This page informs continuously about our activities and selected projects. You will find the latest publications, the topics of some recent studies completed and mandates in progress.

   
Completed
December 2008
 

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO (with the cooperation of the OECD): Swiss country studies on the financing for innovative and fast-growing SMEs, statistical analysis of the federal enterprise surveys 2001 and 2005, case study on 11 fast growing enterprises

By Prof. Paul H. Dembinski, with the collaboration of Christian Cantale and Frédéric Quiquerez (ecopo)
   
Completed
December 2008
 

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO: Statistical mapping of Swiss enterprise clusters and evaluation of cluster policies and initiatives at the level of the cantons, analysis of the latest federal enterprise survey and in depth interviews in the 26 cantons

Under the direction of Prof. Paul H. Dembinski, Frédéric Quiquerez (ecopo), Alain Schoenenberger and Claudio Bologna
   
In progress
Since March 2008
 

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN (with the collaboration of the OECD): Impact of the tax on volatile organic compounds (VOC) on innovation in Switzerland, case studies of 22 firms and 3 sectors (paint production, printing and precision metal cutting)

By Alain Schoenenberger and Alexander Mack
   
Completed
December 2008
 

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO : The impact of subsidies on the technical efficiency of wood production in Switzerland, research project using Data Envelop Analysis (DEA), including a case study of 10 public producers

By Alain Schoenenberger, Alexander Mack and Fred von Gunten
   
Completed
August 2008
 

Department of education, State of Geneva: Simulation of the new schemes of student subsidies

By Claudio Bologna and Alain Schoenenberger
   
Publication
March 2008
 

Finance: Servant or Deceiver?, Financialisation at the Crossroad, by Prof. Paul H. Dembinski, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 179 pages (French edition - Finance servante ou finance trompeuse?,Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2008)

During the last thirty years, finance has constantly increased not only its share of economic activity but also of people’s worldview and aspirations. We call this practical and conceptual process “financialization”. Financialization has transformed both our economy and our society by increasingly organizing it around the search for financial efficiency. Today, pushed to its extremes, this tendency is coming close to its breaking point.
   
Publication
February 2008
 

International Geneva Yearbook, 2008, vol. XX, 500 pages, (in French and English). The International Geneva Yearbook is a sharp and up-to-date source of information on the 300 international organisations and 226 permanent missions present in Geneva. Their activities, addresses, staff and key personnel are detailed.