Sampling units for the 2013 Methods-of-Payment survey were selected through an approximate stratified two-stage sampling design. To compensate for nonresponse and noncoverage and ensure consistency with external population counts, the observations are weighted through a raking procedure. We...

Recent articles suggest that a Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) with shrinkage is a good forecast device even when the number of variables is large. In this paper we evaluate different variants of the BVAR with respect to their forecast accuracy for euro area real GDP growth and HICP...

In this paper we introduce a calibration procedure for validating of agent based models. Starting from the well-known financial model of Brock and Hommes 1998, we show how an appropriate calibration enables the model to describe price time series. We formulate the calibration problem as a...

Routinedatenstudien können den Akteuren des Gesundheitswesens nützliche Informationen liefern. Infolgedessen hat die Bedeutung und wissenschaftliche Nutzung von Routinedaten der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung in den letzten Jahren stetig an Relevanz gewonnen. Bisher liegen nur sehr...