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Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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ISSN 2235-6282 · SpringerOpen · 174 artikel di indeks
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Who shops online? the role of policy, household characteristics, and family networks
Abstract This paper examines the unintended effects of public policy measures and social dynamics on e-commerce adoption, using a comprehensive dataset of household level transactions at Switzerland’s largest retailer matched to administrative registers. First, we study how the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Economics and biodiversity in Switzerland: does sustainable investing help to moderate the problem?
Abstract According to the WWF (Almond et al., 2022), 90 percent of the severe biodiversity loss observed over the past 50 years can be attributed to human—particularly economic—activity. We develop a parsimonious economic model that explains findings like this and allows us to discuss policy…
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Wage-price pass-through in Switzerland
Abstract We analyse the historical relationship between consumer prices and wages in Switzerland. Our results show that, between 1980 and 2019, the pass-through from prices to wages was substantial. At the same time, nominal wage increases only had a modest effect on prices. Other factors—such as…
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Affective partisan polarization, citizens’ attitudes, and political behavior in Swiss democracy
Abstract There is a concern that citizens with different political positions and party affiliations increasingly dislike each other. We examine this affective polarization, which is often associated with a weakening of democracy, in the context of Switzerland’s multiparty landscape with…
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Figurative and literal language in US governor speeches
Abstract This paper examines figurative expressions, such as metaphors, and their association with emotional language in political rhetoric. We compare figurative and literal language employed by US governors by applying a deep learning-based model to their State of the State speeches from 1995 to…
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Consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland: new evidence based on administrative tax data
Abstract We use administrative data on income and wealth of taxpayers in the canton of Bern to impute consumption based on the budget constraint. We validate the imputed consumption and use the panel data on consumption, income and wealth to provide stylized facts on consumption and saving patterns…
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A high-frequency GDP indicator for Switzerland
Abstract This paper presents a weekly GDP indicator for Switzerland, which addresses the limitations of existing economic activity indicators by using alternative high-frequency data created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The indicator is derived from a Bayesian mixed-frequency dynamic…
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Pricing liquidity support: a PLB for Switzerland
Abstract The proposed revision of the Swiss Banking Act introduces a public liquidity backstop (PLB) for distressed systemically important banks (SIBs), in part to facilitate resolution. We examine the impact of the PLB on fiscal balances, welfare, and the incentives of bank shareholders and…
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How firms set their prices: survey evidence along the stages of price setting
Abstract This paper presents novel survey evidence on how firms set prices across the private-sector Swiss economy. The survey covers all stages of the price-setting process and reveals substantial heterogeneity by sector, firm size, customer type, and sales channel. Firms combine time- and…
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Causal effects of breastfeeding promotion on child health: understanding the role of nutrition
Abstract Using data from the only large-scale randomized controlled trial promoting prolonged exclusive breastfeeding, we study how the intervention affected child health and why. The intervention increased weight-for-age in infancy, with effects persisting through adolescence. We show that treated…
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Estimating a weighted output gap for Switzerland: methodology and application
Abstract This paper introduces a weighted output gap measure for Switzerland that combines univariate filters, multivariate filters, and production function approaches. Published quarterly by SECO since 2019:Q4, the series provides a historically consistent and robust indicator of cyclical…
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Cross-border shopping: evidence from household transaction records
Abstract Cross-border shopping expands product variety and lowers prices for consumers in high-price countries, but it diminishes domestic tax revenues, reduces sales, and shifts demand away from local retailers. Exploiting Switzerland’s COVID-19-induced border closure as a natural experiment, I…
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Assessing economic sentiment with newspaper text indices: evidence from Switzerland
Abstract This study extracts signals from more than 530,000 news articles from 15 large Swiss newspapers to measure economic sentiment in Switzerland. Economic sentiment includes consumer sentiment and business sentiment. The research period for the text sentiment analysis ranges from 2016 to 2022…
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Equity and efficiency of carbon tax policies in Switzerland with endogenous energy substitution
Abstract The costs and speed of the energy transition are closely linked to the elasticity of substitution between fossil fuels and clean energy sources. Yet, despite its central role, this parameter has been treated as exogenous and constant in numerical studies of climate policy. Drawing on…
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Jobseekers’ skills and job search behaviour
Abstract This paper uses novel linked survey and administrative data for jobseekers in Switzerland to study jobseekers’ skills, potential skill gaps, and their job search behaviour. Based on a realized sample of survey participants that is better educated and has better employment prospect than the…
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Cross-border value-added tax fraud in the European Union
Abstract We study the effects of a reform to VAT rules (the reverse charge mechanism on domestic transactions) aimed at eliminating VAT fraud involving cross-border transactions within the European Union (EU). The EU VAT system is prone to fraud involving cross-border transactions between member…
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Alternative data for restaurant bankruptcy prediction
Abstract The restaurant industry has a high failure rate and predicting restaurant bankruptcy is an important task to mitigate economic losses. Restaurant consumer review data contains rich information and influences future restaurant demand. We investigate the value of publicly available data for…
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Fiscal policy responses to COVID-19 in Switzerland: a high-frequency dataset on federal and sub-federal policy announcements in the first year of the pandemic
Abstract The Swiss COVID-19 fiscal policy dataset includes detailed information on all fiscal support policies adopted in Switzerland in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering the period from February 2020 to February 2021, the dataset includes both quantitative and textual information about…
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Consumption-based responsibility for global warming and the distribution of impacts of swiss climate policy
Abstract Different consumption patterns have been linked to different levels of responsibility for current greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, and it is well established that the affluent are responsible for higher levels of global ghg emission than are the poor. Here I couple a life cycle assessment…
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Measuring regional integration into global supply chains: evidence from a new dataset of Swiss cantons
Abstract There is an increasing demand for understanding how international shocks affect regions within a country differently. We study the short-term effects of a global energy price shock on output and inflation in the Swiss cantons using input–output techniques. Our results show that the induced…