Monitoring Consumption Switzerland is a joint initiative of the University of St.Gallen, the University of Lausanne-E4S, and Novalytica, supported by SIX, Worldline as well as the Swiss Payments Association. We are using aggregated and anonymized payment data to shed light on consumer spending in Switzerland.
In this project, which is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), my colleagues and I aim to uncover new transmission mechanisms of monetary and fiscal policy by exploiting information contained in two novel datasets of detailed high-frequency transactions. The goal is to better understand how monetary and fiscal policies can be designed to mitigate the negative effects of recessions and crises on the real economy.
The research platform is a joint project of researchers in Economics and Finance at the University of St. Gallen. It is organised by Roland Füss and Winfried Koeniger.
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