The notion of new economy was coined in the United States when there was increasing evidence that, as a result of the introduction of new technologies, the traditional behavior of macroeconomic variables might have changed. The expansion of the 1990s differed from its predecessors in three...

The removal of the lower bound on the EUR/CHF exchange rate in January 2015 provides a unique setting to study the implications of a large and sudden appreciation in an otherwise stable macroeconomic environment. Using transaction-level data on non-durable goods purchases by Swiss consumers, we...

Zu den wesentlichen Veränderungen in den Umgebungsbedingungen des Finanzgewerbes in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten zählen die Deregulierung und vor allem die erheblichen Fortschritte in der Kommunikationstechnologie, speziell der Übermittlung, Aufbereitung und Interpretation von...