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

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

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?

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?

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 has the Swiss electricity market developed in recent years?

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

How can regulatory instruments be designed effectively and efficiently?

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 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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?