Guaranteed Benefits for Cantonal Banks The hidden costs of explicit government guarantees and tax exemptions 26.02.2025, Lukas Schmid
The Road to Strong Federal Finances Raise taxes, cut expenses or ease on the debt brake? 16.10.2024, Michele Salvi, Jan Marty
Problematic Tax Benefits Summer Series on Federal Finances When the State Voluntarily Foregoes Revenue 30.08.2024, Samuel Rutz, Laurenz Grabher
Government Spending: Uncovering Hidden Costs Summer Series on Federal Finances The Importance of Clear Responsibilities, Reducing Red Tape, and Addressing Competitive Distortions 26.08.2024, Jürg Müller, Christoph Eisenring
The Complexity of Balancing a Budget Hannah’s Quicktakes on the Federal Finances 30.07.2024, Hannah Wise
Real Bracket Creep in Switzerland Quantifying the impact at all three levels of government 28.04.2024, Lukas Rühli, Eveline Hutter
Why Tax Refunds Are a Prudent Response to Unplanned Surpluses Hannah’s Quicktakes on implementing a tax refund 28.02.2024, Hannah Wise
Cantonal Budgets off Target Analysis Part 2: Alleviating the problem thanks to tax refund 31.01.2024, Lukas Rühli
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
Real Bracket Creep Analysis For the Elimination of an Unknown Quantity in Taxation 03.08.2023, Lukas Rühli, Mario Bonato
Why Economists Don’t Much Like Subsidies Subsidies distort markets and create disincentives 26.01.2023, Samuel Rutz, Laurenz Grabher
Overcautious Cantons The cantons closed fiscal 2021 CHF 6.8 billion better than budgeted. This new record puts often-heard warnings of looming deficits into perspective. 31.10.2022, Lukas Rühli
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
Global Meets Cantonal Higher corporate taxes require competitive measures 31.01.2022, Peter Grünenfelder
The Almighty State Why we need to raise liberal barriers to the spread of greater intervention 15.10.2021, Peter Grünenfelder
Trade-offs in Pandemic Response The unanswered questions about the lockdown 01.03.2021, Peter Grünenfelder, Lukas Rühli, Samuel Rutz, Jérôme Cosandey, Marco Salvi
A Troubling New Way of Business For Switzerland Focus of the month The corona crisis reminds us of the value of free markets 28.01.2021, Haig Simonian
Let Free Enterprise Rule Targeted easing for sectors affected by Covid-19, not billions more in aid 21.12.2020, Peter Grünenfelder
Long Covid in Fiscal Policy? Analysis How the after-effects of the special edition of coronavirus can be avoided 04.12.2020, Lukas Rühli
