Alt NR Köppel ist Moskau-Habitué und Putin-Versteher. BR Rösti „tendierte“ vor den Wahlen zu Trump. NR Martullo-Blocher glaubte noch vor wenigen Wochen, dieser sei ein „Freund“ der Schweiz. Und alt BR Maurer feiert in Peking mit Xi und den Diktatoren der Welt. Grenzenlose SVP-Liebe zum Autoritären.

Der BR bezeichnet Abschaffung #Eigenmietwert als "ausgewogen", und einige fragen, ob Eigentümer überhaupt profitieren ("Zinsen können ja auch wieder steigen"). Dann buttert der HEV 7 Millionen in Ja-Kampagne. Das nennen wir Ökonomen "offenbarte Präferenzen". 😉 www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eigenmietwer...

Yesterday Switzerland's Council of States voted in favour of the latest draft of a federal beneficial ownership register bill adding discrepancy reporting but it won't cover trusts, foundations or associations and access restricted to government www.parlament.ch/FR/ratsbetri...

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

The Paris School of Economics Stone center on Global Wealth Dynamics is offering fully-funded PhD fellowships for student working on inequality. Deadline May 4. Details and applications here 👇👇👇 stone-center-pse.eu/grants/phd-f...

"Expenditure-based taxation significantly lowers effective average tax rates for super-rich foreigners in #Switzerland. When certain Swiss cantons abolish this regime, the number of super-rich residents declines by about 43%." 💬 @eneabaselgia.bsky.social #TaxingBillionaires

Für evidenzbasierte Politik, gegen Obskurantismus ✊ @markschelker.bsky.social & @kurtschmidheiny.bsky.social haben dem Ständerat gestern im Namen unserer Fachgesellschaft erklärt, wie die 🇨🇭 von einer neuen Dateninfrastruktur profitieren würde. Technisch aber wichtig! 👉 www.sgvs.ch/files/2025-0...

Great job opening👇

🚨 Updated paper alert! 🚨 Switzerland, the world’s most infamous tax haven, has seen a strong shift in tax compliance. How? A global crackdown on offshore tax evasion: the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI). 🌍💰 Here’s what I found 👇 (🧵)

Ich habe es ja gesagt: Als Nächstes werden die nationalen Statistiken in den USA dran glauben müssen. Denn: Autokratien fürchten die Wahrheit, nichts so sehr wie die Wahrheit. apnews.com/article/trum...

Resurging #inheritance provides the title story for this week's Economist (@economist.com). The article's main chart is impressive. I have added Switzerland 👇. 21st-century advanced-economy societies will be significantly shaped by the distribution of inheritance - in 🇨🇭 as well as elsewhere. 1/2

🥳A short post for a small milestone. 🥳 Just got a notification from Google Scholar that I’ve hit 100 citations! A big thank you to everyone who has engaged with my work—whether by citing, discussing, or challenging it.🙏 scholar.google.com/citations?us...

The 🇨🇭 government wants universities to raise tuition fees. What might that imply for enrolment and student outcomes? We went looking for answers in the empirical literature 👇 1/3 e4s.center/resources/re...

Wer hat Angst vor datenbasierter Evidenz? Eine Mehrheit der NR-Wirtschaftskommission wehrte sich heute gegen den Vorschlag des Bundesrats, kantonale Steuerdaten endlich vollumfänglich für Politikevaluationen nutzbar zu machen. 1/2 www.parlament.ch/press-releas...

Aber ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Zahlen. Hier daher eine eindrückliche Grafik von @eneabaselgia.bsky.social und @izmartinez86.bsky.social. 👇 Vermögenswerte sind seit 2010 förmlich explodiert. So steigt automatisch auch das Gewicht der Erbschaften. (Quelle: direct.mit.edu/rest/article...) 3/3

🚨Updated🚨 Check out the substantially revised version of my JMP👇

Current personal financial situation compared with 5 years ago, net better minus worse, from Michigan survey: October -6 November +5 So it's all about objective circumstances, right?

Crime, and especially money laundering, is big business and $100 bills are too bulky; crypto is the answer paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-...

Hot topic in 🇨🇭: mobility responses to strongly progressive inheritance taxation. A citizens' initiative proposes that estates should be taxed at a flat rate of 50%, starting at CHF 50m (~USD 45m). What would be the likely effects? A 🧵 1/

Welcome to the many new followers! Look at our new profile picture ☝️ and congress announcement 👇 and expect more info on #IIPF2025 incl. Call for Papers to come very soon. Meanwhile prepare for submission ✍️. Let's gather in Nairobi!

The EU Tax Observatory is hiring a general manager Come work with our wonderful team of researchers, policy and communication experts—and develop this wonderful institution, working closely with me on a day-to-day basis Details 👇👇👇 www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/job-oppor...

Submit your papers to the next @cepr.org Public Economics Annual Symposium, taking place in Cologne on June 5-6, 2025. Co-organized with @sigginho.bsky.social and Johannes Spinnewijn, keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and @omzidar.bsky.social! cepr.org/events/cepr-...

Reposting this, as it may be of interest to some who have recently joined. #EconSky 📉📈

Warum ist das immer noch so im autocorrect?

Reminder: The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions for the collection #Textual #Analysis in #Economics and #Finance. link.springer.com/collections/... @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social #EconSky

Warum der Nobelpreis in Wirtschaftswissenschaften für Claudia Goldin wichtig ist:

Right in time for the Gender Inequality class, I teach this week! 📈📉 #EconSky, I'm also looking for other relatively recent papers related to gender & gender inequality. Drop your favorite here (self-promotion is totally encouraged)

I'm pretty much giving up on the app formerly known as Twitter. It has really been degraded as a way to keep up with informed discourse, and I don't want to be an unpaid content provide for Musk. Will start posting wonkery here, maybe also on Threads

I am happy that my family is now part of the population that qualifies for being part of twinning IV *and* same-sex IV studies! Yes, we are expecting twins! And yes, I am now a Z=1!

This is going to be a big: the first global tax evasion report! Looking forward to it🙌

Hi #EconSky! I'm an applied economist working on and posting about inequality and taxation. Looking forward to connecting and rebuilding #Econtwitter here!