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COVID-19 and regional shifts in Swiss retail payments. COVID-19与瑞士零售支付的地区变化。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-09-25 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-020-00061-x

Sébastien Kraenzlin, Christoph Meyer, Thomas Nellen

引用次数: 36

Timing matters: the impact of response measures on COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates in Germany and Switzerland. 时间很重要:应对措施对德国和瑞士与covid -19相关的住院率和死亡率的影响。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-08-26 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-020-00054-w

Martin Huber, Henrika Langen

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引用次数: 27

Augmented wealth in Switzerland: the influence of pension wealth on wealth inequality. 瑞士的增量财富：养老金财富对财富不平等的影响。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-11-05 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-020-00063-9

Ursina Kuhn

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引用次数: 0

Swiss trade during the COVID-19 pandemic: an early appraisal. COVID-19 大流行期间的瑞士贸易：早期评估。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-12-28 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-020-00069-3

Konstantin Büchel, Stefan Legge, Vincent Pochon, Philipp Wegmüller

引用次数: 0

Tracking inflation on a daily basis. 每天跟踪通货膨胀。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-11-04 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-020-00062-w

Santiago E Alvarez, Sarah M Lein

引用次数: 0

COVID-19 financial support to small businesses in Switzerland: evaluation and outlook. COVID-19 瑞士对小型企业的财政支持：评估与展望。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-10-14 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-020-00060-y

Marius Brülhart, Rafael Lalive, Tobias Lehmann, Michael Siegenthaler

引用次数: 0

A lockdown index to assess the economic impact of the coronavirus. 评估冠状病毒经济影响的封锁指数。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-08-28 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-020-00056-8

Marius Faber, Andrea Ghisletta, Kurt Schmidheiny

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引用次数: 0

The Swiss franc safety premium. 瑞士法郎的安全溢价。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Epub Date: 2018-04-17 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-017-0014-7

Jessica Leutert

引用次数: 8

Comparative politics and the synthetic control method revisited: a note on Abadie et al. (2015). 重新审视比较政治学和综合控制方法:关于Abadie et al.(2015)的注解。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Epub Date: 2018-05-15 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-017-0004-9

Stefan Klößner, Ashok Kaul, Gregor Pfeifer, Manuel Schieler

引用次数: 54

On economists as policy advisors with applications to Switzerland. 经济学家作为政策顾问申请到瑞士。

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Epub Date: 2018-01-25 DOI: 10.1186/s41937-017-0009-4

Aymo Brunetti

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引用次数: 1