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1. 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...

   Authors: Attilio Zanetti

   Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399234

   Content type: OriginalPaper Published on: 29 December 2007

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2. 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...

   Authors: Bertrand Rime

   Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399233

   Content type: OriginalPaper Published on: 29 December 2007

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3. 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...

   Authors: José V. Ramirez and Anatoli Vassiliev

   Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399232

   Content type: OriginalPaper Published on: 29 December 2007

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4. 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...

   Authors: Urs von Arx

   Citation: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 2007 143:BF03399231

   Content type: OriginalPaper Published on: 29 December 2007

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