The aim of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics is to promote and advance economic research in Switzerland and to improve the collaboration between the domestic and international research community. An important focus lies also on the promotion of young economist by providing them with...

The 2022 SSES annual congress will include thematic sessions on "Social media and its challenges for economic policy" and for the meeting's general sessions (on any topic relevant to all fields of economics and statistics).

Universal Child Grants (UCG) are increasingly discussed as a policy instrument to achieve universal social protection and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference organisers invite research paper proposals based on evidence from the implementation of cash transfers...

The special theme of the meeting will be “Household Finance”. However, as usual at SSES meetings, contributed papers across a wide range of topics will be welcome, including: macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, economic policy, regulation, public economics, economic history, political...

The special theme of the meeting will be “Economists and Policy Making”. However, as usual at SSES meetings, contributed papers across a wide range of topics will be welcome, including: macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, economic policy, regulation, public economics, economic history,...

The International Labour Conference is the ILO’s highest decision-making body. It meets annually in June, bringing together the tripartite delegations from the Organization’s 187 member States. The Conference is composed of a plenary and of technical committees.

Gibt es noch Wachstum in der westlichen Welt? Selbst die renommiertesten Ökonomen beginnen daran zu zweifeln und sprechen von «No-Growth». Die hiesige Wirtschaft ist geprägt von schrumpfenden Bevölkerungen, schwindenden Ressourcen und zunehmender Saturiertheit, von wuchernden Schulden und...

Was macht eBay, Google und Facebook so erfolgreich? Dass sie mich immer besser kennen und wissen, wer ich bin oder wer meine Freunde sind. Während andere Firmen Kundeninformationen bloss sammeln, entwickeln die grossen Player im Netz daraus neue Geschäftsmodelle und Angebote. Manager klagen...

New business models are emerging every day, but we usually take a long time to notice them. Who, ten years ago, would have thought that Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google would one day turn the retail world upside down? Today’s start-ups are tomorrow’s game-changers. New players are writing...