Seit Kriegsausbruch am 24. Februar sind bis zum 22. März 2022 3,6 Millionen Menschen aus der Ukraine geflohen. Das entspricht rund 160.000 Menschen pro Tag. Der Höhepunkt wurde mit 210.000 Personen rund zehn Tage nach Kriegsausbruch erreicht, gegenwärtig hat sich diese Zahl bei 66.000 bis...

Nach einer Einschätzung des Umfangs der Migration nach Deutschland und Rheinland-Pfalz in den nächsten Jahren geht diese Stellungnahme auf die Struktur der Zuwanderung, die Arbeitsmarktwirkungen der Migration (Lohn- und Beschäftigungseffekte), die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Migrantinnen und...

This paper documents a comparative application of algorithms to deal with the problem of missing values in higher frequency data sets. We refer to Swiss business tendency survey (BTS) data which are conducted in both monthly and quarterly frequency, where an information sub-set is collected at...

Although the influence of exceptional weather on individual behaviour has already been acknowledged in finance, psychology, and marketing, the literature examining weather effects at more aggregate level is still limited. Further, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence that weather anomalies...

The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these issues, we employ a two step estimation approach, and...

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...

This paper estimates the pass-through and speed of adjustment of Italian regional interest rates to changes in the money market rate for the period 1998Q1-2009Q4. Our main findings suggest that the markup for the lending rates that banks charge are generally higher in the South than in the...

In a pioneering attempt we present the R(ecession)-word index for Switzerland. We evaluate its predictive ability of GDP growth using real-time vintages of GDP data, closely simulating flow of information in the past. We find that inclusion of the R-word index led to statistically significant...