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In the process of economic development economies grow through various regimes, each characterized by different demographic-economic interactions. The changes in these interactions are key elements in different explanations of the escape from Malthusian stagnation. We employ time-varying vector...
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: This text contains the winter forecast 2014 of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich, released on 17 December 2014. We present the recent economic developments in Switzerland and abroad, and discusses the main forecast results in the various sectors of the economy. We expect the Swiss...
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This text contains the autumn forecast 2014 of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich, released on 29 October 2014. The first part discusses recent economic developments in Switzerland and abroad, and presents the main forecast results across the various sectors of the economy....
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This text presents the economic forecast released by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich on 13 June 2014. After an introduction describing the starting points and crucial assumptions underlying the forecast, we summarise the key results for Switzerland. Then we turn to the...
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This text presents the economic forecast presented by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich on 28 March 2014. After an introduction describing the starting points and crucial assumptions underlying the forecast, we summarise the key results for Switzerland. Then we turn to the...
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Die starke Aufwertung des Schweizer Frankens veranlasste die Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB), verschiedene Massnahmen zu ergreifen. In diesem Beitrag soll das Ausmass dieser «massiven Überbewertung» gegenüber dem wichtigsten Handelspartner der Schweiz, d.h. Deutschland, geschätzt werden....
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Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der kürzlich in der Schweiz abgelehnten Vollgeldinitiative wird das Thema Geldschöpfung privater Geschäftsbanken auch außerhalb der Fachwelt in einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit diskutiert. Welche Chancen böte der Systemwechsel zu einem Vollgeldsystem? Und mit welchen...
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Economists and central bankers nowadays believe that forward guidance has become more important in a world in which key interest rates have hit their effective lower bounds (ELB). In case of the European Central Bank (ECB), this should have increased the informational content of the introductory...
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Der Ausbruch der COVID-19-Pandemie führte in der Schweiz zu dem gravierendsten Einbruch der Wirtschaftstätigkeit seit über vier Jahrzehnten. Der achtwöchige Lockdown im Zeitraum zwischen März und Mai schlug sich stark auf die Schweizer Wirtschaft nieder und lähmte teilweise ganze...
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