• Economic Outlook Slightly Brighter but Remains Negative Overall
• Growth Supported by Private Consumption and Investment
• New Five-Year Plan: Expected to Bring Improvements for German Companies too; Continuing Urgend…

We propose a Bayesian shrinkage approach for vector autoregressions (VARs) that uses short-term survey forecasts as an additional source of information about model parameters. In particular, we augment the…

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation…

Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable…

Banks are better suited than other financing partners to process information in order to make efficient liquidations. But their ability depends on bank characteristics and incentives. In addition, the strength…

• Konjunkturausblick trübt sich ein
• Eurozone: Rückgang der Inflationserwartungen
• USA: Starker Dollar und niedriger Ölpreis belasten Konjunkturausblick
• Japan: Ölpreisrückgang verbessert die Wirtschaftslage in Japan
• Gro…

Union representation has been in strong decline in most OECD countries with potentially important consequences for wages. What drives this decline? We try to answer this question by developing and implementing a…

Harmonising Climate Compatibility and Competition – Outcomes and Approaches to Solutions from Climate Economics With its research focus “The economics of climate change”, the German Federal Ministry for…

The experiences of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe highlight the failures of the current model of having the EU and its members states share responsibility for asylum policies. Based on standard criteria of…

• Turbulent Start to New Year Dims Growth Outlook
• International Financial Market Data - Assessments and Expectations
• No Further Interest-Rate Cuts Expected in Europe
• Inflation in Europe Expected to Normalise
• Share-Pri…