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Using firm-level survey data for the West German manufacturing sector, this paper revisits the technology-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to gauge their contribution to short-run investment...
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component appears to be completely ineffective. In a case study for Germany, we use the rich data available to combine micro …
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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … council ; Germany …
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trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …
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and policy responses in real-time and provide the first application to Germany in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic …
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Germany’s comparatively good economic performance throughout the Great Recession of the years 2008/2009 is often …
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for the propagation of macroeconomic uncertainty to the labor market. Given that large establishments in Germany face … auto-regressive models with quarterly data for Germany in the period 1991-2014. These four models estimate effects of … angesehen. Da große Betriebe in Deutschland mit höheren Anpassungskosten der Beschäftigung konfrontiert sind, sollten sie von …
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shocks and the shock propagation processes. Thus, I conclude that business cycle stabilization in Germany is driven by both …
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The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the monthly time series is contaminated by many noisy components like seasonal variations, calendar and vacation effects. Only part of those nuisance components are explicitly...
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In the monthly ifo Business Survey around 9,000 German companies answer questions about their current business situation, expectations and plans for the near future as well as on other business variables. This paper provides an overview of all regular questions (monthly, quarterly, bi-annually,...
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