Die deutsche Wirtschaft erholte sich im dritten Quartal überraschend schnell vom Shutdown im Frühjahr. Im Herbst nahm jedoch das Infektionsgeschehen wieder spürbar an Fahrt auf, so dass im November erneut ein Shutdown verhängt wurde. Allerdings dürften die unmittelbaren wirtschaftlichen...

The paper presents an analysis of real income convergence between the 11 countries of Central Eastern Europe which have joined the European Union (EU11) and 15 countries of Western Europe (EU15) in the period 1993-2015. The evolution of the income gap between the two groups of countries in terms...

The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...