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► Member
of the Editorial Board: Journal of
Urban Economics, Journal of
Economic Geography, Review
of World Economics, International
Economics, Applied Economics Quarterly.
► Research
Fellow, Centre for Economic
Policy Research, London.
► International
Research Fellow, Kiel Institute of
World Economics.
► External
Research Fellow, Centre
for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of
Nottingham.
► Chairman
of the Scientific Committee, Avenir Suisse.
► Member
of the Scientific Committee, European Trade Study
Group.
► Co-Leader, Swiss
Research Network on Fiscal Federalism.
► Co-Director, Tax
Policy Center, University of Lausanne.
Current manuscripts: (return to top of page)
► "Let There Be Light: Trade and the
Development of Border Regions" (with Olivier Cadot and Alexander
Himbert)
► "Does Tax Competition Tame the
Leviathan?" [2018 revised version] (with Mario Jametti)
► "The Elasticity of Taxable Wealth: Evidence
from Switzerland" (with Jonathan Gruber, Matthias Krapf and Kurt
Schmidheiny)
► "On Nesting Location Models Correctly:
A Reply" (with Kurt Schmidheiny)
Peer-reviewed publications: (return to top of page)
► "Trade and Towns: Heterogeneous Adjustment to a
Border Shock" (with Céline Carrère and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud), Journal of Urban Economics, 105:
162-175, 2018.
► "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. (article in VoxEU)
► "Inheritance Flows in
Switzerland, 1911-2011" (with Didier Dupertuis and Elodie Moreau), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics,
154(8), 2018.
► "Taxes in Cities" (with Sam
Bucovetsky and Kurt Schmidheiny), in: G. Duranton, J.V. Henderson and W. Strange
(eds.), Handbook of Regional and Urban
Economics, Volume 5B: 1123-1196, 2015.
► "Estimating the Rivalness of State-Level Inward
FDI" (with Kurt Schmidheiny), Journal
of Regional Science, 55(1): 139-148, 2015.
► "Alleged Tax Competition: The Mysterious Death of
Inheritance Taxes in Switzerland" (with Raphaël Parchet), Journal of Public Economics, 111: 63-78,
2014.
► "Progressive
Taxes and Firm Births" (with Hans Ulrich Bacher), International Tax and Public Finance, 20(1): 129-168, 2013.
► "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.
► "How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade
Liberalisation: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria" (with Céline
Carrère and Federico Trionfetti), Journal
of International Economics, 86(1): 68-81, 2012.
► "Does the Trust Game Measure Trust?"
(with Jean-Claude Usunier), Economics
Letters, 115(1): 20-23, 2012. (A longer
version is available here.)
► "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.
► "The Spatial Effects of Trade Openness: A
Survey", Review of World
Economics, 147(1): 59-83, 2011.
► "A Test of Trade Theories When Expenditure is
Home Biased" (with Federico Trionfetti), European Economic Review, 53(7): 830-845, 2009.
► "Agglomeration and Growth: Cross-Country
Evidence" (with Federica Sbergami), Journal of Urban Economics, 65(1): 48-63, 2009.
► "An Account of Global Intra-Industry Trade,
1962-2006", World Economy,
32(3): 401-459, 2009. (See working
paper version for colour graphs.)
► "Sectoral Agglomeration Economies in a Panel of
European Regions" (with Nicole Mathys), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38(4): 348-362, 2008.
► "Vertical Versus Horizontal Tax
Externalities: An Empirical Test" (with Mario Jametti), Journal of Public Economics, 90(10):
2027-2062, 2006.
► "The Fading Attraction of Central Regions: an
Empirical Note on Core-Periphery Gradients in Western Europe", Spatial Economic Analysis, 1(2): 227-235,
2006.
► "New Economic Geography Meets Comecon: Regional
Wages and Industry Location in Central Europe" (with Pamina Koenig), Economics of Transition, 14(2): 245-267,
2006.
► "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.
► "An Account of Geographic Concentration Patterns
in Europe" (with Rolf Traeger), Regional Science and Urban
Economics, 35(6): 597-624, 2005. (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.
► "Public Expenditure, International Specialisation
and Agglomeration" (with Federico Trionfetti), European
Economic Review, 48(4): 851-881, 2004. (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.
► "Labour-Market Effects of Intra-Industry Trade:
Evidence for the United Kingdom" (with Robert Elliott), Weltwirtschaftliches
Archiv, 138(2): 207-228, 2002.
► "Achats
publics et spécialisation internationale: l'effet d'entraînement" (with
Federico Trionfetti), Économie Internationale, 89-90: 173-187,
2002. [Abstract]
► "Evolving Geographical Specialisation of European
Manufacturing Industries", Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 137(2):
215-243, 2001.
► "Industrial Structure and Public Procurement:
Theory and Empirical Evidence" (with Federico Trionfetti), Journal
of Economic Integration, 16(1): 106-127, 2001.
► "Export Growth of NAFTA Members, Intra-industry
Trade and Adjustment" (with Michael Thorpe), Global Business and
Economics Review, 3(1): 94-110, 2001.
► "Dynamics of Intra-Industry Trade and
Labour-Market Adjustment", Review of International Economics,
8(3): 420-435, 2000. (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, 2001.
► "East-Asian Export Growth, Intra-Industry Trade
and Adjustment" (with Michael Thorpe), Asia Pacific Journal of
Economics and Business, 3(2): 34-47, 1999.
► "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.
► "Economic
Geography, Industry Location and Trade: The Evidence", The World
Economy, 21(6): 775-801, 1998. (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 Specialisation in the
European Union", Journal of Common Market Studies, 36(3):
319-346, 1998. (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.
► "Commerce et spécialisation géographique dans
l’Union Européenne", Économie Internationale, 65(1): 169-202,
1996.
► "Intra-Industry Trade, Adjustment and the Single
Market: The Irish Experience" (with Dermot McAleese), Economic and
Social Review, 26(2): 107-129, 1995.
► "Marginal Intra-Industry Trade: Measurement and
Relevance for the Pattern of Industrial Adjustment", Weltwirtschaftliches
Archiv, 130(3): 600-613, 1994. (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: (return to top of page)
► "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.
► "EU External Trade Policy" (with
Alan Matthews), in Ali M. El-Agraa (ed.) The European Union: Economics &
Policies, 8th edition, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
► "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.
► "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.
► "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, January 1999. (click here for the
Economic Journal’s book review)
Unpublished working papers: (return to top of page)
► "Intra-Industry Trade and Job Turnover"
(with Anthony Murphy and Eric Strobl), 2004.
► "Regional Integration, Scale Economies and Industry
Location in the European Union" (with Johan Torstensson), CEPR
Discussion Paper #1435, 1996. (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.
► "Scale Economies, Intra-Industry Trade and
Industry Location in the New Trade Theory", Trinity Economic Papers,
Technical Paper No. 95/4, 1995.
Teaching (return to top of page)
Courses 2018-2019:
► Statistique
II (1st year Bachelor)
► International Trade and
European Integration (3rd year Bachelor) [replaced
this year by E. Milet]
► International
Trade (2nd year MScE) [replaced this year by E. Milet]
Graduate
students and post-docs 2018-2019:
Media / policy (return to top of page)
En français
► La péréquation
financière en pleine transformation (La
Vie économique, mars 2019)
► Projet fiscal 17 : Quelle est la réforme
optimale ? (présentation Table ronde, Martigny, 5.6.2018)
► Frein à
l’endettement : Comment gérer les soldes de crédits ?
(présentation Commissions des finances, Conseil national et Conseil des États,
15./22.2.1018)
► Le
commerce international bénéficie-t-il aux zones frontalières ?
(Sciences Po LIEPP Policy Brief, juin 2017)
► Les
stratégies d’évitement face à l’impôt sur la fortune (La Vie économique, mai 2017)
► Concurrence fiscale,
mobilité des contribuables et la RPT (présentation Département des finances
GE, 28.5.2015)
► L’impôt sur les
successions : le point de vue de la recherche scientifique (La Vie économique, mars 2014)
► La dette, le vice ou la vertu (24 Heures, 6.9.2013)
► Concentration de la richesse en Suisse :
du déjà-vu (Le Temps, 28.3.2012)
► Concurrence fiscale entre les cantons :
une illusion ? (Le Temps,
2.7.2010)
► Le
« bouclier fiscal » : un pari risqué (24 Heures, 30.1.2009)
► Sur le
fond, Bruxelles a raison : évitons la concurrence par les niches
fiscales !
(Le Temps, 28.8.2007)
► Un
milliard : quelle excellente affaire (24 Heures, 8.11.2006)
► La Suisse et l’Union européenne : considérations économiques (exposé
« Rencontres Suisses », 31.10.2006)
► Fiscalité
du canton d’Obwald : qu’on mette des bornes aux rivalités nuisibles (Le Temps, 14.3.2006)
► Concurrence
fiscale: rhétorique et réalité (Le Temps, 4.5.2005)
► La
progression du train de vie de l'Etat n'est pas excessive (24
Heures, 4.5.2005)
► Financer
l'assurance invalidité: les leçons du 16 mai (Le Temps,
9.8.2004)
► Impôt sur les successions: l'analyse économique favorise le contre-projet
de l'État (prise de position économistes HEC, 26.3.2004)
► Impôt
sur les successions: l'absurde argument de la concurrence fiscale (24
Heures, 19.3.2004)
► Est-il
bien sage d'abolir l'impôt sur les successions? (capgenève,
nov. 2003)
► L'impôt
sur les successions doit être préservé (Le
Temps, 28.7.2003)
► Porto
Alegre ou Davos: faut-il choisir? (24
Heures, 5.2.2003)
► L'idée
d'un taux fiscal unique à 92 points est une illusion (Le
Temps, 8.6.2001)
Auf Deutsch
► regelmässige
Blog-Einträge
auf 
► Eigenmietwert:
Steuerschikane für sparsame Rentner? (22.3.2019)
► Der Finanzausgleich im
Umbau (Die Volkswirtschaft, März
2019)
► Eigenmietwert: Eine unbeliebte aber sinnvolle
Steuer (Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
29.1.2019)
► Der
Ressourcenausgleich im Zusammenspiel von Steuervorlage 17 und Anpassung des NFA
(Studie für NFA-Geberkantone, Januar 2019)
► Unternehmenssteuerreform
und Standortattraktivität (Präsentation Europa Forum Luzern, 12.11.2018)
► Unternehmenssteuerreform in der Schweiz
(Präsentation SP Winterthur-Töss, 3.9.2018)
► Schuldenbremse: Wie
umgehen mit wiederkehrenden Budgetresten? (Präsentation Finanzkommissionen
Stände-/Nationalrat, 15./22.2.2018)
► Wie
umgehen mit den strukturellen Budgetunterschreitungen im Schweizer
Bundeshaushalt? (Ökonomenstimme,
30.8.2017)
► Steuerzahler
suchen bei Vermögenssteuern nach Ausweichstrategien (Die Volkswirtschaft, Mai 2017)
► Die optimale Unternehmenssteuerreform: Auf
drei Variablen kommt es an (26.1.2017)
► Steuerstrategie Kanton Bern: Expertenbericht (Mediendossier)
(Studie für Finanzdirektion Bern, 17.9.2015)
► Steuerföderalismus
in der Schweiz: Erfolgsmodell dank Leitplanken (WPZ Politikanalyse No. 6, Universität St. Gallen, 31.7.2015)
► USRIII: Müssen die
Unternehmenssteuern generell gesenkt werden? (Die Volkswirtschaft, November 2014)
► NFA und Steuerwettbewerb (Präsentation
Finanzkommissionen Stände-/Nationalrat, 3.7.2014)
► Lusthemmender Finanzausgleich (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 21.5.2014)
► Erbschaftssteuern und Mobilität
der Steuerzahler (Die Volkswirtschaft,
März 2014)
► NFA,
Steuerwettbewerb und Mobilität der Steuerzahler (Studie zum
Finanzausgleichs-Wirksamkeitsbericht 2012-2015, März 2014)
► Wie steuerempfindlich sind die Schweizer
(Präsentation CVP-AWG, 27.1.2014)
► Steuerwettbewerb und Standortattraktivität
(Präsentation SGVW-Sommertagung, 18.6.2012)
► Steuern und Umversteilung in der Schweiz
(Präsentation SP-Bundeshausfraktion, 27.1.2012)
► Überlegungen zum neu
gestalteten Finanzausgleich (Präsentation Finanzkommission des
Nationalrats, 27.1.2011)
► Ökonomische Überlegungen zur „Steuergerechtigkeitsinitiative“
(Präsentation WAK-Ständeratskommission, 25.8.2009)
► Steuerwettbewerb:
Rhetorik, Theorie und Realität (Referat
Kiwanis-Club, 23.2.2006)
► Road
Pricing: Basel würde es nicht bereuen (Basler Zeitung, 11.8.2005)
In English
► Swiss Corporate Tax Reform and Mobile
Firm Profits (presentation at University of Lugano, Feb. 2019)
► Taxpayers
Seek Strategies to Avoid Wealth Tax (ifo
DICE Report 16(2), Aug. 2018)
► Trade
Integration and Spatially Balanced Development: Implications for Uganda and
Rwanda (Working Paper,
International Growth Centre, London School of Economics, July 2017)
► How Do Taxpayers Respond to Wealth
Taxes? (presentation at France Stratégie, June 2017)
► Firm
Clusters and Government: Who Taxes Whom? (VoxEU.org, June 2015)
► More than Copper: Toward the Diversifiction and
Stabilization of Zambian Exports (Policy
Research Working Paper, World Bank,
Jan. 2015)
► Firms
in Clustered Industries Are Prepared to Pay Higher Taxes than those that Are
not (EUROPP blog, London School
of Economics, Jan. 2013; and Royal
Economic Society Media Briefing, Sept. 2012)
► Economic
Integration in the Lower Congo Region: Opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville
Bottleneck (Africa Trade Policy Note,
World Bank, May 2011)
► Competition for Firms: Zero-Sum or Positive-Sum
Game? (IEB World Report on Fiscal
Federalism, 2010)
► Is the New Economic Geography
Passé? (VoxEU.org, Jan. 2009)
► Helpful Tax Competition: New
Empirical Evidence (VoxEU.org,
Nov. 2007)
Academic
career (return to top of page)
► Ph.D.,
University of Dublin, Trinity College (1996)
► Lic.Rer.Pol.,
University of Fribourg (1991)
Positions
held:
► Vice-dean,
HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne
(2012-2018, 2004-2006)
► Professor
of Economics, Department
of Economics, HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne
(2002- )
► Assistant
Professor of Economics, Department of
Economics, HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne
(1999-2002)
► Jean
Monnet Lecturer in European Economics, School of Economic
Studies, University of Manchester (1998-99)
► Lecturer,
Department of Economics, Trinity College
Dublin (1995-97)
► Teaching
and Research Assistant, Department of
Economics, Trinity College Dublin (1992-95)
► Economist
for UBS (1991-92)
How to
reach me (return to top of page)
Visit me at my office:
Internef building, 5th floor, office no. 534; click here
for directions,
send me an email: Marius [dot] Brulhart [at] unil [dot] ch,
or use an old-fashioned form of communication:
Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, CH - 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Tel: +41 21 692 3471; Fax: +41 21 692 3365. Finally... 
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