IMF Staff Country Reports

Switzerland: Selected Issues

June 12, 2006

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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:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2006/203

  • Stock No:

    1CHEEA2006002

  • ISBN:

    9781451807301

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685