Johannes Vatter verknüpft die ökonomische Zufriedenheitsforschung – besser bekannt unter dem Begriff Glücksforschung – mit Fragen der Finanzwissenschaft. Entlang zahlreicher empirischer Befunde für Deutschland leitet er eine Vielzahl an steuer‐ und sozialpolitischen Implikationen ab....

This paper analyzes forward-looking rules for Swiss monetary policy in a small structural VAR consisting of four variables. First, the paper looks at the ex ante inflation-output-growth volatility trade-off for a forward-looking policy aiming at a convex combination of a strict inflation and...

In this paper we analyzed the violations of UIP for the Swiss Franc against the Dollar, the Euro, the Yen, the Pound and the Canadian Dollar using recent data up to fall 2008. This exercise provides the following main results : first the Swiss interest rate puzzle disappeared, i.e. mean returns...

So far the discussion in Switzerland about the social costs and benefits of higher capital requirements resulting from the new Basel III Accord and the Swiss Too Big To Fail legislation has been heavily qualitative. This paper provides a quantitative view and estimates the long-run costs and...