Die Lausitz als länderübergreifende Region in Südbrandenburg und Ostsachsen mit mehr als einer Million Einwohnern steht wie alle Regionen Ostdeutschlands vor großen Herausforderungen. Insbesondere der dramatische Bevölkerungsschwund und seine ökonomischen Auswirkungen werden in den...

International vergleichbare Frühindikatoren für alle Länder und Länderaggregate sind recht selten. Die Indikatoren des ifo World Economic Survey (WES) hingegen sind kostenfrei und schnell verfügbar. Im nachfolgenden Artikel werden die drei zentralen WES-Indikatoren verwendet, um das...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic projections of the German government since the 1970s and compares it those of the Joint Economic Forecast, which is an in-dependent forecasting institution in Germany. Our results indicate that nominal GDP projections are upward biased for longer...

In this paper, we study the predictive power of electricity consumption data for regional economic activity. Using unique weekly and monthly electricity consumption data for the second-largest German state, the Free State of Bavaria, we conduct a pseudo out-of-sample forecasting experiment for...

Over the last decade, the topic of regional economic forecasting has become increasingly prevalent in academic literature. The most striking problem in this context is data availability at a regional level. However, considerable methodological improvements have been made to address this problem....

The ifo Institute is Germany's largest business survey provider, with the ifo Business Climate Germany as one of the most important leading indicators for gross domestic product. However, the ifo Business Survey is not solely limited to the Business Climate and also delivers a multitude of...

In this study, we systematically evaluate the potential of a bunch of survey-based indicators from different economic branches to forecasting export growth across a multitude of European countries. Our pseudo out-of-sample analyses reveal that the best-performing indicators beat a well-specified...

Comprehensive and international comparable leading indicators across countries and continents are rare. In this paper, we use a free and instantaneous available source of leading indicators, the ifo World Economic Survey (WES), to forecast growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 44 countries...

This analysis investigates the predictive power of the most important leading indicators for the German economy, which are provided by the ifo Institute and IHS Markit. We conduct an out-of-sample, real-time forecast experiment for growth of gross domestic product and growth of gross value added...

Die anhaltenden Lieferengpässe und die vierte Coronawelle bremsen die deutsche Wirtschaft spürbar aus. Die zunächst erwartete kräftige Erholung für das Jahr 2022 verschiebt sich weiter nach hinten. Insgesamt dürfte das Bruttoinlandsprodukt in diesem Jahr um 2,5%, im kommenden Jahr um 3,7%...