closest university, exploiting the low mobility of Swiss students. The results suggest that doing an internship increases …

tertiary education and training business administration students and their employers in Switzerland, we find that competences …

hierarchically by export destination and product category. We apply existing state of the art methods in forecast reconciliation and … forecasts, reconciliation also leads to improvements in forecast accuracy. …

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of …

This paper investigates the effects of media coverage and macroeconomic conditions on inflation forecast disagreement … inflation affects forecast disagreement by influencing information sets as well as predictor choice. Our empirical results show … and professionals primarily depends on the current rate of inflation. -- forecast disagreement ; inflation expectations …

In this paper, we evaluate the forecasting ability of 145 indicators and ten types of forecast combination schemes to … facilitate substantial improvements of the forecasts, given the local nature of the real-estate markets. The forecast accuracy of … possible to detect when using full-sample estimation information. On average, the forecast improvements attain about 20 …