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This paper models the geographical composition of Swiss foreign trade. Imports and exports are disaggregated into nine regions which together cover the entire OECD area. Given the large size of the model, the use of a flexible functional form is problematic. An attractive alternative is provided...

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This paper examines the contribution of nonresident workers to Swiss production possibilities in an open-economy setting. The analysis is based on the GNP function approach to modeling the demand for imports and it treats foreign labor services and imports as two of several inputs to the...

This paper identifies the contributions of the major factors explaining Swiss nominal GNP growth in an open-economy setting: technological change, increases in the endowments of labor and capital, movements in the terms of trade, and domestic output price changes. We follow in turns a...

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