Does the world experience a secular decline in capital productivity? Due to the long-run downward trend in interest rates, some economists do think so. However, this reasoning equates capital productivity with interest, which is a critical assumption. This paper presents a new proxy that can be...

In dieser Arbeit werden parametrische Modelle zur Prognose von Spielen der Fußball-Bundesliga geschätzt. Dabei werden in einem ersten Schritt die Spielstärken der beteiligten Mannschaften geschätzt, aus denen zu erwartende Tordifferenzen abgeleitet werden. Hierbei werden verschiedenen...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Hypothese eines schwach effizienten Kapitalmarktes sowie das Vorliegen des Montagseffektes am deutschen Aktienmarkt untersucht. Weiterhin wird aus der Prüfgöße zum Test auf Autokorrelation erster Ordnung ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit dem die Existenz endlicher...

Demographic change is one of the greatest challenges faced by Germany as well as a large part of Europe today. One of the main drivers of this change is the low fertility level, often referred to as the Total Fertility Rate (TFR), since the early 1970s. Therefore, on the one hand, while the...

This paper analyzes private retirement savings, the amount for German individuals and how these savings are influenced by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is investigated how the Big-Five and the Locus of Control influence...

Although voter turnout in the 2013 general election to the German Bundestag differed considerably across income brackets, the income distribution of voters did not differ, in a statistically significant way, from that of the entire population. The non-uniform turnout, thus, is unlikely to affect...