The Swiss Treasury has used the sealed-bid, uniform-price auction format for allocating government bonds since 1980. In this study, we examine the authorities' motivation for choosing the uniform-price auction. In addition, we describe how the institutional set-up evolved over time. It includes...

Ranaldo and Rossi (2016) presented data on the history of Swiss treasury bond auctions that covered the period from 1980, when the auction mechanism was implemented, to 2014. In this study, we extend the set of observations until 2023 and provide additional information for the entire sample. In...