The authors also find that higher figurativeness correlates strongly with more emotional language, an important mechanism in political persuasion, and especially so on economic and fiscal issues. @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Now on Early View: 'Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth-century Switzerland. By Daniel Kaufmann & Rebecca Stuart. @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @rebstuart.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @cepr.org #EHS100

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

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics is now on bluesky, as is the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. Follow both! @swisseconomists.bsky.social @sjeseditors.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

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

Heute im Tages-Anzeiger: Die SNB kann ihren Handlungsspielraum erweitern, ohne auf Negativzinsen und intransparente Devisenmarktinterventionen zu setzen. Der gesetzliche Auftrag ist genügend flexibel um im Tiefzinsumfeld kommunikativ aktiver aufzutreten. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/nationalbank...

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

📢 PhD Position in International, Regional & Urban Economics! Excellent opportunity to work with our future colleague Gabriel Loumeau at the Institute of Economic Research, University of Neuchâtel. Highly recommended! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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....

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

Jointly with Marc Burri I published a full update of our working paper: Measuring multiple monetary policy shocks based on heteroscedasticity (ideas.repec.org/p/irn/wpaper...).

Negative #Inflation (neue Zahlen von heute) und absehbare #Negativzinsen: Gedanken dazu gibt es in der neuen «Schweizer Wirtschaft Daily», featuring u.a. @simonschmid.pro, @kaufmanndani.bsky.social. Jetzt unbedingt reinhören! 📻 open.spotify.com/show/3get63G... 📻 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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

Call for Papers: The 4th Annual Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics to be held Dec 5-6, 2025, hosted by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich. Info: eash.cc/AI-econ Submit (by Aug 15th): eash.cc/AI-econ-sub-2025

📢 Extended Deadline: Apply now for the Master in Applied Economics at the University of Neuchâtel🎓A few slots are still available for the fall intake 2025. www.unine.ch/seco/formati... Thanks @fabiocanetg.bsky.social for producing this video!

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

The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions for its collection #SJES #Data (link.springer.com/collections/...). #EconSky @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @rlalive.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

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

Reminder: Call for Papers on Family Policies and Labor Supply The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions to the collection link.springer.com/collections/... #EconSky @christinafelfe.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

Last chance to apply for a #PhD position supevised by my colleague Bruno Lanz. Highly recommended! www.unine.ch/seco/wp-cont... #econsky

New article: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... Johannes Lehmann and Michael Beckmann analyze how digital technologies impact performance incentives in Swiss businesses. #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

Submission deadline approaching: Call for Papers for the 2025 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS) on New Designs for the Market Economy www.sgvs.ch/conferences/... #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social @kurtschmidheiny.bsky.social

📢 #PhD Position in #Economics My colleague Bruno Lanz is looking for candidates in: Environmental, behavioral, experimental, information economics, and applied econometrics Join us in beautiful Neuchâtel! www.unine.ch/irene/wp-con... #econsky

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

Young Economists' Meeting 2025 will take place in Brno! #EconSky #EconConf

The #SJES @sjeseditors.bsky.social showcases policy-relevant research. Latest example: Brendan Berthold's paper, using text analysis to quantify macro climate-policy risk in 🇨🇭, has been selected for an article in Die Volkswirtschaft / La vie économique 👇 dievolkswirtschaft.ch/fr/2024/12/e...

Watson m'a interviewé sur les répercussions économiques et institutionnelles du récent rapport de la Commission d’enquête parlementaire (CEP) portant sur la gestion de la crise liée à la fusion UBS-Crédit Suisse. Bonne lecture et belles fêtes! www.watson.ch/fr/suisse/ec...

ICYMI: Come work with us in Neuchâtel, Switzerland! Application deadline 15 January #EconSky #econ_ra

Reminder: Call for Papers on Family Policies and Labor Supply The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions to the “Family Policy and Labor Supply” collection. link.springer.com/collections/... @christinafelfe.bsky.social @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

We’re hiring two predocs / research assistants at @cephie.bsky.social @quceh.bsky.social hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Last chance to be on the "economists on Bluesky" listings before all authors registered on RePEc are alerted to it in the monthly email. Listings: ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... Where to add your BlueSky handle to your RePEc profile: authors.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky