Nach der 37. Konjunkturumfrage für DV-Dienstleistungen, die schwerpunktmäßig im April und Mai 2004 stattfand, hat sich das Geschäftsklima auf vr3gelihcsweise hohem Niveau gefestigt. Im Einzelnen bezeichneten 25% der Unternehmen den Geschäftsverlauf in den ersten drei Monaten des Jahres 2004...

The paper evaluates the quality of the German national accounting data (GDP and its use-side components) as measured by the magnitude and dispersion of the forecast/revision errors. It is demonstrated that government consumption series are the least reliable, whereas real GDP and real private...

Based on annual data for growth and inflation forecasts for Germany covering the time span from 1970 to 2007 and up to 17 different forecasts per year, we test for a possible asymmetry of the forecasters' loss function and estimate the degree of asymmetry for each forecasting institution using...

Purpose: This paper seeks to analyse to what extent absolute wage levels, relative wages compared with colleagues, and the position in a firm's hierarchy affect workers' absenteeism behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses personnel data of a large German company from January 1999...