Short biography
As a Senior Fellow, Dr Lukas Schmid focuses primarily on business environment and innovation policy, as well as on competitiveness issues. After studying economics at the University of St. Gallen he first worked at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) before completing his doctorate at the University of Lucerne and spending several years as a research assistant at the Chair of Political Economics.
Education:
Dr. oec. at the University of Lucerne with a cumulative dissertation entitled “Essays in Public Finance” (2021); MA in economics from the University of St. Gallen (2013); BA in economics from the University of St. Gallen (2008).
Professional experience:
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO, economic development, macroeconomic support program manager (2020); research assistant with Professor Christoph Schaltegger, Chair of Political Economics, University of Lucerne (2015–20); SBB business trainee (2013–15).
Selected external publications:
Fiscal Federalism and Income Inequality: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland (2021), mit Lars P. Feld, Christian Frey und Christoph A. Schaltegger.
Fiscal Federalism and Income Inequality: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland (2019), in co-operation with Lars P. Feld, Christian Frey and Christoph A. Schaltegger.
Public perceptions and bond markets during the Great War: the case of a neutral country (2019), Public Choice, in co-operation with Christoph A. Schaltegger.
Föderalismus stärkt die Leistungsfähigkeit der Schweiz (2018-6), Die Volkswirtschaft, p. 8–11, in co-operation with Heiko Burret.
Wo die Sozialwerke die Arbeitsanreize hemmen (2018-3), Die Volkswirtschaft, p. 33–35, in co-operation with Patrick Leisibach and Christoph A. Schaltegger.
“Der Anleihenmarkt als Spiegel der Franken-Abwertung von 1936” (2017), Monetary Economic Issues Today – Festschrift der Schweizerischen Nationalbank zu Ehren von Ernst Baltensperger, p. 453–474, in co-operation with Christoph A. Schaltegger.