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Evaluating the German inventory cycle : using data from the Ifo business survey

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2004

Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...

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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - 2005

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...

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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Long memory in German energy price indices

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2012

This study examines the long-memory properties of German energy price indices (specifically, import and export prices, as well as producer and consumer prices) for hard coal, lignite, mineral oil and natural gas adopting a fractional integration modelling framework. The analysis is undertaken...

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Who Reports the Mood in German Boardrooms? Evidence from the Ifo Business Survey

Hennrich, Jonas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023

The ifo Business Climate Index for Germany is considered as the most important leading indicator for the German economy …

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Costly, But (Relatively) Ineffective? An Assessment of Germany's Temporary VAT Rate Reduction During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Baudisch, Victoria; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2023

We evaluate Germany’s temporary value-added tax (VAT) rate reduction as a tool to stimulate consumer spending during … the Covid-19 pandemic using a comparative case study approach. We construct a credible counterfactual for Germany in a two … similar to Germany regarding important post-treatment characteristics. Second, we apply a reweighting scheme on the pre …

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Labor in the Boardroom

Jäger, Simon - 2019

study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …

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Pharmaceutical Prices : The Impact of the Launch Strategy - An Analysis of German Data

Böhler, Yvonne-Beatrice - 2019

This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the …

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Projecting the Spread of COVID19 for Germany

Donsimoni, Jean Roch - 2020

We model the evolution of the number of individuals that are reported to be sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our …

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Tracking and Predicting the German Economy : Ifo vs. Pmi

Lehmann, Robert - 2020

This analysis investigates the predictive power of the most important leading indicators for the German economy, which are provided by the ifo Institute and IHS Markit. We conduct an out-of-sample, real-time forecast experiment for growth of gross domestic product and growth of gross value added...

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