Publications des institutions partenaires
Wie geht es dem Schweizer (und Schwyzer) Mittelstand?
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 03/12/2012
The principle of exhaustion and the resale of downloaded software - the UsedSoft ./. Oracle case
Institution partenaire
English / 30/11/2012
Enhancing the Efficiency of Water Supply - Product Market Competition Versus Trade
In most developed countries, the provision of water is organized at a local level. The costs and tariffs vary significantly, even between adjacent water utilities. Such heterogeneity is an obvious indication of the sector's overall inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of competition by common…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2012
Governance of Public Broadcasters and Television Consumption
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
"Natural hedging" of exchange rate risk : The role of imported input prices
Using disaggregated quarterly trade data for Switzerland over 2004-2011, we study exchange rate pass through (ERPT) into imported intermediate input prices and its role in the price setting behavior of exporters. We explicitly include disaggregated proxies for imported input prices in our analyses to investigate whether Swiss exporters may have "naturally hedged" exchange…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? : Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2008
We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland. We close the data gap between 1993 and 2003 exploiting the fact that cantons changed their tax system at different points in time which allows us to use the non-changing cantons as control group. The results show that the share of top incomes has risen, the top 0.01% share even doubled in the last 20 years. However, top…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
The Dangerous Rise of Economic Interventionism
This paper reviews the economic interventions by governments and central banks in response to the 2007-2009 financial and economic crisis.
In the area of trade policy, we find that protectionism has increased substantially, with governments targeting in particular the products of declining industries and financial services. Nevertheless, spiralling protectionism as in the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
Recent "green" policies - limited environmental benefits and distorted imports : What should trade policymakers do?
Some trade policy commentators have questioned whether state measures (often subsidy-like measures) provided under the mask of "green growth" strategies indeed do target or promote "green" production, consumption or investment. Or whether the use of such measures is just a consensual way to introduce new discrimination against some or all trading partners -…
Institution partenaire
English / 31/10/2011
How are Swiss exporters affected by beggar-thy-neighbour policies since the latest global economic crisis?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/10/2011
Handel in der Krise
Noch immer schotten die Staaten ihre Märkte wegen der Wirtschaftskrise mit protektionistischen Massnahmen ab, gerne auch angeblich für die Umwelt.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 31/07/2011
Das hohe Gut der Integrität kartellrechtlicher Ermittlungen - der E.ON Siegelbruchfall
Der E.ON Energie AG Siegelbruchfall ist die erste eigenständige Verurteilung eines Unternehmens für ein verfahrensrechtliches Vergehen im Bereich des europäischen Kartellrechts. Wurden solche Vergehen früher im Regelfall noch im Rahmen des
Verfahrens für den eigentlichen materiell-rechtlichen Verstoss berücksichtigt, so handelt es sich bei dem vorliegenden Fall um die erste…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/06/2011
Im Osten gehen die Exporte auf
Die Schweizer Wirtschaft, die jeden zweiten Franken im Ausland verdient, kann ihre Exporte noch kräftig steigern: dank neuen Absatzmärkten ausserhalb von Europa und dank neuen Angeboten für die Konsumenten in aller Welt.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 30/04/2011
Devisenspekulation als willkommener Sündenbock
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 30/01/2011
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