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Strobel, Thomas - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

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China's Investment Rate : Implications and Prospects

Holz, Carsten A. - 2017

it driven by investment and capital accumulation. By 2014, gross capital formation had reached 46 percent of aggregate …

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Physical Capital Estimates for China's Provinces, 1952-2015 and Beyond

Holz, Carsten A. - 2017

Capital estimates are widely used in economic growth and productivity studies, for profitability considerations and … wealth accounting exercises. Yet the calculation of “capital” frequently receives only cursory attention, despite the …:(i) calculates long-run provincial (and national) physical capital series for China, (ii) distinguishes between capital services and …

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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - CESifo - 2013

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Ordoliberalism, Pragmatism and the Eurozone Crisis : How the German Tradition Shaped Economic Policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P. - 2015

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

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Construction of Composite Business Cycle Indicators in a Sparse Data Environment

Abberger, Klaus - 2011

Business cycle indicators are important instruments for monitoring economic development. When employing indicators one usually relies on a sound statistical database. This paper deals with indicator development in a sparse data situation. Indicator building is merged with temporal...

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Exchange Rate Misalignment Estimates - Sources of Differences

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013

We study the differences of currency misalignment estimates obtained from alternative datasets derived from two International Comparison Program (ICP) surveys. A decomposition exercise reveals that the year 2005 misalignment estimates are substantially affected by the ICP price revision....

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Uncertainty-Driven Business Cycles : Assessing the Markup Channel

Born, Benjamin - 2017

A growing recent literature relies on a precautionary pricing motive embedded in representative agent DSGE models with sticky prices and wages to generate negative output effects of uncertainty shocks. We assess whether this theoretical model channel is consistent with the data. Building a New...

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Implausible Large Differences in the Sizes of Underground Economies in Highly Developed European Countries? A Comparison of Different Estimation Methods

Schneider, Friedrich - 2017

In this paper, first, the MIMIC estimation method is described and criticized and due to a double counting problem a correction is suggested. Second, the measurement methods used for National Accounts Statistics – the discrepancy method and two new micro survey methods – are described and a...

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The Structure of the American Economy

Fisher, Eric O'Neill - 2008

factors are mobile and another with capital specific to each sector in the economy …

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