There is a growing literature comparing the current financial crisis or Great Recession to the worst economic crisis of capitalism, the Great Depression. However, the role of rising income inequality, which has risen dramatically before both crises, is rarely discussed. In this paper we discuss...

There is a large body of literature analyzing the onset of the Great Depression or the factors influencing economic recovery in the 1930s, especially the New Deal. The role of income inequality before and during the Great Depression, however, has almost never been discussed thoroughly. This...

This paper uses several macroeconomic and financial indicators within a Markov Switching (MS) framework to predict the turning points of the business cycle. The presented model is applied to monthly German real-time data covering the recession and the recovery after the financial crisis. We show...

Die Corona-Krise hat die Weltwirtschaft in eine tiefe Rezession gestürzt. Im ersten Halbjahr 2020 ist die globale Wirtschaftsaktivität stark geschrumpft. Im Prognosezeitraum dürfte die weltwirtschaftliche Produktion mit Unterstützung der Geld- und Fiskalpolitik wieder spürbar ausgeweitet...

The German economy has been suffering from multiple crises in recent years. This is regularly reflected in the outcome of leading economic indicators, such as the monthly "IMK Konjunkturindikator". Structural developments are difficult to identify in such an environment. However, the German...