Problematic Tax Benefits Summer Series on Federal Finances When the State Voluntarily Foregoes Revenue 30.08.2024, Samuel Rutz, Laurenz Grabher
How to Regulate the Banks Federal guarantees and regulation have become less effective due to digitalization 19.04.2024, Jürg Müller, Laurenz Grabher
“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
Politics Keeps Consumers on a Short Leash As Switzerland further closes itself off, shopping tourism will become more difficult. 30.11.2023, Patrick Dümmler
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
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
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
Obscene Profits? 10 reasons why a special tax on war or crisis profits could prove to be a Pandora's box 30.08.2022, Patrick Leisibach
“Geopolitics and Institutions” Think Tank Summit 2022 Keynote by Heinz Gärtner followed by a discussion with Martin Dahinden, I-Chung Lai and Ralph Weber 05.04.2022, Patrick Dümmler
Switzerland, the Land of Subsidies Does Switzerland need to apply the brakes on subsidies? 17.03.2022, Samuel Rutz
Never-Ending Story Granting hardship assistance until mid-2022 makes no sense in terms of either financial or economic policy 08.03.2022, Peter Grünenfelder
60.4 Million for Dusty Structures The Swiss government’s Covid-19 aid for the print media symbolizes a love of the status quo and a carefree disregard for market distortions 30.08.2021, Laurenz Grabher
Corporate Life Cycles The consequences of corporation demographics on economic policy 26.02.2021, Jürg Müller, Basil Ammann
Economic Policy Responses to the Second Wave Analysis Enabling Structural Change, Even in Times of Crisis 20.11.2020, Jürg Müller, Valérie Müller, Marco Salvi
Switzerland Should Embrace Business, Not Suspect It Focus of the month Big companies are crucial to the country’s prosperity 09.11.2020, Haig Simonian
Cantonal Agricultural Policy Under Scrutiny Analysis Points of Leverage to Make Swiss Farming More Regional 03.07.2020, Patrick Dümmler, Mario Bonato
Swiss Agricultural Policy on the Wrong Track Overregulation inhibits entrepreneurial farmers 29.01.2020, Peter Grünenfelder