We study, what Switzerland can learn from the disappearance of the property insurance monopolies in Germany. We show that the German insurance monopolies did not fight hard enough to defend their interests. a) Most of them knew that they would be bought up by another public insurance company....

Le droit suisse du logement ne fait pas la différence entre les taux d'intérêt nominaux et les taux d'intérêt réels. Il en résulte une forte sur-indexation des loyers en périodes de taux d'inflation élevés. En raison de cette lacune conceptuelle de la loi sur la protection des...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) currently holds reserves of more than 40 billion CHF. In the future she wishes to increase her reserves by about 1 billion CHF per year. The new law on the SNB must be used to make the SNB behave according to the same standards as other national banks. Her reserves...