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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 📑 📈 📊 The 6th Workshop of the Swiss Network on Public Economics (SNoPE) will take place on March 28, 2025, at KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zürich in Zurich. The deadline is January 31. Find the CfP and info on how to apply here: unifr.ch/ecopub/de/asse…

The world is looking to America: at 6 p.m. our time, Donald Trump will be sworn in as US President. His protectionist tariffs could cost prosperity worldwide – including in Switzerland. According to our calculations, at least CHF 200 per capita per year. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

🚨 Extended deadline for the Call for Papers SSES Conference!🚨 New deadline: 31 January 2025 All information 👇 D-MTEC ETH Zurich Jan-Egbert Sturm Hans Gersbach

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". sgvs.ch/conferences/ss… Extended submission deadline: Friday, 31 January 2025 Submit your paper

KOF has collaborated with the NZZ newspaper to survey economists on fundamental and current economic questions. The results show that they reject state intervention such as rent controls and trade tariffs. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

We are delighted that our alumnus and KOF research fellow Stephan Schneider has been awarded the ETH Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis. Our sincere congratulations on this prestigious distinction, which has been awarded to the most excellent graduates of ETH Zürich since 1869.

🚨 Last call! 🚨 Submit your paper until Friday, 31 January!

The KOF #Economic #Barometer increases in January. After a decline in the previous month, it rises slightly to the above-average range. The outlook for the Swiss 🇨🇭#economy improves somewhat at the beginning of the year📈. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19892 Network Rewiring and Spatial Targeting: Optimal Disease Mitigation in Multilayer Social Networks O Candogan Chicago Booth, M König Spatial Economics VU KOF Swiss Economic Institute, K Marray Spatial Economics VU, F Takes Leiden University ow.ly/mKwm50UOvvZ #CEPR_IO #CEPR_PE

The outlook for the Swiss #labour #market remains subdued. The KOF #Employment #Indicator has fallen slightly in the first quarter of 2025 compared with last quarter. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

Dampener at the start of 2025: The KOF #Business #Situation #Indicator for the Swiss 🇨🇭private sector, which is calculated on the basis of the KOF #Business #Tendency #Surveys, fell in January📉. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

The #Global #Barometers 🌎increase slightly in February, partially recovering the losses of the previous month. The results indicate a possible consolidation of these levels for the indicators. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

Rising #tariffs and geopolitical #conflicts are casting dark shadows over global #trade🌎. In a major interview on the economy, KOF directors Jan-Egbert Sturm and Hans Gersbach discuss the changing world order and risks facing Switzerland🇨🇭. kof.ethz.ch/en/publication…

Big data, Chat GPT, virtual reality – #artificial #intelligence is omnipresent. But not all firms are benefiting to the same extent. Here are the key findings from our recent study on the #innovation #landscape in Switzerland🇨🇭. kof.ethz.ch/en/publication…

He devised revolutionary prescriptions to save capitalism in crisis. We have tried an experiment to see what John Maynard Keynes would advise us to do today. Here are the late British economist’s replies in a fictitious interview about the housing market. kof.ethz.ch/en/publication…

Santosh Jatrana, a professor at Deakin University Melbourne in Australia, spent three months at KOF as a Visiting Fellow. Here she shares her experience as a demographer in an economic institute. kof.ethz.ch/en/publication…

The leading indicator for the 🇨🇭 Economy, the KOF #Economic #Barometer decreases this month. After an increase in January, it remains above its medium-term average (101.7 points). While faced with headwinds, the Swiss Economy shows a robust outlook. 👉 kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

🗺️📊 #Global #Economic #Barometers: This month, the coincident and leading Global Barometers show diverging movements. While the Coincident Barometer declines after a slight increase last month, the Leading Barometer rises for the 2nd month in a row. kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…