This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland. Switzerland is a particularly interesting setting in this context because it features both a high level of fiscal autonomy for Swiss cantons and explicit fiscal transfers between...

This paper analyses the importance of fiscal mechanisms for regional risk sharing and redistribution in Switzerland. Switzerland is a particularly interesting setting in this context because it features both a high level of fiscal autonomy for Swiss cantons and explicit fiscal transfers between...

The link between federalism and economic performance is still ambiguous. Aiming at clarification, we improve on a widespread shortcoming by measuring federalism not just by one variable but by various institutions that constitute it. To this end, Switzerland provides for a laboratory as its 26...

Um den Standortvorteil des Föderalismus auch für die Zukunft zu sichern, braucht es eine Modernisierung desselben. Geklärt werden muss der Umgang mit den Transferleistungen zwischen den Kantonen und die Aufgabentrennung zwischen Bund und Kantonen. Eine weitergehende Dezentralisierung könnte...