Marius Brülhart

Marius Brülhart
Academic career
FieldEconomics
InstitutionUniversity of Lausanne
Alma materUniversity of Fribourg
Trinity College Dublin

Marius Brülhart is a Swiss economist and professor of economics at the University of Lausanne. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.[1]

Career

Brülhart earned his undergraduate economics degree from the University of Fribourg in 1991, and his Ph.D. in economics from Trinity College Dublin in 1996.[2][3] He subsequently worked as a junior professor at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Manchester and the University of Lausanne.[2] In 2002, he was appointed as a full professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne) of the University of Lausanne.[2]

Brülhart is a Research Fellow of CEPR,[4] a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Economics[5] and the Journal of Economic Geography.[6] He has advised a number of policy-making organizations, including the World Bank, the European Commission, the OECD, and numerous Swiss government bodies.[7] Between 2009 and 2021, he had chaired the scientific advisory council of the liberal think tank Avenir Suisse.[8] During the Covid-19 pandemic, he was a member of the Swiss National Covid-19 Science Taskforce, whose economics group he chaired in 2021.[9] In 2022, he took over as Editor-in-Chief of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.[10]

Research

Brülhart is an empirical economist with broad research interests. His Google Scholar h-index stands at 42.[11] In his Ph.D. work, he contributed to the measurement of intra-industry trade (IIT), mainly by developing an index of marginal IIT that has become the standard measure of changes in two-way international trade.[12] In the 2000s, he focused on topics in economic geography, including the measurement of industry-level spatial concentration,[13] growth-effects of country-level agglomeration patterns,[14] impacts of industrial agglomeration on local taxation,[15] and local economic effects of trade liberalization.[16]

More recently, Brülhart’s research has shifted towards public finance, working on vertical tax externalities,[17] on inheritance tax competition,[18] wealth taxes,[19] and local income taxation.[20] During the Covid-19 pandemic, Brülhart and his coauthors pioneered the use helpline data as a real-time measure of population-level mental and social distress.[21]

References

  1. ^ "Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics". sgvs.ch. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "UNIL | Unisciences | Marius Brülhart". applicationspub.unil.ch. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  3. ^ "NZZ | Home page | Economy | Marius Brülhart". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  4. ^ "CEPR | About CEPR | People | Page 16". cepr.org. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Journal of Urban Economics | Editorial board". sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Oxford Academic | Journal of Economic Geography | Editorial Board". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  7. ^ "CEPR | About CEPR | People | Marius Brülhart". cepr.org. 3 April 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Home page | SonntagsZeitung | Dispute over Corona emergency aid at Avenir Suisse". tagesanzeiger.ch. 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Swiss National Covid-19 Science Taskforce | Expert Group Economics | Coordination of economic analyses | Chair Marius Brülhart". sciencetaskforce.ch. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  10. ^ "SpringerOpen | Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics | Editorial Board". sjes.springeropen.com. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Marius Brülhart". Google Scholar. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  12. ^ Brülhart, Marius (1994). "Marginal Intra-Industry Trade: Measurement and Relevance for the Pattern of Industrial Adjustment". Review of World Economics. 130 (3): 600–613. doi:10.1007/BF02707615.
  13. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Traeger, Rolf (2005). "An Account of Geographic Concentration Patterns in Europe". Regional Science and Urban Economics. 35 (6): 597–624. doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2004.09.002. hdl:10419/116198.
  14. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Sbergami, Federica (2009). "Agglomeration and Growth: Cross-Country Evidence". Journal of Urban Economics. 65 (1): 48–63. doi:10.1016/j.jue.2008.08.003.
  15. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Jametti, Mario; Schmidheiny, Kurt (2012). "Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?". Economic Journal. 122 (563): 1069–1093. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02511.x. hdl:10230/386.
  16. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Carrère, Céline; Trionfetti, Federico (2012). "How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria". Journal of International Economics. 86 (1): 68–81. doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.08.010. hdl:10419/115080.
  17. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Jametti, Mario (2006). "Vertical Versus Horizontal Tax Externalities: An Empirical Test". Journal of Public Economics. 90 (10–11): 2027–2062. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.04.004.
  18. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Parchet, Raphaël (2014). "Alleged Tax Competition : The Mysterious Death of Bequest Taxes in Switzerland". Journal of Public Economics. 111: 63–78. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.12.009.
  19. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Gruber, Jonathan; Krapf, Matthias; Schmidheiny, Kurt (2022). "Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland". American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 14 (4): 111–150. doi:10.1257/pol.20200258. hdl:10419/207299.
  20. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Danton, Jayson; Parchet, Raphaël; Schläpfer, Jörg (2024). "Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes?". American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
  21. ^ Brülhart, Marius; Klotzbücher, Valentin; Lalive, Rafael; Reich, Stephanie (2021). "Mental Health Concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic as Revealed by Helpline Calls". Nature. 600 (7887): 121–126. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04099-6. PMC 9973557. PMID 34789873.