Dr. Benedikt Zoller-Rydzek

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer

Focus

• International Economics
• International Trade
• Multinational Firms
• International Taxation
• Applied Econometrics
• Public Finance

Experience

• DIZH Fellow
  DIZH and ZHAW
  05 / 2022 - today
• Lecturer International Economics
  ETH Zurich and KOF
  04 / 2014 - 02 / 2019

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr. sc. ETH Zurich / International Economics
  ETH Zurich
  04 / 2012 - 12 / 2014
• Master in Quanitative Economics / Quanitative Economics
  University Alicante
  09 / 2009 - 10 / 2011
• Diplom Volkswirt / Economics
  University Mannheim
  09 / 2004 - 07 / 2009

Network

Membership of networks

• Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.
• European Economic Association
• Digital Euro Association

Social media

• LinkedIn
• Twitter / X
• Personal homepage

Media presence

• Tagesanzeiger: Ukraine War und IT specialists
• SRF Tagesschau: COVID and Zombie-Firms
• Bloomberg: US-China Trade War
• FAZ: US-China Trade War
• ORF: US-China Trade War
• CNBC: US-China Trade War
• 20 Minuten: Made in China

Projects

• Pelt8 Scale Up / Project leader / Project completed
• The Economic Reconstruction of Belarus / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Nearshoring Studie / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Insurance Tokens / Project leader / Project completed
• Bauen 4.0 / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Business Models of a Dentistry Network / Project leader / Project completed
• Evaluation and Testing of new cross-boarder cooperation in additive manufacturing / Project co-leader / Project completed

Publications

• Keller, Florian; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2022.

  Trade and attitude towards the EU : what really matters.

  European Foreign Affairs Review.

  27(1), pp. 127-154.

• Egger, Peter H.; Kaynak, Pinar; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2020.

  Indirect effects of trade shocks on Turkish local labor markets.

  Regional Science and Urban Economics.

  2020(83), pp. 103537.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2020.103537

• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Keller, Florian,

  2020.

  COVID-19 : guaranteed loans and zombie firms.

  CESifo Economic Studies.

  66(4), pp. 322-364.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifaa014

• Egger, Peter H.; Strecker, Nora M.; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2020.

  Estimating bargaining-related tax advantages of multinational firms.

  Journal of International Economics.

  122(103258).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2019.103258

• Keller, Florian; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2019.

  European nearshoring index : is eastern Europe attractive for Swiss IT firms?.

  Central European Business Review.

  8(3), pp. 35-53.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.18267/j.cebr.217

• Boesenberg, Simon; Egger, Peter; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2017.

  Capital taxation, investment, growth, and welfare.

  International Tax and Public Finance.

  25(2), pp. 325-376.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-017-9454-3

• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2019.

  Labor market effects of trade induced technological change under intellectual property rights protection [paper].

  In:

  ETSG 2019 BERN 21st Annual Conference, Bern, 12-14 September 2019.

  European Trade Study Group.

  Available from: https://www.etsg.org/ETSG2019/papers/190.pdf

• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Gurova, Siyana; Keller, Florian,

  2023.

  Navigating change : managing firm risks in turbulent times [paper].

  In:

  49th Conference of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Lisbon, Portugal, 15-17 December 2023.

• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Bläse, Richard,

  2021.

  Sprung in eine digitale und nachhaltige Zukunft.

  Competence.

  2021, pp. 16-17.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25036

• Keller, Florian; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2021.

  Trade and attitude towards the EU : what really matters? [paper].

  In:

  ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops and Research Sessions, online, 17-28 May 2021.

• Farley, Michael; Keller, Florian; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2020.

  Schweizer Unternehmen in der Corona-Krise : Durchstehen statt Adaptieren.

  Ökonomenstimme.

  Available from: https://www.oekonomenstimme.org/artikel/2020/06/schweizer-unternehmen-in-der-corona-krise--durchstehen-statt-adaptieren/

• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Keller, Florian,

  2020.

  COVID-19 : guaranteed loans and zombie firms.

  Available from: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/100897/1/MPRA_paper_100897.pdf

• Egger, Peter; Strecker, Nora; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2019.

  Grossunternehmen : tiefere Steuersätze dank höherer Verhandlungsmacht.

  Ökonomenstimme.

  Available from: https://oekonomenstimme.org/articles/1459

• Felbermayr, Gabriel; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2019.

  Der US-Chinesische Handelskonflikt : wer trägt die Kosten?.

  Ökonomenstimme.

  Available from: https://oekonomenstimme.org/articles/1409

• Lassmann, Andrea; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2019.

  Decomposing the margins of transfer pricing.

  KOF Working Papers

  ; 450.

  Zürich:

  ETH Zürich.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000322881

• Egger, Peter; Strecker, Nora; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2019.

  Steuern auf Verhandlungsbasis.

  KOF-Analysen.

  2019(1), pp. 72-80.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000334789

• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Felbermayr, Gabriel,

  2018.

  Wer bezahlt Trumps Handelskrieg mit China?.

  ifo Schnelldienst.

  71(22), pp. 30-35.

  Available from: https://www.ifo.de/publikationen/2018/aufsatz-zeitschrift/wer-bezahlt-trumps-handelskrieg-mit-china

• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Felbermayr, Gabriel,

  2018.

  Who is paying for the Trade War with China?.

  EconPol Policy Brief.

  (11).

  Available from: http://www.econpol.eu/publications/policy_brief_11

• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Lassmann, Andrea,

  2019.

  Decomposing the margins of transfer pricing.

  In:

  1st Workshop of the Swiss Network on Public Economics, Zürich, 13 December 2019.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Capital taxation, investment, growth, and welfare, ITAX, 2018. (with Simon Boesenberg and Peter H. Egger)
• Who is paying for the trade war with China?, EconPol Policy Brief 11, 2018. (with Gabriel Felbermayr)
• Wer bezahlt Trumps Handelskrieg mit China?, ifo Schnelldienst 71 (22), 2018 (with Gabriel Felbermayr)
• Steuern auf Verhandlungsbasis, KOF Analyse Nr. 1, 2019 (with Peter H. Egger and Nora M. Strecker)

Other publications

• Strecker, Nora M.;Egger, Peter H.; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt, 2020. Estimating bargaining-related tax advantages of multinational firms. Journal of International Economics. 2020(122).
• Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Keller, Florian, 2020. COVID-19: Guaranteed loans and zombie firms (with Florian Keller), CESifo Economic Studies, Volume 66, Issue 4, December 2020.
• Egger, Peter H.; Kaynak, Pinar; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt, 2020. Indirect effects of trade shocks on Turkish local labor markets, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 83, 2020.
• Keller, Florian; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt, 2019. European Nearshoring Index – Is Eastern Europe Attractive for Swiss IT Firms? Central European Business Review, 8(3), 2019.
• Florian Keller, Benedikt Zoller-Rydzek, 2022. Trade and Attitude Towards the EU: What Really Matters. European Foreign Affairs Review, 2022(1)
• Hartwell, C. A., Bornukova, K., Kruk, D., & Zoller-Rydzek, B., 2022. The Economic Reconstruction of Belarus: Next Steps after a Democratic Transition. STUDY Requested by the AFET committee.
• Egger, Peter, Gunes, Pinar & Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt, 2023. Multinational and exporter wage premia: evidence from southeastern Europe and a panel multiple-treatments approach, Empircal Economomics (2023)

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