Der 13. Konjunkturzyklus nähert sich in Deutschland seinem Ende und die Sorgen sind groß, dass eine Rezession bevorsteht. Eine zunehmende Zahl von Indikatoren deuten in diese Richtung und die Fehlermargen der aktuellen Prognosen schließen dies ohnehin nicht mehr aus. Dass bislang Prognostiker...

The recent renaissance of business cycle analysis has led to a renewed interest in business cycle classification as pioneered by Burns/Mitchell, Spiethoff and resumed in the seventies by Meyer/Weinberg (1975a, b). The rather successful elaboration and test of a “modern” four-phase...

Summary This paper applies multivariate linear discriminant analysis to classify West German business cycles from 1955 to 1994 into a four phase scheme (upswing, downswing, and upper/lower turning point phases). It describes the scheme as well as the selection of the classifying variables, and...

Summary This paper examines changes of the (West) German business cycle from 1958 to 2004. It starts with a multivariate linear discriminant analysis (LDA) based decomposition of the cycle into 4 phases (upswing, upper turning point, downswing, lower turning point). After examining...

The recent renaissance of business cycle analysis has led to a renewed interest in business cycle classification as pioneered by Burns/Mitchell, Spiethoff and resumed in the seventies by Meyer/Weinberg (1975a, b). The rather successful elaboration and test of a “modern” four-phase...

This paper examines changes of the (West) German business cycle from 1958 to 2004. It starts with a multivariate linear discriminant analysis (LDA) based decomposition of the cycle into 4 phases (upswing, upper turning point, downswing, lower turning point). After examining intercyclical changes...

Die Arbeit nimmt die Frage nach der Multidimensionalität des deutschen Zyklus, wie er dem Konzept der Stilisierten Fakten zugrunde liegt, auf. Inhaltliche Grundlage bildet ein Vier-Phasen-Schema des Zyklus, methodische Basis ist die multivariate Diskriminanzanalyse. Die mit ihr für dieses...