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The regional policy of the Swiss federal government which traditionally based on two micro-regions support programmes has recently known a phase of new orientation in which the issue of the right institutional setting for the new challenges, which the regional policy has to meet, was at the...

Regional disparities in the unemployment represent for Switzerland a new regional problem. The average unemployment rate has tendentially increased in the last twenty years. In the last two years we can observe a remarkable growth in the number of unemployed. On the other side unemployment...

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The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy.The approach undertaken is prominently empirical.After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we take...

Analytical results for reducing the parameter space dimension when computing the marginal likelihood are given for the broad class of dynamic mixture models. These results allow the integration of scale parameters out of the likelihood by Kalman filtering and Gaussian quadrature. The method is...

In the production function approach, an accurate output gap assessment requires a careful evaluation of the total factor productivity (TFP) cycle. We build a common cycle model that links TFP to capacity utilization and we show that, in almost all of the pre-enlargement EU countries, using...