The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics is published in collaboration with the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW). The journal is fully sponsored by the SSES and the SAGW so authors are not required to pay an article processing charge.
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Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399242
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Swiss Monetary Targeting 1974–1996: The Role of Internal Policy Analysis
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Liberalization of the Swiss Letter Market and the Viability of Universal Service Obligations
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Nothing Ventured — Nothing Gained? Empirical Evidence on Venture Capital Financing in Switzerland
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Life Cycle Portfolio Choice: A Swiss Perspective
We use panel data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to estimate age-earnings profiles as well as transitory and permanent income shock variances for investor groups distinguished by gender, education and activ...
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Does it Pay to Watch Central Bankers’ Lips? The Information Content of ECB Wording
In this analysis, the informational content of central bank rhetoric is assessed based on the experience with the ECB since 1999. Among the ECB’s communication channels we focus on the monthly press conference...
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The Apple Falls Increasingly Far: Parent-Child Correlation in Schooling and the Growth of Post-Secondary Education in Switzerland
We analyze the completed highest education degree of four ten-year birth cohorts between 1934 and 1973 in Switzerland, using data from the Swiss Household Panel 1999–2004. As expected, the fraction of tertiary...
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Can Bank Supervisors Rely on Market Data? A Critical Assessment from a Swiss Perspective
Market data, such as bond spreads or equity price volatility, are a complementary source to bank supervisory information. In Switzerland, meaningful market data are available for a number of banks which consti...
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Do Wages Lead Inflation? Swiss Evidence
We construct a quarterly time series for nominal hourly wages and unit labour costs from 1975 onwards and investigate the empirical link between wages and CPI inflation in Switzerland in order to identify caus...
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Could Regional and Cantonal Banks Reduce Credit Risk through National Diversification?
This paper estimates the reduction of credit risk that can be achieved in Switzerland through a national diversification of bank lending. Using a credit risk model based on corporate default rates, we find tha...
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An Efficiency Comparison of Regional Employment Offices Operating under Different Exogenous Conditions
This paper investigates the technical efficiency differences of a sample of regional employment offices (REOs) across Swiss cantons. Regular job-search assistance, registration and matching of unemployed worke...
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Principle Guided Investing: The Use of Exclusionary Screens and Its Implications for Green Investors
This paper examines how “green” investors can induce firms to invest in clean production technology. The 1-period model incorporates heterogeneous agents — Markowitz investors and green investors — and two gro...
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Multifunctional Agriculture and the Preservation of Environmental Benefits
We investigate environmental aspects of agriculture from a welfare economic perspective and show that efficiency prices of agricultural and forest land include important amenity and non-use values that exhibit...
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A Two-Pillar Phillips Curve for Switzerland
Monetary aggregates have historically been important in Swiss monetary policy. The Swiss National Bank used money growth targets until 1999. The new policy framework introduced in 2000 focuses on an inflation ...
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Traffic Accidents in Switzerland: How Hazardous Are “High Risk” Groups? An Analysis Based on Police Protocols
On January 1, 2005, Switzerland reduced the legal level of blood-alcohol concentration while driving from 0.8‰ to 0.5‰. This happend on basis of the assumption that more restrictive per mil levels increase roa...
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Decomposition of the Gender Wage Gap Using Matching: An Application for Switzerland
In this paper, we investigate the gender wage differentials for Switzerland. Using micro data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey, we apply a matching method to decompose the wage gap in Switzerland. This nonpa...
Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399243
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