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What are the implications of Switzerland's exclusion from European research programs? How is digitalization transforming research and development in Switzerland?
In our fifth Innoscape Talk, Martina Hirayama, the State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, shares her views on these challenges for the Swiss innovation system. We also talk about the role of the government in boosting…
Klimawandel: Der globale Norden hat die Kontrolle verloren | Aktueller Beitrag von Scott Taylor in «Die Volkswirtschaft»
Die Globalisierung hat die umweltverschmutzende Produktion in den Süden verlagert. Das rächt sich. Denn der Klimawandel ist global und unabhängig davon, in welchem Land CO2 ausgestossen wird.
Women leaving the playpen: The emancipating role of female suffrage
New publication by Michaela Slotwinski and Alois Stutzer in The Economic Journal 2022
WWZ Faculty Blog: Frankenaufwertung und das Schweizerische Nettoauslandsvermögen
Beitrag von Peter Kugler
Fabian Schär as Opening Panellist at the 22nd International Conference of Banking Supervisors (ICBS)
The 22nd International Conference of Banking Supervisors (ICBS) is held virtually from 29 November to 1 December 2022. The overarching theme for this year's ICBS is financial technology and its implications for banks and banking…
Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Rutherford wird neuer Ehrendoktor der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
Dies Academicus am 25. November 2022
Dr. Véra Zabrodina mit dem Fakultätspreis ausgezeichnet
Frau Dr. Véra Zabrodina erhält den Fakultätspreis für ihre mit dem Gesamtprädikat summa cum laude bewerteten Dissertation «Asymmetric Information, Policy Differentiation and Distortions: Insights from Social Insurance and…
In memoriam Professor Ronald W. Jones, University of Rochester and Visiting Professor at the University of Basel
With sadness and, at the same time, great thankfulness, we bid farewell to Professor Ronald W. Jones who passed away on September 27, 2022. Both myself, and many of my PhD and Master students in the graduate trade class at the University…
New publication by Kerstin Hansen and Alois Stutzer: Parental Unemployment, Social Insurance and Child Well-Being Across Countries
in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2022, 204 (pp. 600-617)