Aymo Brunetti

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Aymo Brunetti (born February 20, 1963 in Basel ) is a Swiss economist .

Life

Aymo Brunetti studied economics at the University of Basel , where he in 1988 with the licentiate graduated and then as a teaching and research assistant at the Institute of Economics worked. In 1992 he did his doctorate with Silvio Borner at the University of Basel. rer. pole. From 1992 to 1994 he was a freelance researcher at the Institute for Economics at the University of Basel. In 1994/1995 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at Harvard University . He then worked as a senior assistant and freelance researcher at the Institute for Economics at the University of Basel. In 1996 he completed his habilitation in economics at the University of Basel, after which he took on an assistant professorship there. From 1997 to 1999 he held a chair for economics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . From 1999 Brunetti taught as adjunct professor at the University of Basel, and from 2007 as honorary professor at the University of Bern. From 1993 to 1999 he took on consulting mandates at the OECD , the International Finance Corporation , the World Bank and UBS, among others .

In March 1999 he joined the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA) as Vice Director of the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Labor , and from July 1999 he was a member of the management team at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), where he was head of the Economic Policy Fundamentals division. From 2003 until he left the federal service at the end of January 2012, he was Head of the Economic Policy Directorate at SECO. Since 2012 he has been a full professor for economic policy and regional economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Bern . In addition, he has been Managing Director of the Economics Institute at the same university since 2014. From 2012 to 2019 he was Managing Director of the Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED) at the University of Bern.

In 2009/2010 he was a member of the expert commission set up by the Federal Council , which developed approaches to alleviating the " too big to fail " problem. He was head of an expert group set up by the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) for the further development of the financial market strategy. The expert group published its report in June 2013. From September 2013 to December 2014, he was the head of an expert group set up by the Federal Council consisting of representatives from science, the private sector and the federal authorities to further develop the financial market strategy, in particular to strengthen the competitiveness of Switzerland as a financial center by improving the domestic framework and maintaining or improving market access abroad . The expert group's final report was published in December 2014. The mandate was limited to the end of 2014. In place of the expert group, the FDF set up an Advisory Board for the Future of the Financial Center until the end of 2019, which was headed by Brunetti. This advisory board ensured the regular exchange of all relevant actors on questions of financial market strategy and, detached from the daily business of the authorities, assessed the strategic challenges and future prospects for the financial business in Switzerland with a view to the entire economy.

Brunetti is the author of numerous books and articles. In NZZ - economists ranking it belonged 2014 (6th place), 2015 (9) 2016 (11) 2017 (9), 2018 (9th) and 2019 (6) of the most influential economists of Switzerland.

Brunetti is married, has two children and lives in Biel-Benken .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Silvio Borner and Thomas Straubhaar : Schweiz AG: From special cases to restructuring cases? Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1990.
  • Political system and economic growth. Rüegger, Chur / Zurich 1992 ( dissertation , University of Basel, 1991).
  • with Silvio Borner and Thomas Straubhaar: Switzerland on its own. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1994.
  • with Silvio Borner and Beatrice Weder : Political Credibility and Economic Development. Macmillan, London 1995.
  • Politics and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Data Perspective. OECD, Paris 1998 ( habilitation thesis , University of Basel, 1996).
  • with Markus Jaggi and Rolf Weder: Switzerland in a European political dilemma: Economic redistribution as a decisive factor in foreign policy. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1999.
  • Economics: An Introduction to Switzerland. HEP, Bern 2006; 3rd edition 2013.
  • Economics: teaching aids for upper secondary level and advanced training. HEP, Bern 2008; 4th edition 2012.
  • Endless economic crisis? US real estate crisis - global financial crisis - European debt crisis. HEP, Bern 2011; 3rd edition 2012.
  • State of emergency. The turbulent decade after the Great Financial Crisis. HEP, Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-0355-1122-2 . ( Reading sample PDF).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aymo Brunetti profile. In: Coopzeitung 27/2009 of 30 June 2009, p 79
  2. ↑ Florian Schwab: Professor in the clutches of politics. In: Die Weltwoche 25/2013 of June 20, 2013, p. 31.
  3. ↑ a b Aymo Brunetti's curriculum vitae. ( Memento from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 161 kB) 2003, accessed on June 15, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c new hires. In: University of Bern from June 22, 2011.
  5. ↑ The university council has appointed two extraordinary officers from the medical faculty. In: University of Basel from February 15, 2000.
  6. ↑ Aymo Brunetti's personal website at the University of Bern, accessed on March 16, 2020
  7. ↑ Federal Council sets up a commission of experts on the subject of “too big to fail”. Media release in: admin.ch from November 4, 2009 (PDF file; 27 kB)
  8. ↑ Andreas Valda: "The final withholding tax is a model for the contaminated sites". Interview in: Tages-Anzeiger from January 27, 2014
  9. ↑ Further development of the financial market strategy. Media release in: admin.ch from June 14, 2013
  10. ↑ Regulatory challenges for cross-border Swiss asset management and strategic options. Report of the expert group “Further development of the financial market strategy” from June 6, 2013 (PDF; 653 kB)
  11. ↑ Expert group should develop measures to strengthen the financial center. Media release in: admin.ch from September 4, 2013
  12. ↑ Members of the expert group for the further development of the financial market strategy are determined. Media release in: admin.ch from October 10, 2013
  13. ↑ The Advisory Board for the Future of the Financial Center submits a strategic roadmap for financial market policy to the Federal Council. In: admin.ch from January 15, 2020.
  14. ↑ Federal Council takes note of the final report of the expert group “Further development of the financial market strategy”. In: admin.ch from December 5, 2014
  15. ^ Brunetti report criticizes home finance. In: Handelszeitung .ch from December 5, 2014.
  16. ↑ Matthias Müller: The most influential economists in Switzerland. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 6, 2014, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  17. ↑ Jürg Müller: The complete ranking lists. In: In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 2, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  18. ↑ Jürg Müller: Switzerland listens to these economists. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from September 1, 2017, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  19. ↑ Jürg Müller: The complete rankings of the “Economists Influence Ranking” 2018. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 31, 2018, accessed on October 3, 2018.
  20. ↑ Stefan Häberli: The complete ranking of the “Economists Influence Ranking” 2019. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of September 21, 2019, accessed on March 16, 2020.
  21. ↑ Ueli Kneubühler: Power network by Aymo Brunetti: The acrobat of thought. In: Bilanz 8/2013 from April 22, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Brunetti, Aymo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel