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This paper analyzes card payments to the retail sector in Switzerland during the COVID-19 crisis. We provide evidence …
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Monitoring Consumption Switzerland is a public-private partnership between the University of St. Gallen and the payment … companies Worldline and SIX that processes and publishes payment data on transactions in Switzerland processed by Wordline …
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We study Switzerland's weak growth during the 1990s through the lens of the business cycle accounting framework of …
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This study evaluates the impact of the second home restriction (Lex Weber) on construction investments in Switzerland …
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Ten years after the worst financial crisis of the post-war period, Switzerland has established a Too-Big-To-Fail (TBTF …
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Sharp changes in consumer expenditure may bias inflation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using public data from debit card transactions, I quantify these changes in consumer spending, update CPI basket weights and construct an alternative price index to measure the effect of the COVID-induced...
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The safe haven property of the Swiss franc presents a specific challenge for internationally minded Swiss-based investors. The central issue is whether the traditional under-performance of Swiss assets is made up by the secular appreciation of the Swiss franc combined with the propensity of the...
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This paper applies a recent method proposed by Maggiori (The U.S. Dollar Safety Premium, 2013) to estimate the Swiss franc safety premium. The results show that the three-step instrumental variable approach as used by Maggiori does not work for the Swiss franc exchange rates. The price of risk...
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