Informationally efficient prices are a necessary requirement for optimal resource allocation in the real estate market. Prices are informationally efficient if they reflect buildings' benefit to marginal buyers, thereby taking account of all available information on future market development....

Abstract In the coalition agreement from February 7, 2018, the new German federal government drafts its public pension policy, which has to be evaluated against the background of demographic dynamics in Germany. In this paper, the consequences of public pensions related policy measures for the...

Summary This paper contributes to the analysis of the money supply process in Germany during the period of monetary targeting by the Bundesbank from 1975-1998. While the standard money multiplier approach assumes that the money stock is determined by the money multiplier and the monetary base it...

Zusammenfassung In dieser Studie wird untersucht, ob die Preisentwicklung auf Rohstoffmärkten statistische Anhaltspunkte für spekulative Preisblasen liefert. Diese Frage ist von zentraler Bedeutung in der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte um die Regulierung des Handels von Rohstoffen. Es kann...

Informationally efficient prices are a necessary requirement for optimal resource allocation in the real estate market. Prices are informationally efficient if they reflect buildings’ benefit to marginal buyers, thereby taking account of all available information on future market development....

Während Prognosefehler bei kurzfristigen Wetterprognosen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten deutlich reduziert werden konnten, hat sich der durchschnittliche absolute Prognosefehler ökonomischer Prognosen für die jährliche Veränderung des Bruttoinlandsprodukts in den vergangenen 45 Jahren kaum...

The economic and financial crisis that emerged in 2008 also initiated an intense discussion on macroeconomic research and the role of economists in society. The debate focuses on three main issues. Firstly, it is argued that economists failed to predict the crisis and to design early warning...