Business cycle indicators are used to assess the economic situation of countries or regions. They are closely watched by the public, but are not easy to interpret. Does a current movement of the indicator signal a turning point or not? With the help of Markov Switching Models movements of...

The book provides a simple, intuitive introduction to regression models for qualitative and discrete dependent variables, to sample selection models, and to event history models, all in the context of maximum likelihood estimation. It presents a wide range of commonly used models. The book...

Semiparametrische Volatilitätsmodelle -- Hochfrequente und Ultra-Hochfrequente Finanzdaten -- Berechnung des Value-at-Risk auf Grundlage parametrischer und semiparametrischer Modelle -- Analyse von Handelswartezeiten -- Glättung der Volatilität von hochfrequenten Finanzdaten in einem...

Klappentext: Sponsoring zählt zu den etablierten Instrumenten der Markenkommunikation. Angesichts der Kostenexplosion in vielen Bereichen ist die Kontrolle der Sponsoringeffektivität eine dringliche Aufgabe. Bisherige Forschungsarbeiten sind allerdings häufig undifferenziert und...

Dieses fundierte Lehrbuch führt umfassend und praxisrelevant in die statistische Methodenlehre für wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studiengänge ein. Verfahren der Deskriptiven Statistik, der Explorativen Datenanalyse, der Stochastik, der Induktiven Statistik sowie der Multivariaten Statistik...

In the last decades, the majority of OECD countries has experienced a continuous increase in public debt. The European debt crisis has prompted a fundamental re‐evaluation of public debt sustainability and the looming threat of sovereign debt default. Due to a multitude of large scale events...

In this paper we re-evaluate the hypothesis that the development of the financial sector was an essential factor behind economic growth in 19th century Germany. We apply a structural VAR framework to a new annual data set from 1870 to 1912 that was initially recorded by Walther Hoffmann (1965)....