Temporal disaggregation methods are used to disaggregate low frequency time series to higher frequency series, where either the sum, the average, the first or the last value of the resulting high frequency series is consistent with the low frequency series. Temporal disaggregation can be...

In dieser Arbeit werden Solow-Residuen für 17 OECD-Länder ab 1960 berechnet und verglichen. Einem zentralen Problem - der Schwierigkeit, eine geeignete Schätzung für den Kapitalstock zu finden - wird damit begegnet, dass unterschiedliche Schätzungen verwendet und deren Auswirkungen auf die...

This paper explores the robustness of the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) hypothesis. We analyze a panel of OECD countries from 1970 to 2008 and compare three different datasets on sectoral productivity, including a newly constructed database on total factor productivity. Overall, our DOLS estimation...

We sketch a model that shows how skill-biased technological change may reverse the classic Balassa-Samuelson effect, leading to a negative relationship between the productivity in the tradable sector and the real exchange rate. In a small open economy, export goods are produced with capital,...

In dieser Arbeit werden Solow-Residuen für 17 OECD-Länder ab 1960 berechnet und verglichen. Einem zentralen Problem - der Schwierigkeit, eine geeignete Schätzung für den Kapitalstock zu finden - wird damit begegnet, dass unterschiedliche Schätzungen verwendet und deren Auswirkungen auf die...

This paper reconsiders the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) hypothesis. We analyze an OECD country panel from 1970 to 2008 and compare three data sets on sectoral productivity, including newly constructed data on total factor productivity. Overall, our within- and between-dimension estimation results do...

Google Trends have become a popular data source for social science research. We show that for small countries or sub-national regions like U.S. states, underlying sampling noise in Google Trends can be substantial. The data may therefore be unreliable for time series analysis and is furthermore...

Die Löhne von hoch- und geringqualifizierten Arbeitnehmern divergieren in den meisten Industrieländern seit den siebziger Jahren. Gemeinhin wird dies einer technologischen Entwicklung zugeschrieben, die geringqualifizierte Arbeit durch Kapital und hochqualifizierte Arbeit ersetzt. Der...

We sketch a model that shows how skill-biased technological change may reverse the classic Balassa-Samuelson effect, leading to a negative relationship between productivity in the tradable sector and the real exchange rate. In a small open economy, export goods are produced with high-skilled...

In 1953, many poor countries had not yet approached the demographic transition. Accordingly, income generally had a positive impact on fertility in poor countries, while it has a negative impact today. Easterlin´s supply-demand framework offers an explanation for this nonlinearity by...