We analyze the impact of an inflow of foreign workers on the wage distribution of residents in a small open economy like Switzerland. We exploit the fact that Swiss mobility regions were differently affected by the intensity and the timing of the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons,...

We analyze how earnings dynamics changed in the US after the financial crisis of 2007- 2009. Differently from most models for earnings mobility, we allow persistence patters to depend semi-nonparametrically on both the past individual position in the distribution and on a set of individual-level...

We document relevant racial differences in the degree consumption insurance against shocks: Blacks appear to be less insured. We probe these results by performing a double/debiased lasso estimation of the treatment effects of a health shock, and we find that such effects are both larger and more...

Les régions touristiques de Suisse ont enregistré une saison d’hiver positive, qui s’est traduite par un accroissement relatif notable du nombre des nuitées. D’après les dernières prévisions du KOF, les perspectives concernant la saison d’été et les deux années à venir sont...

Die Schweizer Tourismusgebiete blicken auf eine positive Wintersaison zurück, was sich in einem relativen deutlichen Anstieg der Logiernächte zeigt. Auch die Aussichten für die Sommersaison und die kommenden zwei Jahre sind gemäss der jüngsten KOF Prognosen günstig. Dank einer günstigen...

This paper analyses the effect of a change in the real exchange rate on the number of overnight stays in Swiss hotels. It uses unique three-dimensional panel data on the monthly number of overnight stays by the visitor’s country of origin in 141 Swiss communities during the ten-year period...

This paper studies the equilibrium effects of local fiscal autonomy accounting for benefits from self-determination. It proposes a quantifiable structural equilibrium framework in which imperfectly mobile heterogeneous households sort themselves across jurisdictions under endogenous public good...

Recent experience from Europe and Japan shows that commercial banks generally pass negative short-term policy rates on to wholesale depositors, such as insurances and pension funds. Yet, they refrain from charging negative rates to ordinary retail customers. This paper asks whether the existing...