Regulation

What regulatory changes does the efficient integration of renewables in Switzerland require — and what should trigger them?

At what level should the general productivity factor (Xgen) for German gas and electricity networks in the fifth regulatory period (RP5) be set?

Swiss Economics supported an investor in the valuation of an energy asset, taking into consideration different market and regulatory scenarios

Swiss Economics supported an international airport in the determination of the regulatory cost of capital for the next negotiation period

What is the appropriate cost of capital for Swiss electricity grids and renewables for 2027?

A Robust and Transparent Framework for Equity and Asset Beta Estimation

Which regulatory frameworks are most conducive to financial and digital diversification?

How should the costs of the electricity grid be financed in the future?

How high are the capital costs of renewable energy?

How can the benefits and costs of the Switzerland-EU agreement package be classified in economic terms?

How are the capital costs in the energy sector calculated?

Does expanding the dataset create a pull effect in the SFA?

What is the extent of regional value creation generated by an alpine solar installation?

Swiss Economics Working Paper, forthcoming in Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy

How should an international efficiency comparison of European gas transmission system operators be organized in light of the energy transition?

Are regulatory requirements properly taken into account and translated into strategic decisions?

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.

Do the pricing principles applied to the network extension strike a balance between regulatory compliance, fairness among stakeholders, and economic viability?

How can the peer group for the calculation of the regulatory beta be determined?

What incentives do noise charges create for airlines?

What is the appropriate cost of capital for Swiss electricity grids and renewables for 2026?

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

How is the market for data centers developing? How should a provider's existing business model be evaluated? What recommendations can be derived for business development?

What is the investment need for a Swiss connection to the European hydrogen network? How could funding mechanisms look like? How can investments be secured?

Do electricity and gas tariffs comply with the regulatory framework?

How does an adjustment of cost allocation keys affect network tariff setting? How frequently should cost allocation keys be updated?

How attractive are the ancillary services (AS) markets in Switzerland and neighboring countries?

What are the effects of different variants of the cantonal participation in BEKB on the Bernese economy?

Increasingly comprehensive rules on sustainability reporting and due diligence apply in the EU. What does this mean for Switzerland and its SMEs?

Does a damaged asset have to be written off?

How do currencies affect the risk exposure of an airport or ANSP?

How would Swiss Post's Logistics Services division structure its offering without a universal service obligation and what are the impacts on the demand?

How has the Swiss electricity market developed in recent years?

What are the critical points of the ordinances on the overarching decree?

Are thermal network tariffs fair for consumers and do they create the right incentives?

How do existing and potential regulations of temporary agency work affect individual stakeholder and the economy as a whole?

How can regulatory instruments be designed effectively and efficiently?

How does the regulatory framework of an airport affect its exposure to market risk?

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?

How does a flat-rate system differ from an individual service tariff in terms of a number of important assessment criteria?

How high should the financing cost rate for electricity grids and renewables be in future?

How would longer operating lifetimes affect the valuation of nuclear power plants?

How resource and energy efficient are different DLT applications?

How have end customers reacted to the rise in electricity prices? What role do government measures play?

What are the reversion strategies of the mountain cantons? What do they mean for the canton of Zurich? Is there a need for action?

Should the future market area manager in the Swiss gas market take on tasks related to supply security? If yes, how should the market area manager be capitalized, and how should the governance be structured?

What are economically sensible thresholds for state intervention?

What are the revenue opportunities for different hydropower plants in Switzerland? What role do the various sales options such as spot, futures, ancillary services, capacity and proof-of-origin markets play?

How expensive are the basic supply requirements today and in ten years?

How would the standardised reimbursement of ambulatory, inpatient and nursing care services (EFAS) affect insurers?

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

Should a canton react in the event of persistently high energy prices? If so, how and when?

What are the market trends and customer needs in international letter mail? How should the UPU respond?

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

What are appropriate bids for the hydropower reserve?

How can the cost of capital be set in a project- or company-specific manner in a pragmatic but coherent way?

What measures are being discussed at EU and Swiss level to combat high energy prices? Which of these are relevant for Switzerland? What measures could Switzerland take?

Looking ahead to the energy transition, what are potentially suitable comparison parameters for an efficiency comparison?

How should the marketing and distribution costs of a health insurer be allocated within the internal cost and performance accounting system?

Should Dublin Airport's regulatory WACC be amended in light of Covid-19?

How should the legal framework be adapted to enable sustainable development?

At what level should the district heating tariff in Central Valais be set?

What is the fair price for the heat sold by a waste-to-energy plant?

How could benchmarking be implemented in the hospital sector?

How should the system for the new regulatory period for the Austrian gas distribution networks be defined?

Have German gas and electricity networks become more productive? At what level should the Xgen be set for the fourth regulatory period?

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

How efficient are German transmission system operators (TSOs)?

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

How do distribution system operators (DSOs) assess the connection of renewable energies? Is there a need for harmonization?

How efficient are European electricity and gas transmission system operators?

What are PATHways to an efficient future energy system through flexibility and sector coupling?

What are the main cost drivers of power grids? How efficient are German distribution system operators (DSOs)?

Swiss data governance: How to govern data spaces such that they are trusted by the public and enable innovation?

How effective are non-pharmaceutical measures in containing the coronavirus and how high are the costs of specific measures?

How can the interests of public transport providers be taken into account in the NOVA platform?

What is the damage arising from the enactment of new EC law on an affected business?

How should the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of Swiss power grids be determined?

What role(s) could SBB play in the domain of fast charging of e-buses and what could be the benefits for the whole economy?

What are the relevant cost drivers of gas pipelines? How efficient are the German gas transmission operators in the photo year 2020?

What are the net costs of the postal universal service obligation (USO) today and in ten years?

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?

Is the Service public in Liechtenstein still necessairy?

What costs and benefits are associated with the introduction of new regulations?

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

What is the impact of a cost target on the development of the costs of mandatory health care insurance (OKP)?

How can track user charges for rail freight services be determined? How can they be implemented in practice?

How do the different strategic options for Bedag Information AG need to be assessed?

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

Swiss Economics advised the Irish Commission for Aviation Regulation on the appropriate return on capital in the context of its 2019 Determination of price caps for passenger tariffs at Dublin Airport    

Can the burden of the net cost of the universal service obligation in the Irish telecoms market be borne by the provider?

How can market-based incentives be set to ensure that sufficient investments are made in Swiss renewables?

Can regulatory benchmarking contribute to "Better Regulation"?

How do increases in decentralized power affect the cost of local power grids? How high is the efficiency of German distribution system operators (DSOs)?

How efficient are European electricity and gas transmission system operators (TSOs)?

When and under what conditions does it make sense to privatise public companies?

What are the relevant cost drivers of gas pipelines? How efficient are the German gas transmission operators (TSOs) in the base year 2015?

How efficient are European gas transmission system operators (TSOs)?

What transport effects do new sharing services have? To what extent do new sharing approaches change people's mobility behaviour?

Fachbeitrag zu dynamischen Netztarifen und ihrer Rolle für die Netzdienlichkeit von Erneuerbaren Energiegemeinschaften im europäischen Ländervergleich.

Book chapter on the economies of scope between letters and parcels in times of significant volume changes.

Die Volkswirtschaft, 3.12.2025

Studie für das Bundesamt für Energie (BFE)

Expert Report commissioned by SECO

Presentation at the 33nd Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics in Limassol

Gutachten im Auftrag vom Bundesamt für Energie

Le Temps, 04 avril 2025

Panel Presentation Energieforschungsgespräche Disentis 2025

Le Temps, 31 December 2024

How do existing and potential regulations of temporary agency work affect individual stakeholder and the economy as a whole?

Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen 12/2024, Seiten 57-63

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 31. Oktober 2024

Published in the Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, Volume 2, Number 3, September 2024

Book chapter on the microeconomic foundation of different business strategies in parcel markets

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 10. Juli 2024

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 26. Juni 2024

Study on behalf of the Swiss Real Estate Association VIS

Report on behalf of Bundesnetzagentur

Report for santésuisse

Die Volkswirtschaft, Februar 2024

Study for the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Study for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)

Expert report commissioned by the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur).

Background study for the AWEL of the canton of Zurich

Study on behalf of Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)

Die Volkswirtschaft, 11. Juli 2022

Foundational Paper

Gutachten im Auftrag der Bundesnetzagentur

Book chapter in Postal Strategies (2023). Parcu P., Brennan T., Glass V. (eds). Springer, Cham.

Book chapter in The Postal and Delivery Contribution in Hard Times (2023). Parcu P., Brennan T., Glass V. (eds). Springer, Cham.

Despite the omnipresence of the term digitalisation, politicians, associations and companies generally refrain from using a standardised definition.

Book chapter in "The Economics of the Postal and Delivery Sector" (2022). Parcu P., Brennan T., Glass V. (eds). Springer, Cham.

In a blog article at the University of St. Gallen, our colleague Nicolas Greber explored the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was introduced in the European Union in 2018.

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.

Die Volkswirtschaft, 12/2021, S. 61

Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Regulatory impact assessment for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy

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