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Switzerland's January annual inflation rate increased to 0.5 per cent, after 0.3 per cent...
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Several competition authorities have accused petrol retailers of engaging in collusive conduct, which results in alleged "excessive" prices as well as simultaneous price setting across filling stations. However, petrol retailers must exert a substantial amount of market power if they are to dampen competition. Therefore, we propose a method within the spirit of the New-Empirical-Industrial-Organisation, which allows estimating market power held by petrol retailers in terms of a conduct parameter. Based on data for Switzerland, our empirical results suggest a low level of market power held by Swiss petrol retailers.
... substantial tax increase in 1993 with inflation tending, however, to decrease the real tax burden ...
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...The inflation rate is expected to remain just below one per cent...
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... recettes fiscales, voire hausse de l'inflation) font actuellement l'objet d'un âpre débat. Pers... Maroc le groupe de travail Policy Coherence, Data and Research, qui réunit des données de recher...
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... per cent between 2001 and 2006, according to data supplied by Wuest and Partners. Single-family home... that the real prices (which remove inflation) of condominiums in Switzerland have risen margina...
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... about how he saw the threat posed by inflation--especially given Switzerland's apparent rapid rec... since we first began collecting this type of data 40 years ago. Since early 2010, the crisis has mor...
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... suspension damper units, a central tyre inflation system and a levelling system to adjust ground cle.... The most recent data about the vehicle shows an increased kerb weight o...
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...Section 3 presents the data and specifies the econometric methodology. Section... conditions (expectations about future inflation for instance). On the whole, studying the RIP shou...
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Real exchange rates are a major short-run determinant of any country's capacity to compete. In this paper, we compute a unit-labour-costs-based real exchange rate for Switzerland for the period 1980-2006. This study uses manufacturing sector data on wages and labour productivity in Switzerland and twelve of its major trade partners and present detailed findings on relative labour costs and relative productivity trends. Our main findings are that, measured in these terms, the Swiss real exchange rate depreciated by some 9% in the period under analysis and that this improvement in competitiveness is essentially due to Swiss wage moderation. At a bilateral level, results highlight diverging trends: a significant gain of competitiveness is observed vis-à-vis Germany, Italy, the UK, Spain, A...
... often eroded by an increase in domestic inflation. Hence, focusing on nominal exchange rates disrega...
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.... Recovery . 2010 data showed a divergence of export performance across m..., and strategies for credit and inflation risks. . Commodities . The International Monetary ...