About

trendEcon started in March 2020 as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, when the need for timely economic indicators became acute. It is a collaborative, open-source project.

Partners

• cynkra
• KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
• State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
• Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB)
• University of St. Gallen

Open data & code

• Method: trendecon R package
• Daily data: github.com/trendecon/data
• Paper: Economic Inquiry 60(2), 694–705

Data and code are released under CC BY 4.0 / GPL-3.0.

Contributors

• Angelica Becerra (Statistician and data scientist, ETH KOF)
• Vera Z. Eichenauer (Economist, ETH KOF)
• Alexander Götz (Economist, ETH GESS)
• Ronald Indergand (Head of Short-Term Economic Analyses, SECO)
• Stefan Legge (Economist, University of St. Gallen)
• Isabel Martinez (Economist, ETH KOF, formerly SGB)
• Nina Mühlebach (Economist, ETH KOF)
• Furkan Oguz (Economist, ETH KOF)
• Christoph Sax (Economist and data scientist, cynkra)
• Kristina Schuepbach (Economist, SGB and University of Bern)
• Severin Thöni (Programmer, ETH KOF)
• Uwe Thümmel (Economist, University of Zurich)
• Patrick Schratz (Data scientist, cynkra)
• Karolis Koncevičius (Data scientist, cynkra)
• Ben Ubah (Front-end developer, cynkra)

Contact

trendecon@gmail.com