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Patentportfolio Schweiz. Studie im Auftrag des Staatssekretariats für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Seliger, Florian; Veseli, Kushtrim; … - 2015
Insgesamt werden in der Schweiz nach Südkorea die meisten Erfindungen/Mio. Einwohner angemeldet. Hinsichtlich der … durchschnittlichen technologischen Qualität der Erfindungen liegt die Schweiz insgesamt in wichtigen Hightech-Industrien und wichtiger … Zeitablauf eher verringert, sodass sich der Wettbewerb verstärkt haben dürfte. Das gilt auch für die Schweiz wichtigen Industrien …
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Creation and Adoption of Energy-related Innovations - the Main Facts
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016
One of the main goals of the "Energy Strategy 2050" in Switzerland is the exploitation of the existing energy efficiency potentials. The size of the efficiency potential strongly depends on the development and the adoption of energy-related innovations. The objective of this project is to...
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Climate change and modelling of extreme temperatures in Switzerland
Siliverstovs, Boriss; Ötsch, Rainald; Kemfert, Claudia; … - 2008
This study models maximum temperatures in Switzerland monitored in twelve locations using the Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) distribution. The parameters of the GEV distribution are determined within a Bayesian framework. We find that the parameters of the underlying distribution underwent a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271075
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Assessing the real-time informational content of macroeconomic data releases for now-/forecasting GDP: Evidence for Switzerland
Siliverstovs, Boriss; Kholodilin, Konstantin Arkadievich - 2010
This study utilizes the dynamic factor model of Giannone et al. (2008) in order to make now-/forecasts of GDP quarter-on-quarter growth rates in Switzerland. It also assesses the informational content of macroeconomic data releases for forecasting of the Swiss GDP. We find that the factor model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274409
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Assessing the real-time informational content of macroeconomic data releases for now-/forecasting GDP: Evidence for Switzerland
Siliverstovs, Boriss; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2010
This study utilizes the dynamic factor model of Giannone et al. (2008) in order to make now-/forecasts of GDP quarter-on-quarter growth rates in Switzerland. It also assesses the informational content of macroeconomic data releases for forecasting of the Swiss GDP. We find that the factor model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277729
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Discretionary fiscal policy: The case of Switzerland
Frick, Andres; Graff, Michael; Hartwig, Jochen; … - 2010
Towards the end of 2009, the world economy was recovering from its deepest recession since the end of World War II. Most countries around the world took resort to fiscal policy in order to foster this recovery. In this paper, we first discuss the pros and cons of discretionary fiscal policy from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277785
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Diskretionäre Fiskalpolitik: Pro und Kontra
Frick, Andres; Graff, Michael; Hartwig, Jochen; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280852
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Assessing predictive content of the KOF Barometer in real time
Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2010
We investigate whether the KOF Barometer - a leading indicator regularly released by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute - can be useful for short-term out-of-sample prediction of year-on-year quarterly real GDP growth rates in Switzerland. We find that the KOF Barometer appears to be useful for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285792
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Evaluating short-run forecasting properties of the KOF employment indicator for Switzerland in real time
Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2009
This study investigates the usefulness of the business tendency surveys collected at the KOF institute for short-term forecasting of employment in Switzerland aggregated in the KOF Employment Indicator. We use the real time dataset in order to simulate the actual predictive process using only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285821
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Exploration or exploitation of knowledge from universities: Does it make a difference?
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Wörter, Martin - 2012
In a first step, we developed based on existing theoretical and empirical literature a series of hypotheses with respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319708