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Saving and consumption patterns of the elderly : the German case
Börsch-Supan, Axel - In: Journal of population economics 5 (1992) 4, pp. 289-303
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Age and cohort effects in saving and the German retirement system
Börsch-Supan, Axel - In: Ricerche economiche 49 (1995) 3, pp. 207-233
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Business cycle volatility in Germany
Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002
structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the real output process in Germany can be detected. We report evidence … that output volatility has declined in Germany. Yet, this decline in output volatility is not as clear-cut as it is in the … in Germany reflects good economic and monetary policy or merely "good luck". …
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Inflation and the skewness of the distribution of relative price changes : empirical evidence for Germany
Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2001
The present paper uses German annual data covering the period 1969-2000 to present evidence on the link between aggregate inflation and the higher-order moments of the distribution of relative price changes. Our empirical findings confirm predictions of contributions to the theoretical...
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Macroeconomic forecasts and the nature of economic shocks in Germany
Döpke, Jörg - 2000
The paper investigates the sources of macroeconomic forecast errors in Germany. The predictions of the so-called "six … Arbeitsgemeinschaft wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschungsinstitute in Deutschland. Die Prognosefehler werden im Rahmen eines …
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Earnings test, non-actuarial adjustments and flexible retirement
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Härtl, Klaus; Leite, Duarte - In: Economics letters 173 (2018), pp. 78-83
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The development of the pension gap and German households' saving behavior
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Ferrari, Irene; … - 2016
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Savings in times of demographic change : lessons from the German experience
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Coppola, Michela - 2014
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Are there business cycles "beyond GDP"? : alternative measures to GDP at business cycle frequencies ; [conference paper]
Döpke, Jörg; Maschke, Philip - 2014 - This version: February 2014
We discuss properties of alternatives or complements to GDP as a measure of welfare at business cycle frequencies. We argue that these figures are not useful to measure the welfare costs of business cycles. First, data is not available at an appropriate quality and frequency. Second, since the...
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