Starting from the insights of comparative literature on public policy, this article presents a systematic, empirical examination of the impact of political and institutional determinants of economic performance among twenty-six Swiss cantons over the period between 1983 and 1997. While economic...

In this evaluation study the causal effects of different rehabilitation programmes on labour market outcomes are estimated simultaneously. A nonparametric matching estimator for the evaluation of multiple treatments is employed. The study is based on a sample of 6287 long-term sick individuals...

The actual occasion for this study have been the attempts by several East and South East Asian countries, among them China, to confer certain specific economic liberties on the one hand but to disallow political rights on the other. The question thus arises whether economic liberties can exist...

In this paper, factors explaining the regional disparity of unemployment in Switzerland at the level of the Swiss states (cantons) and labor market regions over time are examined. We estimate a dynamic panel using particularly suited estimation techniques in order to find out to what extent...

This article shows on an empirical data basis that return distributions of stocks of the swiss stock market can be successfully described through the hyperbolic distribution. Comparing this distribution with the normal distribution one can achieve a more accurate modelling. In addition it is...

Klaus Armingeon criticizes our paper "Distribution Effects of Opening up an Economy and Voting Behaviour: An Analysis Based on the Example of the Swiss Vote on the EEA" published in this journal in 1998. In this reply we argue that his critique is mainly due to a misinterpretation of the goal of...