Empirische Untersuchungen zeigen, dass Weiterbildung in der zweiten Lebenshälfte zu Einkommensvorteilen für Arbeitnehmer gegenüber Personen ohne Weiterbildungsteilnahme führen kann. Auch vergleichsweise lange Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen lohnen sich noch in der zweiten Lebenshälfte,...

Using a German firm-level data set, this paper is the first to jointly study the cyclical properties of the cross-sections of firm-level real value added and Solow residual innovations, as well as capital and employment adjustment. We find two new business cycle facts: 1) The cross-sectional...

Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in uncertainty...

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...