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  2. The mutual funds’ returns, inter alia, are dependent on fund managers’ performance. This makes human capital efficiency very central for consistent risk-adjusted performance. The persistence in performance bec...

    Authors: Nawazish Mirza, Jamila Abaidi Hasnaoui, Bushra Naqvi and Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:16
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  3. We analyse small businesses’ recourse to public support measures during the COVID-19 crisis using a survey of 1011 self-employed workers and small business owners in Switzerland. We find that “objective” measu...

    Authors: Marius Brülhart, Rafael Lalive, Tobias Lehmann and Michael Siegenthaler
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:15
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  4. This paper analyzes card payments to the retail sector in Switzerland during the COVID-19 crisis. We provide evidence on aggregate effects and regional shifts. Pronounced shifts—which persisted post-lockdown—c...

    Authors: Sébastien Kraenzlin, Christoph Meyer and Thomas Nellen
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:14
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  6. The number of short-time workers from January to April 2020 is used to now- and forecast quarterly GDP growth. We purge the monthly log level series from the systematic component to extract unexpected changes ...

    Authors: Sylvia Kaufmann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:12
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  7. Like most countries, the Swiss government adopted drastic measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. These measures were aimed at avoiding close physical proximity between people. The adverse economic con...

    Authors: Marius Faber, Andrea Ghisletta and Kurt Schmidheiny
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:11
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  8. We assess the impact of the timing of lockdown measures implemented in Germany and Switzerland on cumulative COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates. Our analysis exploits the fact that the epidemic w...

    Authors: Martin Huber and Henrika Langen
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:10
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  11. The partial shutdown of the economy following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the lack of measurements of economic activity that are available with a short lag and at high frequency. The ...

    Authors: Yvan Lengwiler
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:7
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  12. Because macroeconomic data is published with a substantial delay, assessing the health of the economy during the rapidly evolving COVID-19 crisis is challenging. We develop a fever curve for the Swiss economy ...

    Authors: Marc Burri and Daniel Kaufmann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:6
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  15. Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby alleviate youth unemployment, many policymakers fear that firms will reduce the numbe...

    Authors: Samuel Lüthi and Stefan C. Wolter
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:3
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  17. We study macro-financial linkages and their importance within the Swiss economy from a network perspective. First, we investigate the real-financial connectedness in the Swiss economy, using the KOF economic b...

    Authors: Erhan Uluceviz and Kamil Yilmaz
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2020 156:1
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  18. In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as i...

    Authors: Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer and Roman Uhlig
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:17
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  19. Motivated by recent US evidence, we evaluate the predictive power of changes in the weight of large firms in the aggregate stock market (“Goliath vs David” (GVD)) for Swiss stock market returns and bond market...

    Authors: David R. Haab and Thomas Nitschka
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:16
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  20. This paper is a contribution to assessing the Swiss energy transition, with an emphasis on the consequences of decommissioning the nuclear power plants for the electricity market and the whole economy. We expe...

    Authors: Sophie Maire, Philippe Thalmann and Frank Vöhringer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:13
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  21. Collaborating under the Swiss Energy Modeling Platform (SEMP), five modeling teams (employing an energy systems model and four macroeconomic models with a focus on energy) have carried out a multi-model compar...

    Authors: Florian Landis, Adriana Marcucci, Sebastian Rausch, Ramachandran Kannan and Lucas Bretschger
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:12
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  22. Swiss targets for climate policy require significant reductions of emissions by 2050. While such reductions can be achieved in a cost-efficient manner by employing taxes on greenhouse gas emissions, such taxes...

    Authors: Florian Landis
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:11
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  23. In Switzerland, transportation represents 41% of CO2 emissions from energy combustion (2016), a much higher share than in the European Union (EU) (28%) or even the USA (34%). While total Swiss CO2 emissions decre...

    Authors: Philippe Thalmann and Marc Vielle
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:10
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  24. This paper studies the growth impacts of realizing two long-term carbon targets in Switzerland (reducing CO2 emissions in 2050 by 72% and 80% relative to 1990 levels) with alternative steering-based climate polic...

    Authors: Adriana Marcucci and Lin Zhang
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:9
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  25. This paper analyzes the Confederation’s debt management. The Confederation actively manages roll over and interest rate risk by increasing bond maturity with increasing marketable debt-to-GDP levels. It furthe...

    Authors: Basil Guggenheim, Mario Meichle and Thomas Nellen
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:15
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  26. Knowing the part of currency in circulation that is used for transactions is important information for a central bank. For several countries, the share of banknotes that is hoarded or circulates abroad is size...

    Authors: Katrin Assenmacher, Franz Seitz and Jörn Tenhofen
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:14
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  27. This paper sheds light on Swiss franc LIBOR futures, which are often used to derive interest rate expectations. We show that the differences between LIBOR futures and realized rates (excess returns) are, on av...

    Authors: Lucas Marc Fuhrer, Basil Guggenheim and Matthias Jüttner
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:8
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  28. I assess the stability of the monetary environment in Switzerland over the past two centuries. In order to control for transitory measurement errors, in particular in nineteenth century data, I use an unobserv...

    Authors: Daniel Kaufmann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:7
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  29. The rise in the level of executive compensation in international banking in the last two decades has been striking. At the same time, corporate declarations of relative performance evaluation (RPE) have enjoye...

    Authors: Dragan Ilić, Sonja Pisarov and Peter S. Schmidt
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:6
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  30. We study the reaction of the CHF and JPY to macroeconomic surprises and changes in the broader market environment before and during the crisis using high-frequency data. Results show that the CHF and JPY are t...

    Authors: Adrian Jäggi, Martin Schlegel and Attilio Zanetti
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:5
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  33. Using novel survey data, we examine attitudes towards money and to what extent they affect economic outcomes in Switzerland. We find that three main types of attitudes towards money co-exist: the prestige and ...

    Authors: Caroline Henchoz, Tristan Coste and Boris Wernli
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2019 155:2
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  35. The U.S. Tax Program for Swiss banks is a very significant part of the recent history of the Swiss financial industry. It has accelerated the transformation of the Swiss banking industry from a system that rel...

    Authors: Yvan Lengwiler and Albana Saljihaj
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:23
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  38. This paper analyzes the connection between openness and economic performance in Switzerland. Considering different dimensions of openness, we show that the Swiss economy is classified as relatively open. Never...

    Authors: Reto Föllmi, Angela Fuest, Philipp an de Meulen, Martin Micheli, Torsten Schmidt and Lina Zwick
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:17
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  39. Ten years after the worst financial crisis of the post-war period, Switzerland has established a Too-Big-To-Fail (TBTF) framework. Under this framework, the two large Swiss banks are subject to substantial cap...

    Authors: Georg Junge and Peter Kugler
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:22
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  40. In this paper, relations between public debt, economic growth, and long-term interest rates in Switzerland from 1894 to 2014 are examined. For this purpose, an original long-term dataset on the general gross p...

    Authors: Guillaume Guex and Sébastien Guex
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:16
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  44. Recently, Abadie et al. (Am J Polit Sci 59:495–510, 2015) have expanded synthetic control methods by the so-called cross-validation technique. We find that their results are not being reproduced when alternati...

    Authors: Stefan Klößner, Ashok Kaul, Gregor Pfeifer and Manuel Schieler
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:11
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  45. This paper examines interest-parity conditions that arguably held as regards the investment demand for bills of exchange during the classical gold standard (1880–1914). Contemporaneous guides to the foreign ex...

    Authors: Nils Herger
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:9
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  46. This paper applies a recent method proposed by Maggiori (The U.S. Dollar Safety Premium, 2013) to estimate the Swiss franc safety premium. The results show that the three-step instrumental variable approach as us...

    Authors: Jessica Leutert
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:13
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  47. The aim of this paper is to present a review of the legal, theoretical, and empirical aspects of secessions from an economic perspective. This survey provides interesting insights into recent events such as th...

    Authors: Thierry Madiès, Grégoire Rota-Grasiozi, Jean-Pierre Tranchant and Cyril Trépier
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:19
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  48. This paper studies money demand in Switzerland under free banking before the establishment of the Swiss National Bank. We find that, in addition to income, the banks’ balance-sheet-to-GDP ratio and the number ...

    Authors: Stefan Gerlach and Peter Kugler
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:18
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  49. We estimate the size of inheritance flows in Switzerland over a long span of data, in close analogy to the study for France by Piketty (Q J Econ 126(3):1071–1131, 2011). We find that inheritance flows had been...

    Authors: Marius Brülhart, Didier Dupertuis and Elodie Moreau
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:8
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  50. This paper analyzes the relationship between factor substitutability and the energy intensity of manufacturing firms. Specifically, we compare the degree of substitutability between the input factors capital, ...

    Authors: Sebastian M. Deininger, Lukas Mohler and Daniel Mueller
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2018 154:6
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