Guiding Questions: - How did trade policy affect the expansion of services trade and labor market outcomes over the last decades? - Which services sectors are most important for employment generation and how can services trade reform contribute to expanding them? - What are the employment links...

Ziel des diesjährigen Internationalen Steuerseminars ist es wiederum, die Teilnehmenden über die aktuellen Entwicklungen im internationalen Steuerrecht der Schweiz zu informieren und die für die Steuerplanung und Steuerpraxis bedeutsamen Entwicklungen und wesentlichen Elemente zu...

The Swiss banking industry is in a transition: asset management should become a new pillar of the Swiss financial center. But Swiss banks are facing strong competition from traditional asset management hubs. How can the Swiss financial industry master this challenge and find the solutions that...

Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

The increased availability of large disaggregated datasets opens up the possibility to analyse economic and financial issues from a different perspective. The build-up of financial imbalances and excessive risk-taking before the financial crisis, and the effects of the crash, call for the...

The conference brings together leading academics, central bankers and bank supervisors, and features keynote speakers Darrell Duffie (Stanford University) and Richard Berner (US Office of Financial Research). Questions for discussion will include: - How do global interconnections arise, and what...

This year's Public Forum is particularly special as we are marking the 20th anniversary of the WTO. With the theme “Trade Works”, the Forum will be an opportunity to discuss and assess the contribution that 20 years of global cooperation in the WTO has made to the strength and stability of...

Paper proposals are invited on any aspect of urban and regional economics.

This symposium aims to raise awareness of the significance of the GPA in today’s international economy. It will address policy-related issues on government procurement, both generally and as they relate to trade, governance and development. Its purpose is to inform participants of WTO...

The event features plenary talks, invited paper sessions, and contributed poster presentations in advanced mathematics for finance.