Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204918 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 18-18
Publisher: 
University of Bern, Department of Economics, Bern
Abstract: 
We study Switzerland's 1990s growth weakness through the lens of the business cycle accounting framework by Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (2007). Our main result is that weak productivity growth cannot account for the experienced stagnation. Rather, the stagnation is explained by factors that made labor and investment expensive. We show that an increase in labor income taxes and financial frictions are plausible causes. Holding these factors constant, counterfactual real annualized output growth over the 1992Q1-1996Q4 period is 1.93%, compared to a realized growth of 0.35%.
Subjects: 
Business cycle accounting
housing crises
stagnation
Switzerland
JEL: 
E13
E20
E32
E65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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