What role does temporary agency work play in hospitals, and what would be the cost and competition effects of restricting this form of employment?

Swiss Economics prepared an economic expert report for legal proceedings analysing the impact of risks on expected margins, covering market conditions, required return assessments, and econometric margin analysis.

Swiss Economics is conducting research for the Office for Communications (Amt für Kommunikation, AK) of Liechtenstein on the effects of vertical separation in the fiber optic market on competition in the retail market.

How should parcel markets be delineated in the future?

What factors influence the efficiency of antitrust complaint procedures before the Federal Administrative Court (BVGer)?

What impact do increased import capacities have on security of supply and competition?

Is the provision of telecommunications services by a state-controlled company still legitimate?

How is the Swiss forward market price for electricity deliveries determined? Does the price formation meet expectations? Are there indications of market power held by individual players? How could the Swiss wholesale price be reduced?

Economic support of the legal team in the merger proceedings of the two major Swiss banks before FINMA.

How will the reallocation of broadcaster licenses for regional television affect the program and opinion diversity?

What are the effects of a planned pricing of an e-voting plattform on competition?

From an economics perspective, what challenges do energy platforms pose? What role does artificial intelligence play in this context?

What are the main challenges for Swiss digital policy? How can these challenges be analyzed and classified economically?

Expert witness activity by Swiss Economics in a proceeding concerning relative market power

What is the geographical extent of retail markets?

Is there a need for regulation in the area of interchange fees in the wake of the rapid growth of new debit cards?

How can cross-subsidies be classified? When is cross-subsidzation allowed and reasonable to corporate financing?

What are financial losses of hospitals due to measure against COVID-19 introduced by the Federal Council?

Update on the economic assessment of effects from the merger between UPC and Sunrise in the light of the reversed acquisition intention of UPC, following Sunrise's withdrawal of its own bid  

Development of a screening tool for detecting bid-rigging agreements on behalf of the Civil Engineering Office of the Canton of Bern.

What are the cost drivers of district heating? What is a "fair" price for district heating? How should the governance and regulation for district heating networks look like?

Price recommendations – even when marked as non-binding – are a hot topic from an antitrust perspective.

Assessment of the antitrust-compliance of a new pricing model in the energy sector

Assessment of unilateral effects in the context of a merger for a professional association.

Assessment of the effects from the merger between Sunrise and UPC on competition, including analysis of coordinated and non-coordinated effects.

What are the damages resulting from a margin squeeze (abuse of a dominant position)?

Assessment and design of a pricing model in compliance with antitrust law in the advertising industry.

Is the dominance test currently used in Switzerland for merger control still up to date?

Bid rigging can be detected at an early stage by analysing bidding behaviour. Which data-driven methods work in Swiss procurement practice?

Expert Report commissioned by SECO

Published on SSRN on 9th October 2024.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 10. Juli 2024

Die Volkswirtschaft, 11. Juli 2022

Foundational Paper

Study for the Verband elektronischer Zahlungsverkehr

Foreign proceedings suggest that Google owes its dominant market position in advertising not only to superior technology and innovation. This is also of relevance for Switzerland.

Baseline study on universal services and public service provision for the Liechtestein Think Tank "Zukunft.li"