Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Aymo Brunetti Ph.D. in Economics, University of Basel Current Positions Rochester-Bern Executive Programs, Switzerland Adjunct Professor of Economic Environment (since 2006) University of Bern, Switzerland Full Professor of Economy Policy and Regional Economics (since 2012) Head of the Center for Regional Economic Development (since 2012) Former Positions Teaching Positions 2001-2011University of Bern, Switzerland Adjunct Professor of Economics 1999-2009University of Basel, Switzerland Adjunct Professor of Economics 1998-1999 University of Saarland, Germany Managing Director of the Europe Institute Head of the executive program European Economy 1997-1999 University of Saarland, Germany Full Professor of Economics 1996-1997 University of Basel, Switzerland Assistant Professor ofeconomics 1995-1996 University of Basel, Switzerland Research Associate and Assistant at the Institute for Economy 1994-1995 Harvard University, USA Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics 1992-1994 University of Basel, Switzerland Research Associate at the Institute for Economy 1988-1991 University of Basel, Switzerland Research Assistant at the Institute for Economy
Management & Business Positions 2003-2012 State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Head of the Economic Policy Directorate, member of the management board 1999-2003 State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Head of the Leistungsbereich Wirtschaftspolitische Grundlagen, member of the management board 1999 Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Arbeit BWA Head of the Leistungsbereich Wirtschaftspolitik, member of the management board Board and Professional Memberships 2003-2012 Head of the editing committee of Die Volkswirtschaft 2004-2012 Member of the board of the International Energy Agency 2009-2010 Member of the expert group Too Big to Fail 2002-2012.1 Vice president of the Energy Charter Conference 2002-2012 Vice president of the Swiss Confederation s Procurement Commission 2001-2012 Vice president of simap.ch, platform for public procurement Member of the board of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Konjunkturforschung SGK Member of the Executive of KOF, ETH Zürich Policy Advice and Consulting Since 2015 Head of the Swiss governments advisory board on the future of the financial sector 2013-2014 Head of Swiss governments expert group on the development of the financial market strategy 2012-2013 Head of goup of expert for the Swiss Finance Ministry on regulatory strategies for private banking 1998/1999 UBS AG, Economic Research, Corporate Center 1996/1997 World Bank (World Development Report 1997) 1995-1998 International Finance Corporation 1994/1995 OECD, Development Center 1994 Bundesamt für Aussenwirtschaft 1993 GTZ the governement of Nicaragua
Publications Books 2016 Volkswirtschaftslehre - Lehrmittel für die Sekundarstufe II und die Weiterbildung, 8th edition (1st edition 2008), Bern: hep Verlag 2016 Volkswirtschaftslehre: Eine Einführung für Deutschland, 2nd edition (1st edition 2014, coauthored with Thilo Grosser) 2013 Volkswirtschaftslehre: Eine Einführung für die Schweiz, 3rd edition, (1st edition 2006), Bern: hep Ott Verlag 2012 Wirtschaftskrise ohne Ende? US-Immobilienkrise - globale Finanzkrise - europäische Schuldenkrise, 3rd ed. (1st ed. 2011, 2nd ed. 2012), Bern: hep Verlag 2011 Economics An Introduction: Swiss Edition, Bern: hep-verlag 2009 1999 Die Schweiz in der europapolitischen Zwickmühle: Wirtschaftliche Umverteilung als entscheidender Faktor in der Aussenpolitik, Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (coauthored with Markus Jaggi and Rolf Weder) 1998 Politics and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Data Perspective, Paris: OECD Development Centre Studies, (habilitation thesis, 1996) 1995 Political Credibility and Economic Development, London: Macmillan, (co-authored with Silvio Borner and Beatrice Weder) 1994 Die Schweiz im Alleingang, Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (co-authored with Silvio Borner and Thomas Straubhaar) 1992 Politisches System und Wirtschaftswachstum, Chur/Zürich: Verlag Rüegger, (Dissertation, 1991) 1990 Schweiz AG: Vom Sonderfall zum Sanierungsfall?, Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (coauthored with Silvio Borner and Thomas Straubhaar) Book Editorship 2004 EU-Wirtschaftspolitik aus Schweizer Sicht, Bern: Haupt Verlag (ed. with Michael Ambühl) 2001 The Economic Impact of EU Membership for Entrants: New Methods and Issues, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (ed. with Richard Baldwin) 1998 Economics Today: Konsens und Kontroverse in der modernen Ökonomie, Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (ed. with Peter Kugler, Stefan Schaltegger and Beatrice Weder) Book Chapters (selection) 2010 Wachstums- und Konjunkturpolitik in der Schweiz, in Wirtschaftspolitik nach der Krise Tagungsband zur Gerzensee-Konferenz, Bern: Studienzentrum Gerzensee, (ed. by Ernst Baltensperger, Dirk Niepelt and Boris Zürcher) 2006 Die strategische Ausrichtung der schweizerischen Aussenwirtschaftspolitik, in Der schweizerische Königsweg: Bilateral kooperieren global öffnen, Zürich/Chur: Rüegger (ed. by Franz Jaeger) 2005 Gute statt gut gemeinte Schweizer Wachstumspolitik, in Diagnose Wachstumsschwäche: Die Debatte über die fehlende Dynamik der schweizerischen Volkswirtschaft, Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (ed. by Lukas Steinmann and Hans Rentsch) 2004 Schweizer Wachstumsschwäche und Liberalisierungsrückstand auf dem Binnenmarkt, in Staatmonopole als Wachstumskiller, Zürich/Chur: Rüegger (ed. by Franz Jaeger) 2003 Das tiefe Wachstum der Schweizer Arbeitsproduktivität, in Hintergrundstudien zum Wachstumsbericht des Eidg. Volkswirtschaftsdepartements, Bern: SECO, Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik Nr. 6 (ed. by SECO; co-authored with Boris Zürcher)
2001 Introduction, in The Economic Impact of EU Membership for Entrants: New Methods and Issues, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (ed. by Richard Baldwin and Aymo Brunetti, co-authored with Richard Baldwin) 2001 Die wirtschaftlichen Effekte der bilateralen Abkommen, in Bilaterale Abkommen Schweiz- EU (Erste Analysen), Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn (ed. by Daniel Felder and Christine Kaddous) 1998 Wirtschaftswachstum, in Economics Today, Zürich, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (ed. by Aymo Brunetti, Peter Kugler, Stefan Schaltegger and Beatrice Weder) 1998 Testing Political Variables in Growth Regressions, in The Political Dimension of Economic Growth, London: Macmillan, (ed. by Silvio Borner and Martin Paldam) 1997 Der Status Quo Bias und die bremsende Wirkung des fakultativen Referendums, in Wieviel direkte Demokratie verträgt die Schweiz?, Chur/Zürich: Verlag Rüegger (ed. by Silvio Borner and Hans Rentsch) 1997 Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Aufwertung des Schweizer Frankens: Hintergründe, Ursachen und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen, Basel: WWZ-Forschungsbericht 7/97 (co-authored with Claudia Aebersold) 1995 Ökonomische Analyse zur Revision des schweizerischen Kartellgesetzes, in Grundfragen der schweizerischen Kartellrechtsreform, St. Gallen: Dike Verlag (ed. by Roger Zäch and Peter Zweifel; co-authored with Silvio Borner and Rolf Weder) 1993 Umwelt und Aussenwirtschaft, in Mit Ökonomie zur Ökologie, Basel/Frankfurt: Helbing&Lichtenhahn, (2nd edition, ed. by René L. Frey, Elke Staehelin-Witt and Hansjörg Blöchliger) 1991 La Incertitumbre Institucional como el Obstaculo Central al Crecimiento de America Latina, in Las Nuevas Reglos del Juego, Bogota: Editorial Oveja Negra (ed. by Hernando De Soto and Stephan Schmidheiny; co-authored with Silvio Borner and Beatrice Weder) 1991 La Incertitumbre Institucional o como Jugar al Futbol con Reglas Inestables, in Bogota: Serie Dialogo No. 4 (ed. by Hernando De Soto and Stephan Schmidheiny; co-authored with Silvio Borner and Beatrice Weder) 1991 Internationalisierung und direkte Demokratie, in Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Politische Wissenschaft 31, (co-authored with Thomas Straubhaar) Papers 2003 A Free Press is Bad News for Corruption, in Journal of Public Economics 87 (co-authored with Beatrice Weder), reprinted in: Economics, Law and Individual Rights (2008), Milton Park/New York: Routledge (ed. by Hugo Mialon and Paul Rubin) 2000 Another Tale of Two Cities: A Note on Institutions in Hong Kong and Singapore, in Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 156, (co-authored with Beatrice Weder) 2000 Duplik zum Beitrag von Klaus Armingeon: Ökonomische Erklärungen des Verhaltens bei aussenpolitischen Abstimmungen: Eine Kritik der Analyse von Aymo Brunetti, Markus Jaggi und Rolf Weder, in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 136 (coauthored with Markus Jaggi and Rolf Weder) 1998 Credibility of Rules and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector, in World Bank Economic Review 12, (co-authored with Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder) 1998 Policy Volatility and Economic Growth: A Comparative Empirical Analysis, in European Journal of Political Economy 14 1998 Investment and Institutional Uncertainty: A Comparative Study of Different Uncertainty Measures, in Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 134, (co-authored with Beatrice Weder) 1998 Soll der Schweizer Franken an den Euro gebunden werden?, in Aussenwirtschaft 53, (coauthored with Carsten Hefeker)
1998 Die langfristige reale Aufwertung des Schweizer Frankens gegenüber der D-Mark: Nichthandelbare Güter und der Balassa-Samuelson-Effekt, in Aussenwirtschaft 53, (coauthored with Claudia Aebersold) 1998 Umverteilungswirkungen einer wirtschaftlichen Öffnung und Abstimmungsverhalten: Eine Analyse am Beispiel der Schweizer EWR-Abstimmung, in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 134, (co-authored with Markus Jaggi and Rolf Weder) 1997 Political Variables in Cross-Country Growth Analysis, in Journal of Economic Surveys 11 1996 Direkte Demokratie - Bessere Demokratie?, in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 6, (coauthored with Thomas Straubhaar) 1995 Political Sources of Growth: A Critical Note on Measurement, in Public Choice 82, (coauthored with Beatrice Weder) 1995 Policy Reform and Institutional Uncertainty: The Case of Nicaragua, in Kyklos 48, (coauthored with Silvio Borner and Beatrice Weder) 1994 Political Credibility and Economic Growth in Less-Developed Countries, in Constitutional Political Economy 5, (co-authored with Beatrice Weder) 1990 Integration und politisch-ökonomischer Sonderfall Schweiz, in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 126, Papers for international organizations 1998 How Business Sees Government: Responses from Private Sector Surveys in 69 Countries, International Finance Corporation Discussion Paper No. 33, Washington DC: International Finance Corporation (co-authored with Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder). 1997 Institutions in Transition: Reliability of Rules and Economic Performance in Former Socialist Countries, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1809, Washington DC: The World Bank (co-authored with Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder) 1997 Credibility of Rules and Economic Growth: Evidence from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1760 (background paper for the World Development Report 1997), Washington DC: The World Bank (co-authored with Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder) 1997 Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business: Region-by-Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1759 (background paper for the World Development Report 1997), Washington DC: The World Bank (co-authored with Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder) 1997 Investment and Institutional Uncertainty: A Comparative Study of Different Uncertainty Measures, International Finance Corporation Technical Paper No. 4, Washington DC: International Finance Corporation (co-authored with Beatrice Weder) 1992 Institutional Obstacles to Latin American Growth, International Center for Economic Growth Occasional Paper No. 24, San Francisco CA: International Center for Economic Growth (co-authored with Silvio Borner and Beatrice Weder) Non-academic papers (selection) 2009 Nach der Krise fängt die Arbeit erst richtig an, in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28 October 2009 2009 Das stabilitätspolitische Konzept des Bundes, in Die Volkswirtschaft, March 2009 2008 Ressourcenknappheit und Preissignale Eine Übersicht, in Die Volkswirtschaft, September 2008 2008 Finanzkrise und die Schweiz, in Finanz und Wirtschaft, 7 May 2008 2008 Die Wachstumspolitik des Bundes: Rückblick und Ausblick, in Die Volkswirtschaft, April 2008 2007 Wenn die Werkbank rund um die Erde reicht, in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2 October 2007 2006 Ein Markt mit spektakulärem Potential: Mit einer höheren Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung in Deutschland könnte ein erheblicher Wachstumsschub angestossen werden Ein Vergleich
mit der Schweiz, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 2006 (co-authored with Beatrice Weder) Non-published discussion papers 1999 More Open Economies have Better Governments, discussion paper, Saarbrücken: Economic Series No. 9905 (co-authored with Beatrice Weder) 1998 The Bias Against Small, Local Firms in Less Developed Countries, mimeo, Basel und Washington (co-authored with Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder) Non-published expert s reports 1998 How Firms in 72 Countries Rate Their Institutional Environment: A Survey-Based Dataset Measuring Political Institutions, Basel: WWZ Discussion Paper No. 9811 (co-authored with Gregory Kisunko and Beatrice Weder), final report of a consulting assignment for the World Bank 1995 Cross-Country Indicators of Institutional Uncertainty, Research Proposal for the World Bank Research Commitee by order of the International Finance Corporation 1994 Gutachten zur schweizerischen Kartellgesetzrevision: Ökonomische Analyse der Vernehmlassung zum Vorentwurf, expert s report for the Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs (co-authored with Silvio Borner and Rolf Weder) 1993 Diagnostico del Orden Politico-Economico de Nicaragua, expert s report for the German Agency for Technical Cooperation and the government of Nicaragua (co-authored with Silvio Borner and Beatrice Weder) Education 1996 University of Basel, Switzerland Habilitation in Economics 1992 University of Basel, Switzerland Ph.D. in Economics 1988 University of Basel, Switzerland Licentiate in Economics