-specific data sets, cointegration analyses are carried out both to identify long-run economic relationships and to remove the trend …

' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which … that are active in Germany. We decompose the volatility of firms into their reaction and their exposure to aggregate …

We compared forecasts of stock market volatility based on real-time and revised macroeconomic data. To this end, we … used a new dataset on monthly real-time macroeconomic variables for Germany. The dataset covers the period 1994-2005. We … used a statistical, a utility-based, and an options-based criterion to evaluate volatility forecasts. Our main result is …

In this paper we investigate the volatility structure of the German stock market index DAX and its constituents. Using … a recently developed test, we find a volatility break in 1997. Interestingly, not only is the volatility higher after … 1997 but the volatility persistence also increased. That means that there is a greater likelihood of high volatility days …

bonds in Germany. This feature is particularly attractive for the bond market, where OTC transactions account for most … trading. The volatility of yields of the four bonds more than doubled in the wake of the Russian devaluation on August 17th … Transaktion dieser vier Anleihen in Deutschland umfasst. Dies ist besonders für Arbeiten über den Rentenmarkt von großem Interesse …

From a theoretical point of view, greater trade openness affects firm-level volatility by changing the exposure and the … link between openness and volatility. Using two novel datasets on German firms, we analyze the evolution of firm …-level output volatility and the link between volatility and trade openness. We find that firm-level output volatility displays …