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The current debt crisis has shed light on the importance of accurate fiscal forecasts. In particular, the accuracy of revenue forecasts is central since they set the limit within which expenditure should remain in order to reach fiscal balance. Therefore, forecasting tax revenue accurately is a...
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Predicting available tax revenue accurately is a key step of fiscal policy. It has recently been shown that revenue prediction errors have a direct impact on fiscal deficits. In the current paper we explore the relationship between the ideology of the finance minister and tax revenue projection...
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) system in Switzerland, which has recently received substantial attention across Europe. We argue that, holding everything … approach to test whether growing knowledge of the education system increases the social status of dual VET in Switzerland. Our … stay in Switzerland, thus reflecting their learning process about the Swiss education system. …
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A sudden change in monetary policy happened in Switzerland on January 15th, 2015. The Swiss National Bank removed a …
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While Switzerland's recent growth of employment was high in historical and international perspective, the reasons for … consequence of the "miracle", but also an important cause, as it created additional jobs in Switzerland by raising local demand …
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This paper examines the effect of local political decision-making institutions (i.e., direct democracy vs. representative democracy) on citizens' preferences toward public spending. Exogenous variation in institutions comes from a regression discontinuity design, which exploits a discrete change...
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This paper analyses how the social status of vocational education and training (VET) in Switzerland has changed over … higher for women than for men, in rural than in urban areas, and for students with a parent born in Switzerland than for … find that the social status of VET is higher in the French- and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland than in the German …
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This paper studies the effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland hosts three major …
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scrutinise the composition of one of the most influential economic indicators in Switzerland. The Purchasing Managers' Index …
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