The ''Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics'' is an

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, published by SpringerOpen on behalf of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, and financially supported by the and the

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. The current

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is Marius Brülhart.

History

The journal was established in 1864 as the ''Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Statistik'' (in

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) and ''Journal de Statistique suisse'' (in

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). Its first editor was Johannes Stössel, the secretary of the Federal Statistical Bureau , who served as an editor from 1864 to 1869. In 1916, the journal was titled ''Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft'' (in German) and ''Journal de statistique et Revue économique suisse'' (in French), and from 1945 onwards, it was named ''Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik'' (in German), ''Revue suisse d'Économie politique et de Statistique'' (in French), and ''Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics'' (in English). Although the journal is now published entirely in English, issues prior to the first edition of 2007 also accepted articles written in German, French and

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Editors-in-chief

Notable papers

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