Economic trends
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Economic trends summer 2020
13.07.2020
The latest edition of «Economic Trends» is available. It is based on the SECO publication of the same name. The topics covered are the current economic situation and the forecast for economic developments in Switzerland based on assumptions about the global economy.
The Coronavirus leaves incisive traces. The global economy has experienced one of the fastest and deepest slumps ever recorded. In Switzerland, short-time working cushions unemployment, but GDP is forecast to decline by 6,2 percent.
Economic trends summer 2020Economic trends spring 2020
09.04.2020
What is the impact of coronavirus on the economy? The current report on economic trends in German and French provides answers.
Economic trends spring 2020 in GermanCoronavirus: the epidemiological curve
26.03.2020
The number of new Covid-19 cases is increasing rapidly, peaking and then declining. This is called the epidemiological curve. The annual wave of influenza takes the same course and the same development can be observed for Covid-19 in China and South Korea. The most important goal of the containment policy therefore remains the flattening of this curve in order to prevent the otherwise inevitable collapse of the health system.
Richard Baldwin writes about the epidemiological curve from an economist's perspective on VoxEU.org, the policy portal of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and founder and editor-in-chief of VoxEU.org.
Read the full article on VoxEU.org
The iconomix hub contains teaching material we have compiled on relevant and topical economy-related subjects beyond the usual world of iconomix – divided into news, multimedia, background and tools. A lot of this material is also suitable for distance learning.
The hub is currently available in German, French and Italian. However, many of the links will take you to content in English.
