ETH - Chair of Economics - Christa Brunnschweiler

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. Click here for the dataset (Excel format).

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. and Erwin H. Bulte (2008), Linking Natural Resources to Slow Growth and More Conflict, Science 320 (5876): pp. 616 - 617. (Summary and Full text versions available)

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

Recent working papers

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. and Simone Valente (2011), International Partnerships, Foreign Control, and Income Levels: Theory and Evidence, Economics Working Paper Series 11/154, ETH Zurich.

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. (2009), Oil and Growth in Transition Countries, OxCarre Research Paper No. 2009-29 (earlier version as ETH Economics Working Paper).

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, updated version or earlier version as ETH Economics Working Paper.

Click here for a complete list of downloadable working papers.

Click here for a full list of CER-ETH Economics Working Papers.

Other publications

Bretschger, Lucas, Christa Brunnschweiler, Lisa Leinert, Karen Pittel, und Therese Werner (2010), Preisentwicklung bei natürlichen Ressourcen: Vergleich von Theorie und Empirie, Umwelt-Wissen Nr. 1001, Bern: Bundesamt für Umwelt.

Bretschger, Lucas and Christa Brunnschweiler (2010), The Swiss Approach to Sustainability: Challenges for Environmental, Energy, Land Use, and Transport Policies, Policy Brief Series 10/2, ETH Zurich . Also appeared in: Ernst Baltensperger, Dirk Niepelt and Boris Zürcher (eds.), Wirtschaftspolitik nach der Krise, Study Center Gerzensee / Avenir Suisse.

Work in progress

Rebellion Against Reason? A Study of Expressive Behaviour and Strikes (with C. Jennings and I. MacKenzie)

Mineral dependence and social conflict in the former Soviet states

3. Presentations

Invited seminar presentations

May 2011	Department of Economics Research Seminar, University of Bern, Switzerland
Mar 2011	Economics Department Seminar, NTNU Trondheim, Norway
Nov 2009	OxCarre Seminar, University of Oxford, UK
Nov 2007	Eureka Seminar, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conference and workshop presentations

Jul 2010	Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Montreal, Canada
Jan 2010	Resource Economics Winterschool in Ascona, Switzerland
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
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 2011	International Trade: From Theory to Evidence, ETH Zurich
Spring term 2010	International Trade: From Theory to Evidence, ETH Zurich
Spring term 2009	International Economics, ETH Zurich
Spring term 2008	International Economics, ETH Zurich

5. Referee work

Peer-reviewed journals

Ecological Economics; Economica; Economic Change and Restructuring; Economic Systems; Empirical Economics; Energy Economics; Environment and Development Economics; Environmental & Resource Economics; European Economic Review; International Economics and Economic Policy; Journal of African Economies; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Journal of Economic Growth; Journal of Economic Surveys; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Journal of Peace Research; Oxford Economic Papers; Public Choice; Resource and Energy Economics; World Development

Grant applications

Swiss National Science Foundation; The Board of Science for Global Development (WOTRO), The Netherlands

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 Thesis supervisors: Prof. Lucas Bretschger (ETH Zurich), Prof. Ulrich Woitek (University of Zurich)
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 Thesis supervisor: Prof. Thomas Bernauer (ETH Zurich)
Sep 1992 - Jun 1996	Maturità Tipo B, Liceo Cantonale di Lugano I, Lugano, Switzerland

7. Positions and academic visits

Dec 2009 - present	Research fellow (Oberassistentin) and lecturer at the Chair of Economics / Resource Economics, CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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 - Nov 2009	Postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at the Chair of Economics / Resource Economics, CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Oct - Nov 2007	Visiting postdoctoral 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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