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I investigate whether demand growth and productivity growth in Switzerland have benefitted from the wage moderation that set in at the beginning of the 1990s in this country. The results suggest that the Swiss demand regime is profit-led while the productivity regime is wage-led. This means on...
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We examine whether Swiss federal fiscal policy was sustainable over the period from 1900 to 2002. We perform unit root and cointegration tests for federal revenues and expenditures, taking into account a structural shift in the budgetary process related to World War II. We find sustainability...
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How a sustainable fiscal policy can be performed in a federal system is not only a Swiss problem but is also discussed in other federal countries like Germany and Austria, and in the European Union. Contrary to most other countries, the Swiss fiscal system is characterised by an extensive fiscal...
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The advantages and disadvantages of fiscal federalism are widely discussed in economics and political science. While some authors argue that federalism favors individual initiatives and serves as a market preserving device, others emphasize the dangers arising from an increasing corruption and...
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Using Swiss data from 1983 to 2008, this paper investigates whether growth rates of the different measures of the quantity of money and or excess money can be used to forecast inflation. After a preliminary data analysis, money demand relations are specified, estimated and tested. Then,...
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Using data of Swiss referenda from 1981 to 1999, this paper presents new empirical results which allow us to discriminate better between the decision and mobilisation hypotheses of electoral participation. First, theoretical considerations which lead to these hypotheses are presented as well as...
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Der Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakt (SWP) steht nicht erst in der Kritik, seit immer mehr Länder Schwierigkeiten haben, seine Vorgaben zu erfüllen. Dennoch müssen Länder, die eine Währungsunion bilden, ein Interesse daran haben, ihr Finanzgebaren gegenseitig zu kontrollieren, da die...
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Die Gesundheitsausgaben in der Schweiz wachsen auch in diesem und nächsten Jahr schneller als die Gesamtwirtschaft …
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einem Modell, das in dem Buch <<Empirische Analyse des Gesundheitssystems Schweiz>> (Abrahamsen et al. 2005) vorgestellt …
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Begünstigt das geplante Steuerabkommen zwischen Deutschland und der Schweiz Steuerhinterzieher und sollte besser …
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