on the ideal institutional setting of federalism in Switzerland. According to our findings, decentralization actually …

This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland …. Switzerland is a particularly interesting setting in this context because it features both a high level of fiscal autonomy for …

thus also discussed as blueprint in the debates about fiscal rules in Germany, the European Union member states and Israel …

interest rate anomaly results from systemic risk anticipation, we discuss whether Switzerland remains an interest rate island …

end, Switzerland provides for a laboratory as its 26 cantons share a common framework, while the extent of federalism …

Ordoliberalism is often accused as being responsible for Germany's policy stance during the Eurozone crisis … University of Freiburg, which is in fact in Germany. It is however neither true that ordoliberal thought has continuously been … predominant and a prevailing idea in German macroeconomic policy, nor that it is responsible for Germany's policy stance during …