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Monitoring Consumption Switzerland: Data, Background, and Use Cases
Type
working paper
Date Issued
2023-01
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
Monitoring Consumption Switzerland (MCS) is a public-private partnership between the University of St.Gallen and the payment companies Worldline and SIX that processes and publishes payment data on transactions in Switzerland processed by Wordline/SIX in realtime. This paper provides background information on this novel source of data, presents their attributes, aggregation and granularity, and their interpretability. The paper presents several use cases that show the strengths of the data, and it alerts future users of the data to possible challenges. The paper also discusses the project's impact and provides an outlook.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SEPS - Quantitative Economic Methods
Publisher
School of Economics and Political Science
Volume
2023
Number
01
Pages
30
Official URL
Eprints ID
269672