This Selected Background Issues paper on Switzerland reviews a few monetary and exchange rate issues, including … unusually high levels of saving, Switzerland may be one of the few advanced industrialized countries that strictly fulfills the …

This paper describes economic developments in Switzerland during the 1990s. Between 1990 and 1993, real GDP fell by a …

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix assesses Switzerland’s recent real GDP performance in terms of … effects of stage 3 of European Monetary Union on Switzerland …

This paper reviews economic developments in Switzerland during 1990–95. In the early 1990s, Switzerland experienced an …

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix evaluates Switzerland’s long-term growth and productivity … tradeoff between inflation and economic activity in Switzerland. The paper reports estimates of the automatic and discretionary … improving the stabilization role of Switzerland’s fiscal policy over the business cycle …

Switzerland’s recent business cycle experience: first, the traditional “smooth-trend-plus-cycle approach,” which envisages …-growth” states (recessions) of the economy. The paper also examines Switzerland’s monetary policy framework, and describes the …