Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, published by SpringerOpen on behalf of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, and financially supported by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Swiss National Bank. The editor-in-chief is Marius Brülhart (University of Lausanne).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Directory of Open Access Journals

• EBSCO databases

• EconLit

• ProQuest databases

• Scopus

History
The journal was established in 1864 as the Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Statistik (in German) and Journal de Statistique et Revue économique Suisse (in French). Its first editor was Johannes Stössel, the secretary of the Federal Statistical Office, 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'Economie 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 included articles written in German and French.

Editors-in-chief
• 1864—1869: Johannes Stössel, Federal Statistics Bureau in Bern (the present Federal Statistical Office in Neuchâtel)

• 1870: Armand Châtelanat, Federal Statistics Bureau

• 1871—1874: Wilhelm Gisi, University of Bern

• 1875—1881: Armand Châtelanat, Federal Statistics Bureau

• 1881—1882: Joseph Durrer, Federal Statistics Bureau

• 1883—1886: Johann Jakob Kummer, Federal Statistics Bureau and Federal Social Insurance Office

• 1887: Edmund Wilhelm Milliet, Federal Statistics Bureau

• 1899—1913: Louis Guillaume, Federal Statistics Bureau

• 1914—1925: Julius Landmann, University of Basel

• 1926—1939: Fritz Mangold, University of Basel

• 1959—1966: Jürg Niehans, University of Bern, University of Basel

• 1985—1996: Ernst Baltensperger, University of Bern

• 1997—2003: Peter Kugler, University of Basel

• 2004—2014: Klaus Neusser, University of Bern

• 2015—2021: Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne

• 2022: Sarah M. Lein, University of Basel

• 2023—present: Marius Brülhart, University of Lausanne

Notable papers
Selected papers highlighted for their historical significance (older papers) or GoogleScholar citation impact (most recent papers).