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In a pioneering attempt we present the R(ecession)-word index for Switzerland. We evaluate its predictive ability of GDP growth using real-time vintages of GDP data, closely simulating flow of information in the past. We find that inclusion of the R-word index led to statistically significant...
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On the basis of keyword searches in newspaper articles several versions of the Recession-word Index (RWI) are constructed for Germany and Switzerland. We use these indices in order to track the business cycle dynamics in these two countries. Our main findings are the following. First, we show...
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In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...
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We examine the effects of negative news reporting on companies' self-assessment of their business situation. We compare survey data in the manufacturing sector in Switzerland with thousands of newspaper articles which we scan for particular keywords. Simple OLS regressions do not show a...
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We examine the effects of negative economic news reporting on companies' self-assessment of their business situation. In order to measure this negativity effect, we introduce a new daily business indicator for the Swiss manufacturing sector and examine the influence of newspaper articles, which...
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Die Schweiz ist in den vergangenen Monaten durch die drastische Aufwertung des Schweizer Franken gegenüber dem Euro unter Druck geraten. Im September 2011 verkündete deshalb die Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) einen Mindestkurs des Franken zum Euro. Mit einer Untergrenze von 1,20 Franken je...
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Im September 2011 legte die Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) eine Kursuntergrenze des Euro gegenüber dem Franken von 1,20 fest. Dieser Mindestkurs wurde im Januar 2015 überraschend aufgehoben. Nach Ansicht von Peter Bernholz, Universität Basel, sind die Folgen der Freigabe zurzeit noch nicht...
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Uncertainty shapes the trajectory of business cycles and remains a central research topic in Macroeconomics. When studying the impact of uncertainty on the economy, economists use different uncertainty measures. While all indicators approximate uncertainty along some certain dimension, none of...
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Die KOF hat für den Branchenverband VISCOM und die Gewerkschaft Syndicom eine Umfrage bei den Unternehmen der grafischen Industrie durchgeführt. Die Schweizer Unternehmen der grafischen Industrie haben zwar unter der jüngsten Rezession gelitten, für die Zukunft erwarten sie aber eine...
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