Public Economics
Prof. Dr. Beat Hintermann
Professor (Öffentliche Finanzen)
Büro
WWZ / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Professur Öffentliche Finanzen
Peter Merian-Weg 6
4002
Basel
Schweiz
Hinweise
Büro 4.42
My research revolves around externalities. These arise when decentralized markets fail, for example in the context of environmental pollution or congestion, and call for an intervention by the public sector. A particular focus of my research lies on the functioning of cap-and-trade markets for emissions and their interaction with electricity and fuel markets, and on transport pricing. I am furthermore interested in questions related to fiscal federalism, behavioral public economics and health economics.
I am a member of the environmental and resource economics chapter of the German Economics Association (AURÖ) and the CESifo Research Network and from 2015 to 2020 part of the Swiss Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society and Transition (CREST).
I am member of the Research Network Sustainable Future.
Selected Publications
Current | recent projects
"Empirical analysis of mobility behavior in the context of dynamic pricing (MOBIS)", funded by Innosuisse and UVEK; joint project with ETHZ and ZHAW.
"MOBIS:COVID-19", joint project with ETH Zurich and LINK Institute. Monitoring of mobility in Switzerland since before the pandemic (Project website).
"Reduction of transport emissions due to E-biking in Switzerland (EBIS)", funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
"Pollution, environmental regulation and firm performance", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
"The implications of Covid-19 for mobility-related energy use and external costs”, funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
All Publications and Projects
2024
Severin Gerfin: The less the better? An empirical analysis of vehicle density and accident relationships
Noémie Kipfer: Substituting the traditional? Examining usage patterns of E-bikers through discrete choice modeling
2023
Linda Meister: The rebound effect of carbon offsets on air travel
Julia Wellauer: Drivers' response to fuel price variation
2022
Ciriaco De Minico: To what extent have the determinants of the CO2 price changed over the last two years?
Laura Schwab:Using a Nudge to Reduce Mobility Externalities: Evidence from a RCT with GPS Tracking in Switzerland
2021
Jakob Roth: Taxing Externalities of Individuals' Mobility: Income-related Differences in Response
Benedikt Klotz: Carbon price formation in Phase III of the EU ETS
2020
Leonard Seiler: Preference revelation and choice modelling of transportation modes: Evidence from a stated preference experiment
Sugerthan Naswulegaran: Learning spillovers and treatment success in Swiss hospitals
Roman Stutzer: Predicting energy use of individual mobility on survey and tracking data
2019
Björn Fosse: Auf dem Weg zu einer emissionsfreien Mobilität: Effekt von Anreizsystemen in Norwegen