How to Explain the High Prices in Switzerland?
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Real Exchange Rate; Terms of Trade; Balassa-Samuelson; Regulations; Switzerland;All these keywords.
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- F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
- N74 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Europe: 1913-
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