Archive: Effective infrastructure and markets

For a Toll Tunnel at the Gotthard

A toll is the most sensible way to finance this major project

22.03.2016, Daniel Müller-Jentsch

“We Should Produce Less, not More”

A brown-bag-lunch about the gulf between claims and reality in Swiss agriculture

18.02.2016, Simone Hofer Frei

Consumers as Winners

The surprising effects of the bilateral treaties

22.01.2016, Gerhard Schwarz

Growth – why, how much and how

A new publication and graphical supplement on economic growth

19.01.2016, Gerhard Schwarz, Simone Hofer Frei, Samuel Rutz

Avenir Suisse’s Freedom Index: It‘s Getting Tougher at the Top

An innovative interactive tool to compare the civil and economic freedoms of Swiss cantons

18.12.2015, Samuel Rutz, Tobias Schlegel

Sand in the Gears of World Trade

Dynamic international trade is being hampered in many ways

17.12.2015, Rudolf Walser

Mobility Pricing Can Make Travelling More Pleasant

New video series: “Avenir Suisse in Motion”

25.09.2015, Simone Hofer Frei

Consumer choice under threat

How current and future consumer options will be curtailed

22.09.2015, Samuel Rutz

Free Choice of Schools Raises Educational Standards

The free choice of schooling has been more of a struggle in Switzerland than in other countries, although it would counteract the current segregated system based on place of residence. Greater competition among schools would improve educational standards too.

20.07.2015, Patrik Schellenbauer

Staying competitive with the strong franc

An “avenir special” following the Swiss National Bank’s 15 January decision

25.06.2015, Gerhard Schwarz, Simone Hofer Frei, Peter Buomberger

We Must Stick To Our Principles

Ordoliberalism – the social market economy – has served Switzerland and Germany well. So it’s almost grotesque to hear demands from other countries to break its rules. It’s not pragmatism we need, but sticking to our principles.

29.05.2015, Gerhard Schwarz

“We Need All Forms of Energy”

Annual Dinner on Switzerland’s energy future

01.04.2015, Verena Parzer-Epp

Bad marks for Switzerland’s willingness to reform

Edition of DA CH Reformbarometer 2015

26.03.2015, Marco Salvi, Robert Koza and Thomas Puls

Privacy and the Net

The new avenir spezial encloses a poster on big data

03.03.2015, Gerhard Schwarz, Simone Hofer Frei

Hurdles on the Way to Ecological Tax Reform

Reforming tax based on comprehensive ecological principles could bring significant benefits. But the advantages tend to diminish on closer examination.

24.02.2015, Urs Meister, Marco Salvi