Political Economics

Büro / Office 4.45.1

Benjamin Jansen
Assistent / Doktorand
Benjamin Jansen
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / WWZ
Politische Ökonomie

Assistent / Doktorand

Peter Merian-Weg 6
4052 Basel
Schweiz

Tel. +41 61 207 33 70
b.jansen@unibas.ch

 

Current Position

I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Economics of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel, Switzerland.


Fields of Interest

  • Political Economics
  • Social Identy and Cleavage Theory
  • Economics of Happiness
  • Rental housing markets
  • Applied econometrics

 

Education

  • University of Basel, MSc in Business and Economics, Major in Markets and Public Policy
  • University of Basel, BA in Business and Economics

 

Publications

  • Prepared bookchapter: Stutzer, Alois, Benjamin Jansen und Tobias Schib (2024). Democracy and Wellbeing. In Marie Briguglio, Natalia V. Czap and Kate Laffan (eds.), Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action. Forthcoming with Routledge.

 

Work in Progress

  • Partisan affective polarization and political participation in Switzerland (with Alois Stutzer)
  • Party cleavages and prototypical party affect patterns in Switzerland (with Alois Stutzer)
  • In planning: mobility and rental housing markets regulations (with Jakob Roth)

 

Newspaper Articels

  • Stutzer, Alois and Benjamin Jansen (2023). Wie Institutionen den sozialen Zusammenhalt fördern. Die Volkswirtschaft, December 12, 2023, pp. 26-29. [ link ]

 

CV

Available upon request.