longer version

• On the Equivalence of Location Choice Models: Conditional Logit, Nested Logit and Poisson

  with Kurt Schmidheiny, Journal of Urban Economics, 69(2): 214-222, 2011. See publication

• The Spatial Effects of Trade Openness: A Survey

  Review of World Economics, 147(1): 59-83, 2011. See publication

• A Test of Trade Theories When Expenditure is Home Biased

  with Federico Trionfetti, European Economic Review, 53(7): 830-845, 2009. See publication

• Agglomeration and Growth: Cross-Country Evidence

  with Federica Sbergami, Journal of Urban Economics, 65(1): 48-63, 2009. See publication

• An Account of Global Intra‐Industry Trade, 1962–2006

  The World Economy, 32(3): 401-459, 2009. See publication / Working paper version with colour graphs

• Sectoral Agglomeration Economies in a Panel of European Regions

  with Nicole Mathys, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38(4): 348-362, 2008. See publication

• Vertical Versus Horizontal Tax Externalities: An Empirical Test

  with Mario Jametti, Journal of Public Economics, 90(10): 2027-2062, 2006. See publication

• The Fading Attraction of Central Regions: an Empirical Note on Core–Periphery Gradients in Western Europe

  Spatial Economic Analysis, 1(2): 227-235, 2006. See publication

• New Economic Geography Meets Comecon: Regional Wages and Industry Location in Central Europe

  with Pamina Koenig, Economics of Transition, 14(2): 245-267, 2006. See publication

• Intra-Industry Trade and Labour-Market Adjustment: A Reassessment Using Data on Individual Workers

  with Robert Elliott and Joanne Lindley, Review of World Economics, 142(3): 521-545, 2006. See publication

• An Account of Geographic Concentration Patterns in Europe

  with Rolf Traeger, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 35(6): 597-624, 2005. See publication
  (Extracts reprinted in de Gijsel, P. and Schenk, H. (eds.), Multidisciplinary Economics, Springer, 2005)

• Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential

  with Matthieu Crozet and Pamina Koenig, The World Economy, 27(6): 853-875, 2004. See publication

• Public Expenditure, International Specialisation and Agglomeration

  with Frederico Trionfetti, European Economic Review, 48(4): 851-881, 2004. See publication
  (Reprinted in Jovanovic, M.N. (ed.), Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries, vol. II [series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics], Edward Elgar, 2007)

• A Tale of Two Cycles: Co-Fluctuations Between UK Regions and the Euro Zone

  with Salvador Barrios, Robert Elliott and Marianne Sensier, The Manchester School, 71(3): 265-292, 2003. See publication

• Labour-Market Effects of Intra-Industry Trade: Evidence for the United Kingdom

  with Robert Elliott, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv / Review of World Economics, 138(2): 207-228, 2002. See publication

• Achats publics et spécialisation internationale : l’effet d’entraînement

  with Federico Trionfetti, Économie Internationale, 89-90: 173-187, 2002. See publication

• Evolving Geographical Concentration of European Manufacturing Industries

  Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv / Review of World Economics, 137(2): 215-243, 2001. See publication

• Industrial Structure and Public Procurement: Theory and Empirical Evidence

  with Federico Trionfetti, Journal of Economic Integration, 16(1): 106-127, 2001. See publication

• Export Growth of NAFTA Members, Intra-Industry Trade and Adjustment

  with Michael Thorpe, Global Business and Economics Review, 3(1): 94-110, 2001. See publication

• Dynamics of Intra-Industry Trade and Labour-Market Adjustment

  Review of International Economics, 8(3): 420-435, 2000. See publication
  (Reprinted in: Kwan Choi, E. and Greenaway, D., Globalization and Labor Markets, Blackwell, 2001)

• Intra-Industry Trade and Adjustment in Malaysia: Puzzling Evidence

  with Michael Thorpe, Applied Economics Letters, 7(11): 729-733, 2000. See publication

• East-Asian Export Growth, Intra-Industry Trade and Adjustment

  with Michael Thorpe, Asia Pacific Journal of Economics and Business, 3(2): 34-47, 1999. See publication

• Ireland’s Trading Potential with Central and Eastern European Countries: A Gravity Study

  with Mary Kelly, Economic and Social Review, 30(2): 159-174, 1999. See publication

• Economic Geography, Industry Location and Trade: The Evidence

  The World Economy, 21(6): 775-801, 1998. See publication
  (Reprinted in Jovanovic, M.N. (ed.), Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries, vol. II [series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics], Edward Elgar, 2007)

• Trading Places: Industrial Specialization in the European Union

  Journal of Common Market Studies, 36(3): 319-346, 1998. See publication
  (Reprinted in Jovanovic, M.N. (ed.), Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries, vol. III [series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics], Edward Elgar, 2007)

• Adjustment to the European Single Market: Inferences from Intra-Industry Trade Patterns

  with Robert Elliott, Journal of Economic Studies, 25(3): 225-247, 1998. See publication

• Commerce et spécialisation géographique dans l’Union Européenne

  Économie internationale, 65(1): 169-202, 1996. See publication

• Intra-Industry Trade, Adjustment and the Single Market: The Irish Experience

  with Dermot McAleese, Economic and Social Review, 26(2): 107-129, 1995. See publication

• Marginal Intra-Industry Trade: Measurement and Relevance for the Pattern of Industrial Adjustment

  Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv / Review of World Economics, 130(3): 600-613, 1994. See publication
  (Reprinted in Lloyd, P.J. and Grubel, H.G. (eds.), Intra-Industry Trade [series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics], Edward Elgar, 2003)

Publications in books: (click on title for abstract)

• Economic Integration in the Lower Congo Region

  with Mombert Hoppe, in Paul Brenton and Gözde Isik (eds.) De-Fragmenting Africa: Deepening Regional Trade Integration in Goods and Services, World Bank, 2012. See paper

• EU External Trade Policy

  with Alan Matthews, in Ali M. El-Agraa (ed.) The European Union: Economics & Policies, 8th edition, Cambridge University Press, 2007. See paper

• Marginal Intra-Industry Trade: Towards a Measure of Non-Disruptive Trade Expansion

  in Peter J. Lloyd and Hyun-Hoon Lee (eds.) Frontiers of Research on Intra-Industry Trade, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. See paper

• Growing Alike or Growing Apart? Industrial Specialisation of EU Countries

  in Charles Wyplosz (ed.) The Impact of EMU on Europe and the Developing Countries, Oxford University Press, 2001. See paper

• EU External Trade Policy

  with Dermot McAleese, in Ali M. El-Agraa (ed.) The European Union: Economics and Policies, 6th edition, Pearson Education, 2001.

• Intra-Industry Trade and Adjustment: The European Experience

  co-edited with R. C. Hine Macmillan Publishers, London, 1999. See book / Economic Journal’s book review

Unpublished working papers: (click on title for abstract)

• 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

• Daily Suffering: Helpline Calls during the Covid-19 Crisis

  with Rafael Lalive. See manuscript

• Intra-Industry Trade and Job Turnover

  with Anthony Murphy and Eric Strobl, 2004. See paper

• Regional Integration, Scale Economies and Industry Location in the European Union

  with Johan Torstensson, CEPR Discussion Paper #1435, 1996. See paper
  (Reprinted in Jovanovic, M.N. (ed.), Economic Integration and Spatial Location of Firms and Industries, vol. I [series: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics], Edward Elgar, 2007)

• Industrial Specialisation in the European Union: A Test of the New Trade Theory

  Trinity Economic Papers, Technical Paper No. 95/5, 1995. See paper

• Scale Economies, Intra-Industry Trade and Industry Location in the New Trade Theory

  Trinity Economic Papers, Technical Paper No. 95/4, 1995. See paper