How does Switzerland’s export risk insurance compare with competing agencies abroad, and what dilemma does more aggressive industrial policy elsewhere create?
Based on a benchmarking study commissioned by the Swiss Confederation, the article finds that Swiss Export Risk Insurance (SERV) is well positioned in economic terms. It argues, however, that increasingly offensive industrial policy in other countries confronts the agency with a dilemma.
Read the commentary at La Vie économique / Die Volkswirtschaft
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