ETH - Chair of Economics - Christa Brunnschweiler

Environmental and resource economics; natural resources and economic growth and development; political economy; economic history; financial markets and sustainability

2. Publications

Articles in refereed journals

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. and Erwin H. Bulte (2009), Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Resource Abundance, Dependence and the Onset of Civil Wars, Oxford Economic Papers 61 (4): 651-674.

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. and Erwin H. Bulte (2008), The resource curse revisited and revised: A tale of paradoxes and red herrings, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 55 (3): 248-264.

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. and Erwin H. Bulte (2008), Linking Natural Resources to Slow Growth and More Conflict, Science 320 (5876): pp. 616 - 617. (Click here for the Summary or the Full text version)

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. (2008), Cursing the blessings? Natural resource abundance, institutions, and economic growth, World Development 36 (3): 399-419.

Working papers

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. (2009), Finance for Renewable Energy: An Empirical Analysis of Developing and Transition Economies, Economics Working Paper Series 09/117, ETH Zurich.

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. (2009), Oil and Growth in Transition Countries, Economics Working Paper Series 09/108, ETH Zurich.

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. and Erwin H. Bulte (2009), Fractionalization and the Fight over Natural Resources: Ethnicity, Language, Religion, and the Onset of Civil War, OxCarre Research Paper No. 2009-17.

Baker, Matthew J., Christa N. Brunnschweiler, and Erwin H. Bulte (2008), Did history breed inequality? Colonial factor endowments and modern income distribution, Economics Working Paper Series 08/86, ETH Zurich.

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. (2006), Financing the alternative: renewable energy in developing and transition countries, Economics Working Paper Series 06/49, ETH Zurich.

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Work in progress

Resource ownership and economic performance

Mineral dependence and social conflict in the former Soviet states

3. Presentations

Invited seminar presentations

Nov 2009	OxCarre Seminar, University of Oxford, UK
Nov 2007	Eureka Seminar, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conference and workshop presentations

Jun 2009	European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 17th Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jan 2009	Resource Economics workshop in Wildhaus, Switzerland
Nov 2007	Resource Economics workshop in Stoos, Switzerland
Jun 2007	European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 15th Annual Meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece
Nov 2006	Resource Economics workshop in Weggis, Switzerland
Aug 2006	European Economic Association Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria (paper accepted for presentation)
Jul 2006	Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Kyoto, Japan
Jun 2006	Monte Verità conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics - SURED 2006 in Ascona, Switzerland
May 2006	Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting 2006 in Montréal, Canada
May 2006	Conference on Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use in Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mar 2006	Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Meeting 2006 in Lugano, Switzerland
Feb 2006	Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, Kiel Institute for World Economics, Germany
Feb/ Mar 2005	Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, University of Rostock, Germany

4. Teaching

Spring term 2009	International Economics, ETH Zurich
Spring term 2008	International Economics, ETH Zurich

5. Referee work

Ecological Economics
Economic Change and Restructuring
Empirical Economics
Environment and Development Economics
Environmental & Resource Economics
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Resource and Energy Economics
World Development

6. Education

Apr 2004 - Sep 2007	Doctorate in Economics (Dr. oec. publ., summa cum laude) at the University of Zurich Thesis title: Resource Endowments and Economic Performance
Mar - Jul 2000	Exchange semester at the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International Studies
Oct 1996 - Dec 2001	lic. phil. I (Master of Arts) in Political Science, Economics and Russian Literature at the University of Zurich Thesis title: Politics vs. Economics: the International Monetary Fund and the Countries of the Former Soviet Union
Sep 1992 - Jun 1996	Maturità Tipo B, Liceo Cantonale di Lugano I, Lugano, Switzerland

7. Positions and academic visits

Oct - Dec 2009	Visiting research fellow at OxCarre, University of Oxford, UK
Jan 2009 - present	External Research Associate at OxCarre, University of Oxford, UK
Dec 2007 - present	Research fellow and lecturer at the Chair of Economics / Resource Economics, CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Oct - Nov 2007	Visiting post-doc research fellow with the Development Economics Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Apr 2004 - Sep 2007	Research Assistant at the Chair of Economics / Resource Economics, Prof. Dr. L. Bretschger, CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Oct 2002 - Sep 2003	Marketing Consultant with Ernst & Young Ltd. in Moscow, Russia
Jan - Jun 2002	Post-grad intern with UBS AG in Group Policy (former Group Policy and Research), Corporate Center, Zurich, Switzerland
1999 - 2001	Assistant at the Chair of International Relations, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernauer, Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

8. Grants and Awards

2009	Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics
2009	Swiss National Science Foundation grant for international research visit

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