Archive: Rudolf Walser

Rudolf Walser was Adjunct Fellow at Avenir Suisse from 2008 to 2016. His thematic focus was on the economy and regulatory policy.

Negative Interest Rates: an Experiment with an Uncertain Outcome

The perils of financial repression

13.07.2016, Rudolf Walser, Alois Bischofberger

Eine Vollgeld-Reform wäre ein Experiment mit äusserts ungewissem Ausgang. (Bild: Fotolia/Peshkov)

Lenin Would Have Laughed

The major risks in the monetary and financial system and the sovereign money initiative (2)

15.05.2016, Rudolf Walser

Schweizer Münzen sind seit dem 19. Jahrhundert im Umlauf. Das hat Seltenheitswert und ist das Resultat einer stets mit Bedacht geführten Geldpolitik. (Bild: Wikimedia Commons) _ Illustrationsbild zu Vollgeld-Blog

Sovereign Money Doesn’t Bring Greater Stability

The major risks in the monetary and financial system and the sovereign money initiative (1)

04.05.2016, Rudolf Walser

World trade growth has slowed noticeably, prompting economists around the world to speculate about the reasons. (Picture Fotolia/Wylezich)

Sand in the Gears of World Trade

Dynamic international trade is being hampered in many ways

17.12.2015, Rudolf Walser

07.12.2015, Patrik Schellenbauer und Gerhard Schwarz (Ed.), with contributions from Alois Bischofberger, Peter Buomberger, Astrid Epiney, Daniel Gros, Urs Meister, Daniel Müller-Jentsch and Rudolf Walser

The Effects of Unorthodox Monetary Policy

Avenir Suisse's autumn meeting

28.10.2015, Rudolf Walser, Alois Bischofberger

More Subsidiarity rather than sham Solidarity

An Appeal for Reform in the EU

06.11.2014, Rudolf Walser, Alois Bischofberger, Samuel Rutz

Managed Immigration

Switzerland’s referendum vote to curb immigration has prompted questions about how a quota based system could be implemented. A new Avenir Suisse special publication examines and rates administrative and price-based options. The comparisons reveal an auction system would be the “least bad” alternative.

08.04.2014, Gerhard Schwarz, Urs Meister und Patrik Schellenbauer (Publishers)