“The Agricultural Policy is Missing its Targets” Interview The farmers’ protests both at home and abroad show: The current agricultural policy is doomed to failure. 14.02.2024, Patrick Dümmler
Huge Profits for State Electricity Suppliers Households in the basic supply face record prices while owners that are mainly public earn a fortune. Complete market liberalization is necessary, as is a reform of ownership structures. 26.01.2024, Patrick Dümmler, Simon Stocker
Counterproductive Quota-Based Policy Switzerland should be making better use of global talent — without opening its borders too much. 22.12.2023, Patrick Leisibach
Politics Keeps Consumers on a Short Leash As Switzerland further closes itself off, shopping tourism will become more difficult. 30.11.2023, Patrick Dümmler
Protected by Europe Participation in the European Sky Shield Initiative can be worthwhile for Switzerland for several reasons 30.10.2023, Eveline Hutter, Simon Stocker
Let’s Stop Milking the Cow Twice Swiss agricultural policy favors the agricultural sector at the expense of farmers, consumers and taxpayers 27.10.2023, Patrick Dümmler
Hung Over After Birthday Celebrations? The Swiss three-pillar system has turned 50. Despite changes in society and the labor market it’s aged well, but it still needs rejuvenation. 29.09.2023, Jérôme Cosandey
Why Does Real Bracket Creep Not Get Compensated? Politicians and public administrators benefit from the leeway created by real bracket creep ‒ at the expense of the middle class 31.08.2023, Lukas Rühli
What Applies to Switzerland, Also Applies to Avenir Suisse Jürg Müller, Avenir Suisse’s new Director since August 1 31.08.2023, Jürg Müller
Why Are Banks Regulated in the First Place? Banks create liquidity, but this also makes them fragile. Over the years, a comprehensive regulatory framework has been developed to stabilize them. 25.07.2023, Laurenz Grabher, Lukas Schmid, Jürg Müller
Closing Supply Gaps in the Electricity Market Today’s electricity system offers little incentive to conserve. A combination of price incentives, individual supply levels, and automated load control could help. 25.07.2023, Patrick Dümmler
Reducing Barriers to Global Talent Parliament wants to facilitate the transition of foreign university graduates into the labor market. This decision is sensible. However, more challenging debates await. 21.06.2023, Patrick Leisibach
Why Keep It Simple When You Can Make Things Complicated? Climate protection law put to the test 30.05.2023, Patrick Dümmler
Equality Policy at an Impasse Commentary of the Week Companies could now be sanctioned if suspected of pay discrimination. Yet again, the Swiss National Council is serving a dubious narrative that harms the cause of equality 30.05.2023, Lukas Schmid, Patrick Leisibach
Taxes in the Age of Chatbots Digitization and automation are changing the economy. But that does not mean the tax system has to be reinvented. 24.04.2023, Lukas Schmid, Patrick Leisibach
Separating Commercial and Investment Banking Operations Does Not Make the Financial System Safer The division into “good” and “bad” banks provides a captious narrative, but it does not solve the fundamental problem 24.04.2023, Jürg Müller, Lukas Schmid, Laurenz Grabher
The Tale of the Evil Market and the Good Basic Supply Network Why a complete liberalization of the electricity market is necessary 30.03.2023, Patrick Dümmler
The End of the Liberal Order in Switzerland, the Land of Banks On the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS under emergency law 22.03.2023, Peter Grünenfelder, Jürg Müller
The Concentration of Critical Minerals The only thing securing Switzerland access to lithium and rare earths is openness. 27.02.2023, Simon Stocker
Success for Sugar, Hope for Salt Industry agreements support prevention more effectively than regulations 27.02.2023, Diego Taboada
Why Economists Don’t Much Like Subsidies Subsidies distort markets and create disincentives 26.01.2023, Samuel Rutz, Laurenz Grabher
Where to Go with the Mountains of Plastic? On the benefits of plastic and the contradictions of recycling 26.01.2023, Mario Bonato
Not Out of the Woods Yet Energy shortages threaten us in the coming winters as well 19.12.2022, Patrick Dümmler