Switzerland: Selected Issues

June 12, 2006

Preview Citation

Format: Chicago

Switzerland: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This paper reviews the trade-offs in Switzerland, focusing on challenges for fiscal policy coordination. It reviews the benefits and costs of a highly decentralized government, describes the Swiss institutional architecture, and analyzes Switzerland’s fiscal performance. It also discusses the specific policy challenges related to population aging, reviews the Swiss National Bank works on government financial assets and liabilities, describes the Swiss, Dutch, and the U.K. pension systems, respectively, on the regulation and supervision of the occupational pension pillar, recent reforms, and policy implications.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Public debt

Keywords: Balance sheet, Balance sheet data, Baltics, CR, Equity holding, Fiscal stance, Funding ratio, General government expenditure, General government financial assets, Global, Government, Government level, ISCR, Output gap, Pension spending, Pensions, Proceeds, Public goods, Public sector balance sheet

Publication Details

Pages:

67
Volume:

---
DOI:

---
Issue:

---
Series:

Country Report No. 2006/203
Stock No:

1CHEEA2006002
ISBN:

9781451807301
ISSN:

1934-7685

FACTSHEETS

RESOURCES

TOPICS

Flagship Publications

Other Publications

IMF reports and publications by country

Regional Offices

All News

See Also

For Journalists

Press Center

RESOURCES

FLAGSHIPS

KEY SERIES

IMF NOTES

IMF Staff Country Reports