SSES Annual Congress 2025

«New Designs for the Market Economy»
June 26-27, 2025
ETH Zürich

Report

The 2025 Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) took place on 26-27 June 2025 at ETH Zurich. The congress attracted 151 participants from 10 countries. 121 presentations were delivered across 41 parallel sessions. Researchers from all subdisciplines of economics gathered for a stimulating academic exchange under the thematic focus “New Designs for the Market Economy.”

The congress featured keynote speeches on new trade systems by Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University), on monetary systems by Evi Pappa (Universidad Carlos III), and on innovation systems by Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven). Each keynote was followed by a dedicated focus session that included contributions addressing pressing and practical policy challenges in the respective field. This structure enabled a productive dialogue between the keynote presentations and the broader set of research papers presented at the congress.

As in previous years, the SSES awarded a prize for the best conference paper by young researchers under the age of 33. The 2025 prize was awarded to Marcel Caesmann (University of Zurich), Janis Goldzycher (University of Zurich), Matteo Grigoletto (University of Bern), and Lorenz Gschwent (University of Duisburg‑Essen) for their paper “Censorship in Democracy.” In addition, Mathilde Farine (RTS) was recognized for her extensive coverage of economics, finance, and monetary policy issues in Switzerland.

The 2025 SSES Annual Congress was organized by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich. The organizing committee, consisting of Jan‑Egbert Sturm and Hans Gersbach, was supported by their PhD students Julian Koller and Johann Fuchs, together with the administrative team of Corinne Schibli (ETH), Stefan Meyer (SSES), Anne Stücker (ETH), and Sabrina Humbel (ETH). The SSES expresses its gratitude to all organizers, helpers, and members of the program committee. The Society also acknowledges the generous support of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW), the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETHZ, Siemens, the Canton of Zurich, the City of Zurich, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, whose contributions made the congress possible.