Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Featured Article Collection: Modelling and assessing energy and climate strategies for Switzerland

Swiss Energy and Climate Climate change has become a focal point of the societal and political debate in many countries. Economists have contributed to this debate by assessing the climate problem as well as different proposals for climate policy. A central part of this work is to analyse the economic consequences of different emission scenarios.

In this context, we are happy to introduce the special issue on modelling climate policy in Switzerland, edited by Florian Landis, Frank Krysiak and Adriana Marcucci. Under the umbrella of the Swiss Energy Modelling Platform (SEMP), five modelling teams have contributed to assessing the economic and technological consequences of reaching Swiss emission targets up to 2050. In addition to these contributions to the current policy debate, the multi-model comparison facilitated by SEMP helps to identify common trends and differences across models that stem from different modelling frameworks and parametrizations and thus to gain more robust insights to what extent the choice of a modelling framework shapes the results of the analysis.

Aims and scope

Founded in 1867, The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes theoretical and empirical contributions to any field of economics and reaches an international audience. Owned and financed by the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, SJES is committed to a high quality, efficient review process with a first round response time of typically less than two months. SJES particularly welcomes contributions from early-career researchers.

Content type: Original article
| 13 September 2019

Welfare effects of technology-based climate policies in liberalized electricity markets: seeing beyond total system cost

Authors: Sophie Maire, Philippe Thalmann and Frank Vöhringer
Content type: Original article
| 13 September 2019

Multi-model comparison of Swiss decarbonization scenarios

Authors: Florian Landis, Adriana Marcucci, Sebastian Rausch, Ramachandran Kannan and Lucas Bretschger
Content type: Original article
| 13 September 2019

Cost distribution and equity of climate policy in Switzerland

Authors: Florian Landis
Content type: Original Article
| 13 September 2019

Lowering CO₂ emissions in the Swiss transport sector

Authors: Philippe Thalmann and Marc Vielle
Content type: Original article
| 13 September 2019

Growth impacts of Swiss steering-based climate policies

Authors: Adriana Marcucci and Lin Zhang

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Content type: Original article
| 6 March 2018

Inheritance flows in Switzerland, 1911–2011

Authors: Marius Brülhart, Didier Dupertuis and Elodie Moreau
Content type: Conference key note
| 24 January 2019

Financial literacy and the need for financial education: evidence and implications

Authors: Annamaria Lusardi
Content type: Conference key note
| 25 January 2018

Economics: the view from below

Authors: Marion Fourcade
Content type: OriginalPaper
| 28 December 2013

Public debt and economic growth in advanced economies: A survey

Authors: Ugo Panizza and Andrea F. Presbitero
Content type: Original article
| 25 January 2018

The sovereign money initiative in Switzerland: an economic assessment

Authors: Philippe Bacchetta

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Editor profiles

Editor-in-Chief: Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne

Rafael Lalive is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics of University of Lausanne. Rafael's work focuses on questions related to labor market policy, family policy, and social economics.

Co-Editor: Martin Brown, University of St. Gallen

Martin Brown is Full Professor of Banking at the University of St.Gallen. His research has focused on financial intermediation, household finance and organizational economics.

Co-Editor: Volker Grossmann, University of Fribourg

Volker Grossmann is Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Fribourg. Volker's current research interests include: macroeconomics of housing; distribution of income and human capital formation.

Co-Editor: Cédric Tille, Graduate Institute Geneva

Cédric Tille is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Cédric's current research focuses on international finance and macroeconomics.