In April, the Federal Council opened the consultation process on a stricter version of Switzerland’s “Lex Koller”, the law ...

In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes dared to look a full century ahead. He made two bold predictions. First, living ...

Under Switzerland’s Health Insurance Act, cantons are required to provide individual premium subsidies to households that ...

Individual premium subsidies are intended as a social policy tool for low-income households. Yet they also create incentives for beneficiaries to choose lower deductibles and, as a result, consume ...

An interview with Jürg Müller on the strengths and limits of the market economy and the role of the state.

In your view, what are the principal strengths of a market economy, particularly when it comes to coordinating economic ...

In the previous article of our “Migration Insights”, we focused on the makeup of today’s resident population — in other words, the stock. This article turns to the flow of migration. The question here ...

When the heads of state of NATO member countries meet in The Hague at the end of June, tensions are likely to be high. Donald Trump’s return to the White House is testing the transatlantic alliance. A ...

Subsidies experienced a veritable renaissance with the coronavirus pandemic. While the granting of subsidies is at least transparent at federal level, in the cantons and municipalitiesthere’s an ...

Wie verändert Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) den Schweizer Arbeitsmarkt? Unternehmen investieren massiv in neue Technologien – mit Folgen für zahlreiche Berufe. Unsere Publikation analysiert, wie KI ...

State support for individual companies or entire industries is trending again. Whether it's to strengthen supply security, support strategically important sectors or encourage the ecological ...

Global minimum tax, unresolved relations with the EU, shortage of qualified personnel, the banking crisis: the risks for Switzerland as a business location seem countless. For years, there have been ...