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 in a 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. On the side he still maintains the open source core of a small CRM system.
Research Interests
Behavioral and experimental economics, empirical research, sport economics, illegal activities, environmental economics, communication, new media, computer science, statistics and quantitative analysis.
Publications
Torgler, Benno, Christoph A. Schaltegger and Markus Schaffner (2003). Is Forgiveness Divine? A Cross-Culture Comparison of Tax Amnesties, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. 139: 375-396. (Refereed journal)
Conference Talks
Determinants of Money Laundering: An International Macro Analysis. Presentation at the 4th Indo - Australian Conference on IT Security IACIS 2008, March 28, 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 21, 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 26, 2007 at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Working Papers
RePEC http://ideas.repec.org/f/psc234.html - Please refer to this link for my Working Papers.