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de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Kozak, Jan; Seliger, Florian

Since the early 2000s, many Latin American countries achieved remarkable economic growth coupled with poverty and inequality reduction, largely due to the pursuit of a centuries-old pattern of commodity exports. The end of the commodity price super-cycle in 2014 puts some of these development gains in jeopardy, raising anxiety among emerging middle classes wary of slipping back into...

Meuwissen, Miranda P.M.; Feindt, Peter H.; Spiegel, Alisa; Termeer, Catrien J.A.M.; Mathijs, Erik; de Mey, Yann; Finger, Robert; Balmann, Alfons; Wauters, Erwin; Urquhart, Julie; Vigani, Mauro; Zawalińska, Katarzyna; Herrera, Hugo; Nicholas-Davies, Phillipa; Hansson, Helena; Paas, Wim; Slijper, Thomas; Coopmans, Isabeau; Vroege, Willemijn; Ciechomska, Anna; Accatino, Francesco;...

Köthenbürger, Marko; Anderes, Marc

Pusterla, Filippo; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther

In: European Journal of Operational Research, 2015, vol. 240, no. 2, p. 505-517

In: Journal of economic behavior and organization, 2018, vol. 15, p. 301-314

In: Experimental economics, 2019, p. 1-35

The Swiss Federal government finances are in an excellent shape: debt is small (and decreasing), and carries a low interest rate. This paper reviews the prospects for the Swiss finances drawing on the recent literature. We argue that the current policy of running surpluses and paying down the debt is inefficient, and propose three alternatives. First, as the interest rate on the debt...