Matthias Krapf

Working papers

• "The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories," with Anja Roth and Michaela Slotwinski.

Refereed Publications

• "Regional Variations in Corporate Tax Responsiveness: Evidence from Switzerland," 2025, with David Staubli, European Economic Review, 171, Art. 104891.

• "Die Ungleichheit der zu versteuernden Vermögen in der Schweiz während der Covid-19 Pandemie," 2024, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 25(3-4), 286-298.

• "Does Income Risk Affect the Wealth Distribution?" 2023, Eastern Economic Journal, 49(4), 475-515.

• "Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland," 2022, with Marius Brülhart, Jonathan Gruber, and Kurt Schmidheiny, AEJ:EP, 14(4), 111-150.

• "Interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?" 2022, with Esther Mirjam Girsberger and Miriam Koomen, Labour Economics, 78(C), Art. 102235.

• "Joint Income-Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Lucerne Tax Data," 2022, with David Gallusser, Social Indicators Research, 163(1), 251-295.

• "The Protestant Fiscal Ethic: Religious Confession and Euro Skepticism in Germany," 2017, with Adrian Chadi, Economic Inquiry, 55(4), 1813-1832.

• "Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence From the Groves of Academe," 2017, with Heinrich W. Ursprung and Christian Zimmermann, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 140, 147-175.

• "Age and Complementarity in Scientific Collaboration," 2015, Empirical Economics, 49(2), 751-781.

• "Price Dynamics in the Belarusian Black Market for Foreign Exchange," 2014, with Hannes Huett and S. Derya Uysal, Journal of International Economics, 94(1), 169-176.

• "How Nobel Laureates Would Perform in the Handelsblatt Ranking," 2012, with Jörg Schläpfer, Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 12(3), 47-56.

• "How Do Editors Select Papers, and How Good are They at Doing It?" 2011, with Robert Hofmeister, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Topics), 11(1), Art. 64.

• "Research evaluation and journal quality weights: Much ado about nothing," 2011, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 81(1), 5-27.

Non-Refereed Publications

• "Competition, Harmonization and Redistribution: Corporate Taxation in Switzerland," 2023, with Marius Brülhart, Marko Köthenbürger, Raphaël Parchet, Kurt Schmidheiny and David Staubli, in: David Agrawal, James Poterba and Owen Zidar (Eds.), NBER Chapters: Policy Responses to Tax Competition, University of Chicago Press.

• "Religion and the European Union," 2018, with Benito Arruñada, in: Sriya Iyer, Jared Rubin and Jean-Paul Carvalho (Eds.), Advances in the Economics of Religion, Palgrave, 295-308.