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In a pioneering attempt we present the R(ecession)-word index for Switzerland. We evaluate its predictive ability of …
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In this study we construct the R(ecession)-word index for Switzerland. To the best of our knowledge, this has never …
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Volk und Stände der Schweiz beschlossen 2001, den absoluten Schuldenstand des Staates im Konjunkturverlauf zu begrenzen … eine gewisse Flexibilität, die die Erfahrungen der Schweiz für eine Reform des Stabilitätspaktes interessant erscheinen …
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constructed for Germany and Switzerland. We use these indices in order to track the business cycle dynamics in these two countries … Switzerland. Third, we show that the RWI-based forecasts are more accurate than the consensus forecasts (published by Consensus … Economics Inc.) for Switzerland, whereas we reach the opposite conclusion for Germany. In fact, the accuracy of the consensus …
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In this paper we measure the speed at which firms adjust to demand shocks using individual firm data. Identification of shocks is achieved by a combination of quantitative and qualitative judgments on capacity utilisation in micro survey data. A novel feature of our approach is the distinction...
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Forecasting real economic activity poses a considerable challenge not only due to hard-to-predict events like the current financial crisis but also due to the fact that targeted variables often undergo significant revisions after their first publication. In this paper we report the results of a...
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In this paper we develop a business cycle measure that can be shown to have excellent ex-ante forecasting properties for GDP growth. For identifying business cycle movements, we use a semantic approach. We infer nine different states of the economy directly from firms' responses in business...
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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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Married male workers are found to have a lower incidence of overeducation. A theoretical explanation for this phenomenon is lacking. We test in our study whether the traditional specialisation of spouses' time between home and market production tends to improve a husband's jobeducation-match...
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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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