Replication material for: Galli, A., Hizli, L., Koeniger, W., Rosenblatt-Wisch, R. Consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland: new evidence based on administrative tax data.

Replication material for: Galli, A., Hizli, L., Koeniger, W., Rosenblatt-Wisch, R. Consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland: new evidence based on administrative tax data.


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Authors

Alain Galli (Swiss National Bank)
Louisa Hizli (University of St. Gallen)
Winfried Koeniger (University of St. Gallen)
Rina Rosenblatt-Wisch (Swiss National Bank)

Publication year

2026

Abstract

We use administrative data on income and wealth of taxpayers in the canton of Bern to impute consumption based on the budget constraint. We validate the imputed consumption and use the panel data on consumption, income and wealth to provide stylized facts on consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland for the period 2002-2022.We document a large drop of the saving rate in the first ten years after retirement and show that 75% of permanent income shocks and 40% of transitory income shocks transmit to total consumption expenditures.

Keywords

Consumption
Income
Wealth
Tax data
Saving rate
Consumption insurance
Switzerland

Geolocation

Switzerland


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DOI of the replication material
Publication year

2026

How to cite

Replication material for: Galli, A., Hizli, L., Koeniger, W., Rosenblatt-Wisch, R. (2026). Consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland: new evidence based on administrative tax data. FORS. https://doi.org/10.25597/r38x-dj52

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The replication package reproduces the results presented in the paper and is organised into five subfolders: 00_data, 01_code, 02_figures, 03_apc, 04_covid_robustness. The readme README describes the content of the replication_package_GHKR and contains instructions to replicators.

Remarks

Software information : R 4.4.1 on RStudio 2025.09.1+401; Stata 19.0

Publisher

FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

Usage licence

CC BY-NC-ND – Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Publication

No. 25