Why Economists Don’t Much Like Subsidies Subsidies distort markets and create disincentives 26.01.2023, Patrick Dümmler
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
Outcome of OECD Tax Reform Uncertain Arguments for streamlined implementation without government policy experimentation 23.09.2022, Lukas Schmid , Eveline Hutter
Is Minimum Corporate Tax the Silver Bullet? Hannah’s Insights into Avenir Suisse's latest study "Brave New World of Tax" 30.08.2022, Hannah Wise
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
Brave New World of Tax Analysis What the Federal Government and Cantons Should and Shouldn’t Do in Response to the OECD Tax Reform 15.08.2022, Lukas Schmid , Eveline Hutter
Global Meets Cantonal Higher corporate taxes require competitive measures 31.01.2022, Peter Grünenfelder
Cutting Consumption Does Little to Combat Climate Change Curbs on fossil fuels need to focus on the supply side 31.01.2022, Lukas Rühli
Not Such a Haven Focus of the month Contrary to received opinion, taxes on capital in Switzerland bite hard 30.09.2021, Haig Simonian
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
Irresponsible? The Role and Perception of Swiss Entrepreneurship in Times of Upheaval 02.11.2020, Marco Salvi , Peter Grünenfelder , Lukas Rühli , Patrick Dümmler , Samuel Rutz , Valérie Müller , Céline Neuenschwander , Matthias Ammann
Why Marry when Living in Sin Is Cheaper? Switzerland is again debating how best to tax married couples 30.06.2020, Haig Simonian
Women Disadvantaged by Family Taxation What Tax Models Would Give Them Incentives to Work 25.06.2020, Marco Salvi , Valérie Müller
What if… 13 possible developments and their consequences for Switzerland 31.10.2019, Peter Grünenfelder and Jürg Müller (Editors)
Switzerland’s Francophone Powerhouse The uniquely dynamic momentum of the Lake Geneva region 31.05.2019, Haig Simonian
Federalism as a Laboratory of Ideas How Swiss cantons can learn from their neighbors 15.03.2018, Laura Calendo
We Need to Get Out of the Comfort Zone Major future issues are taboo in Swiss politics 15.01.2018, Peter Grünenfelder
Pros and Cons of Tax Relief Exempted tax relief and benefits are popular political instruments, but they are also problematic from an economic perspective. 24.10.2017, Fabian Schnell
Public Ratio Spending and the Delimitation of Public and Private What does “public ratio spending” represent, and what is its scope in Switzerland ? 11.07.2017, Marco Salvi
Trump’s Tax Plans Are a Significant Threat to Switzerland Is Switzerland under increasing pressure to reform? 18.04.2017, Marco Salvi
