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This is the official twitter account of KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich. Tweets in German: @KOFETH
Zürich, Schweiz
Joined November 2017
🗺️📊 #Global #Economic #Barometers: This month, the coincident and leading Global Barometers show diverging movements. While the Coincident Barometer declines after a slight increase last month, the Leading Barometer rises for the 2nd month in a row. https://t.co/mKK276dnVl
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In March, the coincident and leading Global Barometers show diverging movements. While the Coincident Barometer declines after a slight increase last month, the Leading Barometer rises for the second...
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The leading indicator for the 🇨🇭 Economy, the KOF #Economic #Barometer decreases this month. After an increase in January, it remains above its medium-term average (101.7 points). While faced with headwinds, the Swiss Economy shows a robust outlook. 👉 https://t.co/mwscd13R6d
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Santosh Jatrana, a professor at Deakin University Melbourne in Australia, spent three months at KOF as a Visiting Fellow. Here she shares her experience as a demographer in an economic institute.
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Early Bird – Column on everyday research by Professor Santosh Jatrana, Deakin University Melbourne, Australia. Here she shares her experience as a demographer in an economics institute.
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He devised revolutionary prescriptions to save capitalism in crisis. We have tried an experiment to see what John Maynard Keynes would advise us to do today. Here are the late British economist’s replies in a fictitious interview about the housing market.
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He devised revolutionary prescriptions to save capitalism in crisis. We have tried an experiment to see what John Maynard Keynes would advise us to do today. Here are the late British economist’s...
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Big data, Chat GPT, virtual reality – #artificial #intelligence is omnipresent. But not all firms are benefiting to the same extent. Here are the key findings from our recent study on the #innovation #landscape in Switzerland🇨🇭.
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Big data, ChatGPT, virtual reality – artificial intelligence (AI) is omnipresent. But not all firms are benefiting to the same extent. While large companies upgraded digitally during the period...
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Rising #tariffs and geopolitical #conflicts are casting dark shadows over global #trade🌎. In a major interview on the economy, KOF directors @JanEgbertSturm and @hans_gersbach discuss the changing world order and risks facing Switzerland🇨🇭.
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Rising tariffs, geopolitical conflicts and new bloc formations are casting dark shadows over global trade. In a major interview on the economy, KOF directors Jan-Egbert Sturm and Hans Gersbach...
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"KOF Insights", the new KOF magazine, is online. The first issue covers topics such as Trump's #tariffs 🇺🇸and the #elections in Germany🇩🇪. We also shed light on technological trends such as #AI and #Big #Data. You can find all the articles here: https://t.co/YyFLvVqrVS
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The #Global #Barometers 🌎increase slightly in February, partially recovering the losses of the previous month. The results indicate a possible consolidation of these levels for the indicators.
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The Global Barometers increase slightly in February, partially recovering the losses of the previous month. The results indicate a possible consolidation of these levels for the indicators, after an...
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Dampener at the start of 2025: The KOF #Business #Situation #Indicator for the Swiss 🇨🇭private sector, which is calculated on the basis of the KOF #Business #Tendency #Surveys, fell in January📉.
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The KOF Business Situation Indicator for the Swiss private sector, which is calculated on the basis of the KOF Business Tendency Surveys, fell in January. It had previously risen in October and...
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The outlook for the Swiss #labour #market remains subdued. The KOF #Employment #Indicator has fallen slightly in the first quarter of 2025 compared with last quarter.
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The KOF Employment Indicator has fallen slightly in the first quarter of 2025 compared with last quarter. This decline is primarily due to the worsening employment prospects in the retail and...
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19892 Network Rewiring and Spatial Targeting: Optimal Disease Mitigation in Multilayer Social Networks O Candogan @ChicagoBooth, M König @SpatialVU @KOFETH_en, K Marray @SpatialVU, F Takes @UniLeidenNews
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#CEPR_IO #CEPR_PE
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The KOF #Economic #Barometer increases in January. After a decline in the previous month, it rises slightly to the above-average range. The outlook for the Swiss 🇨🇭#economy improves somewhat at the beginning of the year📈.
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The KOF Economic Barometer increases in January. After a decline in the previous month, it rises slightly to the above-average range. The outlook for the Swiss economy improves somewhat at the...
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🚨 Last call! 🚨 Submit your paper until Friday, 31 January!
Submission deadline approaching: Call for Papers for the 2025 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS) on "New Designs for the Market Economy". https://t.co/Wmpbd0EI3i Extended submission deadline: Friday, 31 January 2025 Submit your paper
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We are delighted that our alumnus and KOF research fellow Stephan Schneider has been awarded the ETH Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis. Our sincere congratulations on this prestigious distinction, which has been awarded to the most excellent graduates of @ETH since 1869.
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Submission deadline approaching: Call for Papers for the 2025 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES/SGVS) on "New Designs for the Market Economy". https://t.co/Wmpbd0EI3i Extended submission deadline: Friday, 31 January 2025 Submit your paper
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KOF has collaborated with the @NZZ newspaper to survey economists on fundamental and current economic questions. The results show that they reject state intervention such as rent controls and trade tariffs.
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KOF has collaborated with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) newspaper to survey economists on fundamental and current economic questions. The results show that they reject state intervention such as...
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🚨 Extended deadline for the Call for Papers SSES Conference!🚨 New deadline: 31 January 2025 All information 👇 @d_mtec @JanEgbertSturm @hans_gersbach
📢Call for Papers 2025 #SSES Annual Congress “New Designs for the Market Economy”, 26 – 27 June 2025 @KOFETH Submissions: https://t.co/SjpX1JokjZ 📆Deadline: 20 January 2025 👉More information: https://t.co/5LCc9NT9oq
@hans_gersbach @JanEgbertSturm @KurtSchmidheiny @d_mtec
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The world is looking to America: at 6 p.m. our time, Donald Trump will be sworn in as US President. His protectionist tariffs could cost prosperity worldwide – including in Switzerland. According to our calculations, at least CHF 200 per capita per year.
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If Donald Trump prevails in the US presidential election on 5 November and introduces the announced trade tariffs, this would lead to global economic losses. The USA itself would suffer the most....
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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 📑 📈 📊 The 6th Workshop of the Swiss Network on Public Economics (SNoPE) will take place on March 28, 2025, at @KOFETH_en at @ETH in Zurich. The deadline is January 31. Find the CfP and info on how to apply here:
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