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Haute école de gestion de Genève

Spain and Switzerland: observation of the management of the Covid-19 crisis and its economic impact

Poch, Julien ; Pasche, Cyril (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2021 ; TDEE 455.

Under normal conditions, economies go through boom-and-bust cycles. Covid-19 highlighted the problem of uncertainty in the economy that authors such as Frank Knight have proposed, particularly the unpredictable nature of economic systems. It is in this aspect that the analysis of the phenomenon is of particular interest, with the aim of understanding the repercussions that the response, in the...

Université de Fribourg

Impact of Clusters on Regional Economic Performance : a Methodological Investigation and Application in the Case of the Precision Goods Sector in Switzerland

Resbeut, Mathieu ; Gugler, Philippe

In: Competitiveness Review, 2016, vol. 26, no. 2, p. 188-209

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the methodology used to identify clusters on the one hand and assess the economic impact that those may have on regions on the other hand. Design/methodology/approach – The influential work on “clusters”lead by Michael Porter since the 1990s has become a tool for promoting innovation and growth at national and regional level. Even if the theory has...

Université de Fribourg

International Tax Competition : Do Public Good Spillovers Matter?

Exbrayat, Nelly ; Madiès, Thierry ; Riou, Stéphane

In: International Tax and Public Finance, 2010, vol. 17, p. 479-500

We study the impact of public good spillovers on tax competition between two imperfectly integrated countries with different levels of productivity. We show that international public good spillovers, by reducing the tax gap between countries, strengthen the agglomeration of firms in the most productive country. Then we carry on a welfare analysis. We first assume that governments are engaged...

Université de Fribourg

Vertical Transfers and Tax Competition : Does Trade Integration Matter?

Madiès, Thierry ; Taugourdeau, Emmanuelle

In: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, vol. 55, p. 453-475

Our paper presents a model of decentralized leadership with fiscal equalization and imperfect trade liberalization. The degree of trade integration (reflected by trade costs) turns out to have an effect on both state corporate taxes and ex-post vertical equalization transfers. Our main results are the following: when public goods are highly valued by the citizens of the federation, ex post...

Université de Fribourg

The Economics of Secession : a Review of Legal, Theoretical, and Empirical Aspects

Madiès, Thierry ; Rota-Grasiozi, Grégoire ; Tranchant, Jean-Pierre ; Trépier, Cyril

In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2018, vol. 154, no. 1, p. 1-18

The aim of this paper is to present a review of the legal, theoretical, and empirical aspects of secessions from an economic perspective. This survey provides interesting insights into recent events such as the Brexit and the threat of secession made for instance by Scotland and Catalonia. International law does not grant a general right to secede, nor does it forbid secession. Furthermore,...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Energy Demand and Trade in General Equilibrium

Egger, Peter ; Nigai, Sergey

In: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2015, vol. 60, no. 2, p. 191-213

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Escape of mass and entropy for diagonal flows in real rank one situations

Einsiedler, M. ; Kadyrov, S. ; Pohl, A.

In: Israel Journal of Mathematics, 2015, vol. 210, no. 1, p. 245-295

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Energy and area minimizers in metric spaces

Lytchak, Alexander ; Wenger, Stefan

In: Advances in Calculus of Variations, 2017, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 407-421