Schumacher, Christian; Dreger, Christian - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 224 (2004) 6, pp. 731-750
Summary This paper discusses a large-scale factor model for the German economy, Following the recent literature, a data set of 121 time series is used to determine the factors by principal component analysis. The factors enter a linear dynamic model for German GDP. To evaluate its empirical...