Angesichts der großen ökologischen Herausforderungen, wie dem Klimawandel und dem Verlust der Biodiversität, hat die ökologische Gesetzgebung in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmende Bedeutung erfahren. In vielen Ländern wurden gesetzliche Maßnahmen ergriffen, die den ökologischen...

The proposed revision of the Swiss Banking Act introduces a public liquidity backstop (PLB) for distressed systemically important banks (SIBs), in part to facilitate resolution. We examine the impact of the PLB on fiscal balances, societal welfare, and the incentives of bank shareholders and...

The proposed revision of the Swiss Banking Act introduces a public liquidity backstop (PLB) for distressed systemically important banks (SIBs), in part to facilitate resolution. We examine the impact of the PLB on fiscal balances, societal welfare, and the incentives of bank shareholders and...

Corporations are under increasing pressure to align with SDG 5 (Gender Equality), ensuring equal opportunities for women and men in leadership, pay, and career growth. While studies on gender equality are growing, limited research explores the evolutionary paths leading to gender parity. This...

Rank-rank regression is commonly employed in economic research as a way of capturing the relationship between two economic variables. It frequently features in studies of intergenerational mobility as the resulting coefficient, capturing the rank correlation between the variables, is easy to...

Die infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH wurde vom Soziooekonomischen Panel (SOEP) am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) mit der Befragung von Geflüchteten aus der Ukraine beauftragt. Die Studie wird gemeinsam vom Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und...

Energy cultures, broadly defined as shared beliefs, practices, and material preferences that shape energy-related behaviors, provide a useful framework for investigating consumption differences across population groups. We investigate how households' energy demand behavior differ across the...

Rank-rank regression is commonly employed in economic research as a way of capturing the relationship between two economic variables. It frequently features in studies of intergenerational mobility as the resulting coefficient, capturing the rank correlation between the variables, is easy to...

Trust plays a crucial role in refugees’ integration. This study examines how social information about trust levels among peers from home and host countries affects non-Western refugees’ trust. Using a trust game, we measured experimentally trust levels among Swiss citizens, Turkish refugees,...

We extend a quantitative general equilibrium model of global trade networks to evaluate the economic impacts of various trade disruptions. Our analysis considers scenarios such as US-China trade wars, a broader Cold War 2.0 decoupling, Trump-era tariffs, and disruptions in the trade of critical...

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...

This paper studies the effects of the 2017 multilateral automatic exchange of information (AEoI) on tax compliance in Switzerland. Using detailed administrative tax data and difference-in-differences designs, I find significant positive compliance effects. The AEoI prompted 107k taxpayers (2% of...

We exploit the 1990-2000 inflow of Yugoslav refugees to Geneva to examine two understudied yet policy-relevant integration mechanisms for refugee pupils: language support classes, provided prior to integration into regular classes, and sorting based on academic ability within regular classes. We...

Der Index der Konsumentenstimmung zählt seit 1972 zu den wichtigen Konjunkturindikatoren in der Schweiz. Kürzlich wurde diese Erhebung einer Überarbeitung unterzogen. Seit Januar 2023 wird parallel zur bestehenden eine Befragung in neuem Erhebungsdesign durchgeführt. Zusätzlich wurde der...

Die vorliegende Auswertung im Auftrag von Oxfam Deutschland e. V. und dem Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit zeigt anhand einer Reihe von Modellhaushalten beispielhaft auf, wie hoch die Steuerbelastung in der Schweiz für reiche und sehr reiche Steuerzahler ist, und wie diese im Vergleich zu einer...

Die vorliegende Studie diskutiert die Prognoseergebnisse für die Kostenentwicklung im Bereich der obligatorischen Kranken- und Pflegeversicherung (OKP). Innerhalb der deskriptiven Diskussion der Datenlage werden für die Kostengruppen wie auch die Kantone die letztjährigen Wachstumsraten mit...

Gemäss BFS stiegen die gesamten nominalen Gesundheitsausgaben im Jahr 2022 gegenüber dem Vorjahr um 2.5%, wobei das Verhältnis der Gesundheitsausgaben zum Bruttoinlandprodukt (BIP) 11.6% betrug. Die gesamten Gesundheitsausgaben nahmen der Prognose der KOF zufolge im Jahr 2023 mit 3.8%...

This paper investigates the causal effect of funding research and development (R&D) cooperation with public universities on the performance of firms. We use comprehensive firm-level panel data from Switzerland that spans from 2010 to 2022 and covers a broad set of variables including the...

Als Folge der massiven Preisschocks 2021 und 2022 schnellte die HVPI-Rate in Deutschland teilweise auf über 11 %, überschritt in der Schweiz aber nur kurzzeitig 3 %. Entscheidend war, dass die Energiepreise in der Spitze in Deutschland 5,3 Prozentpunkte zur Inflation beitrugen (Oktober 2022)...

Collective skill formation systems were central to sustaining a high-road approach to economic development in industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both economically and socially? This article argues that nothing...

This publication, developed in collaboration with Tameo, analyzes insights from the SSF Swiss Sustainable Investment Market Study 2024 and Swiss-specific data from the Tameo Private Asset Impact Fund Report 2023. Together, they provide a comprehensive view of the Swiss impact investing landscape...

This document presents Eurostat's assessment of the quality of national and regional accounts data submit-ted by the EU Member States, as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, in 2023. It also includes information on the quality of key European aggregates published by Eurostat. The euro area...

Small-scale federal democracies depend on the active participation of individuals in local political office. Both anecdotal evidence and empirical studies across Western democracies indicate a growing difficulty in recent decades to recruit candidates for municipal offices. This study examines...

This paper investigates the causal effect of funding research and development (R&D) cooperation with public universities on the performance of firms. We use comprehensive firm-level panel data from Switzerland that spans from 2010 to 2022 and covers a broad set of variables including the...