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Business Cycle Dating and Forecasting with Real-Time Swiss GDP Data
Glocker, Christian - 2019
We develop a small-scale dynamic factor model for the Swiss economy allowing for non-linearities by means of a two-state Markov-chain. The selection of an appropriate set of indicators utilizes a combinatorial algorithm. The model's forecasting performance is as good as that of peers with richer...
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Can the Inclusion of Calendar and Temperature Effects Improve Nowcasts and Forecasts of Construction Sector Output Based on Business Surveys?
Scheiblecker, Marcus - 2010
For nowcasting and short-term forecasting of industrial production and GDP, business surveys are a vital source of information. They cover information of the recent past as well as developments in the near future. Whereas variations in industrial production indices potentially cover weather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435287
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The Procedures of the Parity Commission and of its Sub-Committee on Wages
Pollan, Wolfgang - 2002
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The Role of Migrants in the Production of Tradeables and Non-tradables. The Case of Austria
Biffl, Gudrun - 2003
Globalisation has been associated with increased international mobility of capital but less so of labour partly because of legal restrictions. In theory, labour mobility and trade are generally substitutes in respect of tradeable goods and services. There are, however, also instances of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435124
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A Long-run Macroeconomic Model of the Austrian Economy (A-LMM). Model Documentation and Simulations
Baumgartner, Josef; Hofer, Helmut; Kaniovski, Serguei; … - 2004
In this paper we develop a long run macroeconomic model for Austria to simulate the effects of aging on employment …
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On the Choice of Farm Management Practices after the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in 2003
Schmid, Erwin; Sinabell, Franz - 2004
financial aspects. Using an agricultural sector model for Austria, we show that the reform will further decrease agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435160
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A Decomposition of Austria's General Government Budget into Structural and Cyclical Components
Kaniovski, Serguei; Pitlik, Hans; Steindl, Sandra; Url, … - 2008
The paper describes a model for computing the trend output and the structural budget deficit in Austria. The …
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On the Autocorrelation of Growth Rates: Evidence for Micro, Small and Large Firms from the Austrian Service Industries, 1975-2004
Coad, Alex; Hölzl, Werner - 2008
This paper studies the serial autocorrelation of annual growth rates in employment for selected Austrian service industries over a 30-year period using quantile regression techniques. The autocorrelation of growth rates provides important information on firms growth processes. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435248
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Should Cross-border Services between Austria and Slovenia Still be Restricted? An Economic Assessment of the Existing Market Regulations
Döring, Thomas; Aigner, Birgit - 2009
for the economic usefulness of the afore-mentioned restrictions of cross-border service activities between Austria and … the empirical situation of cross-border trade in goods and services between Austria and Slovenia in order to argue that … Austria has a "double dividend" with respect to the existing regulatory system. In part three, the question is asked to what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435284
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Spatial Price Differentiation and Regional Market Power. The Case of Food-Retailing in Austria
Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Sinabell, Franz - 2013
A small number of firms have a large market share in the Austrian food retailing market. Market concentration has been growing over the last years which has raised concerns about market power. Previous studies on price setting behaviour in the food retailing market were at the national level and...
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