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The market for used cars: A new test of the lemons model

Emons, Winand; Sheldon, George - 2002

The lemons model assumes that owners of used cars have an informational advantage over potential buyers with respect to the quality of their vehicles. Owners of bad cars will try to sell them to unsuspecting buyers while owners of good cars will hold on to theirs. Consequently, the quality of...

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Ethnic Discrimination in Education: The Swiss Case

Bauer, Philipp; Sheldon, George - 2008

This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalization of foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworker tradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination of this form: taste-based discrimination...

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Trade neutrality of national environmental policy: Some theoretical considerations and simulation results for Switzerland

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 1999

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Sustainable fiscal policy in a federal system: Switzerland as an example

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2004

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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Fiscal federalism and economic performance: evidence from Swiss cantons

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Schaltegger, … - 2004

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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The role of monetary aggregates in the policy analysis of the Swiss National Bank

Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Wolters, Jürgen - 2010

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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Expected closeness or mobilisation: why do voters go to the polls? : Empirical results for Switzerland, 1981 - 1999

Kirchgässner, Gebhard; Schulz, Tobias - 2005

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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Migration, Integration und Wachstum: Die Performance und wirtschaftliche Auswirkung der Ausländer in der Schweiz

Sheldon, George - 2007

Folgen dieser Politik für die Schweiz. Im Fokus stehen sowohl die eingewanderten Ausländer als auch heimische Arbeitskräfte … entwickelt? - Welche Personen sind in welchem Ausmass wann und wohin in die Schweiz eingewandert? - Welche verbleiben in der … Schweiz, und welche wandern zurück? - In welchem Mass gelingt die Integration der Ausländer in das Schweizer Bildungssystem …

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Arbeitsmarktintegration von EU/EFTA-Bürgerinnen und Bürgern in der Schweiz

Sheldon, George; Cueni, Dominique - 2011

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Die Auswirkungen der Personenfreizügigkeit der Schweiz mit der EU auf die Löhne einheimischer Arbeitskräfte

Sheldon, George; Cueni, Dominique - 2011

In den ersten sieben Jahren der Personenfreizügigkeit mit der EU/EFTA verzeichnete die Schweiz einen nach …

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