To celebrate its 80th anniversary DIW Berlin organised on 8 and 9 December 2005 a conference centred on two themes. The first dealt with the methods and performance of forecasting. The second discussed scenarios for the future of Europe and its major economies. A selection of the contributions...

The paper discusses some widely used methods for estimating output gaps based on aggregated datafor the Euro-zone. Though these methods exhibit some common features, an empirical comparisondemonstrates that the various techniques differ substantially. In particular, the correlation of output...

To celebrate its 80th anniversary DIW Berlin organised on 8 and 9 December 2005 a conference centred on two themes. The first dealt with the methods and performance of forecasting. The second discussed scenarios for the future of Europe and its major economies. A selection of the contributions...

DIWAX ist ein agentenbasiertes Softwarepaket für VGR-gestützte Konjunkturprognosen. Die Hauptkomponenten des Systems bilden eine relationale Metadatenbank, mit der Zeitreihen nach primär ökonomischen Kriterien beschrieben werden können, ein Ressourcenkonzept, das die Verbindung zu beliebig...