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Benjamin Jansen

Benjamin Jansen

Assistant / PhD candidate (Politische Ökonomie)

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Peter Merian-Weg 6
4052 Basel
Schweiz

Contact

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

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

Office number : 4.45.1

Publications

Working Papers

Work in Progress

 
  • Tenants mobility and rental housing markets regulations in Switzerland

Newspaper Articles

 
  • Linder, Pascal und Schlegel, Lukas (2025), Gespaltene Schweiz? So polarisiert ist unser Land wirklich. Radio Central, July 16, 2025   link
  • Thommen, David (2025). Bei uns sind Gegner keine Feinde. Volksstimme, January 4, 2025.   link
  • von Wyl, Benjamin und Vera Leysinger (2024). Trump, Biden und der Hass: Wie US-Amerikaner:innen in der Schweiz die Polarisierung erleben. Swissinfo, July 17, 2024.   link
  • Jansen, Benjamin and Alois Stutzer (2024). Emotionale Polarisierung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in der Schweiz seit zwei Jahrzehnten stabil. DeFacto, June 6, 2024.   link
  • Morell, Marco (2024). In der Schweiz sind politische Gräben weniger tief als anderswo. SRF 4 News, May 5, 2024.   link
  • Stutzer, Alois and Benjamin Jansen (2023). Wie Institutionen den sozialen Zusammenhalt fördern. Die Volkswirtschaft, December 12, 2023, pp. 26-29.   link

Uni News

 
  • Emch, Céline (2024). Im Fokus: Benjamin Jansen untersucht, wie emotional polarisiert die Schweiz ist. Uni News, July 25, 2024.   link
  • Stutzer, Alois and Benjamin Jansen (2024). Wie hat sich die affektive Polarisierung in der Schweiz entwickelt? WWZ Faculty Blog, May 22, 2024.   link

Teaching and Teaching Assistance

 
  • Teaching assistant in "Introduction to Political Economics" (23518-01; BA lecture): Spring 2023/25
  • Assistant supervisor in "Bachelor's thesis in Public Choice and Public Economics" (24261-01; BA seminar): Fall 2024
  • Supervisor of seminar papers in "Scientific Writing II: Writing and Presenting a Seminar Paper" (65935-01; BA seminar): Fall 2024
  • Assistant supervisor of master's thesis in Politcial Economics on "Affective Polarization and Electoral Accountability": Spring 2024
  • Assistant supervisor in "Interuniversity masterseminar with the Universität Fribourg: Economic and Fiscal Policy" (32926-01; MSc seminar): Spring 2024
  • Supervisor of seminar papers in "Scientific Writing I: Fundamentals" (23522-01; BA seminar): Spring 2024/23
  • Teaching assistant in "Political Economics" (15965-01; MSc lecture): Fall 2023
  • Tutorials lecturer in "Introduction to Game Theory and Experimental Economics" (23347-01; BA lecture): Fall 2021/20/19

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