Konstantin Büchel,Stefan Legge,Vincent Pochon et al.
Konstantin Büchel et al.
This study uses trade data from Switzerland's Federal Customs Administration to examine the impact of Covid-19 on international goods trade between January and July 2020. We show that Swiss trade during that period fell by 11% compared to 2...
Augmented wealth in Switzerland: the influence of pension wealth on wealth inequality [0.03%]
瑞士的 augmented wealth：养老金财富对财富不平等的影响
Ursina Kuhn
Ursina Kuhn
Entitlements for social security and occupational pensions present a major wealth component and play a central role for financial security. However, most individual-level data lacks information on pension wealth. By linking various data sou...
Santiago E Alvarez,Sarah M Lein
Santiago E Alvarez
Using online data for prices and real-time debit card transaction data on changes in expenditures for Switzerland allows us to track inflation on a daily basis. While the daily price index fluctuates around the official price index in norma...
The impact of human capital efficiency on Latin American mutual funds during Covid-19 outbreak [0.03%]
新冠疫情下人力资本效率对拉美地区共同基金的影响
Nawazish Mirza,Jamila Abaidi Hasnaoui,Bushra Naqvi et al.
Nawazish Mirza et al.
The mutual funds' returns, inter alia, are dependent on fund managers' performance. This makes human capital efficiency very central for consistent risk-adjusted performance. The persistence in performance becomes more critical during perio...
COVID-19 financial support to small businesses in Switzerland: evaluation and outlook [0.03%]
瑞士对小型企业的 COVID-19 金融支持：评估与展望
Marius Brülhart,Rafael Lalive,Tobias Lehmann et al.
Marius Brülhart et al.
We analyse small businesses' recourse to public support measures during the COVID-19 crisis using a survey of 1011 self-employed workers and small business owners in Switzerland. We find that "objective" measures of lockdown affectedness an...
Unemployment in Switzerland in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: an intertemporal perspective [0.03%]
新冠疫情对瑞士失业率的影响：跨期视角分析
George Sheldon
George Sheldon
The following contribution compares the unemployment situation arising from the lockdown induced by the Covid-19 pandemic with previous employment crises in Switzerland. In addition, it forecasts the future trajectory of unemployment based ...
Weighting bias and inflation in the time of COVID-19: evidence from Swiss transaction data [0.03%]
COVID-19时期的加权偏差和通货膨胀：来自瑞士交易数据的证据
Pascal Seiler
Pascal Seiler
Sharp changes in consumer expenditure may bias inflation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using public data from debit card transactions, I quantify these changes in consumer spending, update CPI basket weights and construct an alternative pri...
COVID-19 outbreak and beyond: the information content of registered short-time workers for GDP now- and forecasting [0.03%]
超出新冠疫情爆发的范畴：注册短时工对于GDP现在和未来预测的信息含量
Sylvia Kaufmann
Sylvia Kaufmann
The number of short-time workers from January to April 2020 is used to now- and forecast quarterly GDP growth. We purge the monthly log level series from the systematic component to extract unexpected changes or shocks to log short-time wor...
Marius Faber,Andrea Ghisletta,Kurt Schmidheiny
Marius Faber
Like most countries, the Swiss government adopted drastic measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. These measures were aimed at avoiding close physical proximity between people. The adverse economic consequences of this lockdown poli...
Timing matters: the impact of response measures on COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates in Germany and Switzerland [0.03%]
时机很重要：应对措施对德国和瑞士与新冠肺炎相关的住院率和死亡率的影响
Martin Huber,Henrika Langen
Martin Huber
We assess the impact of the timing of lockdown measures implemented in Germany and Switzerland on cumulative COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates. Our analysis exploits the fact that the epidemic was more advanced in some region...