Der Index der Konsumentenstimmung zählt seit 1972 zu den wichtigen Konjunkturindikatoren in der Schweiz. Kürzlich wurde diese Erhebung einer Überarbeitung unterzogen. Seit Januar 2023 wird parallel zur bestehenden eine Befragung in neuem Erhebungsdesign durchgeführt. Zusätzlich wurde der...

This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and receive lower wages than whites. If everybody believes that blacks are more criminal than whites - even if there is no basis for this - then blacks are offered lower wages and, as...

We present a stated-preference study where values of statistical lives (VSL) are derived both as public and private goods, and we distinguish between three different death causes, heart disease, environmentally related illnesses and traffic accidents. 1000 randomly chosen individuals in Norway...

We assess whether the probability of a sample member participating at a particular wave of a panel survey is greater if the same interviewer is deployed as at the previous wave. Previous research on this topic mainly uses non-experimental data. Consequently, a) interviewer change is generally...