Methods for constructing joint confidence bands for impulse response functions which are commonly used in vector autoregressive analysis are reviewed. While considering separate intervals for each horizon individually still seems to be the most common approach, a substantial number of methods...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the U.S. Federal Reserve publishes the range of members' forecasts for key macroeconomic variables, but not the distribution of forecasts within this range. To evaluate these projections, previous papers compare the midpoint of the ranges with the...

Usually, offcial and survey-based statistics guide policy makers in their choice of response instruments to economic crises. However, in an early phase, after a sudden and unforeseen shock has caused incalculable and fast-changing dynamics, data from traditional statistics are only available...

Dieses Übungsbuch ergänzt das Lehrbuch „Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung und Ökonometrie“ und richtet sich an Studierende und Lehrende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften sowie benachbarter Fächer. Es bietet die Möglichkeit, durch das Lösen von Aufgaben unterschiedlicher Typen Kompetenzen zu...

An important role is ascribed to students' social networks in explaining both social and ethnic differentials in educational achievement and attainment. For example, students' social networks are assumed to influence their probability of success by providing educationally-relevant resources and...

Aufgabe und Prinzip der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung -- Daten -- Datenbasis der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung -- Datenaufbereitung -- Wirtschaftsindikatoren -- Input-Output-Analyse -- Ökonometrische Grundlagen -- Das ökonometrische Modell -- Das lineare Regressionsmodell --...