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....

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

New article in the Commentary Series: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... @causalhuber.bsky.social presents an overview of causal discovery, a data-driven approach to uncovering causal relationships among multiple variables. #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

New Editorial in the SJES: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social and Kateryna Dashevska celebrate 160 years of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

Interested in #CausalDiscovery to uncover causality among multiple variables? Check out my introductory #OpenAccess article in the Swiss Journal of Economics & Statistics @sjeseditors.bsky.social (very grateful to editor @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social for his support): doi.org/10.1186/s419...

Additional justified pushback from German colleagues: their "Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics" can celebrate its 180th anniversary this year. Which still means 🥉 for the SJES in the longevity ranking. Or will somebody push it off that pedestal? @sjeseditors.bsky.social #econsky

Possibly the world's oldest econ journal: The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics @sjeseditors.bsky.social is celebrating its 160th anniversary. 🎂 In this editorial, we look back on a rich and colourful intellectual history. 👉 rdcu.be/dX8bw #econsky

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

The most recent article, “Do mobile applications foster sustainable mobility? Evidence from a field experiment”, is available open access in the SJES: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... @kaufmanndani.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 “Family Policy and Labor Supply” collection. link.springer.com/collections/... @kaufmanndani.bsky.social, @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

The most recent article, “Do fiscal rules matter? A survey of recent evidence”, is available open access in the SJES: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... @kaufmanndani.bsky.social, @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

The most recent article, “The development of ski areas and its relation to the Alpine economy in Switzerland”, is available open access in the SJES: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10.... @kaufmanndani.bsky.social, @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

Seit 160 Jahren behauptet sich das Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (#SJES) als führende VWL-Zeitschrift des Landes. 🎂 Wir haben im Archiv so einige Perlen gefunden: von Genies, Pionieren und "Dilettanten". @sjeseditors.bsky.social dievolkswirtschaft.ch/de/2024/09/1...

🎂 Happy birthday, SJES! To mark our journal's 160th anniversary, @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social and Kateryna Dashevska have written a retrospective (in German and French). dievolkswirtschaft.ch/fr/2024/09/l... @kaufmanndani.bsky.social

Are you doing research on #labor markets and #family/#gender policies? If so, take a look at the "collection" (a topic-specific call for papers edited by a stellar team of experts) just opened by the SJES. 👇 Submissions accepted continuously until the end of August 2025. 😎

Call for Papers: 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/... @kaufmanndani.bsky.social, @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social