We use administrative data on income and wealth of taxpayers in the canton of Bern to impute consumption based on the budget constraint. We validate the imputed consumption and use the panel data on c...

This paper presents a weekly GDP indicator for Switzerland, which addresses the limitations of existing economic activity indicators by using alternative high-frequency data created in response to the...

Using data from the only large-scale randomized controlled trial promoting prolonged exclusive breastfeeding, we study how the intervention affected child health and why. The intervention increased we...

The proposed revision of the Swiss Banking Act introduces a public liquidity backstop (PLB) for distressed systemically important banks (SIBs), in part to facilitate resolution. We examine the impact ...

According to the WWF (Almond et al., 2022), 90 percent of the severe biodiversity loss observed over the past 50 years can be attributed to human—particularly economic—activity. We develop a parsimoni...

This paper introduces a weighted output gap measure for Switzerland that combines univariate filters, multivariate filters, and production function approaches. Published quarterly by SECO since 2019:Q...

We analyze transactional payment data to study consumption expenditure patterns in Switzerland. The high-frequency nature of the data enables credible identification of expenditure changes both across...