Wer in Zürich studiert und sich vorstellen kann, ein Kind schulisch zu begleiten, findet hier einen coolen Nebenjob inkl. Coaching:

Series: Damn the war / لعنت به جنگ Ukraine, I feel your pain, I am also hit hard by the war. I feel the pain of your displaced and homeless people. No one can describe the moment, when the world suddenly collapses on you.

Postdoctoral Positions for Academic Economists based in Ukraine Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim. For further inquiries please write to [email protected] without attachments. Please share. #EconTwitter #UkraineWar

Iconomix hat ein attraktives Hochschulpraktikum ausgeschrieben. Kennen Sie jemanden, der passen könnte? Oder sind Sie selbst interessiert? Im Inserat finden Sie die Details zur Ausschreibung, inkl. einem Link zu zwei Erfahrungsberichten: careers.snb.ch/job/Praktikant…

New SNB Working Paper: Jason Blunier and Christian Hepenstrick show how to estimate quarterly forecasts underlying annual growth projections – a problem often encountered in applied work. The method performs well and is easy to implement. snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/…

Deadline 12 May! Traineeship in the Prices and Costs Division. Join the #datascience team that works on monitoring and #forecasting #inflation at the #ECB. Gain practical experience of distilling predictions and policy advice from complex datasets using a variety of models.

Recently, I decided I wanted to read every page of one of my favorite websites, Our World in Data. I’m about halfway now. Here are the 30 most surprising things I’ve learned about the world so far! 🧵

«Am Montag wird die Stadt Zürich die Ukraine-Flaggen einholen, die während der vergangenen zwei Jahre an verschiedenen Standorten im Wind flatterten.» Wieso bitte werden die Flaggen eingeholt, wenn doch die #Ukraine 🇺🇦 mehr denn je Unterstützung braucht? swissinfo.ch/ger/stadt-z%C3…

Gesucht und (nach 70 Jahren wieder) gefunden! #Drepanocladus turgescens (Bestimmung ist noch mikroskopisch zu überprüfen)

Thrilled to share our latest work with Adrien Bilal! Check out our new working paper: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝘀. 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 Read here: bit.ly/4bsxvU0 Thread below👇

We’re looking for a microeconomist (D/F) to help shape Switzerland’s competition policy. You will be in charge of developing rules for state-owned enterprises and contribute to the development of antitrust law and the establishment of a state aid regime. jobs.admin.ch/offene-stellen…

New SNB Economic Note: Simon Alder, Simon Beyeler, Laura Felber, Jonas Huwyler, Christoph Meyer, Simon Niederberger and Rina Rosenblatt-Wisch construct a new measure of wage growth in Switzerland using anonymised payment system data. snb.ch/en/publication…

New: "Triangle inequalities in international trade: The neglected dimension" by Reto Föllmi (Reto Föllmi), Christian Hepenstrick (Swiss National Bank) and David Torun (David Torun). doi.org/10.1016/j.jint… 1/2

📐Thrilled that our paper is out at Journal of International Economics! The triangle inequality (TI) has been largely overlooked in quantitative exercises, even though it has important implications for them! A 🧵 1/12 doi.org/10.1016/j.jint…

New SNB Economic Note: Florence Miguet Heimlicher estimates the savings accumulated by Swiss households during the COVID-19 pandemic and considers the assets in which these savings were invested. snb.ch/en/publication…

The 2015 CHF appreciation is a key empirical setting for understanding how large exchange rate movements shape macroeconomic outcomes. In a new VoxEU.org w Sarah Lein and Ariel Burstein, we reflect on the learnings 10 years after the shock: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

New SNB Economic Note: Andreas Bachmann and Yannic Stucki study the effect of current demographic trends on the Swiss working-age population. They show that population ageing may significantly reduce employment growth going forward. snb.ch/en/publication…

Working Paper: Jessica Leutert, Rolf Scheufele and Selina Schön study the link between consumer prices and wages in Switzerland. They find that price increases have a substantial effect on wages, whereas wage increases have only a modest effect on prices. snb.ch/en/publication…

New SNB Working Paper: Marius Faber and Gabriel Züllig estimate the slope of the Phillips curve in the euro area. They find that, although the Phillips curve is usually quite flat, it becomes substantially steeper when the labor market is tight. snb.ch/en/publication…