Die globale Wirtschaftskrise hat zu einem massiven Einbruch des Welthandels geführt, der sogar den Rückgang während der Großen Depression zu Beginn der 30er Jahre überstieg. Davon ist die stark auf den Export orientierte deutsche Industrie besonders betroffen. Zudem ist sie aufgrund des...

Fast alle Branchen der deutschen Industrie haben in diesem Jahr kräftig expandiert. Die Produktion im produzierenden Gewerbe ohne Baugewerbe wird im Jahresdurchschnitt um knapp neun Prozent höher sein als 2009. Die schnelle und kräftige Erholung beruht auch darauf, dass Deutschland im...

Die Industrie in Deutschland hat dank des seit Anfang 2009 ununterbrochenen Wachstums im Sommer 2011 das Produktionsniveau von vor der Wirtschaftskrise wieder erreicht. Getrieben wurde die Erholung durch die starke in- und ausländische Nachfrage nach deutschen Investitions- und...

During the first nine months of this year, German industry almost fully compensated for the decline in production of late 2012 and, in 2013, will only just fall short of last year's figures, by an estimated 0.5 percent. Should the economic recovery in the euro area gain momentum as anticipated...

Up until the third quarter of 2012, the German manufacturing industry has only just been able to maintain the same production level as in 2011. In the course of the year, it has been faced with a strong decline in demand both in Germany and within the euro area but a slight increase in demand...

Since Romer and Romer (2000), a large literature has dealt with the relative forecasting performance of Greenbook macroeconomic forecasts of the Federal Reserve. This paper empirically reviews the existing results by comparing the different methods, data and samples used previously. The sample...

Many researchers are interested in making predictions for macroeconomic variables, but few of them studied the accuracy of their forecasts. The problem is essential, especially in crisis periods, because from many forecasts made for the same indicator only one or few are the most accurate. In...

The recent period has highlighted a well-known phenomenon, namely the existence of a positive bias in experts’ anticipations. Literature on this subject underlines optimism in the financial analyst community. In this work, our significant contributions are twofold: we provide explanatory bias...

Yes, they are! We find that although there is a surprisingly high dispersion of individual forecasts and some dissent on the Federal Funds target, the FOMC’s individual behavior is well described by a Taylor-type rule.

We analyze more than 40,000 forecasts of the annual growth rate of the money supply, the inflation rate, and the growth rate for eleven Asian–Pacific countries between 1994 and 2011. We document that forecasters believe in nominal effects of future monetary policy.