This paper presents stochastic projections for 13 categories of social spending in New Zealand over the period 2011-2061. These projections are based on detailed demographic estimates covering fertility, migration and mortality disaggregated by single year of age and gender. Distributional...

This paper estimates wage equations for New Zealand based on pooled data from the Household Economic Survey (HES) from 2006/07 to 2010/11. Equations are estimated separately for couple men and women, single men and women and sole parents. The results are compared to previous New Zealand...

We compare sparse and dense representations of predictive models in macroeconomics, microeconomics, and finance. To deal with a large number of possible predictors, we specify a prior that allows for both variable selection and shrinkage. The posterior distribution does not typically concentrate...

Der Beitrag diskutiert die ifo Prognose vom Dezember 2018 für das Jahr 2019 vor dem Hintergrund der am 15. Januar 2020 veröffentlichten amtlichen Ergebnisse der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen. Es zeigt sich, dass die Winterprognose 2018 des ifo Instituts für die...

Neben dem ifo Geschäftsklimaindex Deutschland veröffentlicht das ifo Institut noch viele weitere Konjunkturindikatoren, wie etwa die Exporterwartungen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe oder das Beschäftigungsbarometer, und bietet Zeitreihen für zahlreiche Wirtschaftsbereiche an, die aus den...

It has been argued that credit-to-GDP gaps (credit gap) are useful early warning indicators for banking crises. In addition, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has also advocated using these gaps - estimated using a one-sided Hodrick-Prescott filter with a smoothing parameter of 400,000...

Bankruptcy prediction is one of the most important research areas in corporate finance. Bankruptcies are an indispensable element of the functioning of the market economy, and at the same time generate significant losses for stakeholders. Hence, this book was established to collect the results...