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This paper analyzes the effect of public and private third-party funds on the effciency of departments of Swiss public research institutions. Estimating an output distance function assuming that labor is used to produce master students and scientific publications, we find no statistically...
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In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence of taxpayers at the local level. The fact that Swiss communities can individually set tax multipliers thereby shifting the progressive tax scheme which is fixed at the cantonal (state) level...
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We examine the determinants of overeducation in Switzerland - an economy generally characterised by excess qualified … studies. Our analyses show that overeducation in Switzerland cannot be explained by rigidities limiting the adjustments of …
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rich countries: New Zealand and Switzerland. We briefly discuss Kehoe/Prescott's definition of a great depression … perform sensitivity tests with respect to alternative operationalisations for Switzerland and the U.S. It is shown that with …-performing Switzerland reduces considerably. Yet, this still does not explain the comparatively poor economic growth in Switzerland during …
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resources, namely, Switzerland. First, we test whether oil price shocks Granger-cause Swiss macroeconomic variables, and use a …
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