Can GDP growth be measured week by week? In a new paper, Philipp Kronenberg shows that it can — he constructs a direct measure of weekly GDP growth that tracks the economy in near real time. @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How do politicians use metaphors? It depends on the topic! In a new paper @leops95.bsky.social (@unibas.ch) and @dominsta.bsky.social (@princetoncitp.bsky.social) apply NLP to identify patterns of figurative and emotional language used by US governors. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 SJES Best Paper Award 2026 📢 Congratulations to Frédéric Kluser for his paper “Cross-Border Shopping: Evidence from Household Transaction Records” published in volume 161 (2025) of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. doi.org/10.1186/s419... More: www.sses.swiss/awards/best-...

What happens when new mothers are actively encouraged by birth hospitals to breastfeed their babies? A new paper by Anne Ardila Brenøe, Jenna Stearns, and Richard M. Martin. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

🏦 Is Switzerland charging UBS nearly enough for its too-big-to-fail status? New research suggests: probably not. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

🚨 We are very happy to announce that Andreas Fuster has joined our editorial board. Welcome, Andreas! Andreas is an Associate Professor of Finance and SFI Senior Chair at SFI Swiss Finance Institute EPFL. This October, he will join UZH Department of Finance as a Full Professor.

🚨🚨🚨 New article How do Swiss firms set their prices? In a new paper, Pascal Seiler reports insights from a new comprehensive pricing survey among 1,555 Swiss firms. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 New article: Can ”responsible investing” do any good? Thorsten Hens and Ester Trutwin develop a model that suggests that it can. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article 🚨🚨🚨 Christian Glocker, Serguei Kaniovski and Philipp Wegmüller develop a new strategy for estimating the output gap, a key indicator of economic slack. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

🚨🚨 New article: How much do the Swiss dislike fellow citizens with different political views? Benjamin Jansen & Alois Stutzer study affective polarization using split-ticket voting in parliamentary elections. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article 🚨🚨🚨 Jessica Leutert, Rolf Scheufele, and Selina Schön analyze wage–price pass-through in Switzerland over the period 1980–2019. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article 🚨🚨🚨 Frédéric Kluser and Maximilian von Ehrlich sift through 22 million household consumption baskets to study online grocery shopping adoption. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

🚨 One more day: submission deadline 20 January 🚨 Remember to submit your paper or abstract to the 2026 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (St. Gallen, June 4-5, 2026). 👉 www.sgvs.ch/conferences/... @unisg.ch @swisseconomists.bsky.social

New article 🚨🚨🚨 Jonas Bruhin, Matthias Fengler, Winfried Koeniger and Robert Rohrkemper refine and analyse a high-frequency consumer spending index for Switzerland. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

Does cost-sharing between upper-level and lower-level governments encourage overspending in the education sector? New article by Tobias Schib: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article in our collection Digital Transformation: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... Conny Wunsch, Felix Rochlitz and Patrick Arni use novel data to study jobseekers’ skills, potential skill gaps, and their job search behaviour. @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article in our collection Textual Analysis in Economics and Finance by Marie-Catherine Bieri sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... Frédéric Kluser investigates the socioeconomic implications of cross-border shopping by exploiting Switzerland’s COVID-19-induced border closure in 2020 as a natural experiment. #EconSky @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... @florian-landis.bsky.social examines how different consumption goods contribute to household-level responsibility for global greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland and explores climate policies that create equitable outcomes. #EconSky

📢 Extended deadline for the collection #Textual #Analysis in #Economics and #Finance link.springer.com/collections/... Submit your articles until 31 December 2025. #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

🎉 New publication by Annalisa Tassi and Adrien Bussy: “Cross-border Value-Added Tax Fraud in the European Union” 💡 Their paper examines the impact of introducing the reverse-charge mechanism on domestic transactions to curb VAT fraud linked to intra-EU trade. sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Cross-border value-added tax fraud in the European Union - Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

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)....

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New article: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... Adrien Bussy and Annalisa Tassi study the effects of a reform to VAT rules aimed at eliminating cross-border VAT fraud within the European Union. #EconSky @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... Pascal Kündig investigates whether publicly available data from online platforms help predict bankruptcies of individual restaurants in Switzerland. #EconSky @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

New article: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Andreas Brunhart and Martin Geiger investigate the adjustment dynamics of aggregate and sectoral goods exports following the Swiss Franc exchange rate shock in January 2015. #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

📢 Final call: The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions for the collection #Textual #Analysis in #Economics and #Finance (final deadline 31 July 2025, link.springer.com/collections/...) #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

New article in the SJES Data collection: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Vera Z. Eichenauer, Remo Gurtner, and ‪Furkan Oguz introduce the Swiss COVID-19 fiscal policy dataset, a new high-frequency dataset that covers all fiscal support measures adopted in Switzerland. #EconSky

🏆 Follow-up: Best Paper Award Last week, we announced the winner of the award for the best paper published in the 2024 edition of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics: Brendan Berthold for his paper, "The Macro-Financial Effects of Climate Policy Risk: Evidence from Switzerland."

🏆 Best Paper Award The award for the best paper published in the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics in 2025 goes to Brendan Berthold for his paper “The macro-financial effects of Climate Policy Risk: evidence from Switzerland”. www.sgvs.ch/awards/

New article: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... Fernández-Amador, Oberdabernig, and Tomberger demonstrate how Swiss cantons are integrated into global supply chains, highlighting the regional impacts of energy price shocks. #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

New article: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... N. Kundan Kishor and Nam Nguyen propose a novel approach to estimate the credit gap, defined as the deviation of the credit-to-GDP ratio from its long-term trend. #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social