Price Setting before and during the Pandemic: Evidence from Swiss Consumer Prices
Abstract Using microdata underlying the Swiss consumer price index from 2008 to 2025, we document new features of price rigidity and assess their implications for inflation dynamics. The frequency of price changes increased in the decade before the pandemic, driven by items shifting to online price collection, as confirmed by causal identification from
BARBARA RUDOLF, PASCAL SEILER
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The risk of thiamine deficiency in common eider ducklings increases when females consume large prey. [PDF]
Ejsmond MJ +5 more
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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
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Russia's Wartime Economy: Measuring Regional Inequalities From Outer Space
ABSTRACT We study Russia's February 2022 full‐scale invasion of Ukraine as a natural experiment to determine how sudden disruptions to international market access reshape sub‐national economic inequalities. Using remotely‐sensed nighttime lights as a proxy for economic activity, we estimate the economic effects of the war at the national and regional ...
Irakli Barbakadze +3 more
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The Real-World Use of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction Newly Initiated on Dapagliflozin: An EVOLUTION-HF CEE-BA Study (Results from the Baltic Cohort). [PDF]
Žaliaduonytė D +12 more
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Abstract The sugar kelp Saccharina latissima is a promising candidate for sustainable aquaculture in the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, but genetic improvement has been hindered by a limited understanding of the genetic basis of economically important traits.
Stéphane Mauger +15 more
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First comprehensive survey of overwintering mosquitoes in Estonia, documenting 5286 female mosquitoes collected from 18 subterranean overwintering sites. The Culex pipiens/Culex torrentium group dominated overwintering assemblages, representing 96.6% of all analysed specimens. Molecular analyses revealed a higher proportion of Cx.
Maare Mõtsküla +4 more
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Viral genetic diversity and functional potential in polar and subarctic sea ice. [PDF]
Pettersson KJ +9 more
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Sperm, egg, and embryo proteins critical for genetic adaptation of herring to low salinity in the Baltic Sea. [PDF]
Ma C +16 more
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