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The #Global #Barometers 🌎increase slightly in February, partially recovering the losses of the previous month. The results indicate a possible consolidation of these levels for the indicators. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-even…

Global Barometers rise in February after falling in January

The Global Barometers increase slightly in February, partially recovering the losses of the previous month. The results indicate a possible consolidation of these levels for the indicators, after an...

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🚨 Last call! 🚨 Submit your paper until Friday, 31 January!
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics@sjesEditors27 Jan 2025
Submission deadline approaching: Call for Papers for the 2025 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS) on "New Designs for the Market Economy". sgvs.ch/conferences/sses2025… Extended submission deadline: Friday, 31 January 2025 Submit your paper or long abstract at express.converia.de/frontend… Conference date: 26-27 June 2025, Zurich Keynote speeches: - Gianmarco Ottaviano (@iep_bu) - Evi Pappa (@uc3m) - @R_Veugelers (@KU_Leuven) SSES Young Economist Award: The prize is awarded for the best paper where all co-authors are younger than 33 years at the first day of the conference. If you want to be considered for the 2025 award, please indicate this in the corresponding field when submitting your paper. More information: sgvs.ch/conferences/sses2025… @KOFETH_en @d_mtec @JanEgbertSturm @hans_gersbach @KurtSchmidheiny @KaufmannDani @AlineButikofer @Ste_Buehler
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🚨 Extended deadline for the Call for Papers SSES Conference!🚨 New deadline: 31 January 2025 All information 👇 @d_mtec @JanEgbertSturm @hans_gersbach
KOF Swiss Economic Institute@KOFETH_en10 Dec 2024
📢Call for Papers 2025 #SSES Annual Congress “New Designs for the Market Economy”, 26 – 27 June 2025 @KOFETH Submissions: express.converia.de/?folder_… 📆Deadline: 20 January 2025 👉More information: sgvs.ch/conferences/sses2025… @hans_gersbach @JanEgbertSturm @KurtSchmidheiny @d_mtec
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Winter 2024/25 KOF #International #Forecasts released: The #European #economy is expected to expand at a #below-average rate in 2025H1. #Lackluster #recovery expected for 2025H2. kof.ethz.ch/en/forecasts-and… #global #macro @KOFETH_en
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Gabriel Züllig (@gazu_global) from @SNB_BNS in the #Pizza #Seminar at @KOFETH_en: #Corporate #leverage mutes #investment effects of #monetary policy at the #firm level, but amplifies them at the #aggregate. Gabriel reconciled this seeming contradiction! snb.ch/en/publications/resea…
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We have recently incorporated the Mixed-Frequency Echo State Network (MFESN) as a permanent model in the KOF #Nowcasting #Lab. Many thanks to Giovanni Ballarin and Lyudmila Grigoryeva from @HSGStGallen for the insightful collaboration. Read more: blognowcastinglab.wordpress.…
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📢Call for Papers 2025 #SSES Annual Congress “New Designs for the Market Economy”, 26 – 27 June 2025 @KOFETH Submissions: express.converia.de/?folder_… 📆Deadline: 20 January 2025 👉More information: sgvs.ch/conferences/sses2025… @hans_gersbach @JanEgbertSturm @KurtSchmidheiny @d_mtec
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Welche Weichenstellungen sind nötig, damit 🇩🇪,🇦🇹&🇨🇭 wieder auf einen nachhaltigen Wachstumspfad kommen? Erfahre mehr bei der Vorstellung der aktuellen OECD-Konjunkturprognose! #OECD 🗓️Mi, 4.12 ⏰13 Uhr 🔗👉bit.ly/3CMjJiO
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Qu’apporte une convention collective de travail (#CCT)? Une étude s’est penchée sur la question dans le secteur de la #coiffure, en utilisant un nouveau jeu de données. Un article de Karin Roth, Daniel Kopp, Michael Siegenthaler @KOFETH dievolkswirtschaft.ch/fr/202…
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Was bringt ein #Gesamtarbeitsvertrag? Eine Studie der @KOFETH hat dies für das #Coiffeurgewerbe untersucht – mithilfe eines neuen Datensatzes. dievolkswirtschaft.ch/de/?p=…

Die Volkswirtschaft | Der GAV im Coiffeurgewerbe verhindert Tieflöhne

Im Jahr 2021 waren schweizweit rund 2,2 Millionen Arbeitnehmende einem Gesamtarbeitsvertrag (GAV) unterst...

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Am Dienstag, 19. November präsentieren die @KOFETH und @Comparis um 10 Uhr die Prognose der Gesundheitsausgaben. Etwas verrate ich: Die gesamten Gesundheitsausgaben steigen nicht annähernd so stark wie die #Krankenkassen-Prämien 2022/23 (+6,6%), 2023/24 (+8,7%) 2024/25 (+6%).
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Check out our new #CEPR #VoxEU column on the role of #audiovisual #communication of central banks in #shaping #inflation #expectations: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/seein… Thanx to @VoxEU Editor-in-Chief @BaldwinRE. #centralbanking #economics #research @cepr_org @ellliottt @KOFETH_en

Seeing and hearing is believing: The role of audiovisual communication in shaping inflation...

Central banks' communication strategies are critical in shaping public inflation expectations, especially as inflation remains a pressing global concern. This column provides evidence from a survey...

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Hurray!! Our paper Tracking #Economic Activity With Alternative #High-Frequency #Data, joint work with F. Eckert (@SNB_BNS), P. Kronenberg (@ETH_en) & S. Neuwirth (@SECO_CH), accepted for publication at the #Journal of Applied #Econometrics! dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4281… @KOFETH_en
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Morgen Dienstag 19:15 im @PolitForumBern. Input durch Daniel Kopp (@KOFETH), im Anschluss Diskussion mit Franziska Roth (@spsolothurn), Vania Alleva (@UniaSchweiz) & @simonmichel (@FDP_Liberalen). Moderation: @renzfabian01 Letzte freie Plätze. Anmeldung: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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The #Global #Barometers 🌍record a small increase in October, largely offsetting the previous month’s decline. The rise in both indicators is mainly driven by the results of the Asia, Pacific & Africa region. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-even…

Global Barometers signal continued moderate growth of the world economy

The Global Barometers record a small increase in October, largely offsetting the previous month’s decline. The Coincident Barometer continues to signal economic development below the medium-term...

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Im neuen #Geldcast spricht Michael Siegenthaler über die steigende #Arbeitslosigkeit und die drohende #Rezession, über die #Personenfreizügigkeit sowie über #Inflation, #Produktivität und #Löhne. Jetzt reinhören! 🎙️ spoti.fi/4bbjRV6 🎙️ apple.co/3RpEoOe
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The #Global #Barometers🌎record a decline. "Although both global indicators show a decline this month, it can still be said that both have generally been relatively flat for more than a year", evaluates KOF Director @JanEgbertSturm. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-even…

Global Barometers declining this month

The Global Barometers record a decline, but overall they are still in line with the tendency towards relative stability observed over the course of this year. The decline brings the Leading Barometer...

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Autumn 2024 #forecast round at @KOFETH_en started with, amongst others, discussions of the #international #outlook (@r_spitznagel and Maurizio Daniele) and the #economic effects of the still unclear financing of the 13th #AHV #pension (@IZMartinez86). kof.ethz.ch/news-und-veranst…
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Mit einer schlankeren Regulierung als in der EU hat die Schweiz das Potenzial, sich zu einem globalen KI-Hub zu entwickeln. Mehr dazu im aktuellen KOF Bulletin: kof.ethz.ch/news-und-veranst… #KI #Künstliche #Intelligenz @ETH_en @SECO_CH

«Die Schweiz hat das Potenzial, sich zu einem globalen KI-Hub zu entwickeln»

Hans Gersbach, Co-Direktor der KOF, spricht über das Potenzial und die Risiken von Künstlicher Intelligenz und wie sich die Schweiz durch eine geschickte Regulierung als Technologiestandort positio...

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🚨Publication Alert🚨 Super excited that our paper, "Using Rich Lists to Study the Super-Rich and Top Wealth Inequality: Insights from Switzerland," with @IZMartinez86, is now forthcoming in @restatjournal! 🥳
The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)@restatjournal5 Sep 2024
Just Accepted new paper, "Using Rich Lists to Study the Super-Rich and Top Wealth Inequality: Insights from Switzerland" by Enea Baselgia and Isabel Z. Martínez zurl.co/ZWyZ

Using Rich Lists to Study the Super-Rich and Top Wealth Inequality: Insights from Switzerland

Abstract. We present a new data set we built based on Swiss rich lists going back to 1989. We show, among other things, that 60% of the super-rich are heirs—a fraction twice as large as in the United...

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