Fishpond game
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What are the main causes for the current high inflation? And how long will it remain so high? An article in the IMF-magazine Finance & Developement sums up the current situation and looks ahead.
The latest edition of the Economic trends publication, which is based on the SECO publication ‘Konjunkturtendenzen’ / ‘Tendances conjoncturelles’, is now available.
According to SECO’s forecast, the recovery in Switzerland is likely to continue at a slower pace in the second half of 2022 and inflation is expected to increase further.
Iconomix is now launching the news section in English. Here we will inform you about the latest news at Iconomix and about offers from our partners.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures: In the aftermath of the 2007/2008 financial crisis, monetary policy changed substantially – not just in Switzerland but worldwide. How can the functioning of today’s monetary policy be described in a way that captures these changes? A new Iconomix knowledge sheet provides an answer.
The U.S. has already suffered more than one million deaths in the context of Covid-19. However, this is not the only health crisis America is fighting. Since the late 1990s, more than half a million people have died from an opioid overdose.
Economic and financial literacy is a fundamental life skill for finding one's way in today's complex world. Iconomix makes a valuable contribution to this by providing mostly experience-oriented teaching and learning materials. The following provides answers to two pertinent questions: Why and how?
To mark the 10th anniversary of Iconomix in 2017, the Swiss magazine “Die Volkswirtschaft” (English: The Economy) published an article on the SNB's educational offering. We translated this article into English.
The SNB was taking the ten-year anniversary of Iconomix as an opportunity to present its education portal to a wider public. The article appeared in the SNB Quarterly Bulletin 2/2018.
Shut down coal-fired power plants, introduce sustainable aviation fuels, or increase CO2 levies? In the Financial Times Climate Game, you take on the role of a global minister for future generations and make decisions to curb the rise in global temperatures.
Can you achieve net zero by 2050?
Concept: Iconomix
Consultants: Johannes Binswanger, SIAW-HSG; Petra Gerlach, SNB
Educational consulting: Markus Ulrich, UCS Ulrich Creative Simulations GmbH; Roman Capaul, University of St. Gallen; Beatrix Winistörfer-Hafen, Environmental Education, Hochschule Wädenswil
Design of printed material: clearbrand gmbh, Zurich
Translation & proofreading: SNB Language Services
Game development: UCS Ulrich Creative Simulations
Design of game masks: Fauxpas Grafik GmbH, Zurich
Production of game masks: Mattenbach AG
