Daniel Kaufmann holds the Chair of Applied Macroeconomics at the University of Neuchâtel. Research on inflation, output, interest rate and exchange rate dynamics over long historical episodes and caus...

Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities from 1846 to 1893, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30-year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute ...

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We study the effects of a reform to VAT rules (the reverse charge mechanism on domestic transactions) aimed at eliminating VAT fraud involving cross-border transactions within the European Union (EU)....

We propose a two-step approach to estimate multiple monetary policy shocks and their causal effects based on daily financial market data and policy events. First, we combine a heteroscedasticity-based