The need to go beyond GDP to measure the well-being of people and societal progress is now fully recognized, also at a political level. The EU FP7 project e-Frame - European Framework for Measuring Progress -…
This project develops and employs forecasting models for the chemical industry and important purchasing industries, namely automobile, construction, electrical equipment and pulp and papers. The models cover…
The project deals with the estimation of day-to-day variation in aggregate expectations using information about the day on which individual (survey) expectations are formed. This kind of data is sometimes…
The aim of this project is to develop and provide an academic foundation for a so-called disagreement indicator based on micro data from the ZEW Financial Market Survey. A disagreement indicator depicts the …
The research project analysis the impact of Basel III on real estate finance in Germany. Within the project, the consequences of the new regulation framework for both different institutions and products in the…
The Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE) is Europe’s largest economics research meeting for Young Economists. The conference is organized “by young economists for young economists” on an annual basis at…
The aim of this study is to first give an overview of weather and catastrophe derivatives traded on the financial markets. The second part of this project will provide a detailed description of the models…