This article examines the influence of the political parties and provinces (Kantone) in the Swiss parliament, based on the Shapley-Shubik index. The article shows that the power index is a useful tool for analysis of elections. Moreover, the article reveals that the paradox of redistribution and...

This article proposes first to "revisit" the traditional trade theory in order to develop a new dynamic conceptual approach for today's world economy upon which the Swiss foreign economic policy principles could be based. World trade is analysed in terms of relative attractiveness of nations....

In this paper we analyze the production process of water treatment utilities in Switzerland. The production process possesses returns to scale and decreasing marginal costs. These results have some implications for water pollution policies. For "direct" polluters, the actual policy is...

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The paper first deals with fundamental observations on problem solutions, error corrections and an unavoidable design of econometric data. The modelling of data generating processes and the relationship between statistical and theoretical models is then addressed. The empirical analysis of...