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Conferences

Young Swiss Economists Meeting 2027

18-19 February 2027 | ETH Zurich

The Young Swiss Economists Meeting (YSEM) is an opportunity for PhD students and Postdocs to present their work, exchange ideas, and network with peers and established economists.

SSES Annual Congress 2026

“Industrial Organization and Policy” | 4-5 June 2026 | University of St. Gallen

The Annual Congress on “Industrial Organization and Policy” took place on 4-5 June 2026 at the University of St. Gallen with keynote lectures by Monika Schnitzer (LMU München), Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics), and Simon Lörtscher (University of Melbourne).

Awards

Economic Journalism Award 2026

Mischa Aebi (Tamedia) for his report on the taxation of retirement savings published in the newspaper SonntagsZeitung on 12 January 2025. Mischa Aebi independently collected and analysed detailed data from cantonal tax administrations to estimate the fiscal effect of tax incentives for second-pillar pension savings in Switzerland. This award recognises Mischa Aebi’s effort to obtain administrative data that had hitherto not been publicly accessible, and that allowed him to contribute to the national policy discussion in rigorous, quantitative fashion.

Alejandra Rodríguez-Morales, Michael Tueting

Young Economist Award 2026

Alejandra Rodríguez-Morales (University of Lucerne) and to Michael Tueting (University of St. Gallen) for the papers “From Boom to Bust: The Structural Transfor-mation of Chile’s Industrial Sector After the Nitrate Collapse” and “Climate Change, Income Inequality, and Migration in a Spatial Economy”, respectively, presented at the 2026 Annual Congress at the University of St. Gallen.

SJES Best Paper Award 2026

Frédéric Kluser for his paper “Cross-Border Shopping: Evidence from Household Transaction Records” published in volume 161 (2025) of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.

Journal

The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics is an internationally visible ‘diamond open access’ peer-reviewed academic journal, published by Springer Nature. The SJES is Switzerland’s premier general-interest journal in economics, with a publishing history that stretches back to 1864. Both the submission of new manuscripts and the download of published papers are free of charge for interested researchers worldwide. The journal is owned by our Society, published in collaboration with SpringerOpen and financially supported by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW).

Members

The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics is a community of over 500 academic economists.