PhD Student
Phone: (07) 3138 1554
Fax: (07) 3138 1500
E-mail: m.schaffner@qut.edu.au
Room: Z857, Level 8, Z Block, GP
Qualifications
MA (Sociology, Economics and Computer Science) University of Basel (Switzerland).
Career Summary
Markus Schaffner is a PhD Student in Economics at the School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology. Previously he worked as a software developer at small IT company in Basel, Switzerland. He finished his MA (lic. phil.) in Sociology, Economics and Computer Science in 2005 at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He currently focuses on research in behavioural and experimental economics
Research Interests
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Social Comparison, Sport Economics, Physiological Data Processing, Communication, New Media, Computer Science, Applied Empirical Research, Statistics and Quantitative Analysis
Publications
Torgler, B., Demir, I. C., Macintyre, A., & Schaffner, M. (2008). Causes and consequences of tax morale: An empirical investigation. Economic Analysis & Policy, 38 (2).
Torgler, B., Schaltegger, C. A., & Scha_ner, M. (2003). Is forgiveness divine? a cross-culture comparison of tax amnesties. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), 139 (III), 375-396.
Seminar and Conference Talks
- Economics of Heart Rate Variability. Presentation at the BBL Seminar, October, 2009 at the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
- Heart Beats and Economic Decisions Observing Mental Stress of Proposers and Responders in the Ultimatum Bargaining Game. Presentation at the Seminar, October 2009 at the Wirtschaftuniversitaet (WU) Wien, Vienna, Austria.
- Heart Beats and Economic Decisions Observing Mental Stress of Proposers and Responders in the Ultimatum Bargaining Game. Presentation at the Experimental Workshop, July 2009 at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- Heart Beats and Economic Decisions Observing Mental Stress of Proposers and Responders in the Ultimatum Bargaining Game. Presentation at the 38th Australian Conference of Economists ACE09, September 2009 at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
- Inequality Aversion and Performance in and on the Field. Presentation at the Econometric Society Australasian Meeting ESAM09, July 2009 at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- In a Heart Beat: Using Heart Rate Variability Measurements to Examin the Relationship between Mental Stress and Economic Decision Making. Presentation at the X-institutional PhD Workshop, November 25, 2008 at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
- Meet the Jonses: An Empirical Investigation of Reference Groups in Relative Income Position Comparisons. Presentation at the PhD Conference in Economics and Business 2008, November 21, 2008 at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- In a Heart Beat Using Heart Rate Variability Measurements to Examin the Relationship between Mental Stress and Economic Decision Making. Presentation at the Brown Bag Seminar, November, 2008 at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- Inequality Aversion and Performance in and on the Field Presentation at the 37th Australian Conference of Economists 2008 ACE08, October 2008 at the Gold Coast.
- Determinants of Money Laundering: An International Macro Analysis. Presentation at the 4th Indo - Australian Conference on IT Security IACIS 2008, March 2008 at the Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India.
- Relative Income Position, Reference Groups, and Performance. Presentation at the 2nd End-Of-Year Conference of Swiss Economists Abroad, December 2007 at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
- Beyond winning or losing: How the analysis of sports data can benefit economic research. Presentation at the X-institutional PhD Workshop, November 2007 at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Working Papers
RePEC http://ideas.repec.org/f/psc234.html - Please refer to this link for current and past Working Papers