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Trade and the Spillovers of Transnational TerrorismSummary
We examine the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and international trade. To counter the diffusion of transnational terrorism, targeted governments implement security measures against countries where terror could potentially diffuse. Since security measures raise trade costs, we argue that countries, close enough to those fro... ...
- 2009
COVID-19 financial support to small businesses in Switzerland: evaluation and outlookAbstract 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” measures of lockdown affectedness and economic structure explain fairly well how businesses availed of support measures to cover labour costs. Recourse to ... ...
- 2020
The effects of immigration on wages: An application of the structural skill-cell approachSummary This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This period is of particular interest as it marks the time during which the bilateral agreement with the EU on the free cross-border movement of workers has been effective. Since different types of workers are likely to be unevenly affected by recent ... ...
Tập 146 Số 4 - Trang 709-739 - 2010
International price differences in ski lift ticketsSummary
This paper provides empirical evidence on international price differences in ski lift tickets based on 214 ski areas in Austria, France, and Switzerland for the winter season 2010/2011. We find that French and Austrian one-day lift tickets (net of VAT) are an average of 17 and 7 per cent lower, respectively, than Swiss ticket prices after controll... ...
- 2011
Free migration between the EU and Switzerland: Impacts on the Swiss economy and implications for monetary policy
Tập 146 Số 4 - Trang 821-874 - 2010
Mobility and sales activity during the Corona crisis: daily indicators for SwitzerlandAbstract This paper documents daily compound indicators on physical mobility and sales activity in Switzerland during the Corona crisis. We report several insights from these indicators: The Swiss population substantially reduced its activities already before the shops closed and before the authorities introduced containment policies in mid-March 2020. Activity star... ...
- 2020
Assessing the Future of Renewable and Smart Grid Technologies in Regional Energy SystemsSummary
In this paper we present the regional techno-economic model ETEM, designed for the analysis of regional energy/environment systems and we show how it can be used to explore the possible penetration of new technologies in a region corresponding roughly to the canton of Geneva. We investigate three scenarios with different constraints on CO...
- 2012
Swiss Climate Change and Nuclear Policy: A Comparative Analysis Using an Energy System Approach and a Sectoral Electricity ModelSummary
Decisions on climate change and nuclear policies are likely to have major influences on the future evolution of the Swiss energy system. To understand the implications of selected future policy decisions, we analyse the development of the Swiss energy system with a bottom-up technology-rich least-cost optimisation modelling framework. We use the S... ...
Tập 148 Số 2 - Trang 275-316 - 2012
Augmented wealth in Switzerland: the influence of pension wealth on wealth inequalityAbstract
Entitlements for social security and occupational pensions present a major wealth component and play a central role for financial security. However, most individual-level data lacks information on pension wealth. By linking various data sources, this contribution estimates the present value of future pension entitlements in Switzerland for statutory pensio... ...
Tập 156 Số 1 - 2020